Season 2022 Feature Finalists
Season 2022 Short Finalists
2022 Semi finalists
| ?SAY, QUE?! | Erik Baker |
| A College Story | Stuart Pollack |
| A Couple of Beartraps in the Desert | Percy Parsival |
| A Gift From God | Barry Ward |
| A Promise of Vengeance | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| A Scottish Gem | Yvonne Lucrezia Condrau |
| Absolute Zero | Bryce Hatch |
| Across The Neon Hours | J. Malia Miranda |
| Bayou Noir ‘Made in Louisiana’ | Christopher Fisher |
| Beach Impressions | Stuart Pollack |
| Blood Flows South | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| Blood Manor | Sterling Daniels |
| Bloodlines: The Mogadishu Diaries 1992-1993 | Eddie Clay Thompkins III |
| Blue Chip Red | Jason White |
| BOARDGAMES | Madeline Hombert & Michael Markus |
| Boy Boy | Cian Jones |
| Breaking Tom | Michael Faunce-Brown |
| Buried Sunshine | Camden Toy |
| Burned | Loren Davis |
| Butterfly | Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel |
| Child of the Disappeared | Michael Holliday |
| Chosen Fam | Ben Locke |
| Chupacabra | Aaron Willett |
| Close Enough To Perfect | Dan Williams |
| CLOSER TO LOVE | Brooke Obie |
| Code 32 | Peter Lucic |
| Cryptids | Joseph Murillo |
| Dave’s Lucky Day | Kevin Fintland |
| Dead Kevin | Richard Stirling |
| Desert Star News | Robert Haus |
| Devastation | RJ Frometa |
| Dial It Back | Erin Keefer |
| Dissension | Stacey Spivey |
| Do Unto Others | Joe Leone |
| Emery & Ellsworth Make a Picture | Madi Stine |
| Escape From The Hood MVP Going Going Gone | Laurie Thomas |
| Fahrenheit 3000 | Pamela PerryGoulardt |
| Figure Eights | Dan Williams |
| Final Descent | Matthew Shoulders |
| Fireblue | Tanner Bushell |
| Forever Young | Michael Holliday |
| Friendship, Honor, and Murder | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| Gemini | Alex Vickery-Howe |
| Hairy Carrie | Chantal Marie |
| Here’s My Card | Oscar Ballyvolane |
| Hovelton – Zombies | Mathew Tretola |
| How To Care for Your Hermit Crab | John Arduini |
| Hunger | Michael Hogan |
| Hunker Down | Ken Klein |
| Hunter Killer | Steve Garvin |
| I Know How To Swim | Cheryl Lewis |
| Inviolable | Devin Dugan |
| JERUSALEM ROAD | Simone Yehuda |
| Lafayette, ‘Freedom Fighter’ | Marshall Ferrin |
| Last Date | Armand Arekian |
| LAWLESS — Diary of a Fixer | JD Wallace |
| Look and See | Patrick Timpone |
| Love in The Time of Coronavirus | Emilio Santin |
| Love Less Likely | David Liban |
| Machliar | Robert Kouba |
| Marshal Bass Law | Sterling Daniels |
| Mon Meilleur Ami | Bruce Notman |
| Money Creek | Christine Inserra |
| Mosshart | Alec Gutherz |
| Much Voodoo About Nothing | Matthew Nicholson |
| Necessary Decisions | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| NIGHTFALL | Rachel Barrett |
| Nobody’s Heroes | Michael Elliott |
| Noire | KC Kramer |
| Northern Voice | Candace Egan |
| Not a Creature was Stirring | Michael Hogan |
| Old Bones – The Ivory Lee Tindall Story | Shannon Brady |
| Old Patrol | Kevin Jordan |
| Old Wounds | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| Paleolithic | Frank Jenkins Law Office Jenkins |
| Pigcat | Steven Bogart |
| Puck It Up | Karinthal McCray |
| Random | Steven Braud |
| Red World | Kris Hall |
| Rescue Heart | Tane McClure |
| Return to Sender | Eric White |
| Roomies: Nashville | DeAndre Harris |
| Sam’s Search | Miriam Russell |
| Sawyer & Sommers | Patti Miller |
| Senior Ditch Day | Matthew Nicholson |
| Sense of Dread | John Cooney |
| Shattered Trust | Karinthal McCray |
| Short Leash | Garin Cycholl |
| Shoulda’ Swiped Left | Michael Dugan |
| Silent Nation | Katya Veber |
| Sled Race | Kevin Jordan |
| Sora No Umi – OCEAN’S EMPTINESS | Michele Gentile |
| Tahoe ’68 | Laura Good |
| The Anklebiter | Andrew Jones |
| The Black Sheep | Jannik Ohlendieck |
| The Commencement | Sterling Daniels |
| The Ex-Factor | Robert Isabella |
| The Funhouse Slasher Vol 1 | Gerard Prenter |
| The mountain | Ruth Finnegan |
| The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms | David Sanders |
| The Queen of Dystopia | Tina Field Howe |
| The Real World of Money | Patrick Timpone |
| The Red Zone | Terry Podnar |
| The Scam | Chelsea Kania |
| The Shadow Falls | Clay Callender |
| THE SILVER CUP | Deborah Stenard |
| The Two Rivers | John Gronbeck-Tedesco |
| The Vatican Diary | Michael Sedge |
| Therapy | Sarah Polhaus |
| Tomorrow Was a Long Time Ago | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| Tonight | KC Kramer |
| Under the Bridge | Mike Bevins |
| Vera | Shannon Brady |
| Warm Regards | Piper Chaley, Olivia Kirkpatrick, Piontek Stretz |
| WASABI | JOHN MCCARNEY |
| Watchlist | Alex Vickery-Howe |
| When Pigs Fly | Terry Podnar |
| Winning Ticket | Brett McArdle |
| Winter Bird | Stephen Treacy |
Last Date
How to Care for Your Hermit Crab
Cryptids
2022 QUARTER FINALISTS
| ?SAY, QUE?! | Erik Baker |
| A College Story | Stuart Pollack |
| A Couple of Beartraps in the Desert | Percy Parsival |
| A Gift From God | Barry Ward |
| A New Believer | Ellie Mae Smith |
| A Perfect Murder | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| A Promise of Vengeance | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| A Scottish Gem | Yvonne Lucrezia Condrau |
| A SNOWBALL’S CHANCE | Deborah Stenard |
| Absolute Zero | Bryce Hatch |
| Across The Neon Hours | J. Malia Miranda |
| Adopted at Birth | MIRIAM Russell |
| All About Lyla | Faez Moradipour |
| AMEN | Ozzie Logozzo |
| American Superstar | Robert Tolz |
| Anathema: Pilotus | Bob Singleton |
| Appearances | Joan Tofteland |
| ARGENTA GOLD | Sam Bass |
| ‘Ash’ | Dave Stockwell |
| At the gates of Hades | Polykarpos Parioritsas |
| Attack Dogs | Robert Isabella |
| BADGER a short screenplay | Li Lin Wee |
| Baker’s Dozen | Bruce Notman |
| Barrio Barrister | William Weeks |
| Bayou Noir ‘Made in Louisiana’ | Christopher Fisher |
| Be The Sun | Larry Silverberg |
| Beach Impressions | Stuart Pollack |
| Benavidez | Davy Godfrey |
| Blood Flows South | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| Blood Manor | Sterling Daniels |
| Bloodlines: The Mogadishu Diaries 1992-1993 | Eddie Clay Thompkins III |
| Blue Chip Red | Jason White |
| BOARDGAMES | Madeline Hombert |
| boy boy | Cian Jones |
| Breaking Tom | Michael Faunce-Brown |
| Buried Sunshine | Camden Toy |
| Burned | Loren Davis |
| Butterfly | Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel |
| Cafe Paradiso | Nora Jaenicke |
| Chasing Lucifer | paul byrne |
| Check Out Diner | Eamonn Eeles |
| Child of the Disappeared | Michael Holliday |
| Chosen Fam | Ben Locke |
| CHRIS MESS | Deborah Stenard |
| Chupacabra | Aaron Willett |
| Close Enough To Perfect | Dan Williams |
| CLOSER TO LOVE | Brooke Obie |
| Code 32 | Peter Lucic |
| Colter’s Run | Michael Holliday |
| Concrete Jungle | Ron Podell |
| Crazy Like Me | Ben Aaron |
| Cryptids | Joseph Murillo |
| Dave’s Lucky Day | Kevin Fintland |
| Dead Kevin | Richard Stirling |
| Desert Star News | Robert Haus |
| Devastation | RJ Frometa |
| Dial It Back | Erin Keefer |
| Dissension | Stacey Spivey |
| Distortion | Chris Kokarakis |
| Do Unto Others | Joe Leone |
| Don’t Mess With Baby | L. E. Coleman |
| Down in the Holler | Paul Rowe |
| Emery & Ellsworth Make a Picture | Madi Stine |
| Escape From The Hood MVP Going Going Gone | Laurie Thomas |
| Exolatry – Screenplay | Mike Kureth |
| Fahrenheit 3000 | Pamela PerryGoulardt |
| Family Business | Samuel Bollen |
| Figure Eights | Dan Williams |
| Final Descent | Matthew Shoulders |
| FINAL SOLUTION | Bruce Notman |
| Fireblue | Tanner Bushell |
| Forever Young | Michael Holliday |
| Friendship, Honor, and Murder | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| Gemini | Alex Vickery-Howe |
| Gnasher | Virginia Youngren |
| GOLDLIVERY | Michael Sedge |
| Hairy Carrie | Chantal Marie |
| Heartbreak Hotel | Michael Holliday |
| Here’s My Card | Oscar Ballyvolane |
| Heroes, Just For One Day | Salvatore Riggio |
| HOLISTIC ADMISSIONS | Laurie McKinsey |
| Hovelton – Zombies | Mathew Tretola |
| How To Care for Your Hermit Crab | John Arduini |
| Hunger | Michael Hogan |
| Hunker Down | Ken Klein |
| Hunter Killer | Steve Garvin |
| HURRICANE | Christopher Willis |
| I Know How To Swim | Cheryl Lewis |
| Immigrants United | Bene Viki |
| Influencer Psychology | Wendy Bustamante |
| Intergalactic AAA | Noel Quick |
| Intolerant | Billy Ware |
| Inviolable | Devin Dugan |
| JERUSALEM ROAD | Simone Yehuda |
| Jesus Fruit | Justin St. Pierre |
| Judaculla | Nate Proczak |
| Kate’s Ballad | Rory O’Connor |
| Lafayette, ‘Freedom Fighter’ | Marshall Ferrin |
| Last Date | Armand Arekian |
| LAWLESS — Diary of a Fixer | JD Wallace |
| Livermorium | Sean Morrisroe |
| Look and See | Patrick Timpone |
| Love in The Time of Coronavirus | Emilio Santin |
| Love Less Likely | David Liban |
| Lucid | DeAndre Harris |
| Machliar | Robert Kouba |
| Marshal Bass Law | Sterling Daniels |
| Mon Meilleur Ami | Bruce Notman |
| Money Creek | Christine Inserra |
| Mosshart | Alec Gutherz |
| Mr | Armand Arekian |
| Much Voodoo About Nothing | Matthew Nicholson |
| My Life With Cats | Bear Kosik |
| My New Purse | Montgomery Burt |
| Necessary Decisions | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| NIGHTFALL | Rachel Barrett |
| Nobody’s Heroes | Michael Elliott |
| Noire | KC Kramer |
| NON SCORDARTI DI ME | Frank Mancuso |
| Northern Voice | Candace Egan |
| Not a Creature was Stirring | Michael Hogan |
| Old Bones – The Ivory Lee Tindall Story | Shannon Brady |
| Old Patrol | Kevin Jordan |
| Old Wounds | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| Paleolithic | Frank Jenkins |
| PALISADES PATROL! | Bob Yates |
| Past Due | Janna Jones |
| Pigcat | Steven Bogart |
| Practice Baby | Michael B Snow |
| Primrose Mansion | Michael Price |
| Puck It Up | Karinthal McCray |
| Rachelle | Dave Schmeling |
| Random | Steven Braud |
| Red World | Kris Hall |
| REGRESSION | Li Lin Wee |
| Rescue Heart | Tane McClure |
| Return to Sender | Eric White |
| Roomies: Nashville | DeAndre Harris |
| Same Old Scene | Justin Shaw |
| Sam’s Search | Miriam Russell |
| Sawyer & Sommers | Patti Miller |
| School Shooter | Allan Tamshen |
| Script Avenue | Daniel Bodenmann |
| Sebastian and the Invisible Island | Michael Hogan |
| Senior Ditch Day | Matthew Nicholson |
| Sense of Dread | John Cooney |
| Shadows At Noon | Gary Sturm |
| Shattered Trust | Karinthal McCray |
| Short Leash | Garin Cycholl |
| Shoulda’ Swiped Left | Michael Dugan |
| Silent Nation | Katya Veber |
| Single At Christmas | Joseph Anthony Francis |
| Sled Race | Kevin Jordan |
| SOMETIMES IN DREAMS | G. Lloyd Helm |
| Sora No Umi – OCEAN’S EMPTINESS | Michele Gentile |
| STAND YOUR GROUND | Frank Manusco |
| Stay | McKenzie Power |
| Strudel Movie | Dietmar Brand |
| Superannuated | Denise Singleton |
| Sylla | Steven Bogart |
| Tahoe ’68 | Laura Good |
| Tears of Atokal | Patrick Cottington |
| That’s So Gay | Tamecca Rogers & Lloyd Stanford |
| The After Light | Annette Rodig |
| The Anklebiter | Andrew Jones |
| The Black Sheep | Jannik Ohlendieck |
| The Chance | Terry Podnar |
| The Circus must go on! | Tereza Penková |
| The Commencement | Sterling Daniels |
| The Coventry Deception | Michael Holliday |
| The Cycle of Soil | Tammy Lynne Stoner |
| The Ex-Factor | Robert Isabella |
| The Funhouse Slasher Vol 1 | Gerard Prenter |
| The Last Earth Station | Kathryn Radmall |
| The Last Ones | C Peterson |
| The Man | Carla Queipo |
| The mountain | Ruth Finnegan |
| The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms | David Sanders |
| The Queen of Dystopia | Tina Field Howe |
| The Real World of Money | Patrick Timpone |
| The Red Zone | Terry Podnar |
| The Russian Problem | Robert Isabella |
| The Saint and The Scoundrel | Robert Swan |
| The Scam | Chelsea Kania |
| The Secret of El Salto | Harvey Goodman |
| The Shadow Falls | Clay Callender |
| THE SILVER CUP | Deborah Stenard |
| The Two Rivers | John Gronbeck-Tedesco |
| The Vatican Diary | Michael Sedge |
| Therapy | Sarah Polhaus |
| This is the end | Roman Jenni |
| Tomorrow Was a Long Time Ago | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| Tonight | KC Kramer |
| TRICK OF THE EYE | Dennis Haseley |
| Under the Bridge | Mike Bevins |
| Unfinished Melody | Mark Donald |
| Vera | Shannon Brady |
| Warm Regards | PiperChaley, Olivia Kirkpatrick, Piontek Stretz |
| WASABI | John MCCARNEY |
| Watchlist | Alex Vickery-Howe |
| When Pigs Fly | Terry Podnar |
| Windy City | Joseph Anthony Francis |
| Winning Ticket | Brett McArdle |
| Winter Bird | Stephen Treacy |
| Women of Steel: Gracie’s Story | Cheryl Bookout |
| You Must Be This Tall | Randall Reese |
| Zenny’s Picasso | Kenny Kozlowski |
