Lead actor Gideon Emery won Best Actor at the 2012 Los Angeles INternational Underground Film Festival.
Survivor Type was nominated for Best Horror Short at Shriekfest 2012.
Won the first ever "Truly Disturbing Award", which was presented at the 2012 Everybody Dies Horror Film Festival, by Richard Trejo of trulydisturbing.com.
Emery went on a strict calorie counting regimen to play the emaciated role. Due to scheduling issues with locations, the start date was delayed for several months, with the result that Emery only had a little over a week in which to lose weight. He ended up losing 20 pounds.