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2024 Award Winners

The 33rd Annual Woods Hole Film Festival is proud to announce the winners of our Jury, Audience, Directors Choice and Screenplay Competition Awards. AUDIENCE AWARDS Best of the Fest Porcelain War by Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev Feature Documentary Winner: Porcelain War by Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev Runner Up: Water For Life (Agua es Vida) by Will Parrinello 2nd Runner Up: The Body Politic by Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough Feature Narrative Winner: The Compatriots by Spencer Cohen Runner Up: Hangdog by Matt Cascella 2nd Runner Up: If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing by Sadie Bones Short Documentary Winner: Forbidden Pond by Eric Jenkins-Sahlin Runner Up: Sincero by Robin Stoop, Jolaya Gillams, and Peter Pan 2nd Runner Up: Radio Dadaab by Environmental Justice Foundation Short Dramatic Winner: Sally, Get the Potatoes by Danica Waldo Runner Up: Bienvenidos a Los Angeles by Lisa Cole 2nd Runner Up: Lunchbox by Anne Hu Short Comedy Winner: Barely Breathing by Derek Evans Runner Up: The Innkeeper by Paudie Baggott Short Animation Winner: The Queen’s Flowers by Ciara Leina’ala Lacy Runner Up: Dragon Agent-Wreckers of Boston by Gordon LePage
JURY AWARDS  Feature Documentary Winner: The Body Politic by Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough Runner Up: Sugarcane by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie Runner Up: Porcelain War by Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev Special Humanitarian Award: Ultimate Citizens by Francine Strickwerda Feature Narrative – Drama Winner: Riley by Benjamin Howard Runner Up: The Strangers’ Case by Brandt Andersen Feature Narrative – Comedy Winner: Egghead & Twinkie by Sarah Kambe Holland Runner Up: If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing by Sadie Bones Short Documentary Winner: Anyuka by Maya Erdelyi Runner Up: Footprints on Katmai by Max Romey 2nd Runner Up: Radio Dadaab by Environmental Justice Foundation 2nd Runner Up: What Happened To You by Alex Goldberg Short Dramatic Winner: Stalled in Eight Etudes by Kersti Bryan Runner Up: Bienvenidos a Los Angeles by Lisa Cole 2nd Runner Up: Jane’s In The Freezer by Caleb Joye Short Comedy Winner: Dérive by Lianne Walden Runner Up: The Innkeeper by Paudie Baggott  Short Animation Winner: Hunky Dory by Steven Vander Meer Runner Up: The Queen’s Flowers by Ciara Leina’ala Lacy Sound Design Award (Dramatic or Comedy Short) Winner: Neo Dome Runner Up: Lunchbox
DIRECTORS CHOICE AWARDS Best Performance (Youth – Short Film) Portia McLaughlin (The Innkeeper) Best Performance (Adult – Short Film) Lauren Noll (The Heart of Texas) Best Performance (Feature Film) Kirby Howell-Baptiste (We Strangers) Best Performance (Ensemble) The cast of “Him” Emerging New England Filmmaker – (Sponsored by Talamas) Winner: Spencer Cohen (The Compatriots) Emerging Filmmaker(s) – (Sponsored by Boris FX) Winners (TIE): Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough (The Body Politic) Bonnie Discepolo (Neo Dome)  Fortitude in Filmmaking Winner: Porcelain War by Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev
SCREENPLAY AWARDS Short Drama A Good Day Will Come by Amir Zargara  Short Comedy Winner: It All Started In A Parking Lot by Isabel Lieser Feature Drama The Crossing by Clark Childers Feature Comedy Don’t Eat Paper by Julius Galacki