CONTENTS 3 WELCOME 32 MUSIC VIDS 44 AWARDS 4 SCHEDULE 36 ANIMATION 46 AREA TO DO 6 FEATURES 38 NEW MEDIA 10 SHORTS 40 SCREENPLAYS WELCOME TO THE 7TH ANNUAL FILMQUEST In recent years I’ve written: “At FilmQuest, the “we” is more powerful than the “me.” All races, creeds, orientations, and ages are welcome. If you’ve ever felt lost or forgotten, or if you’ve ever felt neglected, we are here for you where there is a place for you amongst the stars. The more diverse we are, the richer and better we are for it, for FilmQuest is yours just as much as it is mine, and together we are all FilmQuest.” I don’t think these words have ever been more true than now. After a year unlike any other, we’re all finally back together again. Celebrating each other’s achievements, discovering new voices, and making new friendships is what makes us a community, and it is also the lifeblood we need to fuel our own creativity and inspiration. Now more than ever we need each other. Thus, during this May’s festival, and whether you’re attending physically or virtually, I request that each of you ensure that you make at least one new friend for life. Find someone you can collaborate with, share secrets with, and cherish until the end of your days. After all, are you each not sorcerers? Wielders of creativity and powerful enchantments? So who better to make a conspirator with than a fellow FilmQuester, wherein you each see yourselves in each other. As you search this Book of Sorcery, don’t be afraid to indulge in the magic that is weeved by each new spell you discover and revel in them. You deserve this. Sincerely, Jonathan Martin Founder & Director, FilmQuest THANK YOU TO OUR MAY 2021 SPONSORS! STAFF FILMQUEST SOUVENIER CONTACT & PROGRAM GUIDE FOUNDER & DIRECTOR: JONATHAN MARTIN FILMQUEST EDITOR & DESIGNER: JONATHAN MARTIN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: JONNA JACKSON 3214 NORTH UNIVERSITY AVE. DEPUTY DIRECTOR: RICHARD TEASDALE FILMQUEST LOGO DESIGNED BY: JULIETA KOLEVA SUITE #614 PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: JENNY EVANS PROVO, UTAH 84604 ILLUSTRATION BY: ALEX BUIE VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR: MELANIE ROBBINS [email protected] PANELS COORDINATOR: MARIO DEANGELIS COVER ILLUSTRATION BY: FILMQUEST EXPRESS CO: MATTHEW LONG FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES SPECIAL THANK YOU: RICHARD & KAREN MARTIN, QUINN PETERSON, COREY FOX, , CITY OF PROVO, INSTAGRAM @ FILMQUEST © FILMQUEST INTERNATIONAL BRYAN JUBER, VELOUR, BOXCAR STUDIOS, MARRIOTT FACEBOOK.COM/FILMQUESTFEST FILM & ARTS FESTIVAL, LLC., 2021 HOTEL, KARI CHRISTENSEN, ALEX BUIE, BEN VINCENT, AND ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS, JUDGES AND FAMILIES TWITTER.COM/FILMQUESTFEST 3 WWW.FILMQUESTFEST.COM SCHEDULE SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, MAY 26TH FILMQUEST TICKETS SATURDAY, MAY 22ND (VR) Check-In Begins Filmmaker Q&A #1 “Midnight Madness!” – Regular Ticket Price $10.00 “Ragnarok” – Virtual Block #4 Arrive early and get settled. Check-in for the physical After the final screening of the day and before the Shorts Block #6 Short films that portend to darker, apocalyptic days portion of the May 2021 FilmQuest begins! If you’ve party, we’re rocking Q&A’s in 15 minute segments Student Ticket Price $5.00 been vaccinated, bring your proof of vaccination Our most bizarre, thrilling, raucous, diabolical, and ahead – and maybe our imminent destruction. Is the for each block with all the filmmakers who screened 2:00 PM card, if not, you will be required to be tested either unique shorts all rolled into one block of madness! VIP Filmmaker Pass Price $50.00 Dark One already on his way? Films include: The Last their films at the fest during the day. A new Man on Earth, The Survivors, Exkursion, Theourgia, this day or Thursday, May 26th. We’ll be providing beer and pizza to our guests, 1:00 PM Party Ticket Price $45/$35/$25/$15/$10 The Howling Wind, The History of 10:00 PM experiment due to the unusual circumstances of the so you can really enjoy this Friday night the way Monsters, BOS, Routine, Mateo, and Inferno Utah Red Carpet #1 past year and the tight crunch in which we have to it’s meant to be – like a party! Buckle up – it’s our Glam up and get your red carpet photos! Exclusively put on the physical festival. 