🎬 2024 Winners & Semi-Finalists | Manhattanhenge Film Festival 🎬

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JURY AWARDS

🏆 Most Promising Film
Winner: The Father Who Stayed
Directed by Jeremy David Schonfeld

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🏆 Best of the Festival
Winner: Company of Shadows
Directed by Dirk van Sloten

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🏆Best Inspiring Story

Love of the Land

Directed by Travis Van Alstyne

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🏆Jury Special:

No Signal

Directed by Mohammed Zakria Alshareef

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FEATURE FILMS

🥇 1st Place: An Open Door - Temple Grandin
Directed by John Alexander Barnhardt

 

🥈 2nd Place: Breakthrough
Directed by Patryk Wezowski, Kasia Wezowski

 

🥉 3rd Place: Reclaiming Our Humanity
Directed by Robert Mossi Alexander

 

Semi-Finalists:

• The Father Who Stayed – Jeremy David Schonfeld

• Set Me Free – James Carman

• Thirst Trap – Chantal Massuh-Fox

• The Uncivil War - America Divided – Andrew Huff, Chris McKechnie

 

FOREIGN FILMS

🥇 1st Place: Culture vs War. Liberov
Directed by Kadim Tarasov

 

🥈 2nd Place: 115
Directed by Dave Huynh Macon

 

Semi-Finalist:

• Assassination Orders from Belgrade – Dragan Cotic

 

SHORT FILMS

🥇 1st Place: Everyone Writes Memoir
Directed by Mark Solter, Alexander Campbell

 

🥈 2nd Place: Lost in the Waves
Directed by Joss Berlioux, Franck Marchand

 

🥉 3rd Place: Dreams of Glory
Directed by Ian Hui

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Semi-Finalists:

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• The Recruit – Michael Barbee

• Guiding Light – India Anne Mitchell

• Coffee Connection – Jodi Ferguson

• Stranded: A Dirty Coin Short – Alana Mediavilla

• The Imagination of a Child – Cesare Catania

 

STUDENT FILMS

🏆 Winner: Silent Cycle
Directed by Smahi Anand

 

Semi-Finalists:

• Terra Draconis – Braeden Clete Meyer

• Say No More – Courtney Havrilla

 

MUSIC VIDEOS

🏆 Winner: Getting Along
Directed by Scott Dobson, Michael Phillip Wojewoda

 

Semi-Finalists:

• Bitela (Little Bee) – Daniel Goldblum

• To The Moon – Richard E

 

WEB SERIES

🏆 Winner: Carved in Stone
Directed by Porter Justus

 

Semi-Finalists:

• Touch the Sky – Stephen Limkin

• TradeCraft: On The Run – Jeremiah Kipp

 

EXPERIMENTAL FILMS

🏆 Winner: Sea of Serenity
Directed by YI Qu

 

Semi-Finalists:

• CR7 – Anesh Chandran Azad

• My Digital Truth – Swen Werner

 

BEST DIRECTOR

🏆 Winner: The Asifa Bano Story
Directed by Mina Isabella Jafri Malik

Semi-Finalist:

• The Skids Revolution – Laura Graham, Colin J Graham

 

THRILLER FILMS

🏆 Winner: Between Shadows
Directed by Humberto Dias Fernandes Pacheco

 

Semi-Finalist:

• The Seal of Death 2 – Harris Josey

 

SCI-FI FILMS

🏆 Winner: Hole Punched Ear
Directed by Alan Yammin, Ben Tull

 

Semi-Finalists:

• Event Virus – Andrea Fantauzzi

• Markus Bixby – Cory Baxter

 

DRAMA FILM

🏆 Winner: Wishful Thinking
Directed by Margaret Messer

 

BEST EDITING

🏆 Winner: The Skids Revolution
Directed by Laura Graham, Colin J Graham

Semi-Finalist:

• I 2 Aye – Richard Philpott

 

ANIMATION

🏆 Winner: Supertramp
Directed by Fabrizio Gammardella

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Semi-Finalists:

• Wishful Thinking – Margaret Messer

• Hanina/Homesick – Yasmin Moll

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🎉 Congratulations to all the Winners and Semi-Finalists! 🎉
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