CRYPTICON KANSAS CITY is a premiere showcase only and have a screening room of over 200 seats and do direct exposure to the best independent film makers of sci-f and horror genres alike. We provide an actual award based upon the fan response to trailers from those selected from all submissions by local film board members and experienced film directors. We generally have hundreds of submissions and only choose 6 full length and six shorts per festival event.
Our event announces and showcases its awards for all of its thousands of event attendees to aknowledge and expose these award winners with and offer the award symbol for use in there packaging and media drive... In the prestige of winning our awards, we find the value of these awards to average in value of $1500 worth of media, audience exposure and marketing to their films value. Note that no physical cash is given just the exposure of the festival and the prestige of winning before hundreds of fans of the genre.