The 2020 festival was originally slated to take place May 7- 10 in Fredericksburg, Texas. The in-person festival was cancelled and festival screenings were held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
HCFF would like to thank the filmmakers, festival partners and film fans who supported the online version of HCFF.
* These films screened online
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS
Fully Realized Humans | USA | Comedy | Joshua Leonard
The Get Together | USA | Comedy/Drama | Will Bakke
*A Room Full of Nothing | USA | Dark Comedy | Duncan Coe and Elena Weinberg
Seven Short Films About (Our) Marriage | USA | Drama | Christopher J. Hansen
Simon's Got a Gift | France | Drama | Léo Karmann
*What Doesn't Kill Us | USA | Comedy/Horror | Ethan Cartwright, Jacob Kiesling and Zach Schlapkohl
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS
*Bravo Y Grande | USA | Carl Crum
Cowboys | USA | Bud Force and John Langmore
Five Years North | USA | Zach Ingrasci and Chris Temple
Hi I'm Blake | USA | Jon Michael Simpson
*Love Me Whole | USA | Jeff Ray
Take Pains. Be Perfect. | USA | Kristi Frazier
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS
*Ashes to Ashes | USA | Renan Ozturk and Taylor Rees
*Band of Runners | USA | Will Harrison
*A Bold Experiment | USA | Alexander Milan and Andrew Alden Miller
*Deleted | UK | Stephan Pierre Mitchell
*Let the Blonde Sing | USA | Rachel Knoll
*A Long Walk | Nicaragua | Brad Feeser
Mr. Somebody | USA | Brian Wertheim
*Never Give Up | Malta | Jonathan Schörnig
*The Paint Wizzard | USA | Jessie Auritt and Jessica Wolfson
*Stonewall Under the Lights | USA | Chad Mathews
*We Answered the Call | USA | Scott Holmgren
*White Male Shooter | USA | Jared Callahan and Andrew Norbeck
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - STUDENT SHORT FILMS
*The 11th Order | USA | Drama | Joshua DeFour
*Ain't No Ho In Me | USA | Documentary | Jay Hubert
*Breaking Ground | USA | Animation | Ellie Morlino,Tara Norton and Alex Shaulis
Don't Croak | USA | Animation | Daun Kim
Elephant in the Room | Switzerland | Drama | Chanelle Eidenbenz
*Knitcromancer | USA | Animation | Allison Rossi, Becky Seamans and Ida Zhu
*The Legend of Toto | USA | Animation | Blanca Montoya
*Misguided | USA | Animation | Sanghyun Kim
*Shattered | USA | Animation | Suyoung Jang
*Smile! | USA | Animation | Alicia Leggiadro
*U14 | USA | Horror | Taylor Likens
*Wanderlust | USA | Animation | Regina K Cicone and Angelique K Smith
*Worthy of More | USA | Documentary | Juan Ojeda
*XY | Iceland | Drama | Anna Karín Lárusdóttir
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS
A Simple F*cking Gesture | Canada | Dark Comedy | Jesse Shamata
*After Class | USA | Drama | Charles Xiuzhi Dong
*Age Difference | USA | Drama | Nickolas Dimondi
*All or Nothing | USA | Drama | Jim McKinney
*Allergies | USA | Drama | Ali Alkhafaji
*An Orgy in Joshua Tree | USA | Comedy | Josh Zuckerman
*Anna | UK | Drama | Dekel Berenson
*Antenna Farm | USA | Drama/Adventure | Christopher Yates
*Any Wednesday | USA | Drama | Allie Light and Patrick Stark
*Astrodome | USA | Music Video | Josè Luis Gonzàlez and Jeff Nichols
*Baby Kate | USA | Drama | Jennifer Lafleur
*Bite the Hand | USA | Drama | Nolan Wilson Goff
*Butterfly | USA | Drama | Bonnie Foster
*Clod | USA | Drama | Benjamin J Murray
*Coming Home | USA | Dramedy | Daniel Andrés Treviño
Deep | USA | Dramedy | Dillon Cameron
*Deep Creak | USA | Thriller | Joel Flora and John Knipp
*Final Frontier | USA | Dark Comedy | Stephen Cervantes
*Ghosted | USA | Drama | Blayne Weaver
*He's a Good Kid | USA | Drama | Mylissa Fitzsimmons
*Hung Up | USA | Drama | Damon O'Steen
*Hypoxia | USA | Sci-Fi | Christian P Gridelli and Hunter Norris
*Incurable | USA | Dramedy | Michelle Bossy
*Invaders from Above | USA | Animation/Comedy | Dano Johnson and
Kevin Maher
Javelina Run | USA | Comedy | Lisa Belcher
*Lotus | USA | Drama | Beibei Xu
*Lugar Algum - No Place | Brazil | Drama | Gabriel Amaral
*Marfa | USA | Drama | Joe Zizzo
*Milk Toast | USA | Comedy | Will Berry
My Dinner with Werner | USA | Comedy | Maverick Moore
*PhotoBomb | USA | Comedy | Catherine Dyer
*Puffy | USA | Animation/Drama | David N Franklin
*Pyramid Circle | USA | Comedy | Cam Glass
*Salting the Fly | USA | Drama | Craig Mooneyham and Jacob
Reynolds
*Selkinchek - The Swing | Kyrgyzstan | Drama | Samara Sagynbaeva
Sidepiece | USA | Comedy | Teddy Tenenbaum
*Slum Angel | Uganda | Drama | Julia Barnett
*The Cunning Man | UK | Zoë Dobson
*The Heist | Ireland | Comedy | Julius Kloepping
*The Lonely Types | USA | Drama | Paden Fallis
*The Rink | USA | Horror | Ronald Short
The Speed of Time | USA | Comedy | William J. Stribling
*The Tooth Fairy | USA | Thriller | Tyler Edward Glodt
The Turner Exhibit | USA | Drama | Mathew Gregory Bainbridge
*The Watchmaker | USA | Comedy | Charlie Fonville
The Way That I Take | USA | Drama | Chris Hartwell
*To Whoever Finds This | USA | Drama | Mason Jendel
*Un-heard | USA | Comedy | Jason Habel
*Unsolicited | USA | Animation | Meg Cook
*Wake | USA | Drama | Cartter Evans
*Walking Point | USA | Drama | RJ Nevens, Jr.
*Way Back | South Africa | Drama | Per Kasch
*When Skies Are Gray | USA | Drama | Lio Mehiel
*Wiggle | USA | Dramedy | Mark Reeb