The 21st Tribeca Festival has announced the complete list of jury award winners for the 2022 festival, which took place from June 8-19 in New York, United States.
Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Jury Award Winners
U.S. Narrative Competition
The Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature Film
Winner: “Good Girl Jane” by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz.
In “Good Girl Jane”, bullied out of private school and at odds with her divorced parents, lonely high schooler Jane spirals out of control after falling in with a hard-partying crowd and becoming smitten with a dangerously charismatic bad boy.
Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature
Winner: Ben Snyder and Elizabeth Rodriguez for “Allswell”, from United States.
In “Allswell”, three Nuyorican sisters navigate the daunting life challenges of single motherhood, career, and family, all while finding humor and solace within the bonds of sisterhood in this absorbing dramedy.
Best Cinematography in a U.S. Narrative Feature
Winner: Azuli Anderson for “Next Exit”, from United States.
In “Next Exit”, in a world where ghosts are real and front-page news, a controversial new medical procedure allows people to peacefully kill themselves. In the midst of this breakthrough, two strangers travel cross country together to end their lives, only to unexpectedly find what they’ve been missing along the way.
Best Performance in a U.S. Narrative Feature
Winner: Rain Spencer in “Good Girl Jane”, from United States.
In “Good Girl Jane”, bullied out of private school and at odds with her divorced parents, lonely high schooler Jane spirals out of control after falling in with a hard-partying crowd and becoming smitten with a dangerously charismatic bad boy.
Special Jury Mention for Best Performance in a U.S. Narrative Feature
Winner: Liz Carbel Sierra in “God’s Time”, from United States.
“God’s Time” is a heart-racing, NYC-set dark comedy that sees two best bros in recovery for addiction trying to prevent the potential murder of their mutual crush’s ex-boyfriend.
International Narrative Competition
Best International Narrative Feature
Winner: “January (Janvaris)” by Viesturs Kairiss, from Latvia, Lithuania, Poland.
In “January (Janvaris)”, an aspiring filmmaker tries to search for who he is against the backdrop of Latvian independence in this dark but dreamy coming-of-age story.
Best Screenplay in an International Narrative Feature
Winner: Martín Boulocq and Rodrigo Hasbún for “The Visitor”, from Bolivia, Uruguay.
In “The Visitor”, in the atmospheric and visually-compelling drama The Visitor, an ex-convict returns home in search of a new life and a chance to reconnect with his estranged young daughter, only to be met with resistance from his father-in-law – an influential pastor in the Evangelical community in town.
Best Cinematography in an International Narrative Feature
Winner: Jan Mayntz for “We Might As Well Be Dead” (“Wir könnten genauso gut tot sein”), from Germany, Romania
In “We Might As Well Be Dead” (“Wir könnten genauso gut tot sein”), the disappearance of a dog and the sudden isolation of a security guard’s daughter start a bizarre chain of events in an apartment complex obsessed with keeping up appearances.
Best Performance in an International Narrative Feature
Winner: Dorota Pomykala for “Woman on a Roof”, from Poland, France, Sweden.
In “Woman on a Roof”, one morning a 60-year-old midwife does something extremely unexpected, which breaks her family and life apart. Inspired by a true story, this is a complex character portrayal told with outstanding cinematic realism.
Documentary Competition
Best Documentary Feature
Winner: “The Cave of Adullam”, from United States
In “The Cave of Adullam”, living by the mantra ‘it’s easier to raise boys than to repair broken men’, martial arts sensei Jason Wilson tenderly guides his often-troubled young Detroit students with a beautifully effective blend of compassion and tough love.
Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature
Winner: Boris Levy for “The Wild One”, from France.
In “The Wild One”, Jack Garfein — Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the formation of the Actors Studio — vividly, animatedly, passionately recalls a life where historical tragedy and personal art formed a unique, driving, uncompromising vision.
Best Editing in a Documentary Feature
Winner: Christopher McGlynn for “The Cave of Adullam”, from United States.
In “The Cave of Adullam”, living by the mantra ‘it’s easier to raise boys than to repair broken men’, martial arts sensei Jason Wilson tenderly guides his often-troubled young Detroit students with a beautifully effective blend of compassion and tough love.
Best New Narrative Director Competition
Best New Narrative Director
Winner: Michelle Garza Cervera for “Huesera”, from Mexico.
In “Huesera”, Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she’s pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something’s off. Nightmarish visions and an unshakeable paranoia have her questioning what she wants, and an ancient evil spirit may be the cause.
Special Jury Mention for Best New Narrative Director
Winner: “Pink Moon”, from Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia.
In “Pink Moon”, an adult daughter kidnaps her father, whisking him away to a cabin in the snow, hoping to alter his unexpected announcement that he has had enough of life and will end it by his next birthday.
Best New Documentary Director Competition
The Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director
Winner: Edward Buckles Jr. for “Katrina Babies”, from United States.
“Katrina Babies” is a first-person account of the short-term and long-term devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, as told by young people who were between the ages of 3 and 19 when the levees broke.
Nora Ephron Competition
Nora Ephron Award
Winner: Michelle Garza Cervera for “Huesera”, from Mexico.
In “Huesera”, Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she’s pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something’s off. Nightmarish visions and an unshakeable paranoia have her questioning what she wants, and an ancient evil spirit may be the cause.
Short Competition (Sponsored by Meta)
Best Narrative Short
Winner: “Night Ride (Nattrikken)”, from Norway.
In “Night Ride (Nattrikken)”, it is a cold night in December. As Ebba waits for the tram, an unexpected turn of events transforms the ride home into something she was not expecting.
Best Documentary Short
Winner: “Heart Valley”, from UK, Wales.
“Heart Valley” follows a day in the life of solitary Welsh shepherd Wilf Davies.
Special Jury Mention for Best Documentary Short
Winner: “Stranger at the Gate”, from United States.
In “Stranger at the Gate”, a U.S. Marine plots a terrorist attack on a small-town American mosque. His plan takes an unexpected turn when he comes face-to-face with the people he sets out to kill.
Best Animated Short
Winner: “More Than I Remember”, from United States.
In “More Than I Remember”, fourteen-year-old Mugeni awakes to the sounds of bombs. As her family scatters to the surrounding forests to save themselves, Mugeni finds herself completely alone.
Student Visionary
Winner: “Daydreamers”, from Belgium.
In “Daydreamers”, a father and his daughter are very passionate about motorcycles. An eye condition jeopardizes their shared hobby.
Audio Storytelling (Sponsored by Audible)
Best Audio Storytelling in Nonfiction
Winner: “Mother Country Radicals”.
In 1970, Bernardine Dohrn declared war on the United States. Now, her son Zayd tells the story of how she was radicalized, and became the most wanted woman in America.
Special Jury Mention for Best Audio Storytelling in Nonfiction
Winner: “I Was Never There”.
Take a trip into the countercultural movements swirling through West Virginia in the 1970s and 80s. Jamie Zelermyer and her mother Karen investigate the shocking disappearance of their friend Marsha “Mudd” Ferber and explore her evolution from suburban housewife to back-to-the-land hippie to drug-dealing bar owner. As mother and daughter venture deeper into the mystery of Marsha’s disappearance, the two process their own history: Jamie reflects on her nontraditional upbringing and Karen reckons with the joyful and complicated consequences of her decisions.
Best Audio Storytelling in Fiction
Winner: “The Hollowed Out”.
When a journalist returns to her hometown to investigate a suspicious accident involving a friend, she finds fractured relationships and mysterious rumors about what’s really going on in her town.
Immersive
Storyscapes Award
Winner: “Kubo Walks The City”, from France, South Korea.
Seoul, 1934. Korea is under Japanese occupation. Like “ethno-detectives,” viewers follow in the footsteps of Kubo, a Korean writer, in his urban flânerie. Through caricatures that mock the shortcomings of a Korean society emerging from the poverty and archaisms of the past, explore a city recklessly discovering the modernity and prosperity that come with occupation.
Special Jury Mention for Storyscapes Award
Winner: “EVOLVER”, from United Kingdom, France, United States.
“EVOLVER” from Marshmallow Laser Feast is a collective virtual reality experience which drops audiences deep inside the landscape of the body, following the flow of oxygen through our branching ecosystem, to a single ‘breathing’ cell. Through this transcendental narrative, it becomes clear that breath not only sparks life, but also connects us to the natural world through the cycle of respiration.
New Voices Award
Winner: “LGBTQ + VR Museum”, from United Kingdom, Denmark.
“LGBTQ + VR Museum” is the world’s first virtual reality museum dedicated to celebrating the stories and artwork of LGBTQ people by preserving queer personal histories. The museum contains 3D scans of touching personal artifacts, from wedding shoes to a teddy bear, chosen by people in the LGBTQ community and accompanied by their stories told in their own words. The in-person version presented at Tribeca is a never-before-seen multiplayer biometric experience controlled by users’ emotions in real-time.
Games
Tribeca Games Award
Winner: “Thirsty Suitors”, from United States.
Jala is a young woman returning home for her sister’s wedding and confronting her past. With wildly varied gameplay, Jala will fight skate punks, random suitors, and ultimately, her exes, in the ultimate battle to heal old hurts and ignite new truths, bringing Jala closer to understanding what she wants from her future. Can she learn to love herself and heal the wounds of her past?
Special Jury Mention for Tribeca Games Award
Winner: “Oxenfree II: Lost Signals”, from United States.
“Oxenfree II: Lost Signals” is the mind-bending follow-up to the critically-acclaimed narrative adventure game OXENFREE from Night School Studio. In the small coastal town of Camena, unnaturally occurring electromagnetic waves are causing interference with electrical and radio equipment. Reluctantly, Riley Poverly returns to her hometown to investigate the mystery. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
Human/Nature Prize
Winner: “Katrina Babies”, from United States.
“Katrina Babies” is a first-person account of the short-term and long-term devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, as told by young people who were between the ages of 3 and 19 when the levees broke.
AT&T Presents Untold Stories
Winner: “Smoking Tigers”, from United States.
Over one summer spent at an elite academic bootcamp, a lonely Korean American teenager hides her true identity to fit in, only to discover the bittersweet pains of adulthood.
TRIBECA X
Best Feature
Winner: “The Beauty of Blackness”.
In 1973, Eunice Johnson, the founder of Ebony and Jet, noticed a problem: Black women had to mix their own foundation in order to find a color that matched their skin. To tackle the problem, Johnson launched Fashion Fair, the first national cosmetics company that focused entirely on Black women. The brand triggered a renaissance in style among Black women and the global cosmetics industry took notice. Now, Fashion Fair is staging its comeback as a Black-owned business in a new era defined by massive cultural shifts and increased competition. The Beauty of Blackness follows current Fashion Fair CEO Desiree Rogers and President Cheryl Mayberry McKissack as they face the massive undertaking that goes into reviving an iconic beauty brand amidst a new cultural context and gives a front-row look to how the industry has changed, and how much progress we still have to make.
Best Short
Winner: “The Comeback”.
The story follows a disheartened young stunt double-slash-wannabe director, his father, and a rag-tag crew of villagers as they set out to shoot an out-of-this-world movie in hopes of reviving their fading village and making it “internet famous”. This 23-minute heartwarming story is set to encourage everyone to never stop believing in their dreams, even if that dream is as far aways as Mars. Will they succeed in the end? A multi-genre movie mixes up Hollywood sci-fi, traditional Kung Fu action and nostalgic feel-good comedy, entirely shot on iPhone.
Best Episodic
Winner: “Stories About Helpful People”.
s a customer support company, everything Zendesk does — from how they build their customer experience software to the way they work with customers, is all about being helpful. It’s the spirit they believe in. “Stories About Helpful People” is a series of mini-documentaries and photo stories. It’s a series intended to inspire the Zendesk community to rally around the spirit of helpfulness. In GOLDEN AGE KARATE, a high school student helps a group of senior citizens get through a vulnerable time, by teaching them karate. In ERIC AND THE BEES, a U.S. military veteran discovers that beekeeping helps him cope with PTSD — and teaches other vets the healing powers of the hive.
Best Immersive
Winner: “Emerging Radiance: Honoring the Nikkei Farmers of Bellevue”.
“Emerging Radiance”, directed by Tani Ikeda and illustrated by Michelle Kumata, celebrates the untold stories of Japanese American strawberry farmers who lived in Bellevue from 1920 to 1942. With a hand-painted mural and Spark AR Instagram filters, visitors have the opportunity to meet Toshio Ito, Rae Matsuoka Takekawa, and Mitsuko Hashiguchi, three survivors of the World War II incarceration camps, as they share in their own words their connections to the land before World War II, during incarceration, and post-World War II. Produced by Meta Open Arts.
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