11:00 PM longest block to boot! The block includes Meat for the Utah filmmakers and their guests, have fun FILM RATING GUIDE Lovers, Beauty Juice, Red Light Green Light, Wash, “Fantasy is for Adults” – with your family, friends, cast, and crew on the 30 By law, no institution in the United States Virtual Block #5 5:00 PM foot FilmQuest red carpet! “Opening” Night Party – Game Night! Death Walks on Nitrate, The Rejected, Washed, Flick, except for the MPAU can “rate” films. A selection of opulence, these fantasy flavored short Enjoy the opening of the physical festivities and $trip, The Speed of Time, VR Food, Miracle Desert, films will haunt, enlighten, delight, and thrill you! “The Story is Utah” – a long awaited return to FilmQuest and in-person Pigs, and Green Cobra Films included: Monstrous Circus, The Ballad of John Utah Shorts Block #1 festivals with our opening night party. There will be 5:00 PM However, we can provide you with this St. George, Superhero, The Last Incantation, Chef The best genre shorts from Utah in 2020! Come classic board games on hand, team games, karaoke, guide to the content contained within Giants, Eye for An Eye, The Beast, and First Lesson experience a variety of thrills with Lumeria, Through 11:00 PM etc. to help you socialize and get you to know your SATURDAY, MAY 29TH the Valley of the Hunter, Kepler 138, The Cultist Next fellow filmmakers better. Catering will be provided the May 2021 FilmQuest films for your 6:00 PM “Candy Hearts These Ain’t” – Door, Circadian, Cradle Song, American Killjoy, The by J-Dawgs. convenience. Just check the Workshop Event #1 Shorts Block #7 “Costumes from The Beyond” Tell Tale Heart, and Love Spell There’s a message here… but not the kind you’ll find “Rating Guide” listed with each film’s The Mandalorian’s costume designer Shawna Trpcic on cheap confectionary Valentine’s sweets! These details within the program. brings her considerable skills to the table and will Utah Red Carpet #2 shorts each have a tale to tell and story to penetrate Glam up and get your red carpet photos! Exclusively FRIDAY, MAY 28TH 11:00 AM your black heart. Do you dare look closer? Block 7:00 PM help filmmakers improve their films and storytelling for the Utah filmmakers, with priority given to the includes: A Perfect Circle, Snowflakes, The Wick, through the dynamic art of costume design. Filmmaker Luncheon Diabla, Fragile.com, and The Altruist “VR” indicates a virtual only day. team from They Live Inside Us and their guests. Have @ Spark Restaurant, Marriott Provo MONDAY, MAY 24TH (VR) 8:00 PM fun with your family, friends, cast, and crew on the 30 Hosted by our partner hotel, the Marriott, in their “All Roads Lead to Fantastic” – “Sister Tempest” – Feature Film foot FilmQuest red carpet! great dining hall, Spark Restaurant, we’ll be having FF = Family Friendly/All Audiences Virtual Block #6 “Toons for Loons” – Virtual Block #10 our filmmaker luncheon. The sooner you arrive, the Shorts Block #8 Animated shorts that bring out your inner Saturday quicker you’ll be settled and served as it’s going No matter your journey, your path will lead you AC = Adult Content L = Language One of our few feature films that are available for 10:30 AM morning cartoon… or your adult swim. Includes: Abe’s “They Live Inside Us” – to be packed! You’ll have 2 1/2 hours to eat, chat, to Fantastic! Explore these genre film gems, as ML = Mild Language SL = Strong Language the virtual edition, Sister Tempest is a mind bending Story, Meanwhile at the Abandoned Factory…, Dark “Opening” Night Feature Film and make new friends until the screenings begin we begin to wind down to the end of FilmQuest 8:00 PM 2020/21. Trust us – you’ll be glad you sat down for a journey into the fantastic. From alumni Joe Badon, Ride, The Animator, Too Late, Black Forest Sanatori- The Utah made feature film They Live Inside Us again at 1pm! = Brief Nudity Nudity Sensuality 1:00 PM spell with these yearns. Block includes: The Haunted BN N = S = um, One Last Monster, Quirkistador, Spark, Suckers, 2:00 PM prepare for a unique experience unlike any other. premiers as FilmQuest! Join the cast and crew for The Breakfast Nook, and Tides Are Changing Swordsman, Moon Drops, The Immortal, Pieces of SS = Strong Sexuality, V = Violence 9:00 PM their in-person festival debut. Also screening the “Empires from Beyond” – Me, Muse, “Antique,” And So He Opens His Eyes, MV = Mild Violence SV = Strong Violence “The Female of the Species is Deadlier Utah made music video You’re Afraid. Shorts Block #4 Laura Hasn’t Slept, and Dar-Dar I = Intense/Scary Images than the Male” – Virtual Block #11 When we look to the stars, what do we see? SUNDAY, MAY 23RD (VR) A dynamic collection of shorts that features badass Ourselves. Enjoy this eclectic cacophony of short “The Mortuary Collection” – women or tales centered around women and their THURSDAY, MAY 27TH films that explore the great unknown through tales Closing Night Feature Film FRIDAY, MAY 21ST (VR) “To Infinity and Back Again” – trials that will enlighten and entertain. Includes the of science fiction and the beyond. Films include All the screenings come to a close with the incredible 1:00 PM 5:00 PM Covid Testing & Filmmaker Check-In Virtual Block #7 films: Here There Be Tygers, Honour Thy Mother, The Falling, Amara, Trials, It’s Okay, Appyness, Skywatch, anthology horror feature filmThe Mortuary Sci-Fi short films that show there are no limits to the Arrive early and get settled.