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 Sollars
Baba - Cooper Harrison Levy, Cole Harrison Walderman
Journey Home - Christopher Houlston
Everything I Never Said - Nahyr Galaz Ruiz
Énouement - Melanie Kardos
Best Actor
Baba - Cole Harrison Walderman
Journey Home - Mike Bodie
My Dinner With Werner - Matthew Sanders
Love and Love Not - Francesco D'Onofrio
Charlatan - Colin Bowles
Horseback - Qinaritu
Best Actress
Pirates of the North Coast - Franny Kromminga
Journey Home - Jennifer Martin
Implanted - Michelle Girolami
The Gift Of Life - Wan Ting Tseng
Hashtag Blessed - Isabella Blake-Thomas
Horseback - Tamina
Best Duo
AViL - Bob Mclean & Tyler Gurciullo
Journey Home - Mike Bodie & Jennifer Martin
Night, Mother - Sheila Houlahan & Ellen McLain
Horseback - Tamina & Qinaritu
Unbarred - Sarah Moon & Melissa Davidson
Lucky Sisters - Catriona Boeing & Adrienne Boeing
Best Cinematography
Killing Kitty - Adrian Tizoc Marshall
Journey Home - Edward Massey
Love and Love Not - Taylor Tomlinson
Forlorn - Miguel Tafich
Implanted - Fabien Dufils
Reshape - Miguel Tafich
Best Editing
Journey Home - Vanessa Coussens
They Are Fine - Carlos Martinez
Strange Commander - Rowan McCarthy
Still Suffering - Diana Puzikova
Tainan Fantage - Jason M Tseng
Implanted - Olivier Wicki
Best Score
Love and Love Not - Alexander Burke
Journey Home - Stewart Dugdale
Art of the Mind - Mariano Saulino
Gift - Chen Qisheng
Blue Lanterns - Zong Chiang
HomeBound - Christopher North
Best Original Story
Lucky Sisters - Peilin Xie
Alice Memorial Park - Ritendra Datta
Killing Kitty - Greg Rencken, Maddie Shuman
The Embrace - Nahyr Galaz Ruiz
Unbarred - Melissa Davidson
Art of the Mind - Kathleen Swenson
Best Screenplay
A Machine For Time - John M Broadhead
Mutiny In The Dugout - Rod Kent
Escape from Virtue - Nick DeRuve
Recitation - Courtney Froemming
Figure Eights - Dan Williams
Amy and Angel - Julia Verdin, Deedee Benkovich
Best Television Script
Two Fifths - Darren Daniels, Kaitlin Morris
Sounds Familiar - Steven C Freehauf
Desert Star News - Robert Haus
Old Daddy - Amy Etra, Michael Etra
Atomic City - Damian Panetta
Rough Cut - Matthew Margo
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