The Venice-based Broad Humor Festival – featuring Venice filmmakers with showings at Epoxybox and Electric Lodge – has concluded with an enthusiastic turnout.
The festival featured six full-length and 36 short funny films all by women or “broad” filmmakers. The winners are as follows:
Screenplays
Eclectic Comedy: Spit Wars by Ruth Campbell
Farce: Flipped Out by Ora Munter
Romantic Comedy: Good Mourning by Marge Piane and Denise Fondo
Satire: A Brief Affair by Susan Lee Hahn
Screwball Comedy: The Road to Sundance by Michelle Clay
Films
Feature: Garmento by Michele Maher
No-Budget Feature: The Day Arnold Schwarzenegger Kicked My A** by Abner Zurd
Short: Go with the Fro by Michele Lewis
No-Budget Short: A Day in the Life of a Bathroom Key by Jill Effron
Bust Magazine Award: Fancy by Lorzi Grossman Elberg
Audience Award: Dreammaker by Christina Morales Hemenway
Honorable Mentions
Animation: A Midsummer Night’s Drive by Laura Zelanis
Canine Comedy: Finding Fifi by Mimi Haddon (director) and Gina Gambill (writer)
Extreme Comedy: The Perfect Wife by Julie Pearson
Experimental Comedy: The Rhetorical Ass by Marianne Magne
Macabre Comedy: Take it to the Fridge by Ashleigh Layne
Romantic Comedy: (tie) Breakdown by Sascha Rothchild and Failed Attempts by Amanda Swelkow
