By Terrell Sandefur, Macon Film Festival

The winning films of the 7^th annual Macon Film Festival will have another day to shine. The 2012 Macon Film Festival Winner Showcase is set for Saturday, April 28th  at the Cox Capitol Theatre. The event will run from 1-9pm. The “mini” film festival will feature encore screenings of the winning films from the 2012 festival. Films will be screened from the various competition categories including documentary, animation, experimental, narrative short, narrative feature and student films. Many of the films featured in the showcase have already begun to screen at other independent film festivals to audiences around the country.

“After the success of the 2012 festival the film board is excited at the opportunity to share these award winning films again with our festival audience” said Tabitha Lynne Walker, Macon Film Festival President. “Whether you had the chance to see them during the festival or are coming back to catch some of the films you might have missed this is the perfect opportunity to watch more independent  films on the big screen.”

2012 Macon Film Festival – “Mini” MAGA Winners Showcase Screening Schedule:

• Kwik Fix : Runner Up – Student Category
• Grow! : Runner Up – Documentary Category
• Suburbia : Runner Up – Narrative Short Category
• Margaret & Evergon : Winner – Documentary Category
• Missile Crisis : Winner – Student Category
• Ghost of Old Highways : Winner – Experimental
• The Jockstrap Raiders : Winner – Animation Category
• The Kook : Winner – Narrative Short Category
• Who Pays the Hitman : Runner Up – Narrative Feature Category
• A Wake : Winner – Narrative Feature Category & *Melvyn Douglas Best in Show Award

*Melvyn Douglas Best in Show Award is named after two-time Oscar winning actor Melvyn Douglas who was born in Macon, Georgia in the year 1901.

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The Macon Film Festival, funded in part by a generous grant from The John S and James L Knight Foundation, was created to celebrate the art of the moving image and to give up-and-coming filmmakers an opportunity to showcase their work in Central Georgia. The diverse subject matter of independent films, ranging from innocent to provocative to very adult in nature, offers something for everyone and provides local movie buffs the opportunity to see films that will likely never be shown at Macon movie theatres.

Save the Date! The 8th Annual Macon Film Festival: February 14 – 17, 2013; MaconFilmFestival.com; Facebook.com/MaconFilmFestival