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The COMEDY 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 COMEDY Festival Screenplay Winners & Honorable Mentions

Performed by Val Cole: POETRY Reading: Who Poops Up a Tree? There’s a neighbor dog I do not know But for the trail he leaves. It’s something I have never seen A mutt who poops up trees. A mystery, really, how it starts A habit such as that. I imagine that he stopped to fart… Continue reading COMEDY Poetry Reading: Who Poops Up a Tree?, by Micheline Brewer

A showcase of the best COMEDY films in the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS: Best Short Film: The Dairy Experiment Best Micro-Short Film: Tragically, a make or break question Best Direction: Odessa-Mama Best Comedy Story: SO-RAWR-ITY GIRLS Odessa-Mama, 5min., USA Directed by Georgiy Deliev, Yuri Volodarsky A lively musical comedy set in 1988 Odessa, USSR, where… Continue reading WINNERS: July 2026 COMEDY Festival

A showcase of the best COMEDY films in the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS: Best Short Film: AN AFTERNOON IN KNIFE SELLING WITH PSYCHO SAMMY Best Performances: HOE PHASE Best Micro-Short Film: PICK ME UP – THE 2 MINUTE SHOW Best Story: TWENTY-NICE BLOCKS Best Direction: TSHANGYANG A LOVE BEYOND DHARMA HOE PHASE, 4min., USA Directed… Continue reading WINNERS: May 2026 COMEDY Festival

A jilted teen races the clock to win back his born-again virgin ex-girlfriend as she is targeted for her unique abilities by a charming outcast vampire looking to reclaim his legacy as ruler of the underworld. CAST LIST: Narrator: Hannah Ehman Drake: Geoff Mays Ron: Andy Camp

Newly-divorced Anna promptly gets a boyfriend. However, she fails to notice that the boyfriend is played by the same actor as her ex-husband. More than just “played” — it is the same man. https://instagram.com/k.arch.ev CAST LIST: Narrator: Shawn Devlin BF-D: Sean Ballantyne Anna: Val Cole

After meeting a psychic with a cryptic read of the future, Kylie and Greyson find they’ve swapped bodies leaving Greyson to navigate the chaos that is life as a woman and giving Kylie the boost her career so desperately needed – manhood. CAST LIST: Narrator: Sean Ballantyne Janie: Hannah Ehman Sheryl: Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole —- POEM: I Live So Close I’m Wearing Pajamas “Only a puddle remained where, just a day earlier, a man had bobbed in the amniotic fluid of illusion.” “A Man in a Fishbowl, Marinated in Unreality,” Dan Barry, The New York Times, 5-10-06 Everything’s rendered as a Victorian romance to lure… Continue reading COMEDY Poem: I live so close Im Wearing Pajamas, by Annie Christain

A jilted teen races the clock to win back his born-again virgin ex-girlfriend as she is targeted for her unique abilities by a charming outcast vampire looking to reclaim his legacy as ruler of the underworld. CAST LIST: Narrator: Sean Ballantyne Mina: Hannah Ehman Jonathan: Shawn Devlin

A showcase of the best COMEDY films in the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS: Best Short Film: HEDGEHOG IN AFRICA Best Direction: OUTRAGE! Best Story: ROACHES Roaches, 2min., Canada Directed by David R Creighton The Bridge Street Mission has a problem with roaches… They can talk. A cautionary tale. Hedgehog in Africa, 3min. Ukraine Directed by… Continue reading WINNERS: February 2026 COMEDY Festival