From staff reports
The 2020 Oil Valley Film Festival held online last month featured 27 films from around the globe.
The festival was comprised of competitive sections for American and international narrative and documentary films, both feature-length and short. It was presented via the Festivee platform.
“Although we couldn’t do an in-person festival this year, I was really proud of what we were able to accomplish with a virtual version of our annual event,” said festival director Matt Croyle.
Croyle said Arts Oil City and the Oil City Main Street Program also were part of the festival’s success.
Here is a list of the winners from the festival. The award categories were condensed but will expand again this year.
– Best picture, feature – “Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish,” directors Dimitry Shpilenok and Vadislav Grishin
– Best picture, short – “Sac de Merde,” director Greg Chwerchak
– Best director, feature – Dimitry Shpilenok and Vadislav Grishin, “Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish”
– Best director, short – Dekel Berenson, “Anna”
– Outstanding achievement in lead acting – Rory James Leech, “Salting the Fly” and Arielle Haller-Silverstone, “Sac de Merde”
– Outstanding achievement in supporting acting – Haley Camille, “Ghost in the Gun” and Brooke Coleman, “Buffalo & Trout”
– Outstanding cinematography, feature Dimitry Shpilenok, Nikolay Shpilenok, “Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish”
– Outstanding cinematography, short – Jordan Lavery, “We Hear Running”
– Best editing, feature – Anna Sukhova, “Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish”
– Best editing, short – Morgan Francis, “Choker”
– Outstanding screenwriting, feature – Laurence Fuller, “Modern Art”
– Outstanding screenwriting, short – Ronald C. Milburn, “Paddy’s Tonsorial Emporium”
– Outstanding screenwriting, hour-long pilot – Adam Diretz, “Hometown”
