8th Annual Hollywood Series 2024 Award Winners

 

PODCAST


BEST PODCAST

The Invicta Collective

BEST PREMISE / PODCAST

a place as beautiful as this

BEST WRITING / SCRIPT / PODCAST

It's Happening More Quickly Now

BEST SOUND DESIGN / PODCAST

The Cellar

BEST EDITING / PODCAST

SOS Humanity: Earth's Last Distress Signal

BEST COMEDY / PODCAST

Spiked Eggs Podcast- Episode "Bingo After Dark"

BEST SCI-FI / FANTASY / PODCAST

Alpha 8 - (Best Sci-Fi)

Experiment 31E - (Best Fantasy)

BEST ADVENTURE / PODCAST

Leylines

BEST THRILLER / MYSTERY / PODCAST

Divorce Ranch - (Best Mystery)

The Love Talker - (Best Thriller)

BEST DRAMA / PODCAST

Dice Tower Theatre

How it Ends

BEST DIRECTOR / PODCAST

OPERATOR

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST / PODCAST

Homicide at Heavensgate

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ACTUAL PLAY PODCAST


BEST ACTUAL PLAY

5 GMs in a Trenchcoat

BEST DIRECTOR / ACTUAL PLAY

The Heart is a Dungeon

BEST STORY / ACTUAL PLAY

Unbalanced Encounters: Rally 

BEST SOUND DESIGN / ACTUAL PLAY

Top of the Round: Paradigm 

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST / ACTUAL PLAY

Quest Friends!

BEST EDITING / ACTUAL PLAY

Arcane Corps Series

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SHORTS / TRAILER / MUSIC VIDEO


BEST SHORTS

Sam Bang-dong

BEST DIRECTOR / SHORTS

TUTOPIQUE #CRACK 

BEST SCREENPLAY / SHORTS

You Don’t Even Look Italian 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY / SHORTS

Power Up

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST / SHORTS

Good Boy

BEST TRAILER

Twin Moons 


BEST MUSIC VIDEO

HERE I GO 


BEST VERTICAL

Who the hell is Daniel? 

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FEATURE FILM / PILOT / SERIES

BEST SPECIAL / VISUAL EFFECT

Illuminagents

BEST MUSIC

The Powers That Be

BEST EDITING

The Road to Well-being 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Gliwensbourg Chronicles

BEST SCREENPLAY

American Ghost Hunter in Prague

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Closure

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Swiping Right  

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Poison - Wayne Tunks

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Ivanov - Marcia Romao

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BEST PILOT

Carved In Stone

BEST DIRECTOR / PILOT

He'll Be Home for Christmas

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BEST DOCUMENTARY / REALITY

Nazi Hollywood


BEST DIRECTOR / DOCUMENTARY / REALITY

Growing Up Guide Pup


BEST HOST / REALITY

Right on LA! with Ruby Lovell

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BEST ANIMATION

KARLTON'S WORLD: The Animated Series

BEST DIRECTOR / ANIMATION

Chuminadas Animadas

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BEST SUSPENSE / THRILLER / ADVENTURE

Fisher

BEST DIRECTOR - SUSPENSE / THRILLER / ADVENTURE

Unadventurers - Season 3

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BEST SCI-FI / FANTASY / HORROR

Eva. Connected Through Time 

BEST DIRECTOR - SCI-FI / FANTASY / HORROR

Zonians 

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BEST SKETCH COMEDY

Pandemic and Chill

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BEST COMEDY

corporate

BEST DIRECTOR - COMEDY

World's Worst Christmas Series 

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BEST DRAMEDY

The Gliwensbourg Chronicles

BEST DIRECTOR - DRAMEDY

Ghosting

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BEST DRAMA

ENTRE NÓS (Among Us)

Two Brothers Season 2

BEST DIRECTOR - DRAMA

Dark Arcadia

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BEST CREATOR

Los Aspirantes -The Applicants

MICHAEL AJAKWE JR. ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

A Kwanzaa Family Vacation - BEST FEATURE FILM
 
ASHLEY JONES IS PERFECTLY NORMAL - FEATURE FILM BEST ACTRESS - Hana Yuka Sano 

Dream of the Sunfish Prince - BEST BRANDED SERIES

Flames Of April - FEATURE FILM BEST ACTOR - Myeong Ho Kim 

Hamel - BEST BRANDED SERIES

Hurt - SCREENPLAY

Ivanov - BEST ACTRESS - Mari Lewis

Joy e Manuel Adventures - BEST DIRECTOR

Models Mayhem Atlanta - BEST PRODUCER

Until the End of the Dream - BEST SHOWRUNNER

Xeque Mate - Season 1 - BEST DUO PERFORMANCE - Natalia Rosa & Sofia Starling

 

BEST ACTOR

Estranho Jeito de Amar (Strange Way Of Love) - Rodrigo Tardelli

Story of Godia - Wasof Alkhuwaylidi

BEST ACTRESS

Joy e Manuel Adventures - Joy La torre - BEST JUNIOR ACTRESS

Stupid Wife Season 3 - Priscila Buiar

Stupid Wife Season 3 - Priscila Reis

BEST SERIES OF ALL GENRES

Protected Space - BEST COMEDY SERIES

Stupid Wife Season 3 - BEST DRAMA SERIES

Until the End of the Dream - BEST LONG-FORM SERIES 

Congratulations!!!

