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Ocktober Film Festival 2017 Nominations & Competitive Categories

Best Director

  • Desmond Goldson - Candyland

  • Taishon S Black - Blind Faith

  • Earnest A. Robinson & Barry Tonge - I Get It

  • Bruce Gorman - Thurman Comes Homes

  • David Doko - Misora, Misery

Best Writer

  • Daniel Va - Like Father

  • Taishon S Black - Blind Faith

  • David Doko - Misory, Misery

  • Jamal Hodge - Knockout

  • Lynette Blackwell - Twelve

Best Cinematogropher

  • Fredy Soberanis - Narcan

  • Nick Vega - Blind Faith

  • Tony Burns - Standing Eight

  • Michael Simsek - Bless Her Heart

Best Actor

  • Charles Malik Whitfield - A Heart That Forgives

  • Nathaniel Ryan - Blind Faith

  • Terrance Glenn Thomas - For Sale

  • Kazy Tauginas - Standing Eight

  • Reese Miashler - Candyland

Best Feature Film

  • Bumpin Uglies

  • The Rhythm in Blue

  • A Heart That Forgives  

Best Short FIlm

  • Silent Cries: The Prelude

  • Marz

  • Blind Faith

  • Bless Her Heart

  • Thurman Comes Home

  • Knockout Game

  • S;lence

  • Twelve 

Best Documentary

  • Sistas Conversation

  • STEM the Movement 

  • The Louisiana Project . 

Best Web Series

  • Keloid

  • Looking Through the Windows

  • Working On It

  • Monogamy

  • Bland and White

  • Money Trees 

Best Young Adult Film

  • 420

  • Mirror

  • Halfway to the Suburbs 

  • Rahul - The Hidden Truth  

Best Music Video

  • #Taplife - Eyes

  • The Old Man by Indigorado

  • Linda 

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