The 2022 No Coast Film Festival is a wrap.
The three-day short film festival concluded Sunday with the “best of the fest’ screening and several workshops put on by both local and internationally known filmmaking professionals. Among the panelists was director Katrina Brook Flores whose film Assaman won the Audience Choice award.
Flores says being at No Coast was an exciting opportunity and she says she saw several important “themes” develop over the course of the weekend.
Director and ESU student Ashley Schechter was attending her first No-Coast where she debuted her film “Dud” which is an “A-sexual romance” that delves into the intricacies of an A-sexual relationship. Schechter says it was important for her to shed light on a demographic that has seen little representation in media.
No Coast concluded with the annual awards ceremony inside of ESU’s King Hall. As previously mentioned, the Audience Choice award went to Flores’ Assaman, the Kraken Award went to Welcome Megan directed by Lily Richards, Concertina directed by Gabriel Gonzalez Acosta won the Grand Jury award and the best student film award went to Emma-Morgan Bennett’s Mama, I’m Through.
This year’s festival featured more than 50 selections screened at the Granada Theatre Friday through Sunday.
