Award of Merit – “Frozen Pizza” (UK)

Title: Frozen Pizza
Runtime: 12 min
Country: USA 
Director: Cara Engh
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: December, 2020

Synopsis: FROZEN PIZZA is a film that follows Waldo an unassured 16-year-old, who works at a grocery store where he passes his time admiring his crush Jodie, a badass, candy aficionado. When granted an opportunity to sneak into the store with her one night after a shift Waldo uncharacteristically agrees. Inside the night takes a turn from optimistic romance to horror when the rumored ghost of the grocery store, isn’t so rumored after all. All in the confinement of the grocery store the story takes us on a journey of young love, the mundane, and the wacky!