Although there were several high budget Hollywood short films in competition, the $300 short film A Killer App received perhaps the most relevant prize at an awards ceremony centered on creature films – the Best Original Monster Creation prize for the reanimated girlfriend “Jewel” – controlled by a mobile phone app – portrayed in the film by actress Aimee Lynn Chadwick, created and written by Keram Malicki-Sanchez and with special effects makeup by Dania Simental.

Adding to the intrigue and legend of the inventive but very relevant-to-the-times character was the exceptional poster art by designer Erin Best Les-Pierre and photographer Jessica Marshall-Gardiner.