Award Nominations, Awards held on Sunday March 6th at 6:45
Festival Achievement Awards
NJ Filmmaker Award: Maurice Paramore
NJ Achievement in The Art of Acting Award: Scott Schiaffo

WINNERS IN ORANGE
Best Actor-Comedy
Taylor Allen for Raising the Dead
Biff Swenson for Raising the Dead
Lewis Black for Introducing Parker Dowd
Robert Clohessy for The Last Taxi Driver
Aidan Schultz-Meyer for Mixed Signals
Bruce Nachsin for Dark Spector
Saige Santana for How Chris Mazzetti Got His Swag Back

Best Actress-Comedy
Emma Fassler For Meeting Matt Damon
Patty Rosborough For Raising the Dead
Jennifer Jiles for Mother of the Week
Rebecca Blaine Carton for Introducing Parker Dowd
Judy Nazemetz for Dark Spector
Amy Rutledge for Mixed Signals
Burnelle Rose Gleason for Sad, Boring, Lonely Aubrey

Best Actor-Short
Robert Costanzo for A Way Out
Artie Pasquale for We Remember
Cole Gabrielson for The Radio
John Michael Hastie for Flowers in Your Hands
Ed Bertold for When the Night Falls
Eric Hicks for Trouble for a Smoke

Best Actress-Short
Hillary Hawkings for A Pill for 2
Sam Garland Ella at the Library
Madison Comerzan for Adhesive Love
Alice Kremelberg for Sweet Hollow
Tyler Kipp for Inspired
Molly Ryman for Leaving
Debbie Twiss for Thin Blue Line

Best Director-Comedy
Drew Chiminec for Raising the Dead
Lauren Ashely Carter for Introducing Parker Dowd
Lee Davis for Mother of the Week
Debra Markowitz for the Last Taxi Driver
Evan Yee for Buying Bouquets
Rachel Breitag for Im-moral

Best Director-Drama
Jason Tostevin for A Way Out
John Gallagher for We Remember
Michael Boylan The Radio
Lee Kolinsky for Stand Up Guy
David Maire for Chateau Sauvignon: Terroir
Debra Markowitz for Leaving

Best Comedy
Mother of the Week (RUNNER UP)
Meeting Matt Damon
Introducing Parker Dowd
Last Taxi Driver
Raising the Dead
Buying Bouquets
Im-moral

Best Horror/Thriller
When the Night Falls
Awakenings
Sweet Hollow
Chateau Sauvignon: Terroir
Good, Bye
Feast at the Beach
The Kill Club (RUNNER UP)

Best Short
We Remember
The Radio
A Way Out
Stand Up Guy (RUNNER UP)
Leaving
Who is Riley Oaks?

Best Short Short
Dark Spector
Thin Blue Line
Mixed Signals
Bread
A Pill for 2
Around the Corner
Sender (RUNNER UP)

Best NJ Short
The Radio
Flowers in Your Hand
Raising the Dead
The Kill Club
Herrings (RUNNER UP)
When the Night Falls

Best Local Film
Around the Corner (RUNNER UP)
Flowers in Your Hand
A Man a Horse
A Prayer for the Undead
Mixed Signals
Adhesive Love

Best Cinematography
Chateau Sauvignon: Terroir
A Bench in a Park
Awakenings
The Radio
We Remember
The Kill Club
A Pill for 2 (RUNNER UP)

Best Concept
Attack of the Killer Chickens (RUNNER UP)
50/50
The Bag
Henry and the Violin
Introducing Parker Dowd
Im-moral
Webseries:The WebSeries

Best Ensemble
Raising the Dead
Mother of the Week
Who is Riley Oaks
Webseries:The Webseries (RUNNER UP)
Stand Up Guy
Thin Blue Line
Im-moral

Top Scripts
Patrick McGucken for Family Stuff
Robert Rogers for Dakota Caves-2 Miles
Seregon O'Dassey for Absynthia
Damien Slevin for Irish Fever
Nathan Ludwig for Walter's Days
Tony DiSibio for Doorlocker (HONORABLE MENTION)
Robert Shill for The Dead Ringers
Edmund Miller for Hairline
Edmund Miller for Pink Elephants
Debra Markowitz for By Blood (RUNNER UP)
Ryan Calderara for Apartment Sixteen (HONORABLE MENTION)
Ryan Calderara for The Encounter
Robert M. Snyder for Shakespeare's Pen

Student Nominations, Awards held on Saturday March 5th at 7:45:
Best Actor
John Salimbene for Prose for Rose
Saige Santana for How Chris Mazzetti Got His Swag Back
Topher Hansson for Buying Bouquets
Michael Lor for Chatau Sauvignon: Terrior
Connor Hess for Stronger than Words

Best Actress
Miriam Vakhitova for The Man She Will Never Know
Alice Krmelberg for Sweet Hollow
Meissa Hampton and Beth Polito for Treasure Map
Tyler Kipp for Inspired
Burnelle Rose Gleason for Sad, Boring, Lonely Aubrey

Best Director
Michael S Miller for Prose for Rose
Maggie Kaszuba for Inspired
David Maire for Chateau Sauvignon: Terroir
Connor Hess for The Man She Will Never Know
Evan Yee for Buying Bouquets
Kevin Machate for Promise Me

Best Director High School
Deja Vu
Locker Safety
Painted Cranes

Best Comedy Short Film
How Chris Mazzetti Got His Swag Back
Sad, Boring, Lonely, Aubrey
Buying Bouquets
Locker Safety

Best Student Film High School
Locker Safety
Painted Cranes
Deja Vu

Best Student Film College
Sad, Boring, Lonely, Aubrey
Inspired
Chateau Sauvignon: Terroir
Sweet Hollow
Buying Bouquets
The Man She Will Never Know

Best NJ Short
Inspired
Prose for Rose
The Man She Will Never Know
Buying Bouquets
Deju Vu
Treasure Map

Best Concept
Isabel
The Frog and the Racecar
A Man, A Horse: Portrait of Ramon “Tito” Moya
Promise Me
How Chris Mazzetti Got His Swag Back
Buying Bouquets
Koots

Best Cinematography
Chateau Sauvignon: Terroir
Deju Vu
Treasure Map
Sweet Hollow
Buying Bouquets
Momentum