2022 QUEENS WORLD FILM FESTIVAL NOMINEES & WINNERS

12th Annual Queens World Film Festival Awards Announcement

Saturday November 5, 10:30 am

Live Broadcast with Donald Preston Cato and Mukesh Modi to announce  this year’s awards.
Sponsored by Indie Films World

2022 Nominees & Winners by Category

* BOLD INDICATE CATEGORY WINNER

Outstanding Narrative Short

Georgia by Jayil Pak
There’s Something Wrong with Paul by Mark Clauburg
SauerDogs by Guillermo de Oliveira
Bayard Street by Cindy Chu
MAD / WOMAN by Marc Acito
By Way of Water by Alexander Spenser
On / Off by Jurg Slabbert
BLUE FiRE by Directed by Nick Ronan*
How She Didn’t Die by Antonio Tibaldi*
Loose by Javier Pereira
In The Valley of the Moon by Luca Massimiliano Pizzoleo
Suite Night by Mahtab Pishghadam
ELEVATE by Dylan Boom
We Are the Apocalypse! by Charles William Lane

Best Narrative Feature

Song of the Fly by Michele Pagano
THE INSTINCT by Juboraj Shamim
MAALI (GARDENER) by Shiv C Shetty
TRAP by Anthony Curry
IT’S SPRING by Roman Musheghyan*
Hideout by Yen Kuang Chen
Papaw Land by Justin Blake Crum

Best Documentary Short

Ripples Under The Skin by Farha Khatun*
A Highrise Laundry Room by Fernando Sancho
Cooking Inside: From Prison to Home by Brent Lambert-Zaffino
Hate Crime in Howard Beach by Stephen J Woods, Eric Notar
Silent Night by Barbara Medajska

Best Documentary Feature

Real Fur by Taimoor Choudhry
Nun of Your Business by Ivana Marinic Kragic
The Prediction Of Extreme Events by David Ruf*
Take The Ice by Rachel Koteen
How Does it Feel to be a Problem? by Thomas Edward Keith
Charm Circle by Nira Burstein

Best Experimental

Sally by Philip Russell
Lessons on Life and Death by Lionel R. Jefferies*
Often We Connect Through our Wounds by Jess Levey

Outstanding Dance Film

Composure by Eric DePriester
Wo by Jiemin Yang*
I AM NOT OK by Gabrielle Lansner
Enantiodromia by Kristi Cole
Due North by Chantal Caron *

Best LGBTQIA+ Short

Different by Alexys Giraud
Let’s Do This Again Sometime by Petrus van Staden*
Flirting (With Possibilities) by Garrett Zuercher
Monologue by Pilar García Elegido
Novena by Fernando Lopez

Best Stories of Healing

Dial-up Sound by Özer Arslan
The Wind Girl by Dana Karim*
JOE by Noah Rogers
MyEndo by Ellen Andries
How We Remember by Joshua Estrada, Cait McCarthy
Eyes Upon Waking by Timothy Zwica

Best Animated Short

Boys Clap, Girls Dance by Dena Springer*
A Forest Haunt by Edward Jesse, Toff Mazery
The Social Chameleon by Alex Ross
Joe by Noah Rogers
1979 by Mike Taylor
Overcome by Trinity Anash
Put It Back by Diane Catsburrow Linnet

Best Cinematography – Narrative Short

Ain’t No Mercy for Rabbits by Aliza Brugger
Artsanity by Aleksandar Kostic
SauerDogs by Guillermo de Oliveira*
Bow by Isaiah Smith
In The Valley of the Moon by Luca Massimiliano Pizzoleo
North Star by PJ Palmer

Best Cinematography – Narrative Feature

IT’S SPRING by Roman Musheghyan
THE INSTINCT by Juboraj Shamim
Esme, My Love by Cory Choy
Met Mes by Sam de Jong*
Song of the Fly by Michele Pagano

Best Cinematography – Documentary Short

Silent Night by Barbara Medajska*
Ripples Under The Skin by Farha Khatun
Life on the Edge by Daniel Nalladurai, Helena Kincaid-Nalladurai

Best Cinematography – Documentary Feature

Nun of your business by Ivana Marinic Kragic
How Does it Feel to be a Problem? by Thomas Edward Keith
Charm Circle by Nira Burstein*

Best Screenplay – Narrative Short

Winner of Complimentary 4 month membership with Inktip: Where Everyone goes for scripts and writers.

