Couch Film Festival Summer 2022
WINNERS in RED, NOMINEES in BLACK
Best of the Festival
BEST FILM of the FESTIVAL: 38 - Dir. by Lukas Wolfgang Martin (Germany)
1st RUNNER UP for BEST FILM: 5 Stars Service - Dir. by Carlos Vázquez (Mexico)
2nd RUNNER UP for BEST FILM: Bottom Of The Night - Dir. by Joe Mitchell (USA)
AUDIENCE CHOICE: 38 - Dir. by Lukas Wolfgang Martin (Germany)
HONOURABLE MENTIONS:
Korean Genocide - Dir. by Seung-il Chon (Korea)
Tóxico - Dir. by Rubia Lima, Rafael Henrique Lima (Brazil)
Category Award Nominees
15-Second Category
Nominees for Best 15-Second Film
The Hand of Count Magnus - Dir. by Kyle Dunbar (Canada)
Deadlift - Dir. by Kyle Dunbar (Canada)
Alive_ - Dir. by Lidia Napoli
Teacher's Pet - Dir. by Kevin Lucero Less (USA)
Arithmetric - Dir. by Alexandre Dacosta (Brazil)
Jackass - Dir. by Alexandre Dacosta (Brazil)
Follow - Dir. by Yoh Komaya (Japan)
Eureka! - Dir. by David Creighton (Canada)
1:00-5:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation Canada
I Had a Dream of a House at Night - Dir. by Charlie Galea McClure (Canada)
Early Birds - Dir. by Cole Stevenson (Canada)
The Star Mill - Dir. by Daniel Blake (Canada)
The Night Walker - Dir. by Jonathan Valentine (Canada)
Benny & Ramona's Big Break - By Lovebun Productions (Canada)
Radio Cassette - Dir. by Charlotte Delgrange (Canada)
Nominees for Best Animation International
Jam It - Dir. by John Dawson (USA)
Sticking Seafarer - Dir. by Jeremy Ross (USA)
From Within - Dir. by Malena Romano (Israel)
Cart Wrangler - Dir. by Rose Marcello, Max Smith, Gabriel Sgandurra (USA)
Café Drawing - Dir. by Junrong Zhang (USA)
Black Sun - Dir. by TJ Walker (USA)
Little Talks - Dir. by Talla Malyukova (UK)
Echoes of Birdsongs - Dir. by Luís Melo (Portugal)
Nominees for Best Comedy
We're Good - Dir. by Larry Rosen (USA)
Macaroons - Dir. by Nathan Tecson (USA)
Bathroomates - Dir. by Edie Bruins (Canada)
Cart Wrangler - Dir. by Rose Marcello, Max Smith, Gabriel Sgandurra (USA)
Brazzy Jazzy - Season 2 - Dir. by Steve Becker (USA)
2 Minute Show - A Bag of Hammers - Dir. by Dik Lee (Canada)
Nominees for Best Documentary
Maya Angelou and James Baldwin "Trust Life" - Dir. by Jason Fleurant (USA)
H. Majuscula - Dir. by EmMa Matern (Canada)
Bésame Mucho & the East Side Gallery Berlin - Dir. by Gilbert Brüning (Germany)
Nominees for Best Drama
You're Right - Dir. by Telio Espinoza (Mexico)
Over & Over - Dir. by Walter Temple (USA)
Double Proposition - Dir. by Nino Oz (UK)
The Life of Sophie - Dir. by Rafael Star (Australia)
Chicken Sandwich - Dir. by Paul K.V, Dylan Posgate (Canada)
Alter Demo - Dir. by Thibault Castan Boissy (France)
Everything I Could - Dir. by Christopher Armienti (USA)
Nominees for Best Experimental
Mr. Box & Boogy's Bob Ross The Joy of Painting Review - Dir. by Al Diaz, Javi Diaz (USA)
Speech - Dir. by Yordanis Dominguez Baez (Cuba)
Mushroom Trip - Dir. by Armando Ortegon (Canada)
Anonymous Letter Found In A Portland Bus Station - Dir. by Justin Kip McCollor (USA)
Aime Toi Fille Noire - Dir. by Timothy Richardson (USA)
Wherever You Are, Wherever I Am - Dir. by Kay Chan (Canada)
Mneme_Reminiscence - Dir. by Lavinia Tommasoli (Italy)
For The Blue - Dir. by Fern A. Mad (Canada)
Nominees for Best One-Minute Film
Sheep - Dir. by Dmitry Dias (Latvia)
Bernie Bros Pizza Inc. - Dir. by Jeff Vande Zande (USA)
Killer Audition - Dir. by Michael Boston (USA)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Star Mill - Dir. by Daniel Blake (Canada)
The Night Walker - Dir. by Jonathan Valentine (Canada)
Particle Man - Dir. by Stuart Leask (UK)
Astral Traveller - Dir. by Patrick Gamble (Australia)
Nominees for Best Thriller
Intertwined - Dir. by Serhat Dogantekin (Canada)
Surveillance - Dir. by Liam Marshall Jones-Tran (Canada)
Last Call, Midnight - Dir. by Larry Rosen (USA)
A Broken Man - Dir. by Leonidas Gioldasis (Australia)
Nominees for Best Student Film
