2022 - The International Indie Gathering

2022 Award Winners
To qualify for an award, entries had to receive a score of 90 or above in judging. If more than four projects in one category qualify for awards, the additional winners receive "Honorable Mention Awards".

Best Feature Film: "Marijuana Minutes"
Best Micro Film: "Armor at the Arnold"
Best Ohio Film: "False Gods"
Best Short Film: "False Gods"

Best Feature Script: "Venusian"
Best Short Script: "Bucket"

Best Actor, Feature: DJ Perry, "Best Years Gone"
Best Actor, Ohio: Imani Khiry, "A State of Mind"
Best Actor, Short: Max Lamadrid, "Noisy"
Best Actress, Feature: Rebecca DeMarco, "Marijuana Minutes"
Best Actress, Ohio: Ashleigh Morgan, "False Gods"
Best Actress, Short: Isabel Himmelvo, "Fault Line"
Best Cinematography, Feature: Dmitry Maltsev, "Kenzeli"
Best Cinematography, Ohio: Scott E. Brosius, "Cabin of Deceit"
Best Cinematography, Short: Jason Chua, "The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre"
Best Director, Feature: Luis Enrique Rodriguez, "Love is Everything"
Best Director, Ohio: Rafeeq Roberts, "False Gods"
Best Director, Short: Lauren Himmelvo, "Fault Line"
Best Editing, Feature: Nicholas J. DeMicco, "Marijuana Minutes"
Best Editing, Ohio: Johnny K. Wu, "Kill World"
Best Editing, Short: "Guardian"


FILM SCORING COMPETITION
1. Munenori Kishi
2. Ricardo Raymundo
3. William Browne
4. Clinton Clark
5. Michael Caral
6. Brad Labonte
7. Deanna Smith
8. Avery Schwartz
9. Imari Hill
10. Viet Thanh Branigan



FILMS

FEATURE - COMEDY
1. Marijuana Minutes
2. Third Act
3. Casual Criminals

FEATURE – CRIME / DRAMA
1. The Border
2. Tales from the Murder Room
3. Brazen Impact

FEATURE - DOCUMENTARY
1. Not a Tame Lion
2. Divided We Stand
3. Shots: From Eugenics to Pandemics

FEATURE - DRAMA
1. A State of Mind
2. One Cop’s Journey
3. Letters to Daniel
4. A Shattered Diamond

FEATURE – DRAMA / COMEDY
1. Turbo Cola
2. Best Years Gone

FEATURE – FOREIGN DRAMA
1. Love is Everything
2. Kenzeli
3. Homeopathy
4. Life for Tomorrow

FEATURE - HORROR
1. Ash and Bone
2. The Last Frankenstein
3. Masking Threshold
4. Scavengers

FEATURE – ROMANTIC DRAMA
1. 12 Months

FEATURE – SUSPENSE / THRILLER
1. Jar Lid
2. Before Breaker Wakes
3. Fortress of Sin

MICRO – COMEDY
1. Life with Jean Claude Van Domme
2. We're Good
3. Shore Thing

MICRO - DOCUMENTARY
1. Armor at the Arnold

MICRO - DRAMA
1. Bye, Dummy
2. Saint Rasputin
3. Vindicate
4. Slag

MICRO - EXPERIMENTAL
1. Exist
2. Come Away Death
3. Another Tide
4. Lowlives

MUSIC VIDEO
1. Fall Apart
2. Tight Rope
3. Wall of Glass
4. Heresy

MUSIC VIDEO – EXTENDED
1. A Feast That Never Comes
2. Pack Your Bags EP

SHORT - ACTION
1. Kill World #4
2. Kill world #3
3. Kill world #1
4. Kill world #2

SHORT - COMEDY
1. Glory & Injustice
2. Outta This World
3. Oatmelio's
4. On the Clock

SHORT - CRIME
1. Cabin of Deceit

SHORT - DOCUMENTARY
1. Portrait of a Filmmaker
2. Breaking Through
3. A Broken Bond

SHORT - DRAMA
1. False Gods
2. Seventy Times Seven
3. Forgotten
4. Gander's Redemption

SHORT – DRAMA/COMEDY
1. Scones
2. Assisted Suicide
3. No Such Thing
4. The Box

SHORT - EXPERIMENTAL
1. The Pit and the Pendulum
2. Surface Cracks

SHORT - FAMILY
1. Fault Line
2. Antique Heroes

SHORT – FOREIGN
1. Baba Jee
2. Adam in Aeternum
3. Just Like Everything Else In This Life
4. The restless soul

SHORT - HORROR
1. Reel Trouble
2. Because I Can
3. Cameo
4. Seeing Is Believing

SHORT - ROMANTIC
1. Noisy
2. Richard the Third
3. The Games We Play

SHORT - STUDENT
1. Make a Wish
2. Ebb and Flo
3. The Girl Next Door
4. Quiver

SHORT – SUSPENSE/THRILLER
1. EnVeive
2. Hopeless Hills
3. Karma

TRAILER
1. History of Cleveland Chinatown
2. Mad Scientists
3. The Transformers: Regeneration
4. Race You

TV PILOT
1. Guardian
2. Zodiac
3. Girl Unscripted
4. Thairapy

TV PILOT - FOREIGN
1. The Last Axel

WEB EPISODE
1. Film Talk with AJ Dean: Episode 23
2. Recovery Unplugged: Bob Saenz



SCRIPTS

FEATURE – ACTION
1. Giants
2. Bullets, Brothers, and Blood
3. Submergence 2
4. Submergence

FEATURE – CRIME
1. M30 OXY
2. Life in the Country
3. Escalator!

FEATURE – DRAMA
1. Amy and Angel
2. Saving Roses
3. Barth
4. Serendipity

FEATURE – DRAMA/COMEDY
1. The Happy Place
2. Natalia Rising

FEATURE – FANTASY
1. Arthur's Yearbook
2. Fire and Brimstone

FEATURE – HORROR
1. Underwater
2. Fear Catcher
3. The Crucial Day

FEATURE – ROMANTIC-COMEDY
1. The Real Thing
2. Pascal's Triangle
3. You Can't Go Home
4. Nesselrode

FEATURE - ROMANTIC-DRAMA
1. Signs
2. Songbird
3. Nineteen Days

FEATURE – SCI-FI
1. Venusian
2. The Cipher Completed
3. The Broken Cipher
4. The Cipher Embedded

FEATURE – SUSPENSE-THRILLER
1. Time, Space and the Poet
2. The Assassin’s Redemption
3. The Last Job

SHORT – ACTION
1. Bucket

SHORT – COMEDY
1. On Sale
2. Floating Away
3. The Trouble with Samantha

SHORT - CRIME
1. Asian Thread

SHORT - DRAMA
1. Incarnations
2. Homecoming
3. Crumbs
4. Ink and Quill

SHORT – HORROR
1. Let's Play a Game
2. He Knows

SHORT - WESTERN
1. The Prodigal

TV Pilot
1. The Hegemony
2. Changes
3. Department of Prose
4. Letters to Daniel: The Series

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
925 Blues
Brainstorm
Sonnet 19 for Peter Santana
Letters to Daniel: Prelude
Starstruck
Submergence 3
Teyata
Waterfall