2023 Winners & Nominees
BEST PICTURE
Break Glass*
Tyler
Cassie
For the Sake of Ava
Thursday the 12th
Syzygy
BEST DIRECTOR
Mauricio Ovalle (The Best Gift in Life is Life Itself)*
Vinnie Velez (Father, Forgive Me)
Matt Servitto (Matthew)
Christopher Petersen (Elgin Park]
Jay Leonard (Break Glass)
Jamal Hodge (Alone)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Firebird: Built to Burn
Siren’s Pearl*
East River Story
Secrets of Memory
Through the Brush
A Lost Life
Alien Activity
Hope
BEST SCREENPLAY
Don Scime (Book of Dan)
Alyssa Harden (Playback)
Montana Rock, Mark Resnik, Michael Goldburg, Steve Lichtenstein (Aaron with 2 A’s)
Burt Kempner (Imaginary Friends)
Andrew Matthews (Bill W and Jimmy K)
Mauricio Ovalle (The Best Gift In Life is Life Itself)
Larry Rosen (Good Session)*
BEST ACTOR
Joe Wooley (Internal Combat)
Jay Jay Jegathesan (The Saint)
Joseph Sernio (Loved)*
Daniel Gregory (Congratulations)
Mauricio Ovalle (The Best Gift in Life is Life Itself)
Richard Bird (Alone)
Monk Serrell-Freed (Tyler)
BEST ACTRESS
Laura Petersen (Pearly Gates)*
Debby Gerber (Loved)
Mercedes Lopez (The Reflection of the Cranes)
Genevieve Lefevre (Beyond Skin Deep)
Carla Brandberg (Order My Steps)
Penny Fuller (My Over There)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jeff Raiano (Break Glass)
Emre Öcal (Fatih the Conqueror)
Brian Keane (Matthew)
Carlos Morrow (Tyler)*
Tomike Ogugua (East River Story)
Brian Sutherland (Thursday the 12th)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Oriana Rodriguez (The Reflection of the Cranes)
Lacy Marie Meyer (Us. Together. Alone)*
Terra Layne (Knight’s Rest)
Frantiska Brzobohatá (Spolu)
Drew Baillie (You’re Next)
Petra Denison (In the Grey)
BEST ANIMATION
What Humans Do
EVE*
The Sprayer
If I Were a Pony
BEST PILOT
My Sex Crazed Family
N.Y.P.D. The Police Stories of Dave & Frank Simpson
Black Poetry*
Teaching While Black
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
An Accordion Love Story
Keep it Movin’
Days Away*
The Curry Song
Malibu Baby
BEST ENSEMBLE
Break Glass
On the Edge of Hope
Wanna Be a Star Comedy
Knight’s Rest
Get Away*
Hot Box
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Fenceline
Born Different
Spaghetti Cowboys
Cannabis + Creativity*
Firefly: The Tay Fisher Story
Firebird: Built to Burn
BEST EDITING
Breaking Souls
A Self-Made Failure
To the Moon & Back
Beat*
Secrets of Memory
White Gaze
BEST MAKEUP
Get Me Off This Fucking Planet Quincy
Loved
Night Fishing
Breaker*
Dariuss
Monster Feast
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
On the Edge of Hope*
Teed Off
Siren’s Pearl
Ghost
Goodnight Kelley
Pink Rabbit
BEST SET DESIGN
Sunset Drive
Good Session
Surprise
On the Edge of Hope*
Spolu
Knight’s Rest
AUDIENCE CHOICE
Best of the Festival (Feature): Tyler
Best of the Festival (Short): Knight’s Rest
Best of the Festival (Short-Short [under 10 minutes]): Alone
Best Drama: Tyler
Best Horror/Thriller/Sci-Fi: Loved
Best Comedy: Knight’s Rest
Best Documentary: Cannabis + Creativity
Best Music Video: Malibu Baby
Best International Film: On the Edge of Hope
Best Action: Black Poetry
Best Visual Effects: Loved
72-HOUR FILM COMPETITION
Best Editing: Television
Best Cinematography: Elegiac
Screenplay: 3 Minutes in Albany
Best Acting: Television
Best Film: A Spoon to a Knife Fight
2021 Winners & Nominees
BEST PICTURE
Acting
The Bunny Man
Mountain River
KOKO*
Fierce, Funny, & Fly
BEST DIRECTOR
Jessica Benhamou (Love is a Hand Grenade)
Stacey Maltin (Appetite)
Mark Clauburg (The Time in Between the Seconds)*
Jeremiah Kipp (Sins)
Alexandre Ottoveggio (Fury Man)
Guillaume Mainguet (Vincent Before Noon)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dominick Sivilli (Sins)
Jodi Savitz (Appetite)
Rob Gurney (Open up)
Daniel Friedberg (The Helping Hand)
Micah Stuart (Milkwood)
Logan Rando (La Transazione)
Danny Speed (All the Animals & Me)*
BEST SCREENPLAY
