Sunday Dinner

Filmmaker: Don Fanelli

Prize: $6,000

Pitch sentence: An Italian-American man confesses to his passionate siblings that he is now vegan and refuses to eat their traditional Sunday meatballs and I need $ for a DP & prod design.

Freelance

Filmmaker: Mike Gerbino

Prize: $5,000

Pitch sentence: When a down-on-her-luck editor takes a job cutting snuff films, she is haunted by visions of the people in her videos; funds would go toward our 3-day principal photography, which begins in the fall.

Americano

Filmmaker: Tim Viola (the OG first winner!)

Prize: $2,000

Pitch sentence: When an undocumented refugee hacker discovers evidence linking a politician to a tragedy on social media, he teams up with a PR director to expose the story; film is shot–need funds for audio post.

I Love Jazz

Filmmaker: David Oster

Prize: $6,000

Pitch sentence: When a man’s own voice warns him of his impending murder via a jazz record, the next few moments are filled with suspense, color, and jazz, and I need funding to shoot all in one choreographed shot.

Treehouse

Filmmaker: Matthew Greenberg

Prize: $5,000

Pitch sentence: A man struggles to understand why each attempt to build the perfect treehouse leaves him staring at an empty tree with no evidence of previous work; the funding will go to creating multiple treehouses

Night Work

Filmmaker: Savanna Hunter-Reeves

Prize: $5,000

Pitch sentence: During another late night at the office, a workaholic new mother finds herself trapped in the building with something inhuman; a portion of the funds will pay a contortionist.

Where Monsters Lurk

Filmmaker: Lindy Stokes

Prize: $5,000

Pitch sentence: Where Monsters Lurk is a horror short about a depressed woman and the monster in her mirror who haunts her, and this funding will help us create the unsettling apartment she has trapped herself in.

Quentin Blue

Filmmaker: Lane Michael Stanley

Prize: $2,000

Pitch Sentence: A band formed by lifers in San Quentin State Prison is re-formed on the streets of Compton when three members are paroled; film is shot, funds will cover edit, sound mix, and a day of shooting in SQ.

The Roommate

Filmmaker: Fabio Anffe

Prize: $400 KitSplit Gift Card

Pitch sentence: After hearing noises in his kitchen at night, an old man finds a stranger living in his basement, and their encounter reveals a scary truth about them; funds go to DP, lighting and lens rentals.

The Bridge

Filmmaker: Izabella Amar

Prize: 3-Month Adobe Creative Cloud Subscription

Pitch sentence: A recently unemployed transgender woman forms a deep connection after a chance encounter in an unlikely place; the funds will be used to complete post-production.

Bamboo

Filmmaker: Harrison Kwong

Prize: $400 KitSplit Gift Card

Pitch sentence: When a shy, Asian man encounters his charismatic, white-washed doppelgänger, the two struggle with each other's claim of dominance over their identity; funding is used for camera/lighting equipment.

Me + Lee

Filmmaker: Giorigio Miraflor

Prize: $400 KitSplit Gift Card

Pitch sentence: Amid grieving, Theo strikes up a unique and possibly toxic friendship with his pizza delivery guy who has the same name as his deceased brother; we need the funding for location and lens rentals.

More in Production...

We have many more winners who are working on completing their films. See them below.