The 9th Annual Grand Finale took place virtually February 22nd-27th via xerb.tv platform. Despite the pandemic and its myriad challenges we were able to partner with various streaming platforms to host our regular season events online and discuss the selected works with the filmmakers via Zoom. The finalists were carefully chosen by audience vote last year and our programming team and we invited the following judges to help choose the winners: Curtis John, Founder and Executive Director of The Luminal…

Our congratulations to the winners of our closing edition of World Webfest Mania for 2020! Amidst some wonderful selections both timely and imaginative, two in particular stood out to audiences: Audience Choice Award Winner: “Patient” — by M. Rowan Meyer & Simon Pearl This modern fantasy about a standardized patient who helps train new doctors with his unique ability to recreate the symptoms of any disease whose symptoms start to “stick” takes home a prize of a full day of shoot…

On Wednesday, November 11th, World Webfest Mania returns in a flexible online format on Xerb.tv— while the event will go live starting at 7pm, audience members can pick up from the beginning at any time until the stream cuts off at midnight. “We hope this hybrid format will create the communal feeling of an in-person event while also providing some flexibility for at-home viewers,” says festival manager Cailin Kless. There will also be a small in-person Awards Ceremony the following…

We are excited to announce the winners of the Fall 2020 Katra Film Series. It was a true pleasure to screen their work and to present them with prizes from JMR Rentals, Screenblade, 3636 Studios, Meditative Writing, International Screenwriters’ Association, and Final Draft! Best Feature Film Award: Crossroads of America by Gabrielle Muller Best Short Film Award: Kite by HongWei Wang Honorable Mention: Pretty Ugly Complicated by Dani Hanks Best Short Screenplay Award: Genesis by Becca E. Davis Short Screenplay Honorable Mention: Sunset Strip by Alexander Osman…

Katra Film Series returns in its new online format October 5th-10th. Every online screening block is followed by a Zoom filmmaker talkback open to all audiences, and all viewers are invited to vote for Audience Choice Award Winners who will receive prize packages worth a total of $7000 courtesy of Final Draft, JMR Rentals, Screenblade, 3636 Studio, International Screenwriters’ Association, and Meditative Writing. In addition to online streamings of indie shorts and features, they will be hosting a celebratory drive-in screening of…