Welcome to the final status report for The 2024 Trekzone Fan Film Awards.

The category winners were finalized this morning, so we got seventeen categories all set to go and now it is Matt’s show as he does all the visual stuff.

Deciding on winners is not an easy task, there’s a fear that we may be seen as being too kind to a production or too rough on a production but there’s no filler awards, no freebies, they are all earned.

It is not easy whittling down a list of possibilities to one winner, every fan film has strengths and weaknesses and so we got to find out which one has the best of everything and for the major awards find out which one has the best mix and people will think we got it right or got it wrong, welcome to the awards life.

There is always the temptation to spread the awards around, so everybody gets a share but that gives it the dreaded ‘participation award’ feel so we have to be tough and be willing to potentially having a dominating fan film because in events like the Oscars you get a film that dominates like Titanic did.

It has been a very smooth ride this year, we haven’t had any problems compared to the last two years, we’re looking forward to mailing out the three major awards and their prize packs.

Will a particular fan film dominate? Will there be surprises? Find out on July 10 on Trekzone, if you got a YouTube account make sure you go on the video and click/tap on the notify option so you can tune in from the start.

Until next time, be good to each other.