Fight Night - Dir. by Ethan Marx (USA)
Aspects - Dir. by Connor Kujawinski (Canada)
Finding You Again - Dir. by Daren Valdez (Canada)
Day After Day - Dir. by Jacob Landry (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actor
Austin Buchanan - Over & Over (USA)
Samuel Roger - Alter Demo (France)
Michael Boston - Killer Audition (USA)
Garrett Grimes - Fight Night (USA)
Ben Cable - Everything I Could (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress
Grace Gonzales - Finding You Again (Canada)
Alexandra Landau - Send Me A Color (USA)
Terezina Vital - You're Right (Mexico)
Patricia Hegedus - Intertwined (Canada)
Camila Gómez - Cliche (Spain)
Nominees for Best Cast
Suzhalum Bhoomi Inimaiyaga - Dir. by Lenin Srikanth (India)
Joyride - Dir. by Laurie Empey (Canada)
Double Proposition - Dir. by Nino Oz (UK)
Doom No More - Music Trailer - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Don't Be Afraid - Dir. Matthew Winters (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Walter Temple - Over & Over (USA)
Nathan Tecson - Macaroons (USA)
Mareks Kondratjevs - Sheep (Latvia)
Márcio D'Astrain - Saudade: The Lisbon I Never Knew (Portugal)
Xinyu Li - Aspects (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer
Larry Rosen - We're Good (USA)
Geneviève Dunn, Étienne Destroismaisons - The Incredible Paul (Canada)
Márcio D'Astrain - Saudade: The Lisbon I Never Knew (Portugal)
Molly Tomecek - Send Me A Color (USA)
Leonidas Gioldasis - A Broken Man (Australia)
Nominees for Best Director
Giuppi Rattá Gutiérrez - Cliche (Spain)
Paul K.V, Dylan Posgate - Chicken Sandwich (Canada)
Bartosz Andrejuk - Nothing Has Changed (Poland)
Steve Becker - Brazzy Jazzy - Season 2 (USA)
Jeff Vande Zande - Bernie Bros Pizza Inc. (USA)
5:01-20:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation
A Fable for Four Voices - Dir. by Deb Ethier (Canada)
Danse Macabre - Dir. by Lucas Zbinden (Switzerland)
Mileage - Dir. by Jennifer Wu, Kym Santiana, Ruyee Lu, Christopher Hsueh, Nicole Taylor-Topacio, Joy Zhou, Ruby Saysanasy, Miranda Li, Saul Benavides (Canada)
Nominees for Best Comedy
Mr. Box & Boogy's Lone Ranger Review - Dir. by Al Diaz, Javi Diaz (USA)
Coarse Victim - Dir. by Logan Charron (Canada)
Abductees Anonymous - Dir. by Jennifer Pointer (USA)
Lower East Asides - Dir. by Steve Becker (USA)
Operation 16 - Dir. by Leslie Hopps DeSchutter, Brent Clark (Canada)
Weightlisted - Dir. by Jeremy Todd Shinder (USA)
Nominees for Best Documentary North America
The Celebrated, Gifted, World Famous Doctor Tumblety - Dir. by Ian Paul Johnston (Canada)
How U MAGA??? (A Reflection) - Dir. by Steve Shannon (USA)
Shoreline Socialites - Dir. by Inder Nirwan (Canada)
MusArt - Dir. by Kevin Hanzlik (USA)
Everything is Art - Dir. by Luc Beauchemin, Michel Boissonneault (Canada)
Nominees for Best Documentary International
Tierra del Fuego - Dir. by Oleksandr Lozytskyi (Ukraine)
Home Is...- Dir. by Gavin Jones (UK)
Melissanthe - DIr. by Georgios Dimitropoulos (UK)
Romeo Yusupov - Dir. by Romeo Yusupov (New Zealand)
Minus 18 Degrees - Dir. by Moritz Krause (Germany)
Nominees for Best Drama North America
Take Care - Dir. by Darren Keilan (USA)
Echo - Dir. by Quentin Ferrant (Canada)
Free Pass - Dir. by Joseph Lao (USA)
The Break Up - Dir. by Zay Rodriguez (USA)
Willa (Pilot Episode) - Dir. by Jodi Lynn Thomas, Daniel Ruczko (USA)
I Was Expecting - Dir. by Suzanne Miller, Sundance Nagrial (Canada)
Nominees for Best Drama International
Russo - Dir. by Kirtan Singh (Australia)
Day 4 - Dir. by Simona Calo (UK)
The Elevators - Dir. by Haitao Hu, Jin Yang (China)
Blue Red - Dir. by Ehsan Nasri (Iran)
The Host - Dir. by Guillaume Hernandez, Sébastien Bonfanti (France)
Love Lost and Found - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Nominees for Best Experimental
Miracle Whip - Dir. Jerod Willis (USA)
Stay Inside - Dir. by Lachlan Anderson-Schmidt (Australia)
Noise Machine - Dir. by J. F. Tannen (USA)
