Award Nominations
Awards held on Sunday Aug 7th, at 8pm.

Best Actor Comedy Short
Scott Long for Brewtown
Jared Rinaldi for Bad Trip
Joshua Will for Delay
WINNER Mark Stolzenberg for My Father’s Fabulous Funeral
Mark Cabaroy for Lower Your Expectations: Girl Talk

Best Actress Comedy Short
WINNER Emm O'Connor for Brewtown
Jennifer Cové for Life of a Modern Seer
Meghann Garmany for Baby Shower
Gina Scarda for Lower Your Expectations: Girl Talk
Grace Soriano for A Cosplay Life
Judy Copeland for My Father’s Fabulous Funeral

Best Actor Medium Short
WINNER Michael Fedele for Sfortunato
Robert Bogue for En Suite
John Fuentes for A New Tomorrow
Andre Joel Griner for The Unlocking
Richard Frohman for Legato

Best Actress Medium Short
Yi Liu for Removable
Katie Semon for Legato
WINNER Lainie Ventura for En Suite
Gwen Gottlieb for The Winter Fern
Niki Rios for A New Tomorrow
Sarah Schoofs for Cameo
Osjane’e Johnson for Violet

Best Actor Long Short
Adam Hebeisen for The Man in the Long Black Coat
Stephen Kunken for Miracle Baby
WINNER Lukas Hassel for Couple of Guys
Sal Rendino for Couple of Guys
James Ciccone for The Cafone
Iván Gisbert for Between Here and Gone

Best Actress Long Short
Marissa Moeller for The Man in the Long Black Coat
WINNER Nancy Nagrant for Miracle Baby
Emm O’Conner for Brewtown
Viki Lafuente for Between Here and Gone
Lydia Fiore for The Cafone
Alexa Elmy for Kiki and the Sundance Kid

Best Director Comedy
WINNER Jim Mauro for Brewtown
Jibran Ahmed for Baby Shower
Tyrell Jason for Bad Trip
The Cremer Brothers for A Cosplay Life
Jordan Lynn For Delay
Mark Stolzenberg for My Father’s Fabulous Funeral
Mark Cabaroy for Lower Your Expectations: Girl Talk

Best Director Long Short
Vanessa M. H. Powers for The Man in the Long Black Coat
Debra Markowitz for Couple of Guys
Michelle Bossy for Miracle Baby
Jim Mauro for Brewtown
Kazuya Shimoyama for OB
Sadie Duarte for Between Here and Gone
WINNER Tom Bentey for The Cafone

Best Director Medium Short
Geoffrey Cantor for En Suite
WINNER Shu-Ying Chung for Removable
Gwen Gottlieb for The Winter Fern
Eavvon Styles O'Neal for Mr Backlash
Olivia Brennan for Legato
Lea Pfandler for A New Tomorrow
Debra Markowitz for Sfortunato

Best Comedy
Brewtown
RUNNER UP My Father's Fabulous Funeral
WINNER Baby Shower
Bad Trip
Delay
Lower Your Expectations: Girl Talk

Best Long Short
The Man in the Long Black Coat
WINNER Couple of Guys
The Cafone
RUNNER UP Miracle Baby
Brewtown
Between Here and Gone

Best Short Medium
Removable
En Suite
WINNER The Winter Fern
A New Tomorrow
Sfortunato
Legato
RUNNER UP Mr Backlash

Best Short Short
Violet
RUNNER UP I Love You Too
Delay
WINNER The Camel
Retribution’s Child
Cherry on Top
Ma Mi

Best Micro Short
WINNER Eyes on You
Negative
Mission: Accomplished
Alone Together
The Pragmatics

Best Horror/Thriller
The Unlocking
WINNER Cameo
Kiki and the Sundance Kid
Drained
Trucked!

