We have the winners of the 18th Annual Hollyshorts Film Festival 2022 Winners to share with you today!
Previous HollyShorts Film Festival OSCAR® winners presented prizes at the 2022 Awards at the Chinese Theatre on August 20th, to celebrate and support the new winners. This year’s Academy Award Winners for Live Action Short Film Riz Ahmed and Aneil Karia (The Long Goodbye), presented the Oscar-qualifying Grand Prix Best Short prize via video, for HALLELUJAH to Victor Gabriel. Academy Award winner Jamie Ray Newman (Skin) took the stage to present the OSCAR® qualifying Best Live Action award to Seemab Gul for MULAQAT/SANDSTORM and OSCAR® winner Guy Nattiv (Skin) presented the Best Director award to Carlos Segundo for SCALE.
| THE OSCAR QUALIFICATIONS GO TO… |
| Three films from HollyShorts Film Festival’s 18th edition are moving on to be qualified for Oscar® gold in 2023. The festival took place this week in-person at the TCL Chinese Theatres, Japan House LA and various locations throughout Hollywood. The online edition of the festival will be available on Bitpix TV, the festival’s digital platform until August 28, 2022. If you missed a screening block or simply want to revisit one of these amazing HollyShorts shorts, get access over on BitPix! |
| FULL LIST OF AWARD WINNERS: |
| OSCAR®-qualifying Grand Prix Best Short “HALLELUJAH” Victor Gabriel *The Grand Prix Best Short Award Winner will be qualified for Oscars® 2023 and receive a $15,000 camera package from Panavision, a sales deal from Eroin Films, and a management meeting with Alta Global Media.OSCAR®-qualifying Best Live Action “MULAQAT / SANDSTORM” Seemab Gul OSCAR®-qualifying Best Animation “SCALE” Joseph Pierce Best Director “SIDERAL”Carlos Segundo Best Action “KICKSTART MY HEART” Kelsey Bollig Best Comedy “ALL I EVER WANTED” Erin Lau Best Costume Design“SAUERDOGS” Carmen Granell Best Drama “LIKE THE ONES I USED TO KNOW” Annie St.-Pierre Best Documentary “MINK!” Ben Proudfoot Best Editing “THE MACHINE” Rowan McKay Best Female Screenplay Presented by BeCine“LAST SHIP EAST” Eris Qian Best Horror“MOSHARI” Nuhash Humayun Best International“THE VOICE ACTRESS” Anna J. Takayama Latinx Award Presented by Viacom International Studios “HUELLA” Gabriela Ortega Best LGBTQIA+“NORTH STAR” P.J. Palmer starring Colman Domingo Best Midnight Madness“HOMESICK” Will Seefried SAGindie Winner“MY JEROME”Adjani Salmon Best Music Video“CONSENSUAL” Jeff Hilliard and Joey Danger Best Producer“HALLELUJAH” Duran Jones Best Podcast “Earth Eclipsed” Nicholas Prufer Hawk Films Screenplay Award“MINA FINDS HER EDGE!”Robin Rose Singer *This Award will receive a $20,000 production package from Hawk Films UK and the finished film will screen at HollyShorts 2023. Best Screenplay Award Presented By Seattle Film Summit “AN OLD FRIEND” Dan Martin *The winner will get a Seattle Film Summit & 88th Street/HollyShorts grant of $25,000 and the finished film will screen at HollyShorts 2023, as well as a Fest Formula consultation Best Sci-Fi “WALTZ OF THE ANGELS” Braden Barton Script Compass Screenplay Award “IN THE GARDEN OF TULIPS” Ava Lalezarzadeh Kodak Best Shot on Film “NORTH POLE” Marija Apceyska Kodak Shot on Film Super 8MM “DEERWOODS DEATHTRAP” James P. Gannon Kodak Shot on Film Honorable Mention “NOT THE 80s”Marleen Valien Social Impact Award“STRANGER AT THE GATE”Joshua Seftel Best Student Film“THE VISIT”Ebele Tate Best Thriller“WILD BITCH” Rebekka Johnson and Kate Nash Best TV“A QUESTION OF SERVICE”Erin Brown Thomas Best TV Screenplay“FORSYTH COUNTY” James Sasser *The winner will get an option from 88th Street Productions and Final Draft software Best VFX“BLACK DRAGON (Rồng đen)” Alexander Thompson Best Web Series“KURA” Vince McMillan Women in Film Award “APART, TOGETHER” Olivia Hang Zhou ZEISS Presents: Hollyshorts Film Festival Achievement in Filmmaking and Cinematography “CENSOR OF DREAMS” Khalib Mohtaseb ZEISS Presents: HollyShorts Film Festival Achievement in Filmmaking and Cinematography Nancy Schreiber |
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