World’s Top Film Festival for Emerging Filmmakers Announces 2022 Jury and Audience Award Winners
Monday, May 2nd (Seattle, WA) ---
NFFTY, the world’s largest and most influential film festival for emerging directors, showcases work by filmmakers 24 and younger from around the globe. NFFTY returned for 15th anniversary year, with a hybrid edition April 28 - May 8, with thousands attending the festival. This year’s festival featured 258 official selections from 30 US states and 39 countries. The award winners – including jury, audience and special achievement awards – have been announced.
The 1st Place school of the 48 Hour Film Off will receive a $700 cash prize for their school from NFFTY, and the 2nd Place school will receive a $300 cash prize. NEW TALENT AWARDS (Ages 14 and Under, 15 - 18, and 19 - 24) will receive a hard drive from Lacie and $500 credit from Audiosocket. JURY AWARD Winners will receive a $500 cash prize, as well as $250 in credit to FIlmsupply/Musicbed. Winners of STORY STARTS HERE will receive $500 cash prize for both Best Pilot and Best Screenplay, and all finalists and runners up of STORY STARTS HERE will receive a copy of Final Draft 12. AUDIENCE AWARD winners will receive filmmaking books from Michael Wiese Productions. Select SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT award winners will receive $500 cash, as well as product, software from Blackmagic Design, and/or licensing credit Blackmagic Design, or a combination therefore. Partial and full-ride tuition scholarships will be awarded to selected students to programs at Hussian College in Studio and Vancouver Film School.
NFFTY also expanded commitment to emerging filmmakers’ exposure to industry professionals, expanding jury competition across thirteen categories with 33 jurors, whose bios can be found at: https://www.nffty.org/jury-2022
JURY AWARDS:
BEST NARRATIVE – Busan, 1999 - Thomas Kim, Da Eun Kim, Soojin Jeong
BEST NARRATIVE - HONORABLE MENTION – Plum Town - Kelly Yu
BEST NARRATIVE (STUDENT) – Winter of ‘79 - Julia Elihu, Leslie Susman, Gabe Knows-Newton, Alex Joyce
BEST NARRATIVE (STUDENT) - HONORABLE MENTION – Beneath the Grass - William Bermudez, Sam Friedman, Nathan Ginter, Caden Ghen
BEST DOCUMENTARY – Dial Home - César Martínez Barba, Yadira Rodríguez
BEST DOCUMENTARY - HONORABLE MENTION – Team Meryland - Gabriel Gaurano, Julia Elihu, Jason Phillips
BEST DOCUMENTARY (STUDENT) – Mawhialeo Ote Alowha (Our Love) - Valeriya Golovina, Niamh Swannack, Morgan Hopkins, Cameron Cook
BEST DOCUMENTARY (STUDENT) - HONORABLE MENTION – In Good Faith - Andrea Yu-Chieh Chung
BEST ANIMATION – Divination Dave - Georgia Madden
BEST ANIMATION - HONORABLE MENTION – This is Why Girls Go to the Bathroom Together - Lydia Reid
BEST ANIMATION (STUDENT) – Goodbye Jerome! - Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet, Chloé Farr
BEST EXPERIMENTAL – Winter Insect, Summer Flower - Tee Jaehyung Park, Gbenga Komolafe
BEST EXPERIMENTAL (STUDENT) – How to Raise a Black Boy - Justice Jamal Jones
BEST MUSIC VIDEO – Brumatti - "In Shape For Summer" - Kaylinn Clotfelter, Andrew Trice, Isaiah Satterfield, Logan Triplett
BEST MUSIC VIDEO - HONORABLE MENTION – I Like the Look of Today - Brian Niles, Will Noyce, Shane Bagwell
BEST MUSIC VIDEO (STUDENT) – Mia Gladstone - "Food" - Zac Dov Wiesel, Sophia Loren Heriveaux, Shane Bagwell
BEST EPISODIC – Hetero - KJ Kieras, Bentley Eldridge
BEST EPISODIC - HONORABLE MENTION – Parked in America - Kayla Yumi Lewis, Luke Salin, Ann Swenson
NEW TALENT:
AGE 14 AND UNDER – Ella Janes - The First 280 Honest Words of My Life
AGE 15-18 – Isabella Chiappini - Counter Conformity
AGE 20-24 – Kelly Yu - Plum Town
JURY/AUDIENCE AWARDS (50/50 WEIGHTING):
48 HOUR FILM OFF:
1ST PLACE - Mount Si High School
2ND PLACE - Chaminade College Preparatory
3RD PLACE - Anacortes High School
SPECIAL AWARDS:
KATHY REICHGERDT INSPIRATION AWARD
WINNER: Gabriel Gaurano - Team Meryland
MATT LAWRENCE FILM TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
WINNER: Joe Dockery - Mount Si High School
BEST LGBTQIA+ FILM AWARD (presented by Seattle Pride)
WINNER: Searching for the Wave - Chelsea Muscat
NEXTFILMFESTIVAL AWARD
WINNER: Barb Hoffman - Rainy Days and Crooked Sheets
JDOGG SCHOLAR AWARD
WINNER: Alaya Knowlton - Adrift
BEST HIGH SCHOOL FILM AWARDS (presented by Hussian College)
NARRATIVE WINNER: Ilea - Samuel Correa
DOCUMENTARY WINNER: Schadenfreude - Celeste Yeany
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS:
BEST VFX (presented by Red Giant) – Darkside - Spencer Zimmerman, Braiden Van Grootel, Liam Meredith, Raine LeMay
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – ASKA - Claro Milo