Sessions in Grief - Nika (Canada)
And So I Begin. - Dir. by Margarethe Baillou (USA)
Nominees for Best Horror
The Fifth Chair - Dir. by Chris Vaughn (USA)
Cannibal Dad - Dir. by Liam Cooper (Canada)
5 Days - Dir. by Erifili Davis (Australia)
Drained- Dir. by Kimberly B. Flores (USA)
Clean Freak - Dir. by Jordan H. Hughes (Canada)
Nominees for Best Romance Film
Lockdown Love Life - Dir. by Ashna Sharan (USA)
Oh My Dear Ms. Gauge - Dir. by Frankie G Holmes (USA)
Stay Inside - Dir. by Lachlan Anderson-Schmidt (Australia)
Ijo: A Love Story - Dir. by Fatimah Binta Gimsay (Nigeria)
Forever - Dir. by Stephen Thomas Ford (Ireland)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
ARCA - Dir. by Germain Aguesse, Robin Aguesse (France)
Surface - Dir. by Shane Nelson, Beatrix Wilson (Canada)
PeaPod Man - Dir. by John Wrigley (USA)
Chronicles of a Broken Path: Caravan - Dir. by Lord Benjamin Nathaniel Redic II (USA)
Doomer - I Don't Want to Be Alone - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Mind Over Matter - Dir. by Anysia Deák (USA)
Nominees for Best Thriller
He Ain't Dead - Dir. by David Lewis (USA)
Dirty Laundry - Dir. by Matison LeBlanc (USA)
Fifty7 Minutes - Dir. by Dave Inglis, Thomas Inglis (UK)
Your Loss - Dir. by Miranda Kramer (USA)
Cicada - Dir. by Freddie Jarrett (USA)
Nominees for Best Student Film North America
Fragments - Dir. by Alyza Reyes (Canada)
Just Sign Here - Dir. by Abraham David (Canada)
All Hail the King - Dir. by Ben Frondorf (USA)
Resistance - Dir. by Denzel Noylander (Canada)
The Way Things Were - Dir. by Lauren Plattman (USA)
The Teen Killer - Dir. by Olivia Medrano (USA)
Nominees for Best Student Film International
Emir - Dir. by Mete Övünç (Turkey)
When I Look Ahead - Dir. by Zach Diotte (Australia)
The Last High - Dir. by Vignesh Hariharan Nair (UAE)
Whale Heart - Dir. by Phillip Edge (UK)
Withdrawn by submitter and is no longer in competition: Passenger Seat - Dir. by Louis Conte-Bourges (France)
Nominees for Best First-Time Filmmaker
Arya Ashoori - RELAPSE | A short film about FOMO (Canada)
Yassin Nour - Overdue (Canada)
Macedonia Alexis, Johnathon Krautkramer - Role With It (USA)
Adrian Campbell - Descension (Canada)
Jo Güstin - Don't Text Your Ex (Canada)
Alireza Kharkan - Reload (Iran)
Nominees for Best Actor
Mohammad Sadegh Malek - Deep Sleep (Iran)
Rick McArthur - Hell's Jacket (Canada)
Oswaldo Salas - Sonata For A Calendar (Peru)
Charles Etubiebi - Ijo: A Love Story (Nigeria)
Christiaan Ackermann - Lone Fields (South Africa)
Nominees for Best Actress
Alex McDevitt - Divine Intervention (UK)
Emilia Nigrello - Hell's Jacket (Canada)
Christine Cortes - Just Sign Here (Canada)
Amy Catherine Welch - Dear Sister (USA)
Jodi Lynn Thomas - Willa (Pilot Episode) (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
Sono Figo (I'm Good Looking) - Dir. by Beppe Gallo (Italy)
He Ain't Dead - Dir. by David Lewis (USA)
Chronicles of a Broken Path: Caravan - Dir. by Lord Benjamin Nathaniel Redic II (USA)
Legacy - Dir. by Mario Gustavo Lopez (USA)
The Fifth Chair - Dir. by Chris Vaughn (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Jeremy Partyka - Dear Sister (USA)
West McInerney - Russo (Australia)
Oleksandr Lozytskyi - Tierra del Fuego (Ukraine)
Roy Zheng - Don't Text Your Ex (Canada)
Tre Bullen - Descension (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer
Adrian Campbell - A Walk to Solace (Canada)
Siddhanth Gaddam - Sugar (India)
Dave Inglis - Fifty7 Minutes (UK)
Mehmet Tığlı - Eli Nazik (Turkey)
Veronika Doynikova - Reflecting (Canada)
Nominees for Best Director
Chris Fudge - Blue & White (Canada)
Olivier Simon - Everything is Explained (The Little Brooklyn)(France)
Germain Aguesse, Robin Aguesse - ARCA (France)
Simona Calo - Day 4 (UK)
Lord Benjamin Nathaniel Redic II - Chronicles of a Broken Path :Caravan (USA)
20:01-45:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Comedy
