Winners
8th Edition
Announced on July, 2022
Best International Narrative Feature:
WE COME INTO LIFE
Director: Ms. Siu PHAM
Best US Narrative Feature
Everything I ever wanted to tell my daughter about men
Directors: Lorien Haynes, Barbara van Schaik, Maryam d'Abo, Susannah Harker, Jodhi May, Erin Richards, Katie Flynn, Laura Merians, Amy Gardner, Gia Carides, Kate Sumner, Tara Fitzgerald, Kate Danson, Sienna Guillory, Saffron Burrows, Lucy Brown
Best US Narrative Short
The Winter Fern
Director: Gwen Gottlieb
Best International Filmmaker
RAINE
Director: FREY Dagne
Best Female Director:
Sunflower
Director: Mingjie Tang
Best Male Director
NIGHTALK
Director: Donald Shebib
Best Actress
Mona Arkin for Sunflower
Best Producer
Best Female Cinematographer:
Rachel Garcia-Dunn for Raine
Honorable Mention Short & Best Edit
La nage
Director: Marie Poitevin
Best Composer
Miriam Mayer for The Last Picture
Best Produced Script
Siu Pham for We come into life
Best Unproduced Short Script
Again, Mama
Writer: Geqi Li
Honorable Mention Short Script
Fight for your life
Writer: Daniela Andrea Cruz Yomayusa
Best Unproduced Feature Script
Why I Love The Circus
Writer: Tia Matza
Honorable Mention Feature Script
Soy
Writer: Shanaya Fastje
Best Feature Documentary
The Voice of Thaïs
Director: David Casals Roma
Honorable Mention Feature Documentary
The Brazilian Templars Mystery
Directors: Next Anyextee, Neil Cabana
Best Short Documentary
Kanatenhs - When The Pine Needles Fall
Director: Ellen Gabriel
Honorable Mention Short Documentary
Sama Yoon On My way
Director: Emelie Carlsson Gras
Honorable Mention Short Documentary
What Are You Looking At?
Director: Liberty Smith
Best First Time Filmmaker
When Time Got louder
Connie Cocchia
Best LGBTQ
Puzzle in the palm
Director: Ayumi Kurokawa
Best Web-Series-Pilot
Meet Me at the Barre
Directors: Vera Wagman, Dawn Cobalt, Jill Remez, Karen Bankhead
Best Music Video
Director: Karyn Lynn Bailey
Honorable mention Music Video
End of the Line
Director: Nicola Heidi Hawkins
Best Short Science fiction
Mind Over Matter
Director: Anysia Deák
Best Student Film
Lucy
Director: Jordana Bleiwas
Honorable Mention Student Film
EXIT
Director: Oriana Ng
Best Experimental
Neckline
Director: Savannah M. Ryan
Honorable Mention Experimental
And Breathe
Directors: Sima Gonsai, Karen Morgan
Best Short Horror
Closet Nightmares
Director: Camila de los Santos Speed
Best Animation
My Tiny Friends
Director: Jiyoung Park
Honorable Mention Animation
My Cat Lucy
Director: Kate Vaillant