Oxford Film Festival 2023 Hoka Winners

Best Documentary Feature: GB Shannon, Heather Wilk’s, and Edward Valibus’ Show Business is my Life (But I Can’t Prove It) A Film about Gary Mule Deer

Honorable Mention: Jasmin Mara Lopez’s Silent Beauty

Best Documentary Short: A tie between Zaire Love’s SLICE and Alex Megaro and Ian Bell’s Krush: The Wrestler

Best Mississippi Documentary Feature: Jessica Anthony, Kelly Duane de la Vega, and Zandashe Brown’s In the Bones

Best Mississippi Documentary Short: Christina Huff’s The Hollidays in Mississippi

Best Narrative Feature: Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews’ Hundreds of Beavers

Special Jury Mention for Microbudget Savvy: Johanna Putnam and Jamie Unruh’s SHUDDERBUGS

Best Narrative Short: Amanda Fallon Smith and Colin Babcock’s Coup de Grace

Honorable Mention to Jack Evans’ Dateleap

Best Mississippi Narrative Feature: Michael Stevantori and Strack Azar’s The Banality

Honorable Mentions to Best Mississippi Narrative Feature: Michael Stevantori and Strack Azar’s The Banality

Best Mississippi Narrative Short: Edward Worthy’s Rear

Best Mississippi Music Video: Kira Cummings’ Ray Kincaid: “Scatter Brain Freestyle”

Honorable Mention Rory Ledbetter and Danny Klimetz’s Heart in a Notebook

Best LGBTQIA Film: Michelle Ehlen’s Maybe Someday

Special Jury Mention for Social Advocacy: Matt Nadel, Megan Plotka, and Wendi Cooper’s CANS Can’t STAND

Best Fest Forward Short: Wing Yan and Lilian Fu’s My Dear Son

Runner-up is Carrie Hawks’ Inner Wound Real

Best Comedy Short: Steve Collins’ I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

Honorable Mention to Russell Leigh Sharman and John Walch’s Angle of Attack

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Named a Top 50 Film Festival worth the entry fee over several years by MovieMaker magazine, Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, Miss., exhibits over 100 quality films from across the globe and has been praised for its hospitality. In 2008, the Oxford Film Festival became an independent non-profit organization with 501c3 status committed to celebrating the art of independent cinema.

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