SirCooly's Groundhog Hunt - Dir. by Christina Barton, Nolan Schmidt (USA)
Lactown - Dir. by Samuel Carl Cohen (USA)
Culinary Tension - Dir. by Brandon Richard Hobson (UK)
Casanoir - Dir. by John "JT" Schindler (USA)
Playbill - Dir. by Nicholas Bromund (USA)
Space Mechanic II: Quest of the Wizard - Dir. by Matt Bond (USA)
Nominees for Best Documentary
The Stampede To Calgary - Dir. by Logan Hale (Canada)
Covid Uncoupled - Dir. by Liliane Andree Chretien (Canada)
10 Rounds - Dir. by Jean-Christophe Gonon (France)
Nominees for Best Drama
Clipping Branches - Dir. by Andros Georgiou (Canada)
Sinners and Saint - Dir. by Jerod Willis (USA)
The Time You Left - Dir. by Yvette Sin, Nikita Zhang (Canada)
The Man With The Cough - Dir. by Alex George (USA)
After Doomsday - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Nominees for Best Experimental
The Pit and the Pendulum - A Musicabre - Dir. by Danny Ashkenasi (USA)
The Red String: Capulet's Orchard - Dir. by Julio Urdaneta (Venezuela)
Clipping Branches - Dir. by Andros Georgiou (Canada)
Nominees for Best Thriller
Tulpa Tales: The Island - Dir. by Aiky Braig (Brazil)
Blood Road - Dir. by William Anthony Stancik (USA)
Sinners and Saint - Dir. by Jerod Willis (USA)
Eyes of God - Dir. by Leah Lin (USA)
Martyn - Dir. by Richard La (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actor
Kris Salvi - Lactown (USA)
Jacob Motz - Space Mechanic II: Quest of the Wizard (USA)
Sebastian Kowollik - Martyn (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actress
Katharina Schmidt - Casanoir (USA)
Teresa Picciano - Seamless Journey (Canada)
Carolyn Holland - Eyes of God (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
The Stampede To Calgary - Dir. by Logan Hale (Canada)
Playbill - Dir. by Nicholas Bromund (USA)
Culinary Tension - Dir. by Brandon Richard Hobson (UK)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Zac Max - The Man With The Cough (USA)
Ioannis Koutroubis - Seamless Journey (Canada)
Caleb Joye - Sinners and Saint (USA)
Nominees for Best Writer
Jonathan Geffner - Casanoir (USA)
Liliane Andree Chretien - Covid Uncoupled (Canada)
Hasaan Bhatti, Richard La - Martyn (Canada)
Nominees for Best Director
Nicholas Bromund - Playbill (USA)
Yvette Sin, Nikita Zhang - The Time You Left (Canada)
Logan Hale - The Stampede To Calgary (Canada)
45:01-120:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Feature Film
Access Control - Dir. by Andrew J. Bullard IV (USA)
What Else Is On? - Dir. by Tyler Council (USA)
Paper Dream (Royaye Kaghazi) - Dir. by Ali Atshani (USA)
Descension Part II - Dir. by Adrian Campbell (Canada)
Tales From the Narrow Bridge The Wyrmwood Devil - Dir. by Joey Mosca, Sami Saad, Jayleen Perez, Jenna Kildosher, Sam Platizky, Isaac Platizky (USA)
Musher - Dir. by Anuradha Rana, Laurie Little (USA)
Nominees for Best Actor
Andon Campbell - Descension Part II (Canada)
Prashant Lokare - The Unintentional Suicide (India)
Dan Gregory - Tales From the Narrow Bridge The Wyrmwood Devil (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress
Heather Fairbanks - Descend (USA)
Rachel Myskiv - Red Rabbit Lodge (Australia)
Megan Hoche - Tales From the Narrow Bridge The Wyrmwood Devil (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
Access Control - Dir. by Andrew J. Bullard IV (USA)
Shadows & Forms - Dir. by Steven R. Barron (USA)
What Else Is On? - Dir. by Tyler Council (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Mark A. France - Descend (USA)
Deepak Shrivastav - The Unintentional Suicide (India)
Shane Kavanagh - Red Rabbit Lodge (Australia)
Nominees for Best Writer
Andrew J. Bullard IV - Access Control (USA)
Steven R. Barron - Shadows & Forms (USA)
Mark A. France - Descend (USA)
Nominees for Best Director
Anuradha Rana, Laurie Little - Musher (USA)
Kevin Khachan - Red Rabbit Lodge (Australia)
Ali Atshani - Paper Dream (Royaye Kaghazi) (USA)
