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