6th Annual LAFA 2021 Nominations
LAFA is pleased to announce its full slate of nominees for 2021.
Best of Fest 2021
Green Flake - Mauli Junior Bonner
Second Team - Ria Pavia
RED - David Newton
Ali's Realm - Mario Torres Jr
Latasha Harlins - Shannon Dion
Patio of Illusion - Shangshi Chen
Chic awi - Pierre Khadra
Ernie - Ray Panthaki
The Ravine - Keoni Waxman, Robert Pascuzzi
Incognito - Jacky Song
There You Are - Rui Huang
We're All In This Together - Katie Boland
Best Narrative Feature
Rage - John Balazs
Green Flake - Mauli Junior Bonner
All Aboard! - Seiichi Hishikawa
The Colour of Spring - Paul Andrew Kimball
The Chosen Path - Eric Iglesias
Patio of Illusion - Shangshi Chen
The Alpines - Dante Aubain
The Runner - Michelle Danner
The Ravine - Keoni Waxman, Robert Pascuzzi
Kaunn Con Haii? - Ashrit Wadhwa
Now is Now - Peter Szajki
Love Laboratory - Muchao Wang, Fangmin Wang
Best Narrative Short
Hands Up - Angela White
Second Team - Ria Pavia
RED - David Newton
Ali's Realm - Mario Torres Jr
Latasha Harlins - Shannon Dion
How To End A Conversation - Gregory JM Kasunich
Sunshine In The Rain - Benny Chen
Ernie - Ray Panthaki
Bird Feeder - Jack Fay
Incognito - Jacky Song
R[evol]ution Of Love - Louise Hylland
Deus Ex Machina - Jessy Langlois
Best Indie Feature
Making Lemonade: Our COVID-19 Story - Chris Francis
Sweet Taste of Souls - Terry Ross
The Waiting Game - Kyle Weingart
Ezra and the Unicorn - Timothy A Coons
The Strange Case of Henry Jekyll & Edward Hyde - Laura Ilinca
The Alpines - Dante Aubain
The Anthology Of Julius - Ofu Obekpa
In Pieces - Louis Rayneau
I'm Sorry Darby - Alex Newberry
Spiritual Journey the Journey Within - Philip Petrosky, Diana Lyr
Alone - Peter Molnar
Best Indie Short
Andean Condor - William Mazzola
First Kiss - Caroline Patz
Gunther - Ryan Rowley
Star Child - Alex Guéry
Asiago Kills! - Cristian Tomassini
Awakened - Yulian Mateo
Dear Vivian - Daleelah Sada
Paper Airplane - Mingjie Tang
NEA[R] - Gioele Fazzeri
Shift - Chad Crenshaw, Davis DeRock
Private Chat - Joe Bowden, Ashley Mellinger
Becoming You - Daniel Sadler, Erica Rowe
Best Web/TV Pilot
The Gliwensbourg Chronicles - Emilie Tommasi
NOC - Non-Official Cover - Ian Voglesong
Reserve Psychology - Jordan Drake
The University - Juliana Roth
Daddydelphia - Harold Eric
Sugar - Joyce Keokahm
Safu - Funge and Sashimi - Wilson Mbiavanga
Audition - Cosimo Tucci
Hudson Falls - Elias Plagianos
River City - Jal Michael, RC Nelson
Gangsta Island - Ken Lewis
The Hunt For Salamander - Dimitar Dimitrov
Best Web/TV Series
Jade & Jaded - Sarah Franco
The Anomalous - Chinedu Omorie
All In 3: A Fikowski & Vellner Documentary - S.J. Finlay
Afsos - Anubhuti Kashyap
Undateable - Matt Mahaffey, Brittany Bookbinder
Trending Today - James Desir, Brad Bode
A Frantic Love 3 - Gary Tucker, Adrian Ferrara
Zoom Therapy - Layla Warren, Chris Warren, Jonno Roberts
Incompleteness - David Ash
Call Center - Brendan Daugherty
My Human Experience - Aimee Dansereau, Sarah Cooke, Sylvia Ray