WINNERS in RED, NOMINEES in BLACK
Best of the Festival
BEST FILM of the FESTIVAL: 38 - Dir. by Lukas Wolfgang Martin (Germany)
1st RUNNER UP for BEST FILM: 5 Stars Service - Dir. by Carlos Vázquez (Mexico)
2nd RUNNER UP for BEST FILM: Bottom Of The Night - Dir. by Joe Mitchell (USA)
AUDIENCE CHOICE: 38 - Dir. by Lukas Wolfgang Martin (Germany)
HONOURABLE MENTIONS:
Korean Genocide - Dir. by Seung-il Chon (Korea)
Tóxico - Dir. by Rubia Lima, Rafael Henrique Lima (Brazil)
Category Award Nominees
15-Second Category
Nominees for Best 15-Second Film
The Hand of Count Magnus - Dir. by Kyle Dunbar (Canada)
Deadlift - Dir. by Kyle Dunbar (Canada)
Alive_ - Dir. by Lidia Napoli
Teacher's Pet - Dir. by Kevin Lucero Less (USA)
Arithmetric - Dir. by Alexandre Dacosta (Brazil)
Jackass - Dir. by Alexandre Dacosta (Brazil)
Follow - Dir. by Yoh Komaya (Japan)
Eureka! - Dir. by David Creighton (Canada)
1:00-5:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation Canada
I Had a Dream of a House at Night - Dir. by Charlie Galea McClure (Canada)
Early Birds - Dir. by Cole Stevenson (Canada)
The Star Mill - Dir. by Daniel Blake (Canada)
The Night Walker - Dir. by Jonathan Valentine (Canada)
Benny & Ramona's Big Break - By Lovebun Productions (Canada)
Radio Cassette - Dir. by Charlotte Delgrange (Canada)
Nominees for Best Animation International
Jam It - Dir. by John Dawson (USA)
Sticking Seafarer - Dir. by Jeremy Ross (USA)
From Within - Dir. by Malena Romano (Israel)
Cart Wrangler - Dir. by Rose Marcello, Max Smith, Gabriel Sgandurra (USA)
Café Drawing - Dir. by Junrong Zhang (USA)
Black Sun - Dir. by TJ Walker (USA)
Little Talks - Dir. by Talla Malyukova (UK)
Echoes of Birdsongs - Dir. by Luís Melo (Portugal)
Nominees for Best Comedy
We're Good - Dir. by Larry Rosen (USA)
Macaroons - Dir. by Nathan Tecson (USA)
Bathroomates - Dir. by Edie Bruins (Canada)
Cart Wrangler - Dir. by Rose Marcello, Max Smith, Gabriel Sgandurra (USA)
Brazzy Jazzy - Season 2 - Dir. by Steve Becker (USA)
2 Minute Show - A Bag of Hammers - Dir. by Dik Lee (Canada)
Nominees for Best Documentary
Maya Angelou and James Baldwin "Trust Life" - Dir. by Jason Fleurant (USA)
H. Majuscula - Dir. by EmMa Matern (Canada)
Bésame Mucho & the East Side Gallery Berlin - Dir. by Gilbert Brüning (Germany)
Nominees for Best Drama
You're Right - Dir. by Telio Espinoza (Mexico)
Over & Over - Dir. by Walter Temple (USA)
Double Proposition - Dir. by Nino Oz (UK)
The Life of Sophie - Dir. by Rafael Star (Australia)
Chicken Sandwich - Dir. by Paul K.V, Dylan Posgate (Canada)
Alter Demo - Dir. by Thibault Castan Boissy (France)
Everything I Could - Dir. by Christopher Armienti (USA)
Nominees for Best Experimental
Mr. Box & Boogy's Bob Ross The Joy of Painting Review - Dir. by Al Diaz, Javi Diaz (USA)
Speech - Dir. by Yordanis Dominguez Baez (Cuba)
Mushroom Trip - Dir. by Armando Ortegon (Canada)
Anonymous Letter Found In A Portland Bus Station - Dir. by Justin Kip McCollor (USA)
Aime Toi Fille Noire - Dir. by Timothy Richardson (USA)
Wherever You Are, Wherever I Am - Dir. by Kay Chan (Canada)
Mneme_Reminiscence - Dir. by Lavinia Tommasoli (Italy)
For The Blue - Dir. by Fern A. Mad (Canada)
Nominees for Best One-Minute Film
Sheep - Dir. by Dmitry Dias (Latvia)
Bernie Bros Pizza Inc. - Dir. by Jeff Vande Zande (USA)
Killer Audition - Dir. by Michael Boston (USA)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Star Mill - Dir. by Daniel Blake (Canada)
The Night Walker - Dir. by Jonathan Valentine (Canada)
Particle Man - Dir. by Stuart Leask (UK)
Astral Traveller - Dir. by Patrick Gamble (Australia)
Nominees for Best Thriller
Intertwined - Dir. by Serhat Dogantekin (Canada)
Surveillance - Dir. by Liam Marshall Jones-Tran (Canada)
Last Call, Midnight - Dir. by Larry Rosen (USA)
A Broken Man - Dir. by Leonidas Gioldasis (Australia)
Nominees for Best Student Film
Fight Night - Dir. by Ethan Marx (USA)
