Winners - Bi-Monthly Competition - May/June 2022

Best Feature Film:

Diamond Awards:
Handshake (Dir. Robert Shupe)
Roached (Dir. Kshitij Sharma)
Platinum Award: If I Could Ride (Dir. Shawn Welling)
Gold Award: Sandstone (Dir. Nicholas Rapuano)
Silver Award: Losers of Eden (Dir. Kevin Briot)
Bronze Award: Love Gods From Planet Zero (Dir. Jeffrey C Kimble)

Best Short Film:

Diamond Awards:
WE (Dir. Matthew Smaldone)
Straw Rafts (Dir. Evan Shaw)
Lilith (Dir. Danny Geraldo Martinez)

Platinum Awards:
Solstice (Dir. Ariel Y. Lopez)
SKAT (Dir. Michael Boston)

Gold Awards:
Sin Padre (Dir. Free Rodriguez)
Love Shack (Dir. Katsuto Kobayashi & Kenji Kobayashi)

Silver Awards:
Love Lost and Found (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Gone (Dir. Ashley Landrieu)

Bronze Award:
Doomer - I don't want to be alone (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Gilbert (Dir. Wendy Crouse)

Best Documentary Feature:
Diamond Award: EARL BISS, The Spirit Who Walks Among His People (Dir. Lisa Gerstner)
Platinum Award: Musher (Dir. Anuradha Rana & Laurie Little)

Best Documentary Short:
Diamond Award: Can Archaeology Repair its Past with Indigenous America? (Dir. Victoria Sutton)
Platinum Award: Espiritu del Jaguar (Dir. Moe Taylor)
Gold Award: Mom's Wartime Stories (Dir. James Chen)
Silver Award: Attack from Sky according to Nostradamus (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Bronze Award: War and death in Nostradamus' Doomsday Chapter (Dir. Shihyun Wang)

Best Animation Short:
Diamond Award: The Cloaked Realm "Tunnel 23" (Dir. Marisa Cohen & Peter Issac Alexander)
Platinum Award: Díthyrambos (Dir. Andrea Chiara Mangano)
Gold Award: The Tryout (Dir. Michael Jonathan Gellis)

Best Experimental Short:
Diamond Award: counter//balance (Dir. Anuradha Rana)
Platinum Award: Espiritu del Jaguar (Dir. Moe Taylor)
Gold Award: PILLS (Dir. Co Richards)
Silver Award: Into Rereality (Dir. L K Reed)

Best New Mexico Short:
Diamond Award: The Green Chile Bagel (Dir. Alonso Indacochea)

Best Pilot / Web Series:
Diamond Award: Die Pretty (Dir. Sam Quinn)
Platinum Award: Compromised (Dir. Anthony Ngo)
Gold Award: Hell Gate Narrows (Dir. Edward Holub)

Best Music Video:
Diamond Award: YOU COME CALLING (Dir. Tessa Fleming)
Platinum Award: Beautiful Dreamer (Dir. Steve DelaSantos)

Best Director:
Diamond Award: Kshitij Sharma (Roached)
Platinum Award: Nicholas Rapuano (Sandstone)
Gold Award: Jeff Kimble (Love Gods From Planet Zero)

Best Screenplay:
Diamond Award: Walter Anaruk (Compromised)
Platinum Award: Nicholas Rapuano & Dante Savion (Sandstone)

Best Actor:
Diamond Award: Joe Grant (Sandstone)
Platinum Award: Michael Boston (SKAT)
Gold Award: Palimo Lopez (Love Gods From Planet Zero)

Best Actress:
Diamond Award: Tiffany Vinters (Sandstone)
Platinum Award: Shannan Leigh Yancsurak (SKAT)

Best Supporting Actor:
Diamond Award: Anthony Rapuano (Sandstone)

Best Supporting Actress:
Diamond Award: Sue Kessler (Sandstone)

Best Editing:
Diamond Award: Jeff Kimble (Love Gods From Planet Zero)

Best Cinematography:
Diamond Award: Rob Sholty (Handshake)
Platinum Award: Tiffany (Tif) Coleman (Love Gods From Planet Zero)

Best Original Score:
Diamond Award: John Baxter (The Cloaked Realm "Tunnel 23")
Platinum Award: Cameron Risch (Compromised)

Best Narrator:
Diamond Award: Naysan Adlparvar (Can Archaeology Repair its Past with Indigenous America?)

Best Sound Design:
Diamond Award: Benton Corder (Handshake)
Platinum Award: Dara Crawford (The Cloaked Realm "Tunnel 23")

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