2024 New Bedford Film Festival Winners
Short Film
BEST SCREENWRITER
Marc Crandall
(“Banana Triangle Six”)
BEST DIRECTOR
Dawn Natalia
(“Flush”)
BEST ACTOR IN SHORT FILM
Billy Magnussen
(“Sister”)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT FILM
Jammie Patton
(“The Uniform”)
BEST SHORT FILM
“Sister”
Feature Film
BEST SCREENWRITER
Jason Taylor
(“Cast and Crew”)
BEST DIRECTOR
Keith Bearden
(“Antarctica”)
BEST ACTOR IN A FEATURE FILM
Thom Matthew
(“Never Hike Alone 2”)
BEST ACTRESS IN A FEATURE FILM
Samyuktha Vijayan
(“Blue Sunshine”)
BEST FEATURE FILM
“Antarctica”
DOCUMENTARY
BEST SUBJECT OF A DOCUMENTARY
Mark Patinkin
(“Demons & Dragans - Mark Patinkin's Cancer Journey”)
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“Barbette + Fontaine”
ANIMATED SHORT
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
“Widow’s Peak”
TV SERIES
BEST SCREENWRITER
Frank Arthur Smith
(“Open to It”)
BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Lang
(“The Blackened Charte”)
BEST ACTOR IN A TV SERIES
Winner: Korby Lenker
(“Morse Code”)
BEST ACTRESS TV SERIES
Karen Ann Martino
(“Luna, The Witch: Season 3”)
BEST TV SERIES
“Morse Code”
MUSIC VIDEO
BEST SONG FOR A MUSIC VIDEO
"Alice"
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
“Haunted”
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMNT
BEST PSA
“A Brief Commercial Break”
STUDENT
BEST STUDENT DIRECTOR
Charlie Norton
(“The Lost Weekend”)
BEST STUDENT FILM
“Pickles”
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A FEATURE FILM, SHORT FILM, TV SERIES
Johanna Day
(“Pickleball is Life: Dill with It!”)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG IN A FEATURE FILM, SHORT FILM, TV SERIES
“Got To Be More”
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Jens Heuler
(“Got To Be More”)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Alanna Wray McDonald
(“Antarctica”)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A FEATURE FILM, SHORT FILM, TV SERIES
Skeeta Jenkins
(“Monsters Within”)
BEST WARDROBE
Garry Medeiros, Cheryl LaPan, and Walter Rivero
(“Plaga Zombie: American Invasion”)
BEST EDITING
Matt Decker and Lucas Cellar
(“American Pot Story: Oaksterdam”)
BEST YOUTH PERFORMER IN A FEATURE FILM, SHORT FILM, TV SERIES
Christopher Riley
(“Courage”)
BEST ENSEMBLE IN A FEATURE FILM, SHORT FILM, TV SERIES
“Cast and Crew”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Derick Lozano-Walker, Jack Paraiso, and Wilson McCourtney
(“With & Without: A Coral Story”)
BEST VOICEOVER PERFORMANCE IN A DOCUMENTARY, ANIMATED FILM OR PSA
Sally Edelstein
(“Perpetual”)
BEST NEW BEDFORD FILMMAKER
Mackenzie McCree
(“A Video Essay on Ballroom”)