A showcase of the best films in the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS (From the FEEDBACK Film Festival): Best Crime Film: The Informant Best Mystery Film: CPA Best Micro-Short Film: Use Your Words Best Story: The Lady and the Heart Use Your Words, 5min., USA Directed by Kent Lloyd Jed and Charlie “discuss” the whereabouts of… Continue reading WINNERS: September 2026 Action/Crime/Mystery Festival
Author: crimemysteryfestival
Showcasing the best of Crime and Mystery Stories and Films from around the world.
Podcast Episode: SUMMER 2026 CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Screenplay Winners & Honorable Mentions
Pip: Screenplays, suspects, and the eternal question of who did it — and more importantly, who wrote it best. Mara: This episode comes from crimemysteryfestival, and we're looking at the Summer 2026 season results — winners, honorable mentions, and what it means to place in a competitive field of crime and mystery scripts. Pip: Let's… Continue reading Podcast Episode: SUMMER 2026 CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Screenplay Winners & Honorable Mentions
SUMMER 2026 CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Screenplay Winners & Honorable Mentions
The CRIME/MYSTERY Festival had a surplus of submissions fo the first half of the season. Enclosed is the list of WINNERS, who had a best scene of their screenplay performed by professional actors and made into a video. Plus, the honorable mentions, who although they didn’t formally win at the festival, are a group of… Continue reading SUMMER 2026 CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Screenplay Winners & Honorable Mentions
MYSTERY SHORT STORY: Love Wanted, by Elizabeth Sundstrom
Performed by Val Cole A MYSTERY short story reading.
DEATH SHORT Story: A Cowboy Lost, by Thomas R. Marrotta Jr.
Performed by Val Cole A DEATH short story reading.
DEATH SHORT Story: Nature’s Gift: Darkness in His World, by Thomas R. Marrotta Jr.
Performed by Val Cole A DEATH short story reading.
CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Feature Script: The Last Hunt, by Scott Joseph Cahill
In the endless war against ruthless drug cartels, justice rarely survives the border. CAST LIST: Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Rodriguez: Shawn Devlin Jenkins: Sean Ballantyne
DEATH Poem: ONE FINAL TIME, by Jackie Rainwater
performed by Val Cole
WINNERS: June 2026 Action/Crime/Mystery Festival
A showcase of the best films in the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS (From the FEEDBACK Film Festival): Best Short Film: HEADLIGHTS Best Direction: THE HOAX ANGOISSE, 4min., USADirected by Araeia RobinsonPlagued by relentless anxiety, a woman is caught between the weight of the past and the grip of the unknown—until the voices of her ancestors… Continue reading WINNERS: June 2026 Action/Crime/Mystery Festival
NOIR FICTION Short Story: Bluebird, by Eamonn Furey
Performed by Val Cole
