The nominations for the 8th Annual Top Shorts 2022 have been announced!
Forest Giants, directed by Michael Moskewicz, earns most nominations this year. Congratulations to all the nominees!
Best of Fest
All Blood Runs Red - Paul Mignot
Final Deathtination - Marika Tamura
Incognito - Jacky Song
R[evol]ution Of Love - Louise Hylland
Deus Ex Machina - Jessy Langlois
Miracle - Shaofu Zhang
Best Narrative Film
A Godless Country - Jesse Richardson
Conscription - Zach Beckstrand
Incognito - Jacky Song
R[evol]ution Of Love - Louise Hylland
Deus Ex Machina - Jessy Langlois
Life After - Jesse Edwards
Best Indie Film
At the Strawberry Stand - Gerald Gerhard Pribek
The Invite - Jordan Rader
Lea - Nora Jaenicke
Eldorado - Kevin James Bond
Come Back - Yulian Mateo, Adam Race
Puncture - Erik Bergamini
Best Drama
Reggie the Mailman - Corey Emanuel Jr.
Horseback - Shu Ya
Restless - Asger Krøjer Kallesøe
Focus - Tolulope Ajayi
Journey Home - Christopher Houlston
The Last Light - Dave Craighead
Best Comedy
The Rite Girl - Cody Theilman
The Invite - Jordan Rader
Waiting for Deading - Paul Sestakov
Cherry Ln. - Emily Skye
Forest Giants - Michael Moskewicz, Augusta Mariano
Servants - Desmond Hayes, Sarah Tither-Kaplan
Best Thriller
Exhibition - Fareed Kairon, Morgane Borg
Conflicted - Samuel Vincent Diggs
Reshape - Siming Zheng
Circles - Jiayu Shi
Fountain Axis - Ali Matlock
Obscura - J.H Deakins
Best Horror
bath - Roma Glova
Bloody Mary - Shreco Bakari
Volatility - Jason Winn
The Roast - Erim Şişman
The Witch's Bargain - Corey J. Trahan
The Game - Brynn Chamblee
Best Sci-Fi
Anomaly - Michael Jeanpert
211220 - Caroline Viitanen
Evil Professor - Susan Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
Ni Kallatho - Sujay Putchala, Mahaveer Abhimanyu
Signals - Bryan Wynn Sutton
Faultless - Barry Heins
Best Experimental Film
Siren Song - Dri Sommer
Never Die - Xue Song
Queen Mab - Elizabeth Quilter
Sounds - Andrew Michael Frescas
Transformations - Sophie Bennett
The Red Clock - Alexandra Balda
Best Inspirational Film
Finding Joy in the Journey: A Flawed Masterpiece - Joy White, Sid Powell
The Nest - Jammie Patton, Kiziana Jean-Louis
The Cork Nativity - Patrick O'Shea
Breathe - Jordan Settembrini, Justin Settembrini
Roger Grein: An Empowering Philanthropist - Bob Kelly
Leader - Chris Overton
Best Fantasy Film
The Lady of the House of Love - Selena Xin Jin
Hate Is Not Welcome Here - Zaknafein Luken
Tainan Fantage - Jason M Tseng
Magic Drug - Wenchi Pan
Eunuch - Félix Gómez Amaya
The Sky Below - Charlie Rose
Best Dark Comedy
Hanging Buddy - John R Kestner
A Stranger at the Funeral - Ana Maria Estrada
The Butcher - Bruce Liang
Split Ends - Corina Mazzi
My Dinner With Werner - Maverick Moore
It Clicked Too Late for Kiligan Cruz - Brynne Alexandra Anderson
Best Crime Film
Victim X - Udhaya Sankar
Jesters Paradise - Sadi Eliyesil
Blue Lanterns - Brandon Chi-Wei Chen
Safehouse - Will Branner
The Decipio - Jason Gullifer
Puncture - Erik Bergamini
Best LGBTQ Film
75 Cents - Safi Jafri
A Very Girl Night Stand Christmas - Jenna R Laurenzo
Astronauts - Mariano Cabaco
Promise - Zhang Heng
Last Time - Mengting Gong
Spin - Lisa Marie Tedesco
Best Musical/Dance Film
Blue Delusion - Fang Guan, Yue Jia Yu
Kintsugi - Justine Kaneda
Places, Please - Reed Luplau
Warp Trio's Pandemic Disco Fantasy - Josh William Henderson, Andrew Wells-Ryder
When Snow Falls - Anthony Morigerato
Addictions - Sergei Stern
Best Web/TV Pilot
Audition - Cosimo Tucci
Hotline - Vanessa Rodriguez
On Tap - Joshua Manning, Damien Chinappi
One Note - Matthew Cooke
Coffee Talk - Ya-Chuan Hsiao
