2022 Festival Awards
2022 AWARDEES
Dede Gardner
2022 Recipient of the Polly Platt Award for Producing
Stephen Merchant
2022 Recipient of the Outstanding Television Writer Award
Nikyatu Jusu
2022 Recipient of the New Voice Award
James Gray
2022 Recipient of the Bill Wittliff Award for Screenwriting
Drama Feature Screenplay AwardPresented by Writers Guild of America, East The Fuck-It List By Nick Gambino |
Comedy Feature Screenplay AwardSense & Sensibility By Sal Neslusan
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Sci-Fi Feature Screenplay AwardPaschar By Jennifer Burns |
Horror Feature Screenplay AwardThe Psycho Killers Guide to Love By JP LeRoux |
Drama Teleplay Pilot AwardWayward By Christopher Cramer |
Comedy Teleplay Pilot AwardUntethered By Charlie Frazier & Chris Frazier |
Drama Teleplay Spec AwardThe Crown: “Last Looks” By Claire Winters |
Comedy Teleplay Spec AwardCurb Your Enthusiasm: “JEFFREY” By Clayton Jordan |
Enderby Entertainment AwardThree Faces of Hunger and Thirst By HF Crum |
Warner Bros. Television Pilot Award presented by WarnerMediaTin Can Alley By Thomas Schoch |
Rooster Teeth BIPOC Fellowship AwardMomentous By Ana Maria Defillo |
Rooster Teeth Women & Animation Fellowship AwardAllegra Sparkle’s Guide to the Great Composers (You Might Not Have Heard Of) By Lillie Gardner |
Josephson Entertainment Fellowship AwardUntethered by Charlie Frazier & Chris Frazier and The Gold Fish by By Barbara Ward Thall |
Short Screenplay AwardSlayfest By Mark Renshaw |
AMC One-Hour Pilot AwardSouvenir, Alaska By Mac Smullen |
Fiction Podcast AwardCeleritas By Alexander Adell |
Scripted Digital Series AwardWalk Into a Bar By Cassandra Rose |
Playwriting AwardTalk of the Town By Mike Bencivenga |
Film Competition Jury Winners
Narrative FeatureWelcome, Violeta!, written by Fernando Fraiha & Inés Bortagaray, directed by Fernando Fraiha |
Documentary FeatureWith this Light, directed by Nicole Bernardi-Reis & Laura Bermúdez |
Ghetto Film School Fellowship AwardLose It, written/directed by AJ Taylor |
Texas Short Filmmaker Award presented by Austin Movie GearDon’t You Go Nowhere, written/directed by Bryan Poyser |
Blackmagic Collective Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship AwardHalf, written/directed by Jacob Roberts |
Dark Matters FeatureThe Domestic, written/directed by Brad Katzen |
Comedy Vanguard FeatureThe Library Boys, written/directed by Zane Borg |
Narrative Student ShortSammy, Without Strings, written by Will Henderson, III & Ralph Parker, III, directed by Ralph Parker, III |
Narrative ShortOne for Sorrow, Two for Joy, written/directed by Ana Yang |
Animated ShortRosemary A.D. (After Dad), directed by Ethan Barrett |
Documentary ShortGina, directed by Kathryn Prescott |
Enderby Entertainment Fellowship AwardCharette, written/directed by Sara Pinar Onder |
Produced Digital SeriesSerjan Bratan, written by Alisher Utev & Sergei Litovchenko, directed by Alisher Utev |
YOUNG FILMMAKERSMy Sisters In The Stars: The Story of Lee Yong-soo written and directed by Ian Kim |
YOUNG FILMMAKERSLeo written and directed by Karim Samir Ghobrial |
Audience Award Winners
Marquee FeatureSam & Kate, written/directed by Darren Le Gallo |
Narrative FeatureSalma’s Home, written/directed by Hanadi Elyan |
Documentary FeatureSong of the Cicada, written by Robert Weiss, directed by Aaron & Robert Weiss |
Comedy Vanguard FeatureDance Dads, written by Brock Harris & Jared Bonner, directed by Brock Harris |
Dark Matters FeatureFollow Her, written by Dani Barker, directed by Sylvia Caminer |
Texas Independent FeatureBeauty Of A Blank Space, written by Ryan Love & Laurel Toupal, directed by Ryan Love |
Narrative ShortThe Red Suitcase, written by Guillaume Levil & Cyrus Neshvad, directed by Cyrus Neshvad |
Narrative Student ShortLast Strike, written and directed by Zan Gillies |
Documentary ShortFree To Care, directed by Chris Temple & Owen Dubeck |
Animated ShortRosemary A.D. (After Dad), directed by Ethan Barrett |
Produced Digital SeriesTIE Day Jobs, written by Stevie Wain, directed by Stevie Wain & Auri Jackson and Mt. Mystic Rangers, written by Jeremiah Dunlap & Cory Quintard, directed by Jeremiah Dunlap |