SCUFF Winners
2025 Winners
Best Unproduced Screenplay - Short: Blood Sugar by Travis Long
Best Unproduced Screenplay - Feature: The Bathtub by Chris Donald Griffin
Best Documentary: Freak Bikes
Best Horror: Prom Party Massacre
Best Comedy: A Good Script is Hard to Find
Best Animation: Froggy Style
Best Direction - Short: Lucy and the Devil
Best Direction - Feature: Weekend at the End of the World
Best South Carolina Film: First Drafts: The Outcasts
Best Short: The Clam Guy
Best Feature: The Misadventures of Vince & Hick
Jury Award: The Rows
Audience Choice: Tonight and Maybe Tomorrow
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2024 Winners
Jury Award: Counting In
Best Feature: Britney Lost Her Phone
Best Short: Ava and the Doc
Best SC Filmmaker: Yasmin J. Lee
Best SC Film: Like In The Movies
Best Comedy: The Delicate Cycle
Best Direction - Feature: Pater Noster and the Mission of Light
Best Direction - Short: The Coyote Sisters
Best Horror: Consumer
Best Animation: With Tits
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: The Solstice Dayton by Chris Ledoux
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Bay for Blood by Harry Waldman
Audience Choice: Counting In
2023 Winners
Jury Award: Acorn
Best Feature: Weeknights
Best Short: The 44th Chamber of the Shaolin
Best SC Filmmaker: Anil Dhokai
Best SC Film: A.B.
Best Documentary: How To Break A World Record
Best Horror: Cannibal Comedian
Best Animation: Brutus
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: Tackle & Bait by Genevieve and Glen McDevitt
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Thank You Kindly by Evans Owens
2022 Winners
Jury Award: Silent River
Best Feature: Handshake
Best Short: Straight Shooter
Best SC Filmmaker: Michelle Iannantuono
Best SC Film: Cupcake
Best Documentary: The Brilliant Terror
Best Foreign: Escalation
Best Animation: The Insufferable General Dagon
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: And the Winner Is... The Shocking and True, (Not So Much), Story of the 1948 Best Actress Oscars
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Paperplate Face
2021 Winners
Jury Award: Nuts! The Musical
Best Feature: Bad Girls
Best Short: The Fuzzies
Best SC Filmmaker: Brittany Brock
Best SC Film: Unblocked
Best Documentary: Giant! The World of Filmmaker Jeff Leroy
Best Foreign: Can't Go Home Again
Best Animation: The Dark Odyssey
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: Geneva by Genevieve McDevitt
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: The Big Break by Zach Van Fleet
2020 Winners
Jury Award: The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Best Feature: Death Drop Gorgeous
Best Short: Grave Digging
Best SC Filmmaker: Kelvin Edwards
Best SC Film: sal.
Best Produced Screenplay – Feature: Bad Candy
Best Produced Screenplay – Short: Requiem for a Crab
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: "HashBrown" by Erika Bock
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: "The Lincoln Gambit" by Theodore Adams
Honorable Mention: Bong Zombies
Honorable Mention: Party Hard
Honorable Mention: Coping: don't let it consume you
Honorable Mention: We Came A Long Way By Faith
Honorable Mention: The Big D
2019 Winners
Jury Award: Lieutenant Jangles
Best Feature: Crash Bang Burn
Best Short: The Animator
Best SC Filmmaker: Michelle Iannantuono
Best SC Film: Hindsight
Best Produced Screenplay – Feature: Flesher
Best Produced Screenplay – Short: Hollowed
Audience Choice Award: How Many Times
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: Mary Jane's Last Dance by Millie West
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Where’s Stephanie? “The Ultimate Gift” by Jo-Ann Wilhelm
2018 Winners
Jury Award: The Last of the Manson Girls
Best Feature: Victor Goodview
Best Short: The Order
Best SC Filmmaker: Buddy Wingard
Best SC Film: Dinkheller
Best Produced Screenplay – Feature: A Chance of Snow
Best Produced Screenplay – Short: You Can't Play With Us
Audience Choice Award: Bobby
1st runner up Audience Choice: Amazon Hot Box
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: 88 Fingers by Adam Lapallo
1st runner up Un-produced Screenplay - Feature: Away With It by Rebecca Raymer
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Screamer by Marc Allen
1st runner up Un-produced Screenplay –Short: Static by Alex Clifford
Honorable Mention: Phooled
Honorable Mention: Experimental - Mackenzie Marrow
Honorable Mention: Little
Honorable Mention: Old Lions
Honorable Mention: The Harvest
2017 Winners
Jury Award: The Theta Girl
Best Feature: Fags in the Fast Lane
Best Short: Die Panda Die
Best Documentary: Reconstructing Hawthorne
Best SC Film: The Last Filmmaker
Best Produced Screenplay – Feature: The 5 Year
Best Produced Screenplay – Short: God
Audience Choice Award: The Girl Who Saved Dan Landis
1st runner up Audience Choice: Jack’s Java Bean Shack
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Feature: The Wonderful by Demitra Papadinis
1st runner up Un-produced Screenplay - Feature: The Devil in Us by Glenna O'Conner
Best Un-produced Screenplay – Short: Retribution by Marc Allen
1st runner up Un-produced Screenplay –Short: First Prize by Carl B. Clark
Honorable Mention: Spark
Honorable Mention: Smoke
Honorable Mention: Dead Shot
Honorable Mention: Cartoonish
2016 Winners
BEST FEATURE FILM – God Bless New Dixie
BEST SHORT FILM – Avarice
BEST SC FILM – Confessions
BEST SC FILMMAKER – MJ Slide
BEST PRODUCED SCREENPLAY – FEATURE – The Last Beautiful Girl
BEST PRODUCED SCREENPLAY - SHORT– Be Better Than Equal
AUDIENCE CHOICE – Wounded
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY – FEATURE - The Vanguard Part 1 by Derek Robbins
1ST RUNNER UP – The Melting Pot by Mark Finguerra
BEST PRODUCED SCREENPLAY – SHORT – Stay Out Of My Room by Kelly Karam
1ST RUNNER UP – Twists of Closure by CN Bean
HONORABLE MENTION – A Dose of Reality
HONORABLE MENTION – Off The Beaten Path
HONORABLE MENTION – B is for Backne
HONORABLE MENTION – The Other Side
2015 Winners
Best Feature - "Nekro" directed by Pinar Sinan
Best Short - "Night of the Slasher" directed by Shant Hamassian
Best Feature Screenplay - "The Fix" by Steven Crowley
Best Short Screenplay - "Walter's Days" by Nathan Ludwig
Best SC Feature - "Cinema Purgatorio" directed by Chris White
Best SC Short - "Midnight Macabre" directed by John Johnson
Best SC Filmmaker - William Stancil and Graham David for "Dank Shadows"
Audience Choice - "Hopeful Sunday" directed by Gunner Willis
Audience Choice runner up: (tie) "The End" by Stephanie Merrell and "Twin Geeks The Zelinksi Brothers Unleashed" by Michael T. Owens