Emelia wins Honorable Mention at Nashville International

"Emelia the Five Year Old Goth Girl" won an Honorable Mention (1st Runner up) for Best Animation at Nashville International, which was awesome but also kinda bittersweet since if she had won (Emelia was the only film that got an Honorable Mention so I imagine it was neck and neck between Emelia and the other film) it would have automatically qualified Emelia for an Oscar nomination. So close, but yet so far...

Nashville was a really great fest though with a great and accommodating staff. Free food, free transportation, free films, free hotels, that's hard to beat! And the audiences were some of the most engaged and sophisticated I have seen. I had a great time!

Emelia wins Grand Jury Award at DC Indie Fest

Emelia has won the Grand Jury Award for Best Animation at the D.C. Independent Film Festival!

Interestingly Emelia was screened at the DCIFF not in the animation or children's sections but in the horror film section that played at midnight. I think its kinda funny how Emelia will sometimes be put into the kids matinee at 11am for little kids and at other festivals will screen along side splatter films.

This week Emelia will be screening at the Newport Beach Film Fest in both the "Animation-o-Rama" and the "Horror Shorts: Evil Kids" programs. The following week she will be at the Nashville International in the "Animated Expressions" program, and also at the San Francisco International in "Friends—Lost And Found"

Since I'm gonna try to go to all of them it should be a busy couple weeks!