Kadi Tsang (Red Bean Soup)
Bobby McGruther (The Bunny Man)*
Joe Wakefield (The Final Wish)
Bishen Sen, Francois Byers & Ait Fetterolf (Almost a Jingle)
J Scott Vajner & Anjani K Pandey (KOKO)
BEST ACTOR
Jay Jay Jegathesan (Catch & Release)*
Vincent Caprio (Playboy Eddy)
Anthony Esposito (KOKO)
Kevin Mambo (The Henchman of Notredame)
Bobby McGruther (The Bunny Man)
BEST ACTRESS
Annabella Rich (Acting)
Erin Ownbey (Almost a Jingle)
Ilaria Malvezzi (Sins)*
Helen Laser (The Time in Between the Seconds)
Sonja O'Hara (Vial)
Brittany Lynn Blanchard (Everything I Learned Came from the Television)
Lauren Stoller (Instabroke)
BEST ANIMATION
The Wind*
Painting by Numbers
Enabling Emotional Connections Through Music & Technology
BEST PILOT
BTRP TV
Wonderland: The Series
Arthur Futuro
Brazzy Jazzy Season 2
Lower East Asides*
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
"Time": Enter the World of Hans Zimmer*
Toxic (Natasha Rodriguez)
No Day Like Today (Lovari)
Fly So High (Young Sylence)
BEST ENSEMBLE
Playboy Eddy
Milkwood*
Zoom Dating
Meathook in the Mountains
Coffee
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alex Aldea (Crazy for the Blonde)
Duke Williams (rEVOLVE)
Jacques Bonnaffé (Vincent Before Noon)
Marco Lo Chiatto (Sins)
James Adduci (Almost a Jingle)*
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Heather Alzapiedi (Dear Hannah)
Loarina Gonzalez (Air B & D)
Miaoling Chung (Red Bean Soup)*
Cinthya Brasil (The Final Wish)
Aleena Rose (The Redeeming Qualities of Hagfish)
BEST HORROR/SCI-FI PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Winner: The Bunny Man
BEST COMEDY PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Winner: Arthur Futuro
BEST DOCUMENTARY PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Winner: Herrmann
BEST ACTION FILM
Winner: Fury Man
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Winner: Life in Three Voices
BEST DRAMA PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Winner: rEVOLVE
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Winner: BTRP TV
BEST PICTURE PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Winner: Herrmann
2020 NOMINEES & WINNERS
Nominees: Best Music Video
The Message
Not the Mend Toilet Paper
Automatic
Track 31
Winner: Automatic
Nominees: Best Pilot
Suddenly Single in the Suburbs
Brazzy Jazzy
First Contact
Winner: Brazzy Jazzy
Nominees: Best Animation
The Quiet
The Spirit Seam
Smoke’s Last Thought
Winner: The Quiet
Nominees: Best Supporting Actress
Amandalyn Mclellan – Tequila Flavored Cigarettes
Kadijah Raquel – Other Girls
Joannie Mackenzie – My Father’s Fabulous Funeral
Laura MarkLew – Clouds
Winner: Amandalyn Mclellan
Nominees: Best Supporting Actor
Cory Mccants – Precursor
Christopher Amitrano – Pappy Hour
Richard Bertisch – The Dispensable
James Williams – The Last Christmas Party
Winner: Richard Bertisch – The Dispensable
Nominees: Best Ensemble
Interment
Tequila Flavored Cigarettes
Clouds
Fair Haven
Winner: Fair Haven
Nominees: Best Screenplay
Jennifer Pierro & Gerry Glennon – Switch
Andrew Luminello – The Cashier
Enrico Banson – Some Night
Meggie Jenny, Aaron Stockton, & Scott Ragsdale – Reflection
Alexandre Ottoveggio - Another Day on Earth
Winner: Enrico Banson – Some Night
Nominees: Best Cinematography
Ion Sova – Feel India
Jamie Root – Densmore
Joel Crane – The Witches of Bushwick
Ghasideh Golmakani – Violet
Winner: Ion Sova – Feel India
Nominees: Best Actress
Anai Gonzalez Prieto – De Perfil
Suzanna Bornn – Middletown
Samantha Brooks – The Last Christmas Party
Samantha Sloyan – Pappy Hour
Suzanna Bornn - Middletown
Janel Tanna - Intervention
Winner: Janel Tanna - Intervention
Nominees: Best Actor
Charles Andrew Gardner – Long Ride Home
Jesse Lawrence – Middletown
Bobby McGruther – Tequila Flavored Cigarettes
Rob Leach - Clouds
Winner: Jesse Lawrence
Nominees: Best Director
Dana Verde – The House She Left Behind
James Zeiss – Victor!!