Aspects - Dir. by Connor Kujawinski (Canada)
Finding You Again - Dir. by Daren Valdez (Canada)
Day After Day - Dir. by Jacob Landry (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actor
Austin Buchanan - Over & Over (USA)
Samuel Roger - Alter Demo (France)
Michael Boston - Killer Audition (USA)
Garrett Grimes - Fight Night (USA)
Ben Cable - Everything I Could (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress
Grace Gonzales - Finding You Again (Canada)
Alexandra Landau - Send Me A Color (USA)
Terezina Vital - You're Right (Mexico)
Patricia Hegedus - Intertwined (Canada)
Camila Gómez - Cliche (Spain)
Nominees for Best Cast
Suzhalum Bhoomi Inimaiyaga - Dir. by Lenin Srikanth (India)
Joyride - Dir. by Laurie Empey (Canada)
Double Proposition - Dir. by Nino Oz (UK)
Doom No More - Music Trailer - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Don't Be Afraid - Dir. Matthew Winters (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Walter Temple - Over & Over (USA)
Nathan Tecson - Macaroons (USA)
Mareks Kondratjevs - Sheep (Latvia)
Márcio D'Astrain - Saudade: The Lisbon I Never Knew (Portugal)
Xinyu Li - Aspects (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer
Larry Rosen - We're Good (USA)
Geneviève Dunn, Étienne Destroismaisons - The Incredible Paul (Canada)
Márcio D'Astrain - Saudade: The Lisbon I Never Knew (Portugal)
Molly Tomecek - Send Me A Color (USA)
Leonidas Gioldasis - A Broken Man (Australia)
Nominees for Best Director
Giuppi Rattá Gutiérrez - Cliche (Spain)
Paul K.V, Dylan Posgate - Chicken Sandwich (Canada)
Bartosz Andrejuk - Nothing Has Changed (Poland)
Steve Becker - Brazzy Jazzy - Season 2 (USA)
Jeff Vande Zande - Bernie Bros Pizza Inc. (USA)
5:01-20:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation
A Fable for Four Voices - Dir. by Deb Ethier (Canada)
Danse Macabre - Dir. by Lucas Zbinden (Switzerland)
Mileage - Dir. by Jennifer Wu, Kym Santiana, Ruyee Lu, Christopher Hsueh, Nicole Taylor-Topacio, Joy Zhou, Ruby Saysanasy, Miranda Li, Saul Benavides (Canada)
Nominees for Best Comedy
Mr. Box & Boogy's Lone Ranger Review - Dir. by Al Diaz, Javi Diaz (USA)
Coarse Victim - Dir. by Logan Charron (Canada)
Abductees Anonymous - Dir. by Jennifer Pointer (USA)
Lower East Asides - Dir. by Steve Becker (USA)
Operation 16 - Dir. by Leslie Hopps DeSchutter, Brent Clark (Canada)
Weightlisted - Dir. by Jeremy Todd Shinder (USA)
Nominees for Best Documentary North America
The Celebrated, Gifted, World Famous Doctor Tumblety - Dir. by Ian Paul Johnston (Canada)
How U MAGA??? (A Reflection) - Dir. by Steve Shannon (USA)
Shoreline Socialites - Dir. by Inder Nirwan (Canada)
MusArt - Dir. by Kevin Hanzlik (USA)
Everything is Art - Dir. by Luc Beauchemin, Michel Boissonneault (Canada)
Nominees for Best Documentary International
Tierra del Fuego - Dir. by Oleksandr Lozytskyi (Ukraine)
Home Is...- Dir. by Gavin Jones (UK)
Melissanthe - DIr. by Georgios Dimitropoulos (UK)
Romeo Yusupov - Dir. by Romeo Yusupov (New Zealand)
Minus 18 Degrees - Dir. by Moritz Krause (Germany)
Nominees for Best Drama North America
Take Care - Dir. by Darren Keilan (USA)
Echo - Dir. by Quentin Ferrant (Canada)
Free Pass - Dir. by Joseph Lao (USA)
The Break Up - Dir. by Zay Rodriguez (USA)
Willa (Pilot Episode) - Dir. by Jodi Lynn Thomas, Daniel Ruczko (USA)
I Was Expecting - Dir. by Suzanne Miller, Sundance Nagrial (Canada)
Nominees for Best Drama International
Russo - Dir. by Kirtan Singh (Australia)
Day 4 - Dir. by Simona Calo (UK)
The Elevators - Dir. by Haitao Hu, Jin Yang (China)
Blue Red - Dir. by Ehsan Nasri (Iran)
The Host - Dir. by Guillaume Hernandez, Sébastien Bonfanti (France)
Love Lost and Found - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Nominees for Best Experimental
Miracle Whip - Dir. Jerod Willis (USA)
Stay Inside - Dir. by Lachlan Anderson-Schmidt (Australia)
Noise Machine - Dir. by J. F. Tannen (USA)
Sessions in Grief - Nika (Canada)
