FIFTH SEASON, APRIL 2022
​Award Nominations
Awards held via streaming on Wednesday, April 20th
STUDENT AWARDS
Best Student Director High School
Dylan Coty for Blue Circle
 
Best Student film High School
Birth of a Salesman
 
Best Comedy High School
Mousetrap

Best Horror High School
Sound of Silence

Best Animation High School
Finding Purpose
 
Best Experimental High School
Two Time

Best Concept High School
The Love That Remains

Best Documentary High School
Submergent Sound - A Guy Named Pete

MAIN FESTIVAL AWARDS
Best Actor
WINNER Michael Fedele for Sfortunato
Keith McCarthy for A Full Buck Moon
Louis Rocky Bacigalupo for Acedia
Dan Gregory for Compromise Lost (Lost and Found)
Wally Marzano-Lesnevich for The Killer Across the Street
Bruce Jimenez for Damned Are The Lost
 
Best Actress
Karen Asconi for Aunt Sadie Loved a Lady
WINNER Ger Glennon for LoveLetter Profiles
Ger Glennon for Switch
Caitlin Connolly for Ebb and Flo
Haley Pine for A Special Dinner
Soraïa Scicchitano for Acedia 
 
Best Director
Sally Deering for Aunt Sadie Loved a Lady.
Bill Sorvino for The Della Morte Sisters
WINNER Adam Seccafico for The Killer Across the Street
Debra Markowitz for Sfortunato
Renee Luke Jordan for Red Zone Shuffle
Sam Platizky for Compromise Lost (Lost and Found)

Best Film
A Full Buck Moon
The Killer Across the Street
WINNER The Della Morte Sisters
Switch
Aunt Sadie Loved A Lady
Sfortunato 

Best Comedy
Where’s the Will.
Banana Zakary.
What Can I Say?
WINNER LoveLetters Profiles
Aunt Sadie Loved a Lady.
A Special Dinner

Best Horror/Thriller
WINNER Better Safe Than Sonny

Best Local Film
WINNER Sfortunato
Trucked!
Monster Bed
Banana Zakary
Acedia
Damned are the Lost

Best Short Short
WINNER What Can I Say?
Banana Zakary
Monster Bed
Better Safe than Sonny. 
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Best Concept
Trucked!
Monsters Bed
The Della Morte Sisters
Where's the Will
LoveLetters Profiles
WINNER Banana Zakary

Best Cinematography
WINNER The Killer Across the Street
Red Zone Shuffle
Damned are the Lost
Sfortunato
The Della Morte Sisters
 
Best Ensemble
WINNER The Della Morte Sisters
 
Best Unproduced Script
Peter Hardy for Sleeps Like the Dead
WINNER Dan Gregory and Jayleen S. Perez for Unicorn Killer
Soda S. Persi for Not So Different
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Audience Choice
WINNER Where's The Will

Rising Star - Director's Award
WINNER George Carrillo

Best College Film
Man Up
Ebb and Flo.
WINNER A Special Dinner
The Mountains Call Me Home
Morgan + Alyssa ‘98-‘17
She Says No at the End

Best College Film Director
Brandon Fallat for Man Up
WINNER Grace Soriano for Ebb and Flo.
Haley Pine and Brendan Egan for A Special Dinner
Erika Lynn Jolie for The Mountains Call Me Home
Kayleigh Arnold and Ben Caruccio for Morgan + Alyssa 98-17
Luis Galarza for She Says No at the End