9th Annual LAFA 2024 Nominations

LAFA is pleased to announce its full slate of nominees for 2024.

Best of Fest 2024

We Are Living Things - Antonio Tibaldi

Anomaly - Michael Veritas

Romance of Wu Ge - Ge Jin

Stranger In The Woods - Adam Newacheck

Alta Valley - Jesse Edwards

Rare Land - Efthimis Hatzis

Best Narrative Feature

We Are Living Things - Antonio Tibaldi

Mind Thief - Matt Steinauer

Anomaly - Michael Veritas

Romance of Wu Ge - Ge Jin

A Zebra-Riding Boy - Xiaotian Fan, Juzhi Chen

Alta Valley - Jesse Edwards

Best Narrative Short

Save the Watermelon - Christopher W. Smith

Hey Alexa - Rebecca Demeter, Xochi Blymyer

Quietus Of Man - Frank Rice Jr.

Good Girl - Haley Dercher, Jenny Kleiman

CONFESSIONS - Evette Vargas

Rare Land - Efthimis Hatzis

Best Indie Feature

Beyond The After - Shaun Peter Cunningham

Footnotes - Chris Leary

The Tree House - Flávio Ermírio de Moraes, Franz Keppler

Stranger In The Woods - Adam Newacheck

BOYS - Gihyun Yang

Frame - JP Charlebois, MYRAI

Best Indie Short

The Dinner Agreement - Matthew Campbell Downes

A Tiger in the Subway - James Abrams

Look Around - Ulisses Malta Junior, Gustavo Azevedo Santos

Space Eye - Kevin Mainenti

The Magician - Lucy Owens

The Last Liftoff - Collin Nelson

Best Web/TV Pilot

NWL: The National Wrestling League - Cam Haldeman, Damiano Fusca

The Risk Takers - Xano Alexander Cuervo

Hand Me Downs - Blaise Beyhan, Luis Galilei

Cerebrum: The Tulsa Murders - Lauren Crow, Katherine J. Espin

Kombucha Cure - Cecilia Choi

CANCER/EVOLUTION - Maggie Jones, Brad Jones

Best Web/TV Series

Live To Farm - Jared Gagnon-Palick

The Cannibals - Kim Hopkins, Abigail Breslin

The Nordic - Clay E Croft

Sami - Bruce Kimmel

Reign - Mike Chaturantabut, Joe Lujan

Adoptame - Andy Sierra, Marco Rodriguez

Best Documentary Feature

Project Iceman - Ammar Kandil

Powering Puerto Rico - Adam Fischer

Patria y Vida: The Power of Music - Beatriz Luengo

N-Men: The Untold Story - James Sweigert

We Have Just Begun - Michael Warren Wilson

Circles of Failure - Kevin Casanova Abrams

Best Documentary Short

Bang On Time - Christoph Handl

Finding My Edge - Jennifer Smith

A Forgotten Life - Matt Komo

Song & Spirit - Gage Masterson

Pinheiro | Ep03 - All In - Thomas Dunzendorfer

Encore - Xiao Ma

Best Animation

Beyond the Farm - Allison Fraidenburg

The RatRodFormers - Aliaksandr Sasha Kanavalau, Maciej Żuk

On / Off - Nicolas P. Villarreal

The Jennie Show - EP4: Hotpot - Superdog, Kevin Lee, Michael Lalo Wang, Jasmine Wu Hanley

Starchaser - Anne Elise Domning

Bent Out of Shape - Chloe Merwin

Best Music Video

Unsteady - Mike Cerisano, Arielle Murphy

Affentanz - Hunter - Cyprian Hercka

The Creator's Shower - Acid Fong

Light Switch - Ethan McCarroll, Jeff Wood

Danger - Ned Stresen-Reuter

ChatMrE - Kin Shing Kwok, Ka Lee Cheuk

Best Student Film

Mind Sweeper - René Rebeiz

Guilty - Bin Li

Let‘s Dance - Shengyi He

Exquisite Cadaver - Ren Zheng

Luna - Kevin Mitchell Martinez

Fili - Peter Filimaua

Best Director (Feature)

Beyond The After - Shaun Peter Cunningham

Mind Thief - Matt Steinauer

Better Together - Anastasia Vasileva

Anomaly - Michael Veritas

The Inadequacy to be Together - Maximilian Hirsch

We Are Living Things - Antonio Tibaldi

Best Director (Short)

