2024 Festival Award Winners

Opening Night Premiere Screening

• Favourites — Nick Russell (Australia)
• The Letter — James Skinner (Gambia)
• My Week with Maisy — Mika Simmons (UK)
• Lichtblick – Glimmer of Hope — Sophia Tamaro (Germany)
• Maggie’s Not Okay — Vance Smith (USA)
• We Have Notes — Jordan McKittrick (USA)

And So It Begins

• Bibi’s Dog is Dead — Shervin Kermani (Canada)
• Echoes in the Dark — Connie Jo Sechrist (USA)
• Mouse! — Max Fisher (UK)
• Proof of Concept — Max Cohn, Ellie Sachs (USA)
• Shoebox — D’Angelo “D’Lo“ Louis (USA)
• The Stranger I Love — Martin Gooch, Theresa Godly (UK)

A Hard Doc’s Life

• Balance — Tim Kellner (USA)
• Daughter of Mine — Vanessa Martino (USA)
• Pride of Texas — Ashley Seering (USA)
• Swimming The Rock — Nicolas Collins, Alex Zajicek (USA)
• The Hearts of Bwindi — Charli Doherty (UK)
• The Human Component — Daisy Squiers, Megan May Wilson (Switzerland)
• Yellowstone 88 – Song of Fire — Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries (USA)

Festival Rewind One

A mix of festival favorites and audience award winners across genres.

Festival Rewind Two

A mix of festival favorites and audience award winners across genres.

Family Matters

• Big Sur — Lila Dupree (USA)
• Did You Eat Yet? — Alicia Qian (USA)
• Experts In A Dying Field — Mitchell Camarda (USA)
• Favourites — Nick Russell (Australia)
• Hold — Josiah Junqueira Spencer (USA)
• River of Grass — Derek Magyar (USA)

World Cinema One

• El Último Tramo — Dominick Cura (USA)
• One More Day — Radivoje Bukvic (Serbia)
• Playground — Yaxing Lin (USA)
• Something Blue — Chen Li (China)
• The Letter — James Skinner (Gambia)
• You First — Eliza Shin (USA)

The Human Experience

• 172 Push-Ups — Frieda Naphsica de Lackner (USA)
• 4th Dementia — Ian Wexler (USA)
• Big George — Jamie Effros (USA)
• My Week with Maisy — Mika Simmons (UK)
• What I Am — Jackie Oudney (UK)

Make ‘Em Laugh

• Catherine & Michael — Kathy Fusco (USA)
• Grave Error — Andrew Jonathan Smith (UK)
• Knead — Timothy Michael Cooper (USA)
• La Langue — Béla Baptiste (USA)
• Le Parrot — Rachael Sonnenberg (USA)
• Maggie’s Not Okay — Vance Smith (USA)
• The Orange at the Seder — Jacob Combs (USA)

What the What ?!?

• À toi les oreilles — Alexandre Isabelle (Canada)
• Lumen — Stéphanie Bélanger (Canada)
• Portland Is the New Portland — Christopher Scamurra (USA)
• Room Tone — Michael Gabriele (USA)
• Serf — Vansh Luthra (Czech Republic)
• The Ghost — Allyson Morgan (USA)

I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This

• Calf — Jamie O’Rourke (Ireland)
• Good Girls Get Fed — Kelly Lou Dennis (USA)
• The Conjugal Visit — Ryan Lampe (USA)
• Under the Blue — Linda Ludwig, James Curle (UK)
• Where the Heart Lies — Brianna Chapman (USA)

Family Films

• Be True to Your School — Frank Harts (USA)
• Goos’d — Heeyun Chung (USA)
• LUKi and the Lights — Toby Cochran (USA)
• Scavengers — Aliyah Penelope Cruz, Isabella Moreno (USA)
• Tabby McTat — Jac Hamman, Sarah Scrimgeour (UK)
• Unibrow — Nedda Sarshar (Canada)

An Uncomfortable Truth

• Arlo — Logan Thomason (USA)
• Dead Cat — Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet (Canada)
• Kiss — Katja Roberts (UK)
• My Obsession with Death — Alexis Evelyn (USA)
• Plastics — Kip Calendine (USA)
• Trapped — Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz (USA)

World Cinema Two

• A Night, After All — Anshul Agrawal (India)
• Best Before — Lisa Service (UK)
• Boys Like You — Paul Holbrook (UK)
• Lotus — Ollie Wolf (UK)
• Mai — Brett Maline (Japan)
• Medicine — William Amos McKegg (New Zealand)
• Your Move — Ed Rigg, George Howson (UK)

More from a Hard Doc’s Life

• Bearing Witness: A Name & A Voice — Dina Jane Rudick (USA)
• Save the Cat — Jordan Matthew Horowitz (USA)
• Stud Country — Lina Abascal, Alexandra Kern (USA)
• Village of Death: Oradour-sur-Glane 1944* — Tim Gray (USA)

Life Interrupted

• Gillyfish — Sarah Sellman (UK)
• SilverSizzle — Brian Russell (USA)
• Sleep Training — Sunita Prasad (USA)
• The Blurring Of Trees — Fanny Perreault (Canada)
• The River — Clare Cooney (USA)
• Thomasville — Alex Woodruff

Return of the Ink & Paint Club

• Allure — Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries (USA)
• Chain — LING HAN (USA)
• Driftwood — Christopher Hills Eaton (USA)
• Extracted — Adam Glickfield (USA)
• Le Charade — Erika Totoro (USA)
• Magic Candies — Daisuke NISHIO (Japan)
• Moving Day — Sean Mirkovich (USA)
• Remember Us — Pablo Leon (USA)
• Tennis, Oranges — Sean Pecknold (USA)
• The Waiting — Voker Schlecht (Germany)

The World Beyond

• Factory Drop — Petja Pulkrabek (Germany)
• Hold You So Tight — Eric Rudnick (USA)
• I’m Not a Robot — Victoria Warmerdam (Netherlands)
• Lola — Grace Hanna (USA)
• Technical Support — Kris Lefcoe (USA)

Musically Inclined

• Bible Camp — Philip DeRise (USA)
• Dion & Denver — Zack Hosseini (USA)
• En El Bronx Part 2 — Armani Ortiz (USA)
• Lichtblick – Glimmer of Hope — Sophia Tamaro (Germany)
• Oh, Christmas Tree — Katie Aselton (USA)
• The Butterflies of Love — Aiden Glikmann (USA)
• The Fool — Jonathan Primo Ruiz (USA)
• Cary Brothers_Songs in the Key of Film — Philip Coates (USA)

The Long & Short of It

• 1001cuts — Sarah M Temkin (USA)
• Champions — The AG Brothers, (Asher and Aaron Goldenberg) (USA)
• Go For Grandma — Sabrina Doyle (USA)

Make ‘Em Laugh, Again

• Dear Owner — Jonathan Thomas Coleman (USA)
• Death Pays Flora a Visit — Tanna Frederick (USA)
• Dirty Towel — Callie Carpinteri (USA)
• Fire F*cking Fire — Julia Eringer, Rachel Paulson (USA)
• Jane Austen’s Period Drama — Julia Aks, Steve Pinder (USA)
• Stop Whining & Start Winning — Emma Raimi (USA)
• Why Dogs Howl — Sandi Johnson (USA)

It Was A Dark & Stormy Night

• Anniversary — Paul De Cinque (Australia)
• Please Leave — Riley Ryan Scott (USA)
• The Eyes of Marge — Lily Howkins (UK)
• Voyager — Pablo Pagán (Spain)
• Wake — Sean Carter (USA)

The Alternative Universe

• Bisected — Danny Pineros (USA)
• Doorway — Siddharth Gautam (USA)
• Project Penelope — Felipe Castilla, Alex D Lugo (USA)
• Universe 25 — David Tappan (USA)
• Your time has come — David Durán (Spain)

World Cinema Three

• Camping in Paradise — Eirik Tveiten (Norway)
• Perfect Anna — Yana Klimova-Yusupova (Russia)
• Shouting at the Sea — Benjamin Verrall (UK)
• Sylvie on the Loose — Sarah Bourdeau (Canada)

The Road Not Taken

• The Heart of Texas — Gregory JM Kasunich (USA)
• After Midnight — Eli Brown (USA)
• Ambush at St. Mary’s — Anthony Parisi (USA)
• Mendo’s Carousel — David Michael Maurer (USA)
• Mondays at the Office — Marco Ragozzino (USA)
• Neo-Dome — Bonnie Discepolo (USA)
• Not Today, Not Tomorrow — Neil Miguel Watson (USA)

All the World’s a Stage

• King Ed — Nick Fascitelli (USA)
• Límite — George Nicholas (Mexico)
• Rapt — Margot Budzyna (USA)
• We Have Notes — Jordan McKittrick (USA)

Closing Night Screening

A closing-night program of films awarded Best Of in their categories.

Audience Award Screening One

Audience Choice winners, as voted by festival audiences.

Audience Award Screening Two

Audience Choice winners, as voted by festival audiences.