Local film festival CC7D screened all submitted films and held an awards ceremony on Aug. 31. All films needed three elements: an unreliable character named some variant of Nick, a source of light as a prop, and the line “I am ready.”

BEST SCREENPLAY “Doppelganger” (Body Yell Productions)
BEST USE OF PROP “Impossible Possible Mission 2: Finding Love” (Something Awesome Productions)
BEST USE OF LINE “In the Ditch” (Acunamatata)
BEST USE OF CHARACTER “Something Darker than Dark” (Ratwood Productions)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR J. Don Luna, “Paper Coffins” (WE3 Productions)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Ana Ramirez, “Late Night Corpus Christi” (Coastal Boomers)
BEST ACTOR Brian Cobos, “On One” (Bell Lap Productions)
BEST ACTRESS Haley Sturgeon, “Route 76” (Mohler Media)
BEST ENSEMBLE “Nuestra Torta” (Bridge Burners)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG “Ready to Go There” by Johnny Pree Thomas, “Paper Coffins” (WE3)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE “On One” by Nicolas Ibanez, “On One” (Bell Lap)
INFLUENCER AWARD (Best Marketing) WE3 Productions
YOUNG FILMMAKER AWARD “Finch” (Cam Jam), led by Cameron Zertuche
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY “In the Ditch” (Acunamatata)
BEST DIRECTOR Sebastian Scott Bonilla, “Something Darker than Dark” (Ratwood)
FILMMAKER AWARD (voted on by participating filmmakers) “Paper Coffins” (WE3), led by Julie Bryan
AUDIENCE AWARD “Paper Coffins” (WE3)
GRAND JURY WINNER “Something Darker than Dark” (Ratwood)