SCREAMFEST ANNOUNCES ITS 2008 Winners

LOS ANGELES, October 20, 2008 – Rachel Belofsky, founder and festival director of SCREAMFEST Horror Film Festival has announced its 2008 winners.  Toby Wilkins’ feature film, SPLINTER, swept the awards at Sunday’s ceremony at Level 3 in Hollywood and Highland. Tate Steinseck received the Boost Mobile award for Best of the Next in Horror for his short film CLOWN and received a $10,000 cash prize.

BEST SHORT  DETOUR directed by K. Akeseh Tsakpo

BEST STUDENT SHORT CITIZEN directed by James Darling

BEST EDITING David Michael Maurer - SPLINTER

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Jose David Maurer - EL REY DE LA MONTANA

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS Quantum Creation FX - SPLINTER

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY Spine Tingler!! The William Castle Story directed by Jeffrey Schwarz

BEST MAKEUP Ozzy Alvarez – SPLINTER

BEST SCREENPLAY Haunted High by MV Gerhard & Matt Verboys

BEST MUSICAL SCORE Elia Cmiral – SPLINTER

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD TRICK ‘r’ TREAT directed by Michael Dougherty [1]

HONORABLE MENTION  Dance of the Dead directed by Gregg Bishop

BEST ACTOR Leonardo Sbaraglia – EL REY DE LA MONTANA

BEST ACTRESS María Valverde – EL REY DE LA MONTANA

BOOST MOBILE’S Best of the Next in Horror CLOWN directed by Tate Steinseck

BEST DIRECTING Toby Wilkins – SPLINTER

BEST PICTURE SPLINTER

Screamfest is sponsored by Boost Mobile, Dimension Extreme, Write Brothers, Baseline, Media Mayhem, Moviola and Inktip. For more information on Screamfest visit www.screamfestla.com [2]