Prestigious and unique, the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival will present over 15 awards in a variety of categories focusing on filmmakers, their stories, and the craft.
Nominations to be announced November 1st.
Chilliwack Spirit Award
Nominees:
Astronaut
Camping
Lost Media
The Worst Day Ever?
Through Stained Glass
Winner:
The Worst Day Ever?
Best of Fest
Nominees:
Blood Star
Flow
Matt and Mara
Mongrels
Universal Language
Winner:
Universal Language
Best live action Short Film
Nominees:
Abel
Amarela
One Day This Kid
Some Kind of Paradise
Tea
Winner:
One Day This Kid
Best Documentary
nominees:
Altona
Curl Power
Grand Theft Hamlet
Porcelain War
Sugarcane
winner:
altona
Best Director
Nominees:
Alexander Farah (One Day This Kid)
Dekel Berenson & Paul Wesley (Abel)
Krit Komkrichwarakool (Auganic)
André Hayato Saito (Amarela)
Jess McLeod (DTF?)
Winner:
jess mcleod (Dtf?)
Best Actor
nominees:
Carter Selinger (Team Building Exercise)
John Brodsky (Some Kind of Paradise)
Massey Ahmar (One Day This Kid)
Michael Gandolfini (Tea)
Sam Krochmal (DTF?)
winner:
Sam Krochmal (DTF?)
Best Actress
Nominees:
Adeline Lo (Sorry For Your Cost)
Leenah Robinson (Uncommon Ground)
Melissa Uehara (Amarela)
Nathalie Boltt (The Ornament)
Nhi Do (The Sorrow)
winner:
nhi do (The sorrow)
Best Cinematography
nominees:
Caleb W Ford (The Many Disappointments of Andy Squyres)
Kaayla Whachell (The Sorrow)
Farhad Ghaderi (One Day This Kid)
Mikah Sharkey (Hatch)
Valeriya Khan (Astronaut)
winner:
mikah sharkey (hatch)
Best of BC
nominees:
Auganic
DTF?
Hatch
One Day This Kid
The Second
winner:
auganic
Best animation short
nominees:
Camping
Detours Ahead
Discoteque
Inkwo: For When the Starving Return
Tennis, Oranges
winner:
tennis, oranges
Best script
nominees:
Jacob Weldon (Seed)
Krit Komkrichwarakool (Auganic)
Michael Clifton (Bath Bomb)
Rosie Choo Pidcock (Sorry For Your Cost)
Sam Krochmal & Jess McLeod (DTF?)
winner:
Rosie Choo Pidcock (Sorry For Your Cost)
Best score
nominees:
C-Jay Bryce (Rat King)
Masashi Yamamoto (Discoteque)
Matthew Bernstein (Make Me A Pizza)
Sean William (The Second)
Wilfred Moeschter (Counting Days)
winner:
Masashi Yamamoto (Discoteque)
Best editing
nominees:
Alexander Farah (One Day This Kid)
David Borja (Untethered)
Hayley Sawatzky (DTF?)
Michael Vidler (Delta Dawn)
Taylor Brown (Bullies in the Sky)
winner:
Hayley Sawatzky (DTF?)
Best student film
nominees:
Bus
Salt
Team Building Exercise
Through the Flow of Summer Snow
Wet Noodle
winner:
team building exercise
Best fraser valley film
nominees:
A Poacher’s Honor
Easter Epic
Flicker
Pebble Pockets
Rat King
winner:
rat king
pitch session winner
winner:
Tanya Jade (wah Lau)
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