BEST EDITING – @scroll_alice - Céline Ufenast
BEST DIRECTING – Hilum - Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Hannah Schierbeek
BEST ACTING – Neither Seen Nor Heard - Florence Kosky
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – Geena Marie Hernandez, Chayse Banks, Chris Violette, Sky Theis
BEST HIGH SCHOOL FILM – MELT - Wylder Voegele
STORY STARTS HERE: SCREENPLAY COMPETITION:
BEST PILOT SCRIPT: The Winters - Claire Giegerich
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY: The Third Ear - Nathan Ginter
FINALISTS:
Gutterball (Pilot) - Emily Kane
Dependo (Pilot) - Jamie Kolbrenner
Boxes (Short Screenplay) - Daniela Morales
Spooky Sunday (Short Screenplay) - Liv Sanders
RUNNERS UP:
Arcadi (Short Screenplay) - Atlas Faye
Transit 3 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Road (Short Screenplay) - Elias Rivera
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
OPENING NIGHT – Plum Town - Kelly Yu
FAMILY TIES – Immutable Uncertainties - Lucy Blumenfield, Arielle Friedman, Camila Grimaldi
GROWTH SPURTS – Fuckboy - Emma Weinswig, Noa Beckham-Chasnoff, Anika Ramlo, Malik Dowdy
VIBRANT VIGNETTES – You Don't Dance on Tables - Isabella Cuevas Pierson
EMOTE CONTROL – Split Ends - Pema Baldwin, Maya Rajan, Danielle Payne
DISBELIEF SUSPENDED – Thumbtale - Justin Fargiano
REEL NAIL BITERS – Poachers - Tiffany Lin, Elias Ginsberg, Samantha Sadoff
HAPPY HOUR SHORTS (presented by LaCie) – TWO BEERS - Zach Robinson, Ashley Moore, Ben Tjaden, Matthew Bullerdick
FROM THE HEART (presented by Seattle Pride) – Bolognese - Annika Chavez, Sara Linden, Sophie Thomason, Jackie Lee
FRIDAY NIGHT SHORTS – Busan, 1999 - Thomas Percy Kim, Da Eun Kim, Soojin Jeong
BREAKING THE MOLD – Buzzbrews - Jaclyn Goldstein
AFTER HOURS ABSURDITY – Wolf in Dude’s Clothing - Solmund MacPherson
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS – Black Metal - Riley Street, Janice Wu, Danielle Mullins, Even O’Brien
GET YOUR HANDS ARTY – Stitching a Life: The Story of Trudie Strobel - Ian Kim, Miranda Lewis, Lila Dworsky-Hickey, Hank Schoen, Fernanda Zaragoza, Jocelyn Vega, Natasha Clement, Coleman Weintraub, Spirit Avedon, Jaaziah McZeal, Alexander McDaniel
COST OF LIVING – Wuhan Driver - Tiger Ji, Stefan Nachmann
EPISODIC SHOWCASE – The Starrs - Big Red Button - Christian Hurley, Emily Cyrier, Will Ammann, Bryan Taira
PEDAL TO THE METTLE – The Pomegranate Tree - Sara Nell, Erica Kennedy, Lindsey Ellis, Kanika Vora
SLICE OF LIFE – Portraits - Chelsea Eisen, Langston Siebens, Will Noyce, Miles Elliot
CENTERPIECE (co-presented by Filmsupply/Musicbed) – One Day You’ll Go Blind - Leo Pfeifer
EXPERIMENTAL VISIONS – Riḍā - Raza Tariq
THRILLS & CHILLS (presented by Hussian College in Studio) – Talisman - Reangsei Phos
THE EVERGREEN SCREEN – Ode 2 Embarrassment - Hailey McGill
COPING FOR THE BEST – Last Seen - Nathan Ginter, Shane Bagwell, Brian Niles
FINE LINES (presented by Vancouver Film School) – Afro Algorithms - Anatola Araba
NEXT LEVEL (presented by AFI Conservatory) – Everything is As It Should Be - Kylie Murphy
AGAINST ALL ODDS – Fallen Prince - Lukas Dong
PHANTASMIC FUTURES (presented by MoPOP) – Darkside - Spencer Zimmerman, Braiden Van Grootel, Liam Meredith, Raine LeMay
SEISMIC SOUNDTRACKS – Cellar - Roxy Sophie Sorkin, Brian Niles, Shane Bagwel, Langston Griffith-Siebens
DYNAMIC DUOS – Alfie - Emily Ryder, Sabrina Soto
CLOSING NIGHT – Winter of ‘79 - Julia Elihu, Leslie Susman, Gabe Knows-Newton, Alex Joyce
ABOUT NFFTY
NFFTY is the largest and most influential film festival in the world for young filmmakers. NFFTY occurs in Seattle and includes over 40 separate screenings, panels, contests, parties and networking opportunities for emerging filmmakers. Filmmakers from around the world submit short films in narrative, documentary, animation, music video, and experimental categories. NFFTY shows professional development offerings for filmmakers, partnering with such brands as Seed&Spark and top creators and industry talents like Benoit Berthe Siward, Ben Proudfoot, Mari Walker, and Martin Strange-Hansen. Since its launch in 2007, NFFTY has screened films from over 4,000 filmmakers, ranging in age from 6 – 24 years. For updates and news on NFFTY, visit www.NFFTY.org or www.facebook.com/nffty.
NFFTY is pleased to acknowledge our Platinum and Gold Sponsors: Filmsupply, Musicbed, LaCie, Vancouver Film School, and Hussian College in Studio.
A special thanks to Blackmagic Design, Michael Wiese Productions, Audiosocket, Final Draft, LaCie, Filmsupply, Musicbed, and Red Giant for their prize donations to our winners.
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For more information:
Email: press@nffty.org
Phone: 206.905.8400