Best Documentary Feature
Mountain Symphonies - Vangelis Ethymiou
The Conscience of Clothing - Patrick Kohl
The Earned Life - Patryk Wezowski, Kasia Wezowski
The Sporting Bubble - Peter Dickson
Wim Wenders, Desperado - Eric Friedler, Andreas Frege
Candidato 34 - Ryan Marley
Dear Thalia - Rex Moribe
The Saviour: Brig. Pritam Singh - Dr. Paramjeet Singh Kattu
Wildflower - Matt Smukler
Tomorrow: Women|Murder|Redemption - Renford Reese
The Ripple Effect - Peter Dickson
Broken Chains - Michael Lints, Aaron Stewart
Best Documentary Short
Breathe, Nolan, Breathe - Daniel Catullo
A Fifth Season - Emma Forthofer
The Reason - Noah Conopask
Story of the Opal - Rick Cavaggion
PNW Indy Wrestling Spotlight - ShanzDev, Marc LeCuyer
Home: The Homelessness Crisis in North Dakota (Chapter 2) - Sonya Jensen
Growing On Two Wheels - Bertrand Lemeunier
Aftermask - Anton Josef
Kintsugi: Nagasaki - Candice Kumai, Carlos Garcia DeDios
January 6 - Nicholas Quested
Breathe - Jordan Settembrini & Justin Settembrini
Vision - Sergey Filatov
Best Animation
Thatching Eggs - Max Marlow
Friends With Death - Jim McKenzie
Tricked - Mengyuan Guo, Naicheng Liu, Suhn Young Chung
QingFeng Wu - Spaceman - Muh Chen
A Walk - Zhehao Qiao
Contagious - Brian Schmidt
Hope - Abdulla Al-Janahi
Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate - Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan
Dr. Sun - Hsu Michael, Chen Jing Lian
//Blinded - Baptiste Leroux
There You Are - Rui Huang
Synthetic Me - Susan Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
Best Music Video
TOM And His Computer "Future Ruins" - Martin Garde Abildgaard
One Thing - Kevin Hawkins ft Moe3 - Manny Fresco, Rodney Pinz, Kevin Hawkins
Rainie Yang - Like a Star - Muh Chen
S.H.E. - 17 - Muh Chen
Street Spirit - Vicente Cordero
What Happened to Stephanie? - Ciro Ayala
Dalida Khalil - Chic Awi - Pierre Khadra
Szabó Ádám feat Curtis - That's how I am - Jimy J. Hollywood
Someone - Strange World - David Spearing, Tessa Rose Jackson
Jordan Hart - "Freedom" - Michael Joseph McDonald, Joe Bluhm
Jane Leo - "Tell Me" - Gille Klabin
KILL - BURN - Adam Hayes, Nick Hayes
Best Student Film
The River Will Carry Them - Keyi Zhang
Cocoon - Maxfield Cooper Smith
Dead Girl - Lloyd Briggs
Summer Revenge - Fang Weihan
Good Thing Going - Reece Daniels, Jivensley Alexis
Burn down - Wang Xinyan
Life Was Wonderful - Toy Alan
Not One More - Cameron Leingang
Mountain - Yuwei Du, Chuanqi Liang, Zefan Wang
Still With You - Ryan Livesay
The Cry Of Silence - Mara Cracaleanu
Between Us - Antonio Mendes
Best Director (Feature Film)
Green Flake - Mauli Junior Bonner
The DS King - Doret van der Sloot
The Chosen Path - Eric Iglesias
The Colour of Spring - Paul Andrew Kimball
A Perfect Vintage - Troy Christian
Righteous Villains - Savvas D. Michael
Beijing 120 - Yu Yiping
Love Laboratory - Muchao Wang, Fangmin Wang
Patio of Illusion - Shangshi Chen
The Alpines - Dante Aubain
Beautiful Lure - Hiroshi Akabane
The Runner - Michelle Danner
Best Director (Short Film)
Monstrus Circus - Jordan Inconstant
The Witches of Bushwick - Catherine Delaloye
RED - David Newton
Ali's Realm - Mario Torres Jr
To Planet 2000 - Changyi Yu
The Two Missing Hours - Jean Claude Thibaut
Dress - Paulina Lagudi Ulrich
All Blood Runs Red - Paul Mignot
Shift - Katie Cleese
Incognito - Jacky Song
R[evol]ution Of Love - Louise Hylland
From Under The Bridge - Paul James Houghton
Best First Time Director (Feature)
Harmonie - Juana Jimenez
Love is in the Legend - Myra Lewis
Higher Grounds - Stuart Svenson
Outlier - Nate Strayer
Love Laboratory - Muchao Wang, Fangmin Wang
The Alpines - Dante Aubain
Resemblance - Jumpoth Ruayjaroensap
In Pieces - Louis Rayneau
Green Flake - Mauli Junior Bonner
Kaunn Con Haii? - Ashrit Wadhwa
We're All In This Together - Katie Boland
Best First Time Director (Short)
Aborted Traffick - Bea W. Bliss
Meanwhile At A Cabin Somewhere Near Fairplay, CO - Michael Chenette
Madness - Nicolaus Taylor
The Ultimate Showdown - Robert Bazzocchi, Thomas L. Colford
Between the Creag and the Sky - Kurt Gerard Heinlein
Soundproof - Gabriela Lima
Sunshine In The Rain - Benny Chen
Nostalgia - McFloyd Nguyen
False Dawn - Remco Texer
Coffee and Cake - Manuel Endraß
Hanakotoba - Franck Lahoui, Jowkid
From Under The Bridge - Paul James Houghton
Best Actor
Green Flake - Yahosh Bonner
Cocoon - Christopher Brian
RED - Beau Fowler
The BIG Rant - Poorva Wachh
Delight - Paul Snodgrass
Patio of Illusion - Kalok Tang
The Ice Cream Stop - Thai Edwards
Ernie - Paul Kaye
The Ravine - Eric Dane
Immortal - Oscar Millar
Signals - Jonathan Lindsey
From Under The Bridge - Luc Clopton
Best Actress
Wireless - Annaliese McGuire
Mourning Meal - Ruya Koman
When the Leaves Fall - Morgan Lavenstein
Ali's Realm - Nicole Elizabeth Berger
Latasha Harlins - Rayven Symone Ferrell
The Two Missing Hours - Alisyon Le Borges
The Letter - Micharn Pollock
The Village of Nobody - Yang Wang
The Ravine - Teri Polo
Incognito - Autumn Harrison
Now is Now - Kátya Tompos
We're All In This Together - Katie Boland
Best Duo
Thick as Thieves - Revell Carpenter & Luke Lenza
Debt Men - Travis Myers & Alex Desért
Locked - Alina Person & Simone Gallo
Amazing Grace - Robert Craighead & Nina Brissey
Between the Creag and the Sky - Kathryn Harter & Ed Swidey
A Lion's Heart - Kevin Kapellas & Sara Nunez
Dress - Tess Sullivan & Madeline Dennison
2020: A 1917 Parody - Colton Eschief Mastro & Michael Lieberman
Bird Feeder - Howard Raik & Arlene Arnone
Anomaly - Roberto Calvet & Fleur Geffrier
Hanakotoba - Lena Shan & Frédéric Chau
Beta - William Nicol & Aubree Lea Bouche
Best Ensemble
The Letter - Mike Palmer, Madison Spear, Maray Ayres, Krystal Beyer, Ray Holdridge
The Witches of Bushwick - Chloe Farnworth, Catherine Delaloye, Marianne Noscheze, Alina Carson, Charly Bivona
Hudson Falls - Richard Kind, Jessica Hecht, William Sadler, Robert John Burke, Chike Okonkwo, Tara Westwood
Good Monsters - Florian Maria Sumerauer, Peter Geisberg, Leif Evers, Florentine Schara, Julia Zimth
Pretty Metal - Angela Cole, Lina Edwards, Katelynn Newberry
The Alpines - Aaron Latta-Morissette, Mally Corrigan, Katrina Flick, Jessie Mac, Niguel Quinn, Michael Taveira, Daniel Victor
Green Flake - Yahosh Bonner, Kevin Goertzen, Stephen Jones, Clotile Farkas, Malachi Bonner, Michaelyn Oby
The Ravine - Eric Dane, Teri Polo, Peter Facinelli, Leslie Uggams, Byron Mann
Spread - Juston Graber, Drew Anthony, Rachel Alig, Jesse Tayeh, Mandeep Bevli, Ashley Alva
Incognito - Tom Wade, Autumn Harrison, Jodi Bianca Wise, Greg Kriek
Patio of Illusion - Tang Eugene Ka Lok, Tang Ka Ian, Chon Hin Wai, Li Le Zhi, Zhang Jia Le, Vania Vieira, Tam Ip Cheong, Zhou Qi Yang, Gao Jing
Best Cinematography
Twiceborn - Koichi Kimura (J.S.C.)
Second Team - Robert Arnold
RED - Mark Nutkins
The Remnant - Russ De Jong
Mahanati (Great Actress) - Dani Sanchez-Lopez
Righteous Villains - Andreas Neo
Jolin Tsai - Sweet Guilty Pleasure - Kedy Yu
All Blood Runs Red - Eric Dumont
Shift - Daniel Watt
Incognito - Logan Fulton
R[evol]ution Of Love - Sophie Caroline Gohr
We're All In This Together - Colin Hoult
Best Editing
Green Flake - Katec Ruiz
Second Team - Spider Chambers
Higher Grounds - Jose Guardia Davis
XIETY - Carlos Torres, Karen Torres
Glitches - Annie Chen
Tinhead - Zhe Song
Life Was Wonderful - Sarah Leeper
Incognito - Mengfang Yang
Signals - Bryan Wynn Sutton
Immortal - Lawrence Murphy
Hanakotoba - Franck Lahoui
Captive - Philip Habeger
Best Score
Green Flake - Jonathan Keith, Norbert Farkas
The Witches of Bushwick - Daniele Panza
RED - Nina Humphreys
The Great Artist - Richi Carter
Latasha Harlins - Dennis McCarthy
Moving Art: Whales and Dolphins - Alan Williams
Intermission - Sean Tinnion
Ernie - Dan Baboulene
The Ravine - James Murray
Immortal - Oscar Millar
Beta - Emiliano Mazzenga
Eagle Wings - Chuck Nnamdi Okudo
Best Screenplay
Heaven Schmevin - Jim Norman
Write or Die! - Christine O'Keefe
The Devil's Stick - Tom Bruno, Chris Reina
Ten Commands - Girault Seger
The Lies We Tell Ourselves - Courtney Froemming
Ranger - Mason Beals
Long Term Stay - Ryan Nemeth
Haven - Karen Conley
Mattress - Tracy Morse, Sophia Porter
Rails Run Parallel - Orso Vesperini, Guy Laudereau, Aurèle N’Dja, Terry Newman, Carole Starcevic Serial - Robert Benjamin
As Time Goes By - Jon Davis
Best Television Script
Multiplex - Jennifer Milne
Imagination Park - Episode 1 - The Audition - Barry J. Smith
Land of Eagles - Isaac Banuelos
Walls&Balls - Kenneth Klein, Irwin Hahn
Charlotte Tanner - Beth Armogida
You, Me & The Ex - Rhys Freeman
Non-Official Cover - Jodi Shelton, Hudson Shelton
The Great Danes - James Gaffney
Gloom - Leor Zinati
Natural History - Stephen John Tantoco
Fruition of the Damned - Jeremy MacKinnon, Keenan Carola
Missing In Plain Sight - Gary St. Martin
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