The 15th Annual LA WEBFEST 2024 Nominees

Honoree Nominations Posters

The 15th Annual LA WEBFEST 2024 Nominees:

The LA WEBFEST is gearing up for its 15th annual event, which will be held at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Los Angeles on May 2-3, 2023.

This year's festival promises to be an international showcase of some of the best long-form series, short-form web series, short films, pilots, and podcasts from around the world.

In 2023, the LA WebFest expanded its focus to acknowledge long-form content that embodies a similar entrepreneurial spirit to web series. This shift aimed to illuminate the captivating journeys these projects undertake before gracing the screen. The standout honoree in 2023 was the Starz crime drama "BMF" and its series creator, Randy Huggins.

This year's festival will honor long-form storytelling from major players such as HBO Max, Apple+, Amazon, BET+, Angel Studios, TruTV, and South Korea Studio V+. The 2024 honorees include the BET dramedy "Diarra From Detroit," the Oscar-winning short turned HBO animated series "Young Love," Amazon's trans docuseries "Always Jane," the podcast-inspired Apple TV+ drama "WeCrashed," the CollegeHumor adaptation "Adam Ruins Everything,” and the independent film phenom "Sound of Freedom."

Directors, writers, actresses, and actors up for top prizes in the long-form category include Jared Leto, Anne Hathaway, Kid Cudi, Alejandro Monteverde, Jim Caviezel, WGA strike hero Adam Conover, and international K-Pop star Jinyoung, just to name a few.

The 15th Annual LA WEBFEST 2024 Nominees Posters

The LA WEBFEST has a long history of discovering new talent and fostering creativity in the web series format. Issa Rae, star and creator of "Insecure," originally screened her show "Awkward Black Girl" at the festival, and her co-star Yvonne Orgi was discovered by LA WEBFEST founder Michale Ajakwe, Jr.

Ajakwe founded the LA WEBFEST in 2009, making it the first international festival dedicated specifically to web series. Since then, the festival has grown and inspired the creation of webfests all over the world, with more than 50 webfests forming a worldwide network.

Tragically, Ajakwe passed away in 2018, but his legacy lives on through the festival and its new director, Young Man Kang. Honorary President Jean-Michel Albert, founder of the Marseille Webfest in France, remarked that "with the rapid growth of YouTube, OTT platforms, and social media, web series festivals are constantly growing in number."

Overall, the LA WEBFEST promises to be a celebration of creativity and innovation in the web series format, honoring established talent and discovering new voices from around the world.

Contact email: lawebfest2009@gmail.com 

KO WEBFEST BREAKING NEWS!!!!

BREAKING NEWS!!! 

KO WEBFEST (MAY 27-29) TO ANNOUNCE BY-INVITATION-ONLY SELECTIONS ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, CHOOSING 50 LAWEBFEST 2015 ENTRIES: 

One of the main goals of LAWEBFEST is to provide as many opportunities as possible for our entries-- present and past.  Whether it's sending them to the south of France to screen at  the marvelous Marseilles Webfest or arranging one-on-one meetings with L.A. studio bosses, our mission is to put the spotlight on as many of our entries as we can and expose their wonderful work to as many parts of the world as we can, made possible by our amazing network of official partners in Europe (Marseilles Webfest in France, Rome Webfest in Italy), Australia (Melbourne Webfest) you and now Northeast Asia (Ko Webest in Seoul, South Korea). 

The founder of this latest player in the web series festival circuit is an award-winning LAWEBFEST alum from 2014-- Young Man Kang.  Young will program his historic inaugural event by hand-picking web series from Korea, Italy (with the recommendation of Rome Webfest co-founder Janet DeNardis), Australia (with the recommendation of Melbourne Webfest co-founder Steiner Ellingsen) and the United States (with the recommendation of LAWEBFEST founder Michael Ajakwe Jr.). Other countries that will be sending shows to Ko Webfest in the future include Ireland (with recommendations from DubWebfest founder Mikael Thiery) and Germany (with recommendations from Webfest Berlin founder Meredith Berkholder).  

Ko Webfest will be held May 27-29 at the spectacular Scalatium/Multi-Cultural Center in Kangnam, Seoul.
Ko Webfest will release its 2015 Official Selections on Tuesday, January 27 on the 

Ko Webfest Facebook page and Twitter.  We will simultaneously release that list on our Facebook pages, Twitter and our website.  

LAWEBFEST Congratulates Young Man Kang on his dynamic efforts at bringing a web series festival to his native country of Korea and we are honored to assist him in making this possible.

To learn more about the upcoming Ko Webfest, read Alexis Niki's recent profile in StoryNova: link to article here