And So I Begin. - Dir. by Margarethe Baillou (USA)
Nominees for Best Horror
The Fifth Chair - Dir. by Chris Vaughn (USA)
Cannibal Dad - Dir. by Liam Cooper (Canada)
5 Days - Dir. by Erifili Davis (Australia)
Drained- Dir. by Kimberly B. Flores (USA)
Clean Freak - Dir. by Jordan H. Hughes (Canada)
Nominees for Best Romance Film
Lockdown Love Life - Dir. by Ashna Sharan (USA)
Oh My Dear Ms. Gauge - Dir. by Frankie G Holmes (USA)
Stay Inside - Dir. by Lachlan Anderson-Schmidt (Australia)
Ijo: A Love Story - Dir. by Fatimah Binta Gimsay (Nigeria)
Forever - Dir. by Stephen Thomas Ford (Ireland)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
ARCA - Dir. by Germain Aguesse, Robin Aguesse (France)
Surface - Dir. by Shane Nelson, Beatrix Wilson (Canada)
PeaPod Man - Dir. by John Wrigley (USA)
Chronicles of a Broken Path: Caravan - Dir. by Lord Benjamin Nathaniel Redic II (USA)
Doomer - I Don't Want to Be Alone - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Mind Over Matter - Dir. by Anysia Deák (USA)
Nominees for Best Thriller
He Ain't Dead - Dir. by David Lewis (USA)
Dirty Laundry - Dir. by Matison LeBlanc (USA)
Fifty7 Minutes - Dir. by Dave Inglis, Thomas Inglis (UK)
Your Loss - Dir. by Miranda Kramer (USA)
Cicada - Dir. by Freddie Jarrett (USA)
Nominees for Best Student Film North America
Fragments - Dir. by Alyza Reyes (Canada)
Just Sign Here - Dir. by Abraham David (Canada)
All Hail the King - Dir. by Ben Frondorf (USA)
Resistance - Dir. by Denzel Noylander (Canada)
The Way Things Were - Dir. by Lauren Plattman (USA)
The Teen Killer - Dir. by Olivia Medrano (USA)
Nominees for Best Student Film International
Emir - Dir. by Mete Övünç (Turkey)
When I Look Ahead - Dir. by Zach Diotte (Australia)
The Last High - Dir. by Vignesh Hariharan Nair (UAE)
Whale Heart - Dir. by Phillip Edge (UK)
Withdrawn by submitter and is no longer in competition: Passenger Seat - Dir. by Louis Conte-Bourges (France)
Nominees for Best First-Time Filmmaker
Arya Ashoori - RELAPSE | A short film about FOMO (Canada)
Yassin Nour - Overdue (Canada)
Macedonia Alexis, Johnathon Krautkramer - Role With It (USA)
Adrian Campbell - Descension (Canada)
Jo Güstin - Don't Text Your Ex (Canada)
Alireza Kharkan - Reload (Iran)
Nominees for Best Actor
Mohammad Sadegh Malek - Deep Sleep (Iran)
Rick McArthur - Hell's Jacket (Canada)
Oswaldo Salas - Sonata For A Calendar (Peru)
Charles Etubiebi - Ijo: A Love Story (Nigeria)
Christiaan Ackermann - Lone Fields (South Africa)
Nominees for Best Actress
Alex McDevitt - Divine Intervention (UK)
Emilia Nigrello - Hell's Jacket (Canada)
Christine Cortes - Just Sign Here (Canada)
Amy Catherine Welch - Dear Sister (USA)
Jodi Lynn Thomas - Willa (Pilot Episode) (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
Sono Figo (I'm Good Looking) - Dir. by Beppe Gallo (Italy)
He Ain't Dead - Dir. by David Lewis (USA)
Chronicles of a Broken Path: Caravan - Dir. by Lord Benjamin Nathaniel Redic II (USA)
Legacy - Dir. by Mario Gustavo Lopez (USA)
The Fifth Chair - Dir. by Chris Vaughn (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Jeremy Partyka - Dear Sister (USA)
West McInerney - Russo (Australia)
Oleksandr Lozytskyi - Tierra del Fuego (Ukraine)
Roy Zheng - Don't Text Your Ex (Canada)
Tre Bullen - Descension (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer
Adrian Campbell - A Walk to Solace (Canada)
Siddhanth Gaddam - Sugar (India)
Dave Inglis - Fifty7 Minutes (UK)
Mehmet Tığlı - Eli Nazik (Turkey)
Veronika Doynikova - Reflecting (Canada)
Nominees for Best Director
Chris Fudge - Blue & White (Canada)
Olivier Simon - Everything is Explained (The Little Brooklyn)(France)
Germain Aguesse, Robin Aguesse - ARCA (France)
Simona Calo - Day 4 (UK)
Lord Benjamin Nathaniel Redic II - Chronicles of a Broken Path :Caravan (USA)
20:01-45:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Comedy
