First report of HPLFF-LA 2011

Roughly 500 attendees.

Screenplay competition:
Runner up = "Death Wind" By Travis Herrmann & Jim Pinto
Winner = "The Old Man and the Box" by William Barnett

Short Film competition (Judged by Guillermo del Toro, video to come):
Runner up = "Black Goat" by Joseph Nanni
Winner (tie) = "Static Aeons" by Gib Patterson
"Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven" by Christopher Saphire & Don Thiel III

Best of Fest = "The Whisperer in Darkness" by Sean Branney (director, writer) and Andrew Leman (prod, writer), founders of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society

Congratulations!

Photos, video, numbers will come after a few key people get some sleep. Thanks to all for making it happen!