Best NJ Short Film
WINNER En Suite
New York & New Jersey
The Winter Fern
RUNNER UP Legato
Cameo
The Ones Who Loves Us

Best Cinematography
Bad Trip
WINNER Mr Backlash
Phoenix 2021/A Survival Guide
Angst
The Unlocking
RUNNER UP New York & New Jersey
Adrift

Best Concept
Trucked!
Angst
WINNER Delay
The Camel
RUNNER UP A Cosplay Life
The Pragmatics
Life of a Modern Seer

Best Ensemble
WINNER The Man in the Long Black Coat
My Father's Fabulous Funeral
Baby Shower
Couple of Guys
Removable
The Winter Fern
​RUNNER UP The Cafone

Best Unproduced Screenplay
Stephonika W. Kaye for Regenesis
WINNER Tommy Britt for Lab Partners
JC Collins for Unloaded

Best International Film
WINNER Between Here and Gone (Spain)
OB (Japan)
Phoenix 2021: A Survival Guide (Greece)
7 Years Art from Berlin "BrückenKunst" 2019 (Germany)
Angst (Austria)

Best Documentary
7 Years art from Berlin “BruckenKunst” 2019
WINNER Civil War 2.o
Ma Mi

Best Animation
Cherry on Top

Rising Star Award
Olivia Brennan

Student Award Nominations
Awards held on Sunday April 7th, after the two 11am student sets

​Best Actor in a Student Film College
Richard Frohman for Legato
WINNER Logan Riley Bruner for House Sitters
Aaron Dala Villa for House Sitters
David Hamed for Caricature Carl
Giulio Bianchi for Ruby
Gene Connelly for Call Now

Best Actress in a Student Film College
WINNER Katie Semon for Legato
Erika Lynn Jolie for F**k Love
Rachel Grodek for Paige and Riley

​Best Director College
Olivia Brennan for Legato
Erika Lynn Jolie, and Jenny Thach for F**k Love
Cameron Spector for House Sitters
Ross Stern for Caricature Carl
WINNER Cody Hawley for Call Now
Joanna Downing for Paige and Riley

Best Short Film College
WINNER Legato
F**k Love
House Sitters
Caricature Carl
Call Now

Best Concept-Student Film-College
WINNER Paige and Riley
Just Girl Stuff
Call Now
Caricature Carl
Ruby

Best Comedy College
WINNER Caricature Carl
Call Now
House Sitters
Just Girl Stuff

Best Animation College
Just Girl Stuff

Best Short Short College
Paige and Riley

Best Editing College
Call Now

Best Cinematography College
Legato

Best Ensemble College
F*** Love

Best Story College
Ruby

Best Actor in a Student Film High School
WINNER Charlie Tacker for Stuffed
Andrew Kearney for Blackout
Wesley Reyes The Wesley Parable
Devan Summers for Voices in Our Heads
John Gialitis for A Hymn to Love

Best Actress in a Student Film High School
Emily Wetenhall for Two Faced
WINNER Haley Pine for Voices In Our Heads
Elena Macdonald for I Wasn’t There
Dani Forte for What Makes a Smile

Best Director-High School
Brendan Egan for Stuffed
WINNER Eli Berliner for A Hymn to Love
Stephen Sassano, and Shawn Smith for The Misadventures of Tedium Man
Sandy Eskow for An Experimental Experience
Brendan Egan for Voices in My Head
David Stocker for What Makes a Smile
Emily Wetenhall for Two Faced

Best Film Drama High School
What Makes a Smile
Clown Wanted
The Wesley Parable
WINNER Voices In Our Heads
A Hymn to Love
I Wasn’t There
Two Faced

Best Comedy High School
Cullen's Room
The Stapler
The Misadventures of Tedium Man
WINNER Love Bites
Staple
Voices In Our Heads
“Saint" Nick

Best Script/Story
Stuffed
Voices in Our Heads
WINNER The Wesley Parable
A Hymn to Love
The Misadventures of Tedium Man
I Wasn’t There
Blackout

Best Experimental-High School
RUNNER UP Restless
MM61
I Wasn't There
An Experimental Experience
Two Faced
WINNER What Makes a Smile

Best Concept High School
A Hymn to Love
Cullen's Room
Clown Wanted
RUNNER UP The Stapler
Voices In Our Heads
An Experimental Experience
WINNER The Wesley Parable

Best Cinematography High School
WINNER Restless
What Makes a Smile
The Misadventures of Tedium Man
RUNNER UP MM61
Blackout
Stuffed

Best Horror/Thriller/Sci-fi High School
RUNNER UP Supersession
The Wesley Parable
Stuffed
WINNER Blackout
An Experimental Experience

Best Editing - Drama High School
MM61

Best Documentary High School
Making of MM61

Best Editing - Comedy High School
Cullen's Room

Rising Star
Jacob Waters

​NJ Achievement in The Art of Filmmaking Award: Geoffrey Cantor
NJ Achievement in The Art of Acting Award: Brett Eidman