PIFF 2022 AWARD NOMINEES:

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1 - Best Feature Film:

• Albatross 

• Anchorage 

• Exemplum 

• Last Chance Charlene 

• him & her  -  WINNER

2 - Best Short Film:

• Post No Bills

• Shock, Drugs, Anger, Love

• Talk To Me  -  WINNER

• Litter

• Rogue: The Western 

• Radley 

• Watcher 

• Blue Moon 

3 - Best Documentary Feature: 

• Man Behind The Curtain  -  WINNER

• 80 Years Later 

• Song For Hope 

4 - Best Documentary Short: 

• Wired Differently

• Never Again Para Nadie 

• Postcards 

• Legacy: The Life of Canto Robledo  -  WINNER

• Greg Is Here 

5 - Best Feature Screenplay 

• Where The Sweetgrass Grows by Tommy M. Anderson and Susie Shaefer 

• Starfighter: Zero by C.J. Duke 

• Raven Winters and the Spirit Vortex by Heather Ostrove  -  WINNER

• Preyta by Jerry Jenae Sampson

• 50 One by Lisa Chess and Guy Jackson

• The Law Lover by Dale R. Botten 

• The Crackerjack by Mike Rad 

• El Paso 11:55 by Keith Jardine 

6 - Best Short Screenplay 

• Tributaries by Ed Vela 

• The Safety Games by Jerry Jenae Sampson 

• Classroom Thief by Kelly Jean Karam  -  WINNER

• La Locura: The Madness by Rod Luzzi, George Deihl, & Sam Cadman 

7 - Best Stage Play 

• God's Peculiar People by Marilynn Loveless

• Poseidon's Gate by Ed Vela  -  WINNER

• The Maginot Line by Emmett Loverde 

• The Person in Charge by Loretta Bolger Wish

8 - Best Student Film 

• Apart 

• Gamin 

• Postcards 

• When She Was Good 

• Smokescreens  -  WINNER

9 - Best Music Video 

• Eclectotron: Danger Inbound!

• It Ain't Me  -  WINNER

• Manzanar (Yuki) 

10 - Best Animation 

• Bon Appétit!

• Mila  -  WINNER

11 - Best Actor (Feature) 

• Dakota Loesch (Anchorage)  -  WINNER

• David Keeley (Albatross) 

• Callan McAuliffe (him & her) 

• Romaine Waite (Albatross) 

• Cameron James Matthews (Last Chance Charlene) 

12 - Best Actress (Feature): ​

• Allison Ewing (Last Chance Charlene)  -  WINNER

• Cristina Spruell (him & her)

• Sarah Orenstein (Albatross)

• Alley Mills (Last Chance Charlene) 

• Brittany Lewis (Exemplum)

13 - Best Actor (Short):

• Reginald M. Jernigan (730 Million and Counting)  -  WINNER

• Jonathan Rex Hudson (Post No Bills) 

• Francis Lansang (Talk To Me) 

• Temple Baker (Litter)

• Pat Skipper (Blue Moon) 

• Russ Russo (Victim No. 6) 

• Joseph Lopez (Apart)

• Zach Fink (Litter)

• Devon Deshaun Stewart (Civil Disobedience: The Samaritan) 

• Ruben Guevara (Hey)

14 - Best Actress (Short): 

• Jaime Saginor (Black Creek Trail)

• Raquel McPeek-Rodriguez (Post No Bills) 

• Kaja Caroline Kojan (Talk To Me) 

• Jodi Moore Lewis (HEaRD) 

• Oyemen Ehikhamhen (Rogue: The Western) 

• Tia Shipman (Always)

• Heather Brittain O'Scanlon (Victim No. 6)  -  WINNER

• Jillian Reeves (Broken)

• Floriane Andersen (Unforgotten) 

• Tatiana Mariesa (The Altors)

15 - Best Director (Feature) 

• Scott Monahan (Anchorage) 

• Paul Roland (Exemplum)  -  WINNER

• Myles Yaksich (Albatross) 

• Tony Gapastione (Last Chance Charlene) 

• Ice Mrozek (him & her) 

16 - Best Director (Short) 

• Daren D. Dien (Talk To Me) 

• Marina Marlens (Litter)  -  WINNER

• Danielle Savre (HEaRD)

• Hollis Sherman-Pepe (Twenty Minute Exotic Getaway)

• Carly Miller (Rogue: The Western) 

• Diamond Batiste (Always) 

• Alan Sanchez (Watcher) 

• Diliana Deltcheva (Blue Moon)

• Seth Christian (Radley) 

• Nancy Menagh (Victim No. 6)

• Soma Helmi (Black Creek Trail) 

17 – Best Horror/Thriller 

• Angel City Horror 

• Watcher 

• Victim No. 6  -  WINNER

• Cycle 

• Black Creek Trail 

• My Left Arm 

• Chicks 

• Follow Me, Please 

18 – Best Sci-Fi:

• Diviner 3000 

• The Cloaked Realm: "Tunnel 23"

• Twenty Minute Exotic Getaway  -  WINNER

• Empiricism 

• Talk To Me 

19 – Best Comedy: 

• Hometown Boys  -  WINNER

• Litter

• Avocado 

• Anaconda 

• Fridge 

• Melons 

20 – Honorable Mention 

• Lodo 

• Fizzle 

• Breakaway

• The Errand

• Forest Giants 

• The Monologue 

• A Shame 

• Queen of the Angels  -  WINNER

• Unforgotten 

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