LAFA Winners - January 2022
Best Picture
Dreams of Daraa - Reilly Dowd
Best Narrative Feature
GOD & SALSA - Jess Thomas, Anayancy Thomas
Honorable Mention: Narrative Feature
Girl in the Palms - Jon Russel Cring
Best Narrative Short
Breathless - Wayne Yu
Honorable Mention: Narrative Short
Geography of the Heart - Alexandra Billington
Best Indie Film
La Petite Mort - Nicole Zhou
Honorable Mention: Indie Short
Thony's Eyes - Dr. Melissa E Tate-Scruse
Best Drama
Skylark - Béla Paczolay
Honorable Mention: Drama
Before or After - Surender Singh
Best Dark Comedy
In The Woods With A Dead Dog - Vera Graziadei
Honorable Mention: Dark Comedy
The Dick Pic Bandit - Jacob Mullen, Dan Nguyen
Best Sci-Fi
S.U.P.E.R - Thorbjörn Eklund
Best Experimental Film
Saudade - Kesava Geeta Kumar
Best Inspirational Film
The Real You - Joel Cartier
Best LGBTQ Film
Girl in the Palms - Jon Russel Cring
Best Web/TV Pilot
PARADOX - Vasilis (Billy) Blioumis
Best Docudrama
Breaking Through - Amy Leigh McCorkle, Tim Druck
Best Documentary Feature
Dreams of Daraa - Reilly Dowd
Honorable Mention: Documentary Feature
The Five Priests - Chris Charles Scott
Best Documentary Short
Once upon a bridge in Vietnam - François Bibonne
Honorable Mention: Documentary Short
The Prism for Post Corona - Seung-il Chon
Best Music Video
Dead Of The Night - Minh Huynh
Honorable Mention: Music Video
Desert Moonlight - Brad Tobler
Best Student Film
Fallen Angel - Taylor Marie James
Honorable Mention: Student Film
Wheat - Jonny Berkowitz
Best Director (Feature)
GOD & SALSA - Jess Thomas
Best Director (Short)
Lifeblood - Nicholas Tory
Honorable Mention: Director
Home - Yang Yang
Best First Time Director
Lifeblood - Nicholas Tory
Honorable Mention: First Time Director
Motive - Alejandro Lozano
Best Indie Filmmaker
Diminished - Frederick Tabiyus Nah IV
Honorable Mention: Indie Filmmaker
Fishing - Junxu Chen
Best Young Filmmaker
Partners in Crime - Molly Sasso
Best Actor
Mosaic - Lucas Bravo
Honorable Mention: Actor
Chatter - Richmond Parakhen
Best Actress
GOD & SALSA - Jovanna Vidal
Best Supporting Actress
Girl in the Palms - Michalina Scorzelli
Best Child Actor
Wheel Gone Kid 2 - Reece Jagpal-Mohan
Best Duo
Fallen Angel - Ian Peterson & Kaitie Cavataio
Best Cinematography
Mosaic - Raphaël Bourdin
Best Editing
The Cage - Hengrui Zhang
Best Score
Dreams - Walther Neto
Honorable Mention: Score
Composition - Louis Palfrey
Best Sound Design
Breathless - Wei Zhang
Honorable Mention: Sound Design
Saudade - Karthik Mohan
Inspiring Woman in a Film
Dominate - Cynthia Aldrich
Best Visual Effects
The Cage - Hengrui Zhang
Best Virtual Reality
Hop Step Sing! Happy People - Hiroshi Chida
Best Original Story
GOD & SALSA - Jess Thomas, Anayancy Thomas
Screenplay of the Month
True Hell - Greg Kousoulis
Best Feature Screenplay
Passion Fruit - Samuel Frederick Ashkenazy
Honorable Mention: Feature Screenplay
Your Face Is A Country - John McCloskey
Best Short Screenplay
Airborne - Kiley Rothweiler
Honorable Mention: Short Screenplay
Something for the Weekend - Nicola Morris, Rupert Bogarde
Best Drama Screenplay
In the Hollow of the Human Heart - Christopher Nunnally
Honorable Mention: Drama Screenplay
Mano Nera - Samantha Caprio-Negret, Richard Price Sorin
Best Comedy Screenplay
Marry Me Man - Jordan Andrew Oliver
Best Horror Screenplay
True Hell - Greg Kousoulis
Honorable Mention: Horror Screenplay
Possum Man - Eddie Yaroch
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay
g-Men - Paul Loeschke, Walter Bauer
Best Fantasy Screenplay
Rainbow Crystal - Samantha Caprio-Negret
Honorable Mention: Fantasy Screenplay
The Crux of the Angst - John McCloskey
Best First Time Screenwriter (Feature)
The Six Sides of Truth - Janet Walker
Honorable Mention: First Time Screenwriter (Feature)
Ratings War - Robert Haus
Best First Time Screenwriter (Short)
Earthworm - Maria Telnikoff
Best Television Script
Reality of the Future - Zoe Quist, Daniel Lawrence Abrams
Honorable Mention: Television Script
Nutt To Butt - Matthew Domenico, Katherine Connor Duff
Special Jury Award
The Fighting First - Alex Peter Stephens
Special Jury Award
Invincible - Andreas Nelander
Special Jury Award
Close My Eyes - Viktor Jonsson
Special Jury Award
ELYAZ - Remember Home - Mauro Elias Morone
Special Jury Award
James Marriott - Gold - Ted Nivison
Special Jury Award
Chatter - Richmond Parakhen, An Da, Connor Truax
Special Jury Award
Crabs in a Bucket - Alex Hashim
Skylark - Official Trailer
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