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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

Waltz of the Strong

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

Best Narrative Feature

Last Tour Home

Director: Baylee Toney

Best Narrative Short

Bark

Director: Michele Evouna

Best Female Director

Agiter

Director: Amanda Moresco

Best Actress

Ann March

I See You

Best Producer

Joanna MORITZ, Antoine Paul Blanche

ELLE EST RADIEUSE

 

Best Composer

Eve Buigues

College In Prison: Life With the Possibility Of Transformation

 

Best Unproduced Script

BullsEye

Vicki Liviakis

Best Documentary Feature

Wof Zerash Coffee

Director: Sylwia Pecio

Best Documentary Short

I take refuge

Directo: Priyanka Suryaneni

 Best Director

UNFEELING

Director: Ozlem Cingirlar

 Best Animation

Collateral Damage

Director: Kynthia Piakis, Faith Teo

 

Best Experimental

Let Me Leave

Director: Alexia Haick

 Best Student Film

Nerot Shel Shabbat

Director: Lital Mizrahi

Best L.A. Filmmaker

Palmdale

Director: Lauren Moreno

Best Science Fiction

Berlin Loop

Director: Emily Manthei

Best Music Video

Overtime

Chelsea Thedinga

Best Series-Web-Pilot

SWIPE

Director: Kaleigh Fitzgerald

Best LGBTQ

The Sibling Rule

Director: Mari SanGiovanni

Best Comedy

BFFR

Director: Erika Apelgren

Best Thriller

PEOPLE

Director: Laura Anastasia Jones

Best Human Rights

Cuba es Mi Patria: The Homeland I Keep Inside

Director: Rose Marie Perez

Best Youth Artist

TORN

Bethan Williams

Best Environmental

Tambopata

Director: Adele Davis, Ceci Davis

Best First-Time Filmm

Butterfly Wings

Director: Carin Smolinski

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