Desmond District Demons
🪦 Festival Concluded 🪦
Submissions Open
🪦 our ceremony hath concluded 🪦
To all esteemed followers of the Demons, we proudly present the filmmakers who have triumphed and earned our most prestigious awards. At Desmond District Demons, we honor the relentless dedication and artistry of these filmmakers, whose works have left an indelible mark on our darkened halls.
💀 the demon thanks thee 💀
Once again we are thrilled to have raised funds for Seed & Soul Society and their community garden on the Southside of Port Huron!
We want to give another big thank you to the Community Foundation of St Clair County, Main Street Ensemble, Moon Club Esoteric, and all of our patrons!
📜 Laurels are bestowed upon thee 📜
Below are the results of the Judged awards as well as the Coveted Audience Choice Awards for Shorts & Features.
🪦 Winner - Best Short - Black Dragon
Directed by: Alexander Thompson
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: Vietnam, 1968. A feared American colonel nicknamed “the Black Dragon” by Vietnamese locals must face his inner shadow when his platoon presents him with a captured Vietcong girl who harbors some very unusual powers. A Jungian psychological thriller/parable examining the capacity for monstrous evil lurking within us all, the film is loosely inspired by the My Lai Massacre, one of America’s most pernicious wartime atrocities. Hailing from the producer of “Cabin Fever”, the film stars Matthew Del Negro (Scandal, The Sopranos, West Wing, City on a Hill, Wind River) and Celia Au (Lodge 49, Nora From Queens, Wu Assassins).
🪦 Winner - Best Feature - Eight Eyes
Directed by: Austin Jennings
Country of origin: United States
Synopsis: A mysterious local crashes a couple's vacation through the former Yugoslavia, pulling them deeper into his web of psychic rituals.
🪦 Winner - Most Horrific - Tistlebu
Directed by: Simon Matthew Valentine
Country of Origin: Norway
Synopsis: As a young couple on a working holiday hopes to connect with nature at Tistlebu farm, a primordial force comes into play, changing them both forever.
🪦 Winner - Best MI Made - Heartworm
Directed by: Braxton Hay
Country of Origin: United States (MI)
Synopsis: Kitty fights against mounting insanity as she searches for her lost dog and attempts to reconcile the death of her boyfriend. Something sinister, meanwhile, lurks in the depths of her family home.
🪦 Winner - Most Original - Vital Instruments
Directed by: Greg Kase
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: In this dark fever dream, a botched pawn shop robbery sends desperate brothers Walter and Pete, and their newly employed getaway driver Cutty, hobbling to a safe house that was supposed to be abandoned. Instead, they find shackled women in critical need of their help. Things complicate after their captor is mortally wounded in a shootout, and the predicament as to why they are prisoners in the first place becomes highly questionable—especially after the first one they reluctantly release immediately (and violently) kills herself, and the rest of them start chanting in ancient tongues.
🪦 Winner - Audience Choice Short - The Green Ribbon
Directed by: Heather Turman
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: Sorority girl Brittany is desperate to be the most beautiful girl on campus, so when she learns about an occult book said to contain a spell for eternal beauty, she becomes hell-bent on retrieving it. Together with her friend MJ, Brittany ventures inside an abandoned house to find the book – the same house once inhabited by Jane, the mysterious girl with a green ribbon around her neck…
🪦 Winner - Audience Choice Feature - Eight Eyes
Directed by: Austin Jennings
Country of origin: United States
Synopsis: A mysterious local crashes a couple's vacation through the former Yugoslavia, pulling them deeper into his web of psychic rituals.
