The 2022 edition of RiverRun International Film Festival started on April 21st and ended on 30th. The festival is Academy Award Qualifying with the prizes Best Documentary Short, Best Animated Short. Winners were announced and you can find them all at this link on their website, we are only listing shorts as always!
Narrative Shorts winners
Best Narrative Short
Hallelujah by Victor Gabriel
Best Student Narrative Short
Not the 80s by Marleen Valien
Honorable Mention (Comedy)
S.O.S. by Sarah Hafner
Honorable Mention (Horror)
Skin & Bone by Eli Powers
Documentary Shorts winners
Best Documentary Short
The Sentence of Michael Thompson by Haley Elizabeth Anderson, Kyle Thrash
Honorable Mentions
Holding Moses by Rivkah Beth Medow
Stranger at the Gate by Joshua Seftel
Special Jury Award for Visual Storytelling
His Name Was Cargo by Marco Signoretti
Animated Shorts winners
Best Animated Short
The Clearing by Daniel Hope
Best Student Animated Film
Yallah! by Cécile Adant, Renaud de Saint Albin, Candice Behague, Nayla Nassar, Edouard Pitula, Anaïs Sassatelli
Honorable Mention
Prosopagnosia by Steven Fraser