2022 Fayetteville Film Fest Winners
Celebrating Cinematic Excellence
We are proud to present the outstanding winners of the 2022 Fayetteville Film Fest, who showcased exceptional talent, creativity, and storytelling. Congratulations to all the filmmakers for their incredible work!
Hard Shell/Soft Shell
- 2022
- 01:40:00
- Emma Benestan
We Burn Like This
- 2022
- 01:21:00
- Alana Waksman
American Murderer
- 2022
- 01:41:03
- Matthew Gentile
Freedom’s Path
- 2022
- 02:05:00
- Brett Smith
Narrative Features
Film Title |
Director |
|---|---|
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American Murderer |
Matthew Gentile |
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Freedom’s Path |
Brett Smith |
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Hard Shell/Soft Shell |
Emma Benestan |
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We Burn Like This |
Alana Waksman |
Documentary Features
Film Title |
Director |
|---|---|
|
Forever Majestic |
Michael Stephen Schwarz |
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A Run For More |
Ray Whitehouse |
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The Sun Rises in the East |
Tayo Giwa |
Narrative Shorts
| Film Title | Director |
|---|---|
- "Wait Son" – Recognizer | - Mike Mullins |
- A Psychogeography of Mourning | - Shayna Connelly |
- ADHD - SÄYE SKYE | - Sina Dolati |
- Banana Triangle Six | - Marc E. Crandall |
- Baptized in the Flames | - Ringo Jones |
- Boppie | - Ethan Gueck |
- Call of the Clown Horn | - Mike Stutz |
- Daily Bread | - Manuel Sirgo |
- Dandelion | - Paula Blanco Perez |
- Darker | - Kenneth George |
- Double Trouble! | - Levi Matthew Smith and Blake Dean Allen |
- Eureka | - Miida Chu |
- Fairy Story | - Griff Jones |
- Flight | - Tyler Horne |
- Follow You | - John Utter |
- FreeWorld - "D-Up (Here's To Diversity)" | - Richard Cushing |
- Gunpoint | - Bill Marsilii |
- Harvey & Sunshine | - Damon McKinnis, & Madeleine Murden |
- Hauntings of Highway 34 | - David Andrew Schedler |
- Jim's Tips | - Piper Peña Hadley |
- Johnny Dynamite & The Bloodsuckers - The Last Ones | - Jaxon Duron |
- Kronos | - Donavon Thompson |
- Lemniscate | - Chuck Meré |
- Life Of Crime | - Chetley Breedlove |
- Lowlifes | - Daniel Wingfield |
- Magic Eyes | - Kathy O Lofton |
- Making Beethoven Proud | - Brian Naughton |
- MeTube: August sings 'Una furtiva lagrima' | - Daniel Moshel |
- One Hand on the Wheel | - Barry Cobbs |
- Pomegranate | - Molly Wheat |
- Rain | - Mahdi Barqzadegan |
- Shadow Work | - Kary Collier Jr |
- SONAR | - James Hughes |
- The Sprayer | - Farnoosh Abei |
- The Statue (Peykareh) | - Mohsen Salehi Fard |
- The Stream | - Samuel Dubin |
- The Lovies | - Robin Neveu Brown & Kevin Alan Brown |
Emerging Filmakers
| Film Title | Director |
|---|---|
- For a Few Dollars Fewer | - Nick Loper |
- Kind Eyes | - Casey L. Floyd |
- King of Kings | - Colin Sanders |
- Sacrament | - Josh Eliot |
- Sheol | - Johnnie Brannon |
- Taquito Patrol | - Thomas Pallier |
- The Bag | - Sam Azghandi |
- The Misanthrope | - Andy Kastelic |
- The Starlight Hotel | - Brett Baxley |
Documentary Shorts
| Film Title | Director |
|---|---|
- A Door Away | - Alex H. Rafi |
- Pili Ka Moʻo | - Justyn Ah Chong |
- Rocks 4 Sale! | - David Dibble |
- SOUTH | - Kyle Gibbins |
- The Most Beautiful Trail in America | - Dave Baumann & Davis Yates |
- Uncharted | - Drew Donnelly |
- #No Regrets | - Kristine Artymowski |
- Bounty | - Adam Mazo Ben Pender-Cudlip Tracy Rector Dawn Neptune Adams (Penobscot) & Maulian Dana (Penobscot) |
- Limits: The Story of ArkanSTOL | - Zak Heald and Nicholas Wiench |
- Racer’s Nature | - Ben Harrison |
- Rockin Baker | - Ringo Jones |
- To The Bone | - Andy Sarjahani |
Student Documentaries
| Film Title | Director |
|---|---|
- Beautiful People | - Shane White |
- Heal the River | - Paulina Sobczak |
- Just Benjamin | - Paige Murphy |
- Part of The Kingdom Vol. II | - Makenna Cofer |
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