Daddy Diaper Diaries - Edy Soto, Bruce Chapnick
Best Web Series
The Off Beat with Lachi - Lachi
My Human Experience - Sylvia Ray, Aimee Dansereau, Sarah Cooke
Motel - Criss Gidas
Dogwalk - Val Gehley
Vertu - Fabien Dufils
Hamlet & Ophelia - Scott Westerman
Best Documentary
Kara - Star Of The World - Daniel Mark Bedell
Finding Joy in the Journey: A Flawed Masterpiece - Joy White, Sid Powell
Our Feet Are Rooted - Krista Imbesi
Dante Barksdale's Last Act - Zachary Slingsby, James Fitzgerald
January 6 - Nicholas Quested
Umoja - Justin R. Brown
Best Animation
Giselle - Emmanuel Shiu
The Sky Below - Charlie Rose
Pumpkin Pal - Suh Woo Choi
Guts - Byung Gun Park
Miracle - Shaofu Zhang
Perfectionism - Rustam Turaliyev
Best Music Video
Dead Of The Night - Minh Huynh
ELYAZ - Remember Home - Mauro Elias Morone
Niletto - Someone like you - Vladimir Besedin
Beast In Black - Moonlight Rendezvous - Katri Ilona Koppanen
New Mexico - Garrett Randol
Breakout - Garrett Edward Randol
Best Student Film
Outside The Consulting Room - Fangming Liu
Final Deathtination - Marika Tamura
Shape of the Past - Jean-Baptiste Hansali
AfterLife - Andy Lam Wai Hin
The Master Cow - Nick Elson
Chopped & Stacked - Mykael D. Wood
Best Microfilm
Infinite Sandwich - Ramsey Haefner
I Can Only Sabotage My Self Sabotage - Stanzii
The Test - Florian Meimberg
I Don't Want Him Either - Heather Hawthorn Doyle
Moon Knight - Akshay Tiwari
They Sense Your Fear - Aramis Tatu
Best Director
All Blood Runs Red - Paul Mignot
Blackhatter - Amanda Gecewicz
Incognito - Jacky Song
Forest Giants - Augusta Mariano
Spin - Lisa Marie Tedesco
Breaking & Entering - Michael William Hogan
Best First Time Director
Terminal - Kadi Wald
Dahlia White - Alison Moir
One Afternoon - Yumin Zhang
Hanakotoba - Franck Lahoui, Jowkid
The Memories of A Song - Sibo Zhu
Baba - Cooper Harrison Levy, Cole Harrison Walderman
Best Indie Filmmaker
75 Cents - Safi Jafri
Barry - Alexander Henninger
Family Frenzy - Cody Dalton
LOVE.HURT - Alexia Eteveneaux-Birks
The Glimmer - Wenchi Pan
Something More - Andrew Michael Kovalchek
Best Young Filmmaker
The Accomplice - Shawn Quek
Wave Rider - Wyatt Thompson
It Always Is - Tristan Cohen
Spud - Will McDonald, Gavin Bell
The Proposal - Karen Han
Wait For It - Ella West Jerrier
Best Actor
Forest Giants - Michael Moskewicz
At the Strawberry Stand - Gerald Gerhard Pribek
Goodbye to Yesterday - Andy Cohen
Signals - Jonathan Lindsey
Deus Ex Machina - Tom Leeb
Baba - Cole Harrison Walderman
Best Actress
HomeBound - Katie Vincent
Forest Giants - Erin Clark
Restless - Sarah Boberg
Hanakotoba - Lena Shan
Captive - Charlotte Bjornbak
Breaking & Entering - Kiri Hartig
Best Young Actor
Into the Fog - Connor Laidman
Blue Lanterns - Julian Chan
It Clicked Too Late for Kiligan Cruz - Mateo Taylor
The Only Good Thing - Yair Roman
Paradise - Montgomery Samuel Thomas
The Monkey King - Jason Chen
Best Young Actress
Speak - Trinity Soos
The Moon Child - Laila Moore
The Coin - Kiley Opsal
Chloe - Molly Sasso
It's Just A Boy - Angel-May Webb
Josefine - Bina Assarsson
Best Duo
Anomaly - Roberto Calvet & Fleur Geffrier
Journey Home - Mike Bodie & Jennifer Martin
Forest Giants - Michael Moskewicz & Erin Clark
Hanakotoba - Frédéric Chau & Lena Shan
Chopped & Stacked - Jackson Schombert & Julian Attaway
Combattre - Tony Vinci & Hayden Livesay
Best Ensemble
The Trust - Constance Forslund, Tangie Ambrose, Joe Nassi, Colin Thomas Jennings, Harris Shore
The Game - Emma Rose Smith, Eden Harper, Rae Becka, Ryan Lewis, Greyson Chadwick, Darla Delgado, Addison Ross, Keller Fornes, Rebecca Rose Goodman, Brynn Chamblee
