2022 NOMINEES
The following list is are the nominees for the 2022 FilmQuest Awards. The award winners, including the coveted FilmQuest Cthulhu Trophy, will be listed in full at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony on November 5th, 2022 at Velour Live Music Gallery in Downtown Provo, Utah. The 2022 FilmQuest Nominees are, as usual, filled with many more deserