California Women’s Film Festival
Audience Award Winners
(Audience Winners will be posted by January 11th)
1st Place
Take It Easy Dir. Suja Raghuram Manoj
2nd Place
Girls Night In Dir. Morgan A. Grain
3rd Place (tie)
Adelina Dir. Fanny Lecendre &
Dear God Dir. Timneisha Greene Kim
Jury Category Winners
(Category Winners will be presented at the end of the film’s screening block)
Best Feature Film
Free, Dead Or Alive Dir. Erik Bernard
(Presented at the end of Block 5 on Saturday 1/8/2022)
Best Short Film
40ish... Dir. Traci Hays
(Presented at the end of Block 2 on Friday 1/7/2022)
Best Feature Documentary
Survivors Dir. Kay L. Sumner
(Presented at the end of Block 2 on Friday 1/7/2022)
Best Short Documentary
Achieving Greatness Dir. Kristina Chatow
(Presented at the end of Block 3 on Friday 1/7/2022)
Best Student Film
The War Within Dir. Marta D’Ocon
(Presented at the end of Block 1 on Friday 1/7/2022)
Best Foreign Film
A Poetess Dir. Sahra Fathi & Saeed Dashti
(Presented at the end of Block 1 on Friday 1/7/2022)
Best Animation
I’m Here Dir. Jennifer Hathaway
(Presented at the end of Block 2 on Friday 1/7/2022)
Best Music Video
Alexandra Dir. Sarah Hanner
(Presented at the end of Block 2 on Friday 1/7/2022)
Best Experimental Film
Blinded By Sight Dir. Amy Rose D'Allessandro Stolz
(Presented at the end of Block 2 on Friday 1/7/2022)
Best Feature Script
Hand Twins by Macee Binns
(Presented at the end of Block 2 on Saturday 1/8/2022)
Best Short Script
Miss Lovey’s Perfect Pizza by Lindsay Elston
(Presented at the end of Block 2 on Saturday 1/8/2022)
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Feature Script Finalist
Abuse Of Power by Rachel Pauline Cann
Bitter Beans by Lolita Fortuin
Dial It Back by Erin Elizabeth Keefer
Dom And Felix by Bridget Flanery
Here To Stay by Joseph Harrison
I Dream Of Horses by Lynnette Wollery
Lost In Control by Maria Massei-Rosato
Luz by Kieran Shea & David Osorio
Notes From A Best Kept Village by Elizabeth Blandford
Secret Roses by Elan Carlson
You Were Just Here by Dania Denise
Short Script Finalist
A New Leaf by Kieran Shea
Anthony’s Heroes by Melanie Sovran Wolfe
Forked by Sarah Goeke
Little Miss Hit Girl by Emily Hannah Ventimiglia
The Gift Of Life by Manshu Jian
Vigilante Nancy by Denise Hauf Miotke
Wedding March by Deborah Savadge
Who We Are by Kagure Kabue
Yasodhara by Gabriel Constans
Jury Creative Nominees
(Creative Winners will be announced and presented during the opening night party on Friday, July 13th which starts at 10pm)
Best Director
Zara Sengstock - Boyfriend
Lucinda Spurling - Maternal Secrets
Maria Alice Arida - Instinct
Johanna Demetrakas - Feminists: What Were They Thinking
Xiao-xiao Cai - Inadvertently
Best Actress
Susan Gallagher - Picking Back Up
Kate Mansi - Maternal Secrets
Julia Parker - Passage
Laura Grady - Boyfriend
Christine Kellogg-Darrin - Instinct
Best Supporting Actress
Ellen Gerstein - Passage
Jordan Monaghan - Instinct
Kelly Mcgillis - Maternal Secrets
Lillie Richardson - The Conversation
SJ Mendelson - Maw Kitty
Best Actor
Sean Stolzen - Maternal Secrets
Billy Bob Thornton - Stand Down
Joe Klocek - Boyfriend
Justin Deeley - The Get Through
Joe Willand - Because We Can
Jury Creative Winners
(Creative Winners will be announced and presented during the opening night party on Friday, July. 13th which starts at 10pm)
Best Director
Lucinda Spurling - Maternal Secrets
Best Actress
Julia Parker - Passage
Best Supporting Actress
SJ Mendelson - Maw Kitty
Best Actor
Joe Willand - Because We Can
Call For Entries Now Open
Jury Creative Winners
Best Director
Erik Bernard - Free, Dead or Alive
(Presented at the end of Block 5 on Saturday 1/8/2022)
Best Actress
Edy Ganem - Free, Dead or Alive
(Presented at the end of Block 5 on Saturday 1/8/2022)
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Velasquez - Free, Dead or Alive
(Presented at the end of Block 5 on Saturday 1/8/2022)
Best Actor
Seth Michaels - Free, Dead or Alive
(Presented at the end of Block 5 on Saturday 1/8/2022)
CWFF - July 15th -17th 2022
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