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The 14th Annual Lighthouse International Film Festival Award Winners

originally published: 06/06/2022


(LONG BEACH ISLAND, NJ) -- The 14th Annual Lighthouse International Film Festival took place June 2-5, 2022 on Long Beach Island. The program includesd Sundance and SXSW titles as Headliners and acclaimed international films in the Spotlight section. Also, Lighthouse also put its dark side on display in a new installment dedicated to genre, horror, sci-fi, and fantastic movies entitled DARKHOUSE.

Here is a look at the award winning films.

Narrative Feature: Jury Award Winner: Straighten Up and Fly Right by Steven Tanenbaum and Kristen Abate (USA)

Jury Special Mention: Love, Life and Goldfish by Yukinori Makabe (Japan)

Audience Award:  Love, Life and Goldfish by Yukinori Makabe (Japan)




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Documentary Competition:

Jury Award Winner: Eternal Spring by Jason Loftus (Canada)

Jury Special MentionOleg by Nadia Tass (USA)

Audience Award:  Eternal Spring by Jason Loftus (Canada)

Shorts:

Best film: Ayaan by Alies Sluiter (Australia)




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Best short doc: Freedom Day by Rianne Pyle (USA)

Social impact: Free Fall by Emmanuel Tenenbaum (France)


Episodic:

Best EpisodicGrafton by Ryan Santiago (USA)

Special MentionThe Photographer by Dina Zvi Riklis (Israel)


Darkhouse Audience Award: 

For Roger by Aaron Bartuska


High School Students Films:

The Last Hunter by Ziling Chen


Jen Snyder Bryceland Award:




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Honey Levine Audience Choice Award:

Song of Salt by Emma Baiada and Nicolas Snyder


Pat Dengler Volunteer of the Year:

Cathy Casey


 

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