The Evolution of Women - Shannon King, Amber Brooke, Whitney Christopher, Annie Jacob, Tracy Wiu, Samantha Bright, Aaron Sherry, Grace Bernardo
Into the Fog - Christopher Jones, Connor Laidman, Victoria Kucher, Rebecca Nathan, Natasha Nathan
Small and Mighty - Brian Neal, Mellitta McKethan, T.C. Caldwell, D.A. Manson, Sterling Calhoun, Diana Christine Guzman, KerryAnn McKenna, Tameeka Cooper, Diannique Guzman, Sienna Brandon-Gomez
The Reading - Jessi Williams, Estelle Chout, Malia McGuire, Gabriela Lewis
Best Cinematography
All Blood Runs Red - Eric Dumont
Journey Home - Edward Massey
Forlorn - Miguel Tafich
Life After - Aaron Seldon
Good Vibes - Xiang "Shawn" Cao
Dark Dreams - Nicola De Prato
Best Editing
Fountain Axis - D.J. Ecal
Spin - David Shaw, Lea Marie Heller
Life After - Zach Prichard
Signals - Zoë S. Taylor
The Game - Matthew Jensen
My Story of Alzheimer's Disease - Andrew Duncan
Best Score
The Red Clock - Ron Potter
Journey Home - Stewart Dugdale
Life After - Ryan Taubert
The Ball Method - Dagmawi Abebe
Forest Giants - Jeremy Robinson
My Story of Alzheimer's Disease - Michael Verselli
Best Sound Design
75 Cents - Safi Jafri
Incognito - Yiming Zhou
The Calling - Xiaoyu Yang
Chopped & Stacked - Chris Porter
After Masks - Robert Acocella
Forget Me Not - Matt Tracy
Best Song
Window - "Thank You" - Hunter Hawkins
A Tale of Redemption and Regret with Sunny the Heat - "You Make Me Cry" - Stephen Sorrentino, Katy Setterfield
Dark Shadow - Jehan Rabah Assria, Adeniyi "Synematik" Adelekan
My Story of Alzheimer's Disease - "Flying Free" - Chad Marvin
1 - "When You Come Back I'll Be Gone For Good" - Paul C Babin
Timeless - Ron Josef Danziger, Christina Teenz Tan
Best Commercial/Promotional Video
The Calling - Xiaoyu Yang
Galaxy Love - Ryan Tian
Retica - Carlo De Agostini
Mazda, Made to inspire - Theodoros Tzartos
The Superiore of Prosecco in Venice - Carlo Guttadauro
Ni Kallatho - Anil Ćakar
Best Trailer
Retica - Carlo De Agostini
ʻOumuamua - Richard Eschenroeder
Obsidienne - Aphro Oner
Providence - Damon Darrell, Lynia Love
In Time - Jennifer de Guzman Maliwanag
Incognito - Jacky Song
Best Original Story
Signals - Bryan Wynn Sutton
Love Means Nothing in Tennis - Peter Gunter
The Last Light - Dave Craighead
Horseback - Shu Ya
Final Deathtination - Marika Tamura
Magic Drug - Wenchi Pan
Best Screenplay
Heavy Hitter - Liesel Galletly
Hope's Ravens - Catherine Schandl
Beverly Ever After - John R Kestner
When The Donuts Hit The Fan... - Richard Stirling
The Francophile - Brett Howard Nelson
Evie and Beck Kill A Monster - Chris Paschall
Best Television Script
Beef.Cake - Ken Arpino, Andrew Wilcox, Matthew Mitchell
Natural History - Stephen Tantoco
Losing the Plot - Nicola Morris, Rupert Bogarde
Hoodz - Christina Brandon-Gómez
End of Days - Danny Alex
Work - Katie Fahey
Special Jury Award
Wine and Fox - Chuanfa Wan
Brothers - Ragini Bhasin
Goodbye to Yesterday - Chae Talley
Killer Miller - Austin Spicer
Speak - Robin Hofmann
Eldorado - Kevin James Bond
Breakthrough Filmmaker of the Year
Merry Go Round - Kara M. Canton
The Memories of A Song - Sibo Zhu
It's Just A Boy - Jane Webb
A History of Violence in the Northeast - Yong Wang
Real Connections - Seda Anbarci
Peaches - Benjamin Hunt
Breakthrough Screenwriter of the Year
The Ballad of Billy & The Bully - Hogan Hiatt
Flushing the Fear - Olivia Rendell
Still Born - Torin Penwell
For Laughs - Molly Roland
Ghost of a Chance - Jan Maxwell
No Respect - Benjamin King
Submissions now open for the 10th Annual Top Shorts! Submit your film/screenplay: www.filmfreeway.com/ts
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