2024 QUEENS WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
NOMINEES

Listed by Category

* WINNING FILM

Best Web Series

DOSE: Episode 1 Psilocybin “Ghost In The Mushroom” by Peter P Clark*
Necessary Evil by Jamal Hodge
Body Snatcher by Nathan Colby
New Moon by: Ken Forman

Best Animation

Infinitum (Music Video) by Alfonso Otero Mireles
Las Nogas by Catya Plate*
A Perfect Day for a Walk by Diane Catsburrow Linnet
(re)collection by James O’Connor
In C, too by Dean Winkler & John Sanborn

Best Family Friendly

Passenger Seat by Neha Gautam*
The Beginning Daoyou by Jingwen Zhao
Sugar Crash by Jon Huggins
Dos Bros Force (the power of siblings) by Jyothi Kalyan Sura
Brown Sugar by Ruhi Radke

Best Experimental

How To Fill The Unfillable Hole Inside You by Dave Canning
Questioning the Existence of Alec by Roger Horn
Always, Already by Ken Sackheim
Who To Love by Giorgio Testi*
Cancer Alley by Pamela Falkenberg, Jack Cochran
…in darkness, there is light by Daniel Maldonado

Best LGBTQ+ Short

Build me through the Image by Paula Hung*
Keep It Open by Lucy Teitler
I Am Illegal by Meryem Lahlou
Lesbophilia by Michelle West
Unlucky in Love by Catriona Rubenis-Stevens

Best Actor – Female – Short

Charmaine Bingwa in Miranda of Mind
Ana del Arco in HELENO
Ruah Uhlman in Power*
Lindsey Naves in Holding On Forever
Jane Ives in Gone Before Your Eyes
Navya Arora in Brown Sugar
Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds in Venus
Isabella Jane Schiller in The Rushing of the Sea

Best Actor – Male – Short

Ryan C. Wilson in Ray of Sunshine*
Chibueze Anyasor in PREP
Rob Cheng in Sucker
Luke Tennie in Jade

Best Ensemble Short

A Shattering by Jan Jalenak*
Bogotá Story by Esteban Pedraza
Colorado by Sandra Gallego, Pilar Gómez
Flushing by James G Tirado
King Me by Marc Acito
Arrows by Imanol Ruiz de Lara

Best Ensemble Feature

Out and About by Peter Callahan
No Tomorrow by Martin Drop
Stockade by Eric McGinty
Bubbler by Nicholas Giombi
HEBE by Rafael Escolar*

Best Cinematography – Short

Coda : Marcell Lobenwein*
Ciela : Leo Calzoni
Miranda of Mind : Scott T. Summers
The Dark Forest : William Murray
Rotten Blood : Rabin Acharya

Best Narrative Short

Gone Before Your Eyes by Cara Yeates
Jade by Robert Manning Jr.*
Sucker by Deni Cheng
Coda by Joshua Elias Palmer
Enter the Room by Harry Waldman
Ciela by Mauricio Sierra
Estela, is it you? by Fabian Martin, Victor Martin

Best Actor – Female – Feature

Greta Fernandez in Unicorns*
Beauty Gonzalez in Surrogate
Sarah Bitar in Stockade*
Simona Brown in Freedom Hair
Bethany Stolar in I Want to Live on Mars

Best Actor – Male – Feature

Gregory Jbara in A Ramble Towards Rain
Taylor Olson in Look at Me
Jeevan Adhikari in Manu
Martin Drop in No Tomorrow
Seth Blackstone in Bubbler*

Best Narrative Feature Screenplay

Stockade by Eric McGinty
An Extraordinary Affair by Benjamin Orifici*
Out and About by Peter Callahan
A Ramble Towards Rain by Lisa Angell
No Tomorrow by Martin Drop

Best Narrative Short Screenplay

Miranda of Mind by Bianca Ahonor
Bisected by Danny Pineros
A Shattering by Jan Jalenak
Jade by Robert Manning Jr.
Unthinkable Conversations by Emma Richardson*
The Rushing of the Sea by Molly Karna

Best Cinematography – Feature

HEBE : Rafael Escolar
The Enchanted Lake : Davide Piazzolla*
Manu : Nisal Poudel
No Tomorrow : Wum Panik
Surrogate : Kara Moreno

Best Director – Narrative Feature

Stockade by Eric McGinty
Freedom Hair by Dianne Houston
An Extraordinary Affair by Benjamin Orifici
No Tomorrow by Martin Drop*
HEBE by Rafael Escolar

Best Director – Narrative Short

Bisected by Danny Pineros
Gone Before Your Eyes by Cara Yeates*
Jade by Robert Manning Jr.
Coda by Joshua Elias Palmer
Ciela by Mauricio Sierra
Scammers by Carl Kelsch
A Shattering by Jan Jalenak

Best Narrative Feature

No Tomorrow by Martin Drop
Stockade by Eric McGinty*
Surrogate by King Palisoc
Freedom Hair by Dianne Houston
Look At Me by Taylor Olson

Best First Feature

Underground Orange by Michael Tyler Jackson*
Sofa, So Good by Kyle Thiele, Eli Thiele, Cole Thiele
Unicorns by Alex Lora Cercos
A Ramble Towards Rain by Lisa Angell

Best Documentary Feature

Second Chances by Farzin Farzaneh*
Gorgona by Antonio C Tibaldi
Niki Pilic- The Legend by Zeljko Mirkovic
Chutzpah – something about modesty and shame by Monica Lisa Stambrini
The Sound of Hope by Emanuele Michetti

Best Documentary Short

Love Letters by Greta L. Schiller*
Still Here by Álvaro Hernández Blanco
Every Day After by Elisa Gambino
Together Forever by Barbara Medajska
Never Fade Away by Donna Weng Friedman

Best Director – Documentary Feature

Second Chances by Farzin Farzaneh
Gorgona by Antonio C Tibaldi*
Niki Pilic- The Legend by Zeljko Mirkovic
How To Power a City by Melanie LaRosa
The Green Flash by Ethan Payne, Jodi Cash

Best Director – Documentary Short

Build me through the Image by Paula Hung
Piñatas of Earthly Delights by Tom Maroney
Love Letters by Greta L. Schiller
Foam Horse by Juanjo Rueda
Still Here – Álvaro Hernández Blanco*

Best Cinematography – Documentary Feature

Gorgona : Antonio Tibaldi, Marco Pasquini
The Green Flash : Ethan Payne and Jake Gee*
Chutzpah – something about modesty and shame : Monica Stambrini
The Sound of Hope : Emanuele Michetti
Niki Pilic- The Legend : Frederic “Chalou” Chales

Best Cinematography – Documentary Short

Every Day After : Elisa Gambino*
The (Other) 700 Club : Juan Blanco Garcia, Carlos Cuenca
Together Forever : Barbara Medajska
Ultimate Citizens : Francine Strickwerda
Crossing the River : Allen Novak

Best Short Short

In my House by Daniel Sole, Zacjart Centrella*
Twink Time at Barbizon by Patricia Silva
Mahjong Butterfly by Yinlin Chen
Infinitum by Alfonso Otero Mireles