After Dadley Productions launched its comedy-fantasy short in April 2017 with wins for Best Director and Best Editing at the Los Angeles Film Festival Awards, Filling In paraded around the world for 16 months earning awards and nominations in 19 states in the U.S. and throughout the world in Australia, Canada, England, Italy and Lithuania. Its final film festival screening in Las Vegas in August 2018 at the Enginuity Film Festival earned the film its final two of its 61 total