Ripcord Halloween Film Festival Winners: $100K Goes to Julian Doan
The Ripcord Halloween Film Festival winners are in, and filmmaker Julian Doan has claimed the inaugural $100,000 grand prize with Long’s Long Lost & Mini Mart. The horror short follows a customer who brings his dead father back to life for one last conversation in the back of a Little Saigon convenience store.
Ripcord announced the results Friday, October 30, after 13 finalists screened at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood the previous night. The first-year festival drew more than 500 submissions, narrowed the field to 50 online shorts and used audience voting to help select its finalists. The organizers say the total prize pool exceeded $200,000.
Ripcord Halloween Film Festival winners and prizes
- First place, $100,000: Long’s Long Lost & Mini Mart, directed by Julian Doan.
- Second place, $50,000: Zippy’s House, directed by Sophia Parella.
- Third place, $25,000: Harold Eats Maude, directed by Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky.
- Runner-up, $4,000: It Helps, directed by J. Zachary Thurman.
- Honorable mentions, $3,500 each: Blossom Needs a Ride Home, Breeder, Dirty Fuzz, Dream Creep, Hour of Blood, Make Me a Pizza, RAT!, Spanked by a Ghost and We Need to Talk About Balloons.
The jury included director Tim Miller, Fantastic Fest short-film programmer Jean Lauer, Sundance programmer Lisa Ogdie, designer Neville Page and producer Peter Phok. Ripcord says it plans to expand its online platform with more independent genre films and filmmaker events in the coming weeks.
We previously reported on the festival finalists ahead of the October 29 screening.
Sources: Ripcord