SirCooly's Groundhog Hunt - Dir. by Christina Barton, Nolan Schmidt (USA)
Lactown - Dir. by Samuel Carl Cohen (USA)
Culinary Tension - Dir. by Brandon Richard Hobson (UK)
Casanoir - Dir. by John "JT" Schindler (USA)
Playbill - Dir. by Nicholas Bromund (USA)
Space Mechanic II: Quest of the Wizard - Dir. by Matt Bond (USA)
Nominees for Best Documentary
The Stampede To Calgary - Dir. by Logan Hale (Canada)
Covid Uncoupled - Dir. by Liliane Andree Chretien (Canada)
10 Rounds - Dir. by Jean-Christophe Gonon (France)
Nominees for Best Drama
Clipping Branches - Dir. by Andros Georgiou (Canada)
Sinners and Saint - Dir. by Jerod Willis (USA)
The Time You Left - Dir. by Yvette Sin, Nikita Zhang (Canada)
The Man With The Cough - Dir. by Alex George (USA)
After Doomsday - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Nominees for Best Experimental
The Pit and the Pendulum - A Musicabre - Dir. by Danny Ashkenasi (USA)
The Red String: Capulet's Orchard - Dir. by Julio Urdaneta (Venezuela)
Clipping Branches - Dir. by Andros Georgiou (Canada)
Nominees for Best Thriller
Tulpa Tales: The Island - Dir. by Aiky Braig (Brazil)
Blood Road - Dir. by William Anthony Stancik (USA)
Sinners and Saint - Dir. by Jerod Willis (USA)
Eyes of God - Dir. by Leah Lin (USA)
Martyn - Dir. by Richard La (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actor
Kris Salvi - Lactown (USA)
Jacob Motz - Space Mechanic II: Quest of the Wizard (USA)
Sebastian Kowollik - Martyn (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actress
Katharina Schmidt - Casanoir (USA)
Teresa Picciano - Seamless Journey (Canada)
Carolyn Holland - Eyes of God (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
The Stampede To Calgary - Dir. by Logan Hale (Canada)
Playbill - Dir. by Nicholas Bromund (USA)
Culinary Tension - Dir. by Brandon Richard Hobson (UK)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Zac Max - The Man With The Cough (USA)
Ioannis Koutroubis - Seamless Journey (Canada)
Caleb Joye - Sinners and Saint (USA)
Nominees for Best Writer
Jonathan Geffner - Casanoir (USA)
Liliane Andree Chretien - Covid Uncoupled (Canada)
Hasaan Bhatti, Richard La - Martyn (Canada)
Nominees for Best Director
Nicholas Bromund - Playbill (USA)
Yvette Sin, Nikita Zhang - The Time You Left (Canada)
Logan Hale - The Stampede To Calgary (Canada)
45:01-120:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Feature Film
Access Control - Dir. by Andrew J. Bullard IV (USA)
What Else Is On? - Dir. by Tyler Council (USA)
Paper Dream (Royaye Kaghazi) - Dir. by Ali Atshani (USA)
Descension Part II - Dir. by Adrian Campbell (Canada)
Tales From the Narrow Bridge The Wyrmwood Devil - Dir. by Joey Mosca, Sami Saad, Jayleen Perez, Jenna Kildosher, Sam Platizky, Isaac Platizky (USA)
Musher - Dir. by Anuradha Rana, Laurie Little (USA)
Nominees for Best Actor
Andon Campbell - Descension Part II (Canada)
Prashant Lokare - The Unintentional Suicide (India)
Dan Gregory - Tales From the Narrow Bridge The Wyrmwood Devil (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress
Heather Fairbanks - Descend (USA)
Rachel Myskiv - Red Rabbit Lodge (Australia)
Megan Hoche - Tales From the Narrow Bridge The Wyrmwood Devil (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
Access Control - Dir. by Andrew J. Bullard IV (USA)
Shadows & Forms - Dir. by Steven R. Barron (USA)
What Else Is On? - Dir. by Tyler Council (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Mark A. France - Descend (USA)
Deepak Shrivastav - The Unintentional Suicide (India)
Shane Kavanagh - Red Rabbit Lodge (Australia)
Nominees for Best Writer
Andrew J. Bullard IV - Access Control (USA)
Steven R. Barron - Shadows & Forms (USA)
Mark A. France - Descend (USA)
Nominees for Best Director
Anuradha Rana, Laurie Little - Musher (USA)
Kevin Khachan - Red Rabbit Lodge (Australia)
Ali Atshani - Paper Dream (Royaye Kaghazi) (USA)
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