The Game by Aldo Vassallo
What a Shitty Day! by Vanessa Romero
Lunch Box by Anne Hu
In The Valley of the Moon by Luca Massimiliano Pizzoleo
North Star by PJ Palmer*
The Edge of Town by Matthew Curtis Gerrish

Best Screenplay – Narrative Feature

Winner of Complimentary 4 month membership with Inktip: Where Everyone goes for scripts and writers.

Papaw Land by Justin Blake Crum
Hideout by Yen Kuang Chen
Song of the Fly by Michele Pagano*
Eyes Upon Waking by Timothy Zwica
East Bay by Daniel Yoon
IT’S SPRING by Roman Musheghyan

Best Director – Documentary Short

Songs for You, Always by Jiale Hu*
Silent Night by Barbara Medajska
Cooking Inside: From Prison to Home by Brent Lambert-Zaffino
Ripples Under The Skin by Farha Khatun

Best Director – Documentary Feature

We still here by Eli Jacob-Fantauzzi
Nun of your business by Ivana Marinic Kragic
How Does it Feel to be a Problem? by Thomas Edward Keith*
Charm Circle by Nira Burstein

Outstanding Director – Narrative Short

Georgia by Jayil Pak
By Way of Water by Alexander Spenser*
Lunch Box by Anne Hu
A Father’s Son by Patrick Chen
Loose by Javier Pereira
SauerDogs by Guillermo de Oliveira
North Star by PJ Palmer
MAD / WOMAN by Marc Acito*
The Edge of Town by Matthew Curtis Gerrish
How She Didn’t Die by Antonio Tibaldi

Best Director – Narrative Feature

THE INSTINCT by Juboraj Shamim
TRAP by Anthony Curry
MAALI (GARDENER) by Shiv C Shetty*
IT’S SPRING by Roman Musheghyan
Hideout by Yen Kuang Chen

Outstanding Actor Male – Narrative Short

Nicolas Calero in The Game (kid) by Aldo Vassallo*
Our Lady Lupe (kid) by Dominique Nieves
Raz Fritz in The Valley of the Moon by Luca Massimiliano Pizzoleo*
Georgia by Jayil Pak
North Star by PJ Palmer
BLUE FiRE by Directed by Nick Ronan
Deaf by Nuria Muñoz-Ortín, Eva Libertad

Best Actor Male – Narrative Feature

Song of the Fly by Michele Pagano
THE INSTINCT by Juboraj Shamim
Alexander Khachatryan in IT’S SPRING by Roman Musheghyan*

Best Actor Female – Narrative Short

Amber by Sashia Dumont
Georgia by Jayil Pak
Ellie by Fernando Bonelli
Ain’t No Mercy for Rabbits by Aliza Brugger
A Bellevue Love Story by Michael Wolfe
AVA by Directed by Ayoub El Jamal
On / Off by Jurg Slabbert
Olivia Baglivi in Suelta (Loose) by Javier Pereira*
Deaf by Nuria Muñoz-Ortín, Eva Libertad

Best Actor Female – Narrative Feature

Eyes Upon Waking by Timothy Zwica
Here for us by Brendan Patrick Ward
Esme, My Love by Cory Choy
Ali Edwards in august at twenty two by Sophia Castuera*

Best Animated Feature

The Success of Love by Oliverio Pablo*

Outstanding Achievement in Stop Motion

Noah Rogers for JOE*

Best Narrative Short Short

To Be Honest by John Robert Hammerer*

Best Comedy Short

Amber by Sashia Dumont*

Best International Narrative Short

Back into your Arms by Behrad Sahebgharani*

Best Ensemble

Ellie by Fernando Bonelli*

Queens World Auteur Cinema Award

TRAP by Anthony Edward Curry*

Queens World Special Award for Social Justice

Real Fur by Taimoor Choudhry*

Founder’s Choice

MAD / WOMAN by Marc Acito*

Queens World Truth Seeker

Hate Crime in Howard Beach by Stephen J Woods and Eric Notar*

Best of the Fest

The Instinct by Juboraj Shamim*

Filmmaker of the Year

Rachel Koteen for Take the Ice*