Official Nominations of the New Bedford Film Festival 2024

And the nominees are… (Winners noted in each category)

Short Film

  • Winner: Marc Crandall (“Banana Triangle Six”)

    Bill Hendricks (“Monogamish”)

    Meg Jenkins Locke (“Sister”)

    Robert Mattson (“The Clunker”)

    Michael Peers, Yasmine Majchrzak (“A Fish Story”)

    Lukas Olszewski (“Remember Me”)

    Jesse Womack (“Yolks”)

    Tommy Whalen (“Impunity”)

  • Winner: Billy Magnussen (“Sister”)

    Holden Lay (“Better Than Me”)

    Jack Bulger (“Or, The Whale”)

    Shawn Fitzgibbon (“Flush”)

    Zachary Kelly (“Out: A Short Film”)

    Bill Rogers (“Banana Triangle Six”)

    Nate Borowski (“Four-Sided”)

    Brian Grob (“Pickles”)

  • Shane Andries (“Sister”)

    Libe Barer (“Revelation”)

    Ryan Gomes (“Courage”)

    Lukas Olszewski (“Remember Me”)

    Winner: Dawn Natalia (“Flush”)

    Joan Cassin (“Rest”)

  • Solgerd Isalv (“Remember Me”)

    Pamela Jayne Morgan (“The Principal’s Assembly”)

    Meg Jenkins Locke (“Sister”)

    Winner: Jammie Patton (“The Uniform”)

    Ariana Perez (“Canary”)

    Emma McDonald (“Onset”)

    Michelle Mazza (“Revelation”)

    Meryl William Jones (“Rest”)

  • Winner: “Sister”

    “Remember Me”

    “Flush”

    “Banana Triangle Six”

    “The Uniform”

    “A Fish Story”

    “Courage”

    “Carving”

    “Rest”

    “The Therapist”

Feature Film

  • Vivian Kerr (“Scrap”)

    Chloe Levine (“Antarctica”)

    Winner: Samyuktha Vijayan (“Blue Sunshine”)

    Kendall Cavener (“Monsters Within”)

    Jacquie Baker (“Cast and Crew”)

    Anna Campbell (“Never Hike Alone 2”)

  • Keith Beaden (“Antarctica”)

    Samyuktha Vijayan (“Blue Sunshine”)

    Winner: Jason Taylor (“Cast and Crew”)

    Vivian Kerr (“Scrap”)

    Alberto G. Rodriguez (“Where the Dead Go”)

    Dan Katzir (“American Pot Story: Oaksterdam”)

  • Jason Taylor (“Cast and Crew”)

    Devin Montogmery (“Monsters Within”)

    Samyuktha Vijayan (“Blue Sunshine”)

    Vivian Kerr (“Scrap”)

    Garry Medeiros (“Plaga Zombie American Invasion”)

    Winner: Keith Bearden (“Antarctica”)

  • Matt Scmid (“Cast and Crew”)

    Ajay Eapen (“Blue Sunshine”)

    Anthony Rapp (“Scrap”)

    Winner: Thom Matthew (“Never Hike Alone 2”)

    Bubba Weiler (“Antarctica”)

    Devin Motgomery (“Monsters Within”)

  • “Cast and Crew”

    “Scrap”

    Winner: “Antarctica”

    “Blue Sunshine”

    “American Pot Story: Oaksterdam”

    “Monsters Within”

Documentary

  • Jennifer Montgomery, Winnie Mutevu (“Woman Rising”)

    Iroquios McCree (“The Fall of 1985”)

    Winner: Mark Patinkin (“Demons & Dragans - Mark Patinkin's Cancer Journey”)

    Jephte Elisca (“The Rebirth”)

    Cynthia Lee Fontaine (aka Carlos Diaz) (“Barbette + Fontaine”)

    Steve Sperry, Glenn Lawrence (“Backyard Pilots”)

  • Timothy Mantil (“Truth Detector”)

    Annawon Weeden (“SOS: Save Our Seaweed”)

    Liam Neeson (“The Grey Space”)

    Winner: Sally Edelstein (“Perpetual”)

    Mackenzie McCree, Tyler Brown (“A Video Essay on Ballroom”)

  • “Demons & Dragans - Mark Patinkin's Cancer Journey”

    “Woman Rising”

    “One Step A Time”

    Winner: “Barbette + Fontaine”

    “With & Without: A Coral Story”

    “Even the Women Must Fight”

    “The 29th Connecticut”

    “Burning of the Mishoon

Animated Short

  • Winner: “Widow’s Peak” - Julia Harley Francisco-Simoes

    “Flower” - Ron Hayes, Carolyn Gair

    “Appalachian Horror” - Producer: Ethan Lassey

    “Electra Wasp” - Producers: Jan Kim Moon Langguth

    “Truth Detector” - Producer: William Reliford

    “The Toad in the Hole” - Director: Oliver Brubaker

    “The Dark Horizon” - Director: Chris Gonsalves

TV Series

  • Korby Lenker, Travis Nicholson (“Morse Code”)

    Trevor Alpert (“Rideshare”)

    Winner: Frank Arthur Smith (“Open to It”)

    Carol Ann DeMarco, Leigh Anne West (“Pickleball is Life: Dill With It!”)

  • Winner: Korby Lenker (“Morse Code”)

    Tony Ramos Wright (“Eyes: The Series”)

    Frank Arthur Smith (“Open to It”)

    Matthew Kempner (“Rideshare”)

    Tim Wardell (“Open to It”)

    Christopher Lang (“The Blackened Charte”)

  • Winner: Christopher Lang (“The Blackened Charte”)

    Greg Wolf (“Open to It”)

    Julia Tutko-Balena (“Fortune Teller”)

    Travis Nicholson (“Morse Code”)

    Curtis Reid (“Eyes: The Series”)

  • Catherine Curtin (“Pickleball is Life: Dill with It!”)

    Savannah Welch (“Morse Code”)

    Winner: Karen Ann Martino (“Luna, The Witch: Season 3”)

    Alexa Hartman (“Luna, The Witch: Season 3”)

    Pëtra Denison (“Fortune Teller”)

    Pamela Jayne Morgan (“Eyes: The Series”)

  • “Open to It”

    Winner“Morse Code”

    “Rideshare”

    “The Blackened Charte”

    “Fortune Teller”

Music Video

  • Winner: "Alice"

    “Haunted”

    “Rattle”

    “Father’s Day”

    “Ima GroovaLotto (ask yo mama)”

    “Famous”

  • “Alice”

    Winner: “Haunted”

    “Back in the Time”

    “Ascension”

    “Better Days”

    “Don’t Touch My Hair”

    “Lungs, Head, and Heart”

    “East Coast Aquarela”

Public Service Announcement

  • “Dr. Tammy Silva - Marine Ecologist” - Director” Ben Gilbarg,

    Winner: “A Brief Commercial Break” - Producer: Parker Sowersby

    “The Grey Space” - Producer: William Goins

    “Wash Your Hands” - Producer: Ian H. Sandham, RN

    “We Were Whales” - Producer: Elaine Alder

Student

  • Winner: Charlie Norton (“The Lost Weekend”)

    Lucie Dussauge (“Her Time”)

    Mackenzie McCree (“The Fall of 1985”)

    Ben Vasion (“Pickles”)

    Jake Tollman (“Better Than Me”)

    Adam Marashio (“What Next?”)

    Eva Rouverol (“The Muse”)

  • Winner: “Pickles”

    “The Lost Weekend”

    “Her Time”

    “Better Than Me”

    “Josie”

    “The Muse”

    “The Fall of 1985”

Technical Achievement

  • Lana Parrila (“Scrap”)

    Sharon Lawrence (“Pickleball is Life: Dill with It!”)

    Hanh Duffy (“Cast and Crew”)

    Winner: Johanna Day (“Pickleball is Life: Dill with It!”)

    Jayne Brook (“Sister”)

    Laura Santa Cruz (“Where the Dead Go”)

    Marilyn Busch (“The Principal’s Assembly”)

  • "I Want to Eat the Man Downstairs" by Steve Furtado (“Quiet”)

    Winner: “Got To Be More" Performed by Korby Lenker, Written by Korby Lenker and Megan McCormick (“Morse Code”)

    Van-Anh- Vo, Wu Tang, Shirish Korde, "Questions for the Moon" (“Even the Women Must Fight”)

    “Plaga Zombie, Plaga Zombie!!” Ben Tolosa, Lyrics by Garry Medeiros and Cheryl LaPan, Musical Instruments by Denny Ryes (“Plaga Zombie American Invasion”)

    "L.A. Day" Performed by Ron Cormier & Company Featuring Dennis Crapo; Writer: Dennis Crapo (“Where the Dead Go”)

    “Two Lovers” By Jens Heuler (“Remember Me”)

  • Matthew Ferretti (“Sister”)

    Christian Camarao (“Appalachian Horror”)

    Shirish Korde (“Even the Women Must Fight”)

    Tim Lauer (“Morse Code”)

    Winner: Jens Heuler (“Remember Me”)

    Michael Benedict (“Electra Wasp”)

    Holly Tatnall (“Scrap”)

  • Diz DiZio (“Don’t Fall From Grace”)

    Winner: Alanna Wray McDonald (“Antarctica”)

    Jaina Cipriano (“Alice”)

    Hilary Thomson (“A Fish Story”)

    Tyrron Pierce (“The Melting Hymn”)

    John-Carlos Estrada, Zak Zeh, and Thomas Swafford (“Barbette + Fontaine”)

    Magnus Grigsby, Adair Snell, Zoe Stack (“Through the Lens of Mourning”)

  • Chinonso Edmond Egwuonwu (“The Uniform”)

    Peter Gerety (“Revelation”)

    Jason Caceres (“Open to It”)

    James Kyson (“Morse Code”)

    Ajay Naidu (“Antarctica”)

    Kevin Peterson (“Flush”)

    Winner: Skeeta Jenkins (“Monsters Within”)

  • Winner: Garry Medeiros, Cheryl LaPan, Walter Rivero (“Plaga Zombie American Invasion”)

    Claudia Negalha, Debra Borges Roderick (“To Dust All Return”)

    Mary Margaret Groves (“Four-Sided”)

    Cassidy Mosher (“Antarctica”)

    Stephen Boyd-Morales (“Never Hike Alone 2”)

    Jeanne Kennan (“Flush”)

    Madison Shmalo (“Invisible”)

  • Thomas Swafford (“Barbette + Fontaine”)

    Devin Bussey, Eric Latek (“Demons & Dragans - Mark Patinkin's Cancer Journey”)

    Parker Sowersby (“A Brief Commercial Break”)

    Lauren Sanders (“Sister”)

    Winner: Matt Decker, Lucas Celler (“American Pot Story: Oaksterdam”)

    Hannah Kenrick (“Pickles”)

    Meredith Miller (“The Piece”)

  • Winner: Christopher Riley (“Courage”)

    Lane Sinyard (“A Fish Story”)

    Emily Homer (“Rest”)

    Stephen Wilder III (“Never Hike Alone 2”)

    Julianna Layne (“Scrap”)

    Gilbert Lee (“Canary”)

  • Winner: “A Video Essay on Ballroom” - Mackenzie McCree

    “Widow’s Peak” - Julia Harley Francisco-Simoes

    “One Step At A Time” - Eleonora Bianchi

    “Monogamish” - Bill Hendricks

    “Polaroid Dreams” - Scott Bishop

    “Plaga Zombie American Invasion” - Garry Medeiros

    “Which Hunt” - Adam P. Cray

  • Winner: Derick Lozano-Walker, Jack Paraiso, Wilson McCourtney (“With & Without: A Coral Story”)

    Dom Sivili (“Revelation”)

    Sean Campbell (“To Dust All Return”)

    Steev Benjamin (“Blue Sunshine”)

    Jason Taylor (“Cast and Crew”)

    Ian Mosley Duffy (“Sister”)

    Hunter Anderson (“Don’t Fall From Grace”)

  • Winner: “Cast and Crew”

    “Luna, The Witch: Season 3”

    “Flush”

    “Never Hike Alone 2”

    “A Fish Story”

    “Monsters Within”