2022 Award Winners
A season archive of category winners, special awards, and honorable mentions.
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Winner: Best Short Film Screenplay 1st Place
Best Short Film Screenplay
Writer: Katelin Stack
Elaine got stood up by her date and left as prey for the infamous Card Killer stalking her town…will she escape his clutches or become his next victim?
Winner: Best Short Film Screenplay 2nd Place
Best Short Film Screenplay
Writer: Wes Worthing
Violet, an 11 year old shy outcast, wants to be friends with her classmates, but is bullied instead. Her Grandma Iris, a feared witch, joins her on a field trip, and in an attempt to teach the bullies a lesson, Iris conjures an overzealous creature from a nearby forest.
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Winner: Best Short Film Screenplay 3rd Place
Best Short Film Screenplay
Writer: Dark Hoffman
Detective Vance discovers a cult hellbent on raising an ancient evil that spread terror in the Georgetown, DC area 20 years ago. With the help of a Priest, they fight the demonic presence that threatens to take more lives.
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Honorable Mention: Best Short Film Honorable Mention
Best Short Film
Director: Shawn Robinson
30 year old Sarah finds herself locked in her bedroom with no way out. She soon realizes she is not alone.
Honorable Mention: Best Short Film Honorable Mention
Best Short Film
Director: Edward Mizner
Troy seeks revenge on Frankie for stealing his film idea.
Honorable Mention: Best Short Film Honorable Mention
Best Short Film
Directors: Sylaz Udee, Serhat Kaner, Berk Koca
Fred comes back to get his revenge for his daughter's death
Honorable Mention: Best Short Film Honorable Mention
Best Short Film
Director: Peter Dorn-Ravlin
A thirteen year old girl finds she is not alone in the house. Can she survive the sinister presence?
Honorable Mention: Best Short Film Honorable Mention
Best Short Film
Director: Fabricio Estevam Mira
While shaving his head in a dark and shabby bathroom, Jesus, thin, filthy, and in torn clothes, nurtures doubts about everything. Until the owner of the crumbling hotel where he lives knocks on the door, shouting at him for months of unpaid rent. Jesus is at his limit and runs away without direction. From humanity and from the obligation to save it. He flees from an omnipresent and manipulative father, cowardly and adored by hypocrites and murderers. Jesus flees but he is not the only one. Magdalene and Lucifer are out there. Watched by God. Lambs refusing to be slaughtered in a world of wolves hungry for eternal life.
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Honorable Mention: Best Short Film Honorable Mention
Best Short Film
Director: S Francis Livisay
Axé follows the story of Nasim; a contractor in a morally gray enterprise rife with ambiguity, anonymity, and violence. In such business, it is not enough to be careful. You must have foresight. The consequences of action and inaction will always hit home.
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Honorable Mention: Best Short Film Honorable Mention
Best Short Film
Director: Greg Berg
Nicole, pushed to her breaking point by a recurring nightmare of her mother's death, returns to her estranged step-father's house hoping he will use his invention to delete her haunting memory, but using the machine leads to more than she bargained for when it reveals what happened to her biological father.
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Winner: Jury Award
Jury Award
Director: Natasha Pascetta
Chet, a washed up fake knight, loses everything after being fired from his job at a Medieval themed restaurant. In a booze fueled depression, Chet wanders into a house from hell and faces the fight of his life against an undead warrior. A battle ensues and Chet learns that it’s never too late to be your own hero.
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Winner: Best Actor 1st Place: Daniel Kerr
Best Actor
Director: Daniel Kerr
After being cut off from his only friend, Norm determines that in order to seem acceptable to those around him that he will go on a five week intensive diet. While the end goal is health and happiness it becomes clear that his methods are unlikely to achieve that.
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Winner: Best Actor 2nd Place: Brette Taylor
Best Actor
Directors: Brette Taylor, Jack Roberts (Co-director)
Like a slow motion train wreck we watch Detective Becky Rawlings plunge into the depths of alcohol psychosis and its grim consequences. Suspended from the force and spiraling within a web of denial, Detective Becky Rawlings attempts to make the unworkable work.
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Winner: Best Actor 3rd Place: Hanna Lorica
Best Actor
Director: Matthew Dooley
A wounded survivor fights to maintain her sanity as she awaits her partner's return to their post-apocalyptic shelter.
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Winner: Best Multimedia 1st Place
Best Multimedia
Director: Dorian Matthew Kelley
When a scientist succeeds in erasing one of their patients from existence, an empty human shadow is imprinted at the beginning of the universe. As the shadow awakens in the distant past, it feels a bitter drive to return to the blue planet from which it was cast. In the present, a soulless alien vessel filling itself with all knowledge of humanity resolves to defy its ancient creators after an unexpected connection with a human girl reveals their grim intentions and unnatural origin.
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Winner: Best Multimedia 2nd Place
Best Multimedia
Directors: Marisa Cohen, Peter Issac Alexander
Set several decades in the future, The Interrogation is a cat and mouse game between a corporate media executive performing a “loyalty test” and a savvy news director harboring a potentially game-changing secret. The Interrogation explores a mind-bending and often-psychedelic world where an all-powerful media company sets all the rules and demands religious like devotion from its employees. In just 6 minutes, this short animation takes the audience on an unexpected ride full of twists and turns. Based on the award-winning The Cloaked Realm Universe created by Peter Issac Alexander and Marisa L. Cohen, The Interrogation features hand-drawn animation, an original score by John Baxter, and sound design by Dara Crawford.
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Winner: Best Multimedia 3rd Place
Best Multimedia
Director: Luke Lidell
A novice detective investigates a murder. Different women in different worlds. Is he playing a dangerous game?
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Winner: Best Concept 1st Place
Best Concept
Director: Wyatt Bukowski
A young man test the limits of his mind in his bedroom.
Winner: Best Concept 2nd Place
Best Concept
Director: Tyler Mann
In a dystopian future where everyone is powered by batteries, Jace and Em decide to risk everything at the hope of a better future.
Winner: Best Concept 3rd Place
Best Concept
Director: Devin Shane Hylton
Attempting to save his sick child, a memory repairman and former hitman, Jack Whitlock, is drawn back to a life he thought he had left behind. When he is blindsided, unintended consequences arise and cause everyone from law enforcement, his former boss and current job to begin to question his motives and close in on him for the truth.
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Winner: Best Sci-Fi
Best Sci-Fi
Director: Tyler Mann
In a dystopian future where everyone is powered by batteries, Jace and Em decide to risk everything at the hope of a better future.
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Winner: Best Editing 1st Place: Stephen Schlager
Best Editing
Director: Stephen Schlager
Detained, injured and tormented by her wicked and sometimes laughable captors, Katie is dragged through an emotional night of cruel games and quirky circumstances before finding a last chance at salvation from somewhere unexpected.
Winner: Best Editing 2nd Place: Kyle Kuchta
Best Editing
Director: Kyle Kuchta
Bernie Davis, a Christmas tree salesman, has three trees left to sell on Christmas Eve. As the night progresses, his anxiety (and alcohol) leads him to take unconventional measures to ensure that his lot is sold and his soul is safe.
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Winner: Best Editing 3rd Place: Piero Cannata
Best Editing
Director: Piero Cannata
Two screenwriters, a ghost story, the night that goes on. Who will put an end to this?
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Winner: Best Writer 1st Place: Piero Cannata
Best Writer
Director: Piero Cannata
Two screenwriters, a ghost story, the night that goes on. Who will put an end to this?
Winner: Best Writer 2nd Place: Jerad S Marantz and Courtney Sara Bell
Best Writer
Director: Jerad S Marantz
A group of friends frantically try to escape an abandoned fallout shelter when they make the terrifying discovery that they're not alone.
Winner: Best Writer 3rd Place: Stephen Schlager
Best Writer
Director: Stephen Schlager
Detained, injured and tormented by her wicked and sometimes laughable captors, Katie is dragged through an emotional night of cruel games and quirky circumstances before finding a last chance at salvation from somewhere unexpected.
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Winner: Best Director 1st Place: Wyatt Bukowski
Best Director
Director: Wyatt Bukowski
A young man test the limits of his mind in his bedroom.
Winner: Best Director 2nd Place: Stephen Schlager
Best Director
Director: Stephen Schlager
Detained, injured and tormented by her wicked and sometimes laughable captors, Katie is dragged through an emotional night of cruel games and quirky circumstances before finding a last chance at salvation from somewhere unexpected.
Winner: Best Director 3rd Place: Aidan White
Best Director
Director: Aidan White
When a mysterious parcel containing a children’s book on meditation arrives on the doorstep of a man suffering from crippling anxiety, he finds himself face to face with the darkest corners of his mind.
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Winner: Best Dark Humanity
Best Dark Humanity
Director: Stephen Schlager
Detained, injured and tormented by her wicked and sometimes laughable captors, Katie is dragged through an emotional night of cruel games and quirky circumstances before finding a last chance at salvation from somewhere unexpected.
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Honorable Mention: Best Feature Film Honorable Mention
Best Feature Film
Director: Ray Mercer
Strange mysteries are enveloping Seattle, as unusually bloody crime scenes begin popping up with ever greater frequency. Compounding the chaos is the discovery of a new and deadly virus that is turning its victims into zombies. Eight strangers find their lives intersecting as they fight to stay alive while searching for answers, only to discover the origins of the pandemic are more frightening than anyone could have imagined. Humanity faces its greatest challenge yet as it comes to grips with the possibility of total annihilation.
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Honorable Mention: Best Feature Film Honorable Mention
Best Feature Film
Director: Chuck Angell
In a home invasion gone wrong on Halloween, the beautiful hostage shares tales of dread in this anthology film.
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Winner: Best Feature Film 1st Place
Best Feature Film
Director: Devin Shane Hylton
Attempting to save his sick child, a memory repairman and former hitman, Jack Whitlock, is drawn back to a life he thought he had left behind. When he is blindsided, unintended consequences arise and cause everyone from law enforcement, his former boss and current job to begin to question his motives and close in on him for the truth.
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Winner: Best Feature Film 2nd Place
Best Feature Film
Director: Brendan Rudnicki
In October, four filmmakers disappeared in a haunted house while live streaming on social media. A year later, their footage was found.
Winner: Best Feature Film 3rd Place
Best Feature Film
Director: Matt Benton
Four paranormal researchers and YouTubers document the paranormal claims of the former Arnold family farmhouse built in 1736. Now known as the Harrisville Farmhouse and the inspiration for the well known movie "The Conjuring". Are the extreme Paranormal claims from the film real? Come along with researchers Matt Benton, Joe Vitale, Bill Cook, and Eric Conner as they delve into this mysterious haunting and share their incredible findings and evidence.
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Winner: Best Short Film 1st Place
Best Short Film
Director: Piero Cannata
Two screenwriters, a ghost story, the night that goes on. Who will put an end to this?
Winner: Best Short Film 2nd Place
Best Short Film
Directors: Peter McCarthy, Ben Conway
Theo is on the run from the police while still in handcuffs. He hides out in a nearby mansion with the help of Arthur, the supposed owner. Things take a turn for the strange when Arthur challenges him to a game of Bugaloo and Theo realises Arthur has his own problems. A failed escape leaves Theo playing a game for his own life. REVIEW BY FILM IRELAND: Directors Peter McCarthy and Ben Conway have produced 14 perfect minutes of high tension juxtaposed over an incredibly distressed soundtrack that is flawlessly synchronised with the action. Moe Dunford is aptly cast as the sinister Arthur. So too is the hapless Theo played by Ruairi Heading. Bugaloo is well worth a second and third viewing.
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Winner: Best Short Film 3rd Place
Best Short Film
Director: Matthew Dooley
A wounded survivor fights to maintain her sanity as she awaits her partner's return to their post-apocalyptic shelter.
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Winner: Best Cinematographer 2nd Place: Johnathan Henderson
Best Cinematographer
Director: Kyle Kuchta
Bernie Davis, a Christmas tree salesman, has three trees left to sell on Christmas Eve. As the night progresses, his anxiety (and alcohol) leads him to take unconventional measures to ensure that his lot is sold and his soul is safe.
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Winner: Best Cinematographer 3rd Place: Will Travis
Best Cinematographer
Director: David Glass
Vincent is a French international student coming to the US for his studies. As his plane lands, he panics, fearing to have lost his passport. This anxiety stays with him as he goes to be processed through border control. However, he is stopped. The border control officer can’t find any country that matches his passport. He doesn't seem to come from anywhere that exists. As he is taken away for interrogation, he learns that things are not always what they seem.
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Winner: Best Noir
Best Noir
Director: Aidan White
When a mysterious parcel containing a children’s book on meditation arrives on the doorstep of a man suffering from crippling anxiety, he finds himself face to face with the darkest corners of his mind.
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Winner: Best Score 1st Place: Rene Rivas
Best Score
Director: Rene R Rivas
On the eve of her wedding, JUDY feels lost. Although happy to be engaged to her supportive and charming fiancé, PETER, she can't help but feel hidden in the shadow of his success. As she longs for a deeper meaning to her life, Judy's prayers are answered when a dark force calls out to her that night in her dreams. With a renewed sense of purpose, Judy proceeds down a new frightening path and embraces a change that will cost her everything she has ever known.
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Winner: Best Score 2nd Place: Justin Ng
Best Score
Director: Matthew Dooley
A wounded survivor fights to maintain her sanity as she awaits her partner's return to their post-apocalyptic shelter.
Winner: Best Score 3rd Place: El Bret Treble
Best Score
Director: Jason Warriner
Fed up with vermin trashing her vegetable beds, a gardener conjures some supernatural help, but unearths a bloodthirsty problem instead.
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Winner: Creativity Award
Creativity Award
Director: Jason Warriner
Fed up with vermin trashing her vegetable beds, a gardener conjures some supernatural help, but unearths a bloodthirsty problem instead.
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Winner: Best Cinematography 1st Place: Sean Visser
Best Cinematography
Director: Matthew Dooley
A wounded survivor fights to maintain her sanity as she awaits her partner's return to their post-apocalyptic shelter.
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Winner: Merit of Achievement Award
Merit of Achievement Award
Director: Peter Anthony
A continuation of Friday The 13th Part VII The New Blood. The story takes place 13 months after the events of Part VII. Tina Shepard is being studied in the Camp Crystal Lake research facility for her telekinetic powers.
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Winner: Best Thriller
Best Thriller
Director: Jerad S Marantz
A group of friends frantically try to escape an abandoned fallout shelter when they make the terrifying discovery that they're not alone.
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Winner: Best Horror
Best Horror
Director: Piero Cannata
Two screenwriters, a ghost story, the night that goes on. Who will put an end to this?