Sean Murray – Interment
Julian Santos- The Last Christmas Party
Morgan Elizabeth Millogo - Tabs & Clea
Christopher Picone – Redemption on Gun Hill Road
Winner: Dana Verde
Nominees: Best Picture
Tequila Flavored Cigarettes
The Witches of Bushwick
The Last Christmas Party
Soul Veil
Middletown
Another Day on Earth
Winner: Soul Veil
Audience Choice (Best Picture): The Cashier
Best Documentary (Audience Choice): The House She Left Behind
Best Horror/Sci-fi (Audience Choice): Rabidus
Best Comedy (Audience Choice): The Cashier
2018 Nominees & Winners
Nominees for "Best Music Video"...
Fall by Disparager
Never Always by Plike
Stand Down by K.O.
It’s Called Love by Roseann Sureda
Silhouette by Stav G
And the winner is: Stand Down by K.O.!!
Nominees for "Best Pilot"...
Reality Disorder
Broken Sidewalk
Shoot Me Nicely
Vials
This is Chip
And the winner is: This is Chip!!
Nominees for "Best Animation"...
Sgt. Stubby
Blows with the Wind
iRony
Balance
And the winner is: iRony!!
Nominees for "Best Supporting Actress"...
Cecilee Von Rhea in The Replacement
Linda Hamilton in Shoot Me Nicely
Jenni Melear in Bullitt County
Katie Vincent in Pickings
And the winner is: Katie Vincent!!
Nominees for "Best Supporting Actor"...
Joel Bernard in Pickings
William Sadler in Shoot Me Nicely
Corey Johnson in The Conversation
David Lampe in Vials
And the winner is: David Lampe!!
Nominees for "Best Actress"...
Ilaria Malvezzi in Unvoiced
Elyse Price in Pickings
Ahed Deeb in Jasmine Throes
Ginger Grace in Wedding March
And the winner is: Ilaria Malvezzi!!
Nominees for "Best Actor"...
Richard Bird in Thurman Comes Home
Corey Camperchioli in Femme
Mike C. Nelson in Bullitt County
Marwan Abu Shaheen in Jasmine Throes
Emrhys Cooper in Trophy Boy
Mike McNamara in The Replacement
And the winner is: Mike McNamara!!
Nominees for "Best Screenplay"...
Bullitt County
The Replacement
Living
Are You Volleyball
When it is Not Your Time
Who Decides
And the winner is: The Replacement!!
Nominees for "Best Cinematography"...
Ascension
For What It’s Worth
Iku Manieva
The Hunt
Whisper a Dream
Smacked!
And the winner is: The Hunt!!
Nominees for "Best Director"...
James Zeiss for Adult Humans
Evan Elise Owens for Down in the Dumps
Emrhys Cooper for Trophy Boy
Colin Gerrar for Eli
Chelsey Raegen Knapp for Lemon Eyes
Michaël Barocas for With My Own Two Hands
And the winner is: Chelsey Raegen Knapp!!
Nominees for "Best Ensemble"...
Trophy Boy
Vials
The Conversation
This is Chip
Jasmine Throes
Broken Sidewalk
And the winner is: Trophy Boy!!
Nominees for "Best Picture"...
Pickings
The Replacement
Jasmine Throes
Bullitt County
Trophy Boy
Are You Volleyball?
And the winner is: Jasmine Throes!!
The top 3 most voted films to win our "2018 Audience Choice Award" are...
3. Favorite Shirt
2. Jasmine Throes