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8th Annual Festigious 2022 - The Nominees



We're excited to announce nominees for the 8th annual Festigious 2022:


Best of Fest 2022

Journey Home - Christopher Houlston

Implanted - Fabien Dufils

HomeBound - Usher Morgan

Love and Love Not - Anthony Cally

Gift - Jiaqi Bin, Xi Liu

The Jewish Jail Lady and The Holy Thief - Barry Rosenthal, Nick Shanmans, Victor Velle



Best Narrative Feature

Wicked Inwards Monastery - Efriem Kahsay Quada

Adieu Lacan - Richard Ledes

Implanted - Fabien Dufils

Vanishing Knowledge - Ejaz Khan

Love and Love Not - Anthony Cally

Hashtag Blessed - Stephanie McBain, Dalea Cherie Faulkner, Martina Webster



Best Narrative Short

Baba - Cooper Harrison Levy, Cole Harrison Walderman

Journey Home - Christopher Houlston

My Dinner With Werner - Maverick Moore

HomeBound - Usher Morgan

Gary - Doug Cox

Horseback - Shu Ya



Best Indie Film

Lie, Revenge - Qing Zhao

Time Traveler - Jeffrey Israelson, Steven Israelson

Reshape - Siming Zheng

Feté - Andrii Lantukh, Luis Quijano

Bakshobondi - Siddhartha Saha

Unsaid Words - Stark Zhao





Best Web/TV Series

Coffee Talk - Ya-Chuan Hsiao

The Fairy Dream of Yeloli - Jin Jin

Hamlet & Ophelia - Scott Westerman

The Save - Dale Fabrigar, Suzanne DeLaurentiis, Toby Thomas

It's Daisy May - Candice Palladino



Best Documentary Feature

The Truck - Viacheslav Merzlikin

86ED - J.J. Hendricks

Still Suffering - Steven Berez, Diana Puzikova

The Fusion Solution - Jeff Mehiel

Our 20s - Jaysun Silver

The Jewish Jail Lady and The Holy Thief - Barry Rosenthal, Nick Shanmans, Victor Velle



Best Documentary Short

Mustang - Kateřina Kunčická

Inmate #57735 - Richard Poche

Life's Good - Jackson Tisi

Positive for Huntington's - Karam Gamal El Din, Yousef Gamal El Din

Monzon - Richard Poche

Making Marks - Linda Parisi, Kevin Strickland





Best Animation

Operation Berlin - Mat Charles

Keep Painting, Mom - Heloise Magny

Gift - Jiaqi Bin, Xi Liu

The Little Cloud - Andre Vaz, Isa Vaal

Mountain Spirits - Qiwei Li, Zishan Huang, Yin Fu, Yuxuan Fu

Unsaid Words - Stark Zhao



Best Music Video

Bi-2 — We don't need a hero - Max Shishkin

When It All Goes Down - Peter Samuel, Vin Scialla

Remember - Garik Sukachov, Andrei Tomashevsky

Slight - Roy Rosental, Joe Gnoffo

Argent Glass - Katsuyuki Nakanishi

A Feast That Never Comes - Maria Juranic, Sven Britt



Best Student Film

I See You - Shuyi Dong

A Second Chance - Arden Pala

Amnesia - Alpay Andy Birdinc

Énouement - Melanie Kardos, Matthew Morgan

Horseback - Shu Ya

Double Trouble - Brendan Casey



Best Director

Adieu Lacan - Richard Ledes

Implanted - Fabien Dufils

Killing Kitty - Greg Rencken

Blue Lanterns - Brandon Chi-Wei Chen

HomeBound - Usher Morgan

The Gift Of Life - Manshu Jian



Best First Time Director

Love and Love Not - Anthony Cally

Pirates of the North Coast - Franklin Sol