Still recovering after the festival but want to announce the winners officially. We'll be updating the awards section once we've re-coded the awards section.

2008 Deep One Screenwriter Awards

The following screenplays were selected as best of out of a field of 54 entries. The head judges were author Robert M. Price, author Joseph S. Pulver, and festival director Andrew Migliore.

• Jeffrey Blake Palmer’s nightmare parade “The Sleeping Deep” won first prize
• Faisal A. Qureshi’s eerie “In Bright Darkness" won runner up

2008 Howie Awards

Both of these gentlemen have used Lovecraft's works as a springboard and have incorporated elements of it into there own works creating something new.

• Author Brian Lumley
• Artist Mike Mignola

2008 Brown Jenkin Awards

The following films were some of the best at this years festival. Through a combination of guest judges, audience feedback, and festival director's input the following films were nominated , with the winners indicated:

• AM 1200 by David Prior — Best of Festival, Best Cosmic Horror Film
• Eel Girl by Paul Campion — Best Short Film, Best Special Effects, Best Comedy
• The Outsider by Doug Bradley — Best Dramatic Reading
• Alien Raiders by Ben Rock — Audience Award Best Feature

Nominated for a Brown Jenkin

• The Dunwich Horror and Others by Ryo Shingawa — Nominated for Best of Festival
• Morella by Jeff Ferrell — Nominated for Best Period Adaptation
• The Casting Call of Cthulhu by Joseph Nanni — Nominated for Best Comedy
• Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown by Frank Woodward — Nominated for Best Documentary