The Dinner Agreement - Matthew Campbell Downes

Hey Alexa - Rebecca Demeter

Look Around - Ulisses Malta Junior, Gustavo Azevedo Santos

The Edge of Town - Matthew Gerrish

Lemon Hart: What Lies In Truth - Sara AlThani

Cosmos Melancolia - Alexandra Leroux, Damien de Medeiros

Best First Time Director (Feature)

REVEILLE - Michael Akkerman

Footnotes - Chris Leary

The Dark Girl - Enrico Saller

Stranger In The Woods - Adam Newacheck

BOYS - Gihyun Yang

Prada's Paradise - Hao Lu

Best First Time Director (Short)

Lost Mother - Zelong Liu

Finding My Edge - Jennifer Smith

Kombucha Cure - Cecilia Choi

CONCH - Zhenpeng Sun, Junzhe Zeng

Suburban Witch - Lily Emalfarb

The Last Dinner - Marie-Ange Casalta

Best Actor

Te amo, talvez no! - Gregorio Pernia

We Are Living Things - Jorge Antonio Guerrero

Look Around - André Ramiro

Stranger In The Woods - Brendin Brown

CONFESSIONS - J. Mallory McCree

Anomaly - Josh Wetzel

Best Actress

Mind Thief - Angelique Pretorius

Hey Alexa - Stevie Lynn Jones

The Breakthrough - Emily Topper

Stranger In The Woods - Holly Kenney

The Magician - Ruth Johansson

Anomaly - Sierra Murphy

Best Cinematography

Alta Valley - Jesse Edwards

Footnotes - Victor Ingles

The Breakthrough - Justin Cipriani

Stranger In The Woods - Travis Prow

Layers of Lies - Mark Hobson

Anomaly - Ryan Margetts

Best Editing

Beyond The After - Shaun Peter Cunningham, Jared Cline

Tenderness - Nick Deliberto

A Forgotten Life - Matt Komo

Mind Thief - Matt Steinauer

Rare Land - Lambis Haralambidis

Stranger In The Woods - Adam Newacheck, Kyle Newacheck

Best Score

North Star - Jon Altham

Footnotes - Charles Harvey Spears

Buried - Julian Scherle

Motherland - Oscar Pan

SIMONA - Alex Gruz

Frame - Liam Desrosiers

Best Virtual Reality

Thank you for sharing your world - Yu Sakudo

Wonder of Life - Wen-Chieh Chang

Wiktoria 1920 - Tomasz Dobosz

The Talent Stealer - David Slater

The Abandoned Library - Judi Alston, Andy Campbell

Floating TPAC - Hsin-Chien Huang, Wen-Chieh Chang

Best Original Story

Beyond The After - Shaun Peter Cunningham

The_Fishbowl - Erin Mackellin

Kombucha Cure - Cecilia Choi, Michael Snell

Lemon Hart : What Lies In Truth - Sara AlThani

CONFESSIONS - Evette Vargas

Suburban Witch - Lily Emalfarb

Best Screenplay

The Afterlife Can Wait - Westley Cornwell, Kristi Cornwell

Swim Home - Dave Ragsdale

The Milky Way - Alexa Salimpour

The Last Snowflake - Hayley Jean Reeves

I Know the End - Don Macanlalay

Last Train To Oakfield - Warren Robinson

Best Television Script

Even Keel - Jeff Gendelman

Privileged Deceit - Annette C. Hull, Warren R Hull

Off The Path - Richard Redlo

Return Path - Janine Pečenková

The Bluffs - Lee Fries

The Combat Art Collective - Baron Rotza

Special Jury Award - Film

N-Men: The Untold Story - James Sweigert

Moon Students - Daniel Patrick Holland

Mind Thief - Matt Steinauer

Nine Times Fired - Harry Hyun, Hanseok Nah, Sejin Kim

If we lived - Andre Pierre, Matt Mills, Rhianna Morris

Women in Aviation - Phillip Large

Special Jury Award - Screenplay

The Poet of Sugar Creek - Karen Conley

Rude Mechanicals - Julian Hoxter

Silver Eyes - Eric White

Pipeline Moe - Todd M Korgan

Hella Cracked - Myles Devin Bergman

The Lost Lion - Laura Koons

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