Spring Season 2022
Announced on March, 2022

Best Narrative Feature

STOYAN

Director: Roberto Ruiz Céspedes

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Best Narrative short

The Veteran Dramedy      

Director: Rainer Ludwigs

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Honorable Mention Short

Absence
Director: Arshile Egoyan

 

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Honorable Mention Short

When I Shut My Eyes
Director: Pedro Amed Mingardi

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Best Feature Documentary

A Boy Called Piano - The Story of Fa'amoana John Luafutu

Director: Nina Nawalowalo

 

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Best Short Documentary     

Liliana         

Director: Gabriel Serra

 

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Best Independent Film

WHAT WE DO NEXT

Director: Stephen Belber

 

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Best Unproduced Feature Script

FEAR SUM

Writer: James Mayson

  

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Best Unproduced Short Script

Under the Leaves       

Writer: Aaron A Moore

 

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Best Horror

The Domestic 

Director: Brad Katzen

 

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Best Comedy

RE-OPENING: A Lockdown Mockumentary

Director: Chris Guerra, Matthew John Koppin

 

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Best Animation

Hellenic Places: Hermoupolis

Director: Charalambos   Margaritis

 

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Best Science Fiction

The Abandon

Director: Jason Satterlund

 

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Best Web Series/TV Pilot

Outlaw Land

Director: Reza Sholeh

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Honorable Mention  Web Series/TV Pilot
Paris Paris 

Director: Dominic Desjardins

 

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Best Experimental

Brutal Moods

Director: Marta Bisbal Torres

 

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Best Environmental

Fleeting Structure

Director: Patrick Lysaght

 

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Best Female Director

Playing Through

Director: Balbinka Korzeniowska

 

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Best Human Rights

Seeds of Life      

Director:  Paige McKenna Grube

 

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Best First Time Filmmaker

Heavier Than Water          

Director:  Amauris Pérez Alcequiez    

 

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Best Student Film

Vlada Goes to London

Director:  Arti Savchenko

  

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Best LGBTQ

Aligned               

Director:  Apollo Bakopoulos

 

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Best Music Video

Phil Miller - You Can Tell

Director:  Chase Bradburn

 

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Best Thriller

LIBERTY                   

Director: Phil Witte De Witte

 

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Best Canadian Indie

BLACK POWDER

Director: William Cantin, Thomas Dufour

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Best Director of the season

Borrowed

Directors:  Carlos Rafael Betancourt, Oscar Ernesto Ortega

 

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Best Feature Cinematographer of the season

DOP: Michael Williams

Mysterious Circumstance, The Death of Meriwether Lewis

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Best Short Cinematographer of the season

DOP: Colin Cameron

Absence 

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Best Actor of the season

Ola Wallinder

Cactus

 

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Best Actress of the season

Anahí Hoeneisen

FLIES

 

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Best Editor of the season

Liam Hendrix Heath

The Cathar

 

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Best Composer of the season

John Bergstrom

This Vast and Mysterious Ocean

 

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Best Scriptwriter of the season

Writer: Keara Barnes                        

The Stepmom

    

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Best Youth Artist of the season

Tamiris Lima  

When I Shut My Eyes