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
About Oxford Film Festival
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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