2023 Festival Award Winners

Opening Night Screening

• Last Call — Harry Holland
• Somewhere in Between — Kyle Vorbach (USA)
• They Grow Up So Fast — John F. Beach (USA)
• Crarylake Boats and Floats — Spencer Thielmann, Emily Berge (USA)
• When Beverly Met Reita — Brianna Rebecca Schatt (USA)
• Lost in the Sky — Simon Öster (Sweden)

Encore Screening Opening Night

Encore presentation of Opening Night Screening.

It’s A Kind of Magic

• Oddities — Tyler Savage (USA)
• Wider Than The Sky — Philip Taylor (UK)
• Rear View — Matthew Conboy (USA)
• The Old Young Crow — Liam LoPinto (Japan)
• Picture Day (Ireland) — Jason Branagan (Ireland)
• The Van — Bernard Badion (USA)

Musically Inclined

• Piano Man — Jay Zaretsky (USA)
• Shatter the Glass — Patrick Hogan (USA)
• Black Metal — Michael Johnson (USA)
• Mysore Magic — Abijeet Achar (USA)
• Sometime, Somewhere — Logan Findlay (UK)

Festival Rewind – Comedy Edition

Comedy favorites from the festival’s first 15 years.

Festival Rewind – A Smattering of Excellence

World Cinema favorites from the festival’s first 15 years.

A Hard DOC’s Life

• I am Kanaka — Genevieve Sulway (UK)
• When Beverly Met Reita — Brianna Rebecca Schatt (USA)
• The Exchange Girl — George Larkin (USA)
• Home River — Kati Eriksen, Scott Thornton (Finland)
• Every Day After — Elisa Gambino (USA)

World Cinema One

• Chevalier — Frederic Zeimet (Luxembourg)
• The Wake — Luis Gerard Gonzalez (Canada)
• Chandelier — George Gio Putkaradze (Georgia)
• Seasalter Road — Will Kenning (UK)
• Fár — Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter (Iceland)
• The Sons of God (Los Hijos de Dios) — Sebastian Torres Greene (Mexico)

The Human Experience

• `{`subtext`}` — Erin Brown Thomas (USA)
• Voice Activated — Steve Anthopoulos (Australia)
• Blue Hour — J.D Shields (USA)
• Somewhere in Between — Kyle Vorbach (USA)
• Infraction — Timothy Blackwood (USA)
• At Home — Jon Joffin (Canada)

Make ‘Em Laugh

• Vegan Table — Tyler Davis (USA)
• Under My Bed — Matt Cairns (USA)
• They Grow Up So Fast — John F. Beach (USA)
• Grandma Bruce — Brooke Stern Sebold (USA)
• Mahogany Drive — Jerah Milligan (USA)
• Empty Nest — Christine Victoria Deacon (Canada)
• The Accent — Samuel Ademola, Hugo Rubin (USA)

It Was A Dark & Stormy Night

• The Queue — Michael Rich (USA)
• Black Dragon (Rồng đen) — Alexander Thompson (USA)
• Butterscotch — Alexander Lee Deeds (USA)
• The Trunk — Logan Boettcher (USA)
• Slayers of the Dead — Victor Manggunio (Singapore)
• Get Away — Michael Gabriele (USA)
• Drawn — Ty Clancey (USA)

I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This

• Hangman — Sam Upton (USA)
• Feng Shui — Kamran Rathod (USA)
• Bodies Will Tumble and Roll — Eli Vazquez (USA)
• Takbir — Jordi Calvet (Spain)
• The Other Side of Fortune — Blake Dew (USA)
• Hit Man: Secrets of Lies — Elias Plagianos (USA)

World Cinema Two

• The Weenies — Garance Chagnon-Grégoire (Canada)
• Path to Ecstacy — Abdullah Khan (UK)
• Dog Run — Lorna Nickson Brown (UK)
• Servir — Lea Maria Kruse (Germany)
• Keep — Lewis Rose (UK)

Kids and Family

• Canary — Pierre-Hugues Dallaire, Benoit Therriault (Canada)
• Champion — Kim J.Y. Han (USA)
• Mushka — Andreas Deja (USA)
• Goro Goro — Ryotaro Sawada, Agatha Tiara Christa (USA)
• Career Day — Jason Robinson, Chris Hooper (USA)

An Uncomfortable Truth

• The Concert — Elizabeth Bourgeois (USA)
• Subsurface — Daniel John Harris (USA)
• The Naming of Things — Gadi Rubin (USA)
• The Auction — Jordan Hidalgo (USA)
• Uncle Berry Bit It — Mimi Gaudet (USA)
• Clear Day — Caitlin Woods (USA)
• A Rush of Peace — Jake Lockett (USA)

Family Matters

• Dear Oli — Blaise Borrer (Australia)
• Last Days of the Lab — María Alvarez (USA)
• Dos Bros Force — Jyothi Kalyan Sura (USA)
• Picture Day (US) — Kelly Pike (USA)
• Slippers — Mark Ryan Walberg (USA)
• Harbor — Keegan Duncan (USA)
• Hoar — Jeanette Dilone (USA)

Return of the Ink & Paint Club

• Canary — Pierre-Hugues Dallaire, Benoit Therriault (Canada)
• Ninety-Five Senses — Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess (USA)
• The Space Between Us — Julianne Martin (USA)
• Eden — Kayla Keener (USA)
• Goro Goro — Ryotaro Sawada, Agatha Tiara Christa (USA)
• Bon Odori — Trent Osaki, Sally Thai (USA)
• Gene’s 6th Symphony — Jordi Garcia (USA)
• Oren’s Way — Keika Lee (USA)
• Stories We Could Have Told — Darcy Miller (USA)

More from A Hard DOC’s Life

• Philemona Williamson: To Be Seen — Sam Vladimirsky (USA)
• Skilled: Cedric’s Story — Julio Palacio (USA)
• Stamp Our Story — Kaia Rose, Robert Horsting (USA)
• Jack and Sam — Jordan Matthew Horowitz (UK)
• Kamiyama: The Little Town with Big Ideas — Kohei Watanabe, Marco Lui (Japan)
• They Came From All Over — Rayka Zehtabchi (USA)

Musically Inclined – Special Encore Screening

Encore presentation of Musically Inclined.

The World Beyond

• Heather’s Voice — Shicong Zhu (USA)
• Autopilot — Jennifer Zhang (USA)
• Lost in the Sky — Simon Öster (Sweden)
• Dropping — RJ Collins (USA)
• Delete — Julianne Cross (USA)
• Innermost — Maing Caochong (China)

What the What?!?

• Deadline — Idan Gilboa (Israel)
• Under My Bed — Matt Cairns (USA)
• Roadkill Jamboree — Meghan G Graham (USA)
• Keyboard — Conrad Senn (Argentina)
• The Special Seat — Akira Okumura (Japan)
• Eindis Ends It All — Tamara Rosenfeld (USA)
• Dummy — Lukas Hassel (USA)
• To The Death — Rose McIver (USA)
• Un Homme and a Lady — Mitch Yapko (USA)

Life Interrupted

• I’m On Fire — Michael Spiccia (USA)
• Bellybutton — Hilary Eden (USA)
• Please Call For An Interview — Luke Kreger (USA)
• Crarylake Boats and Floats — Spencer Thielmann, Emily Berge (USA)
• Savage Dawn — Tamiah Bantum (USA)
• Each Lovely Thing — Paloma Nozicka (USA)

It Was A Dark & Stormy Night

• The Queue — Michael Rich (USA)
• Black Dragon (Rồng đen) — Alexander Thompson (USA)
• Butterscotch — Alexander Lee Deeds (USA)
• The Trunk — Logan Boettcher (USA)
• Slayers of the Dead — Victor Manggunio (Singapore)
• Get Away — Michael Gabriele (USA)
• Drawn — Ty Clancey (USA)

The Long and Short of It

• One Small Visit — Jo Chim (Canada)
• Mushka — Andreas Deja (USA)
• We Were Meant To — Tari Wariebi (USA)

A Taste of Cinema

• Vegan Table — Tyler Davis (USA)
• Pioneering Spirits — Stephan Blinn (USA)
• Like Mum Used To Make — Britt Jessup (Australia)
• Disco Sauce: The True Story of Penne Alla Vodka — Roberto Serrini (USA)
• Food That Saves You — Joe Vella (USA)

Make ‘Em Laugh – Encore Presentation

Encore presentation of Make ‘Em Laugh.

The Road Not Taken

• The Sperm Bank — Margaux Calla Susi (USA)
• Aves — Eli Snyder (USA)
• Honey — Mischa Webley (USA)
• Into The Valley — Emily Sandifer (USA)
• Brief Exchanges — Ashley Versher (USA)

It’s A Kind of Magic – Encore Presentation

Encore presentation of It’s A Kind of Magic.

Closing Night Award Winners

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

Audience Choice Screening One

Audience Choice winners, as voted by festival audiences.

Audience Choice Screening Two

Audience Choice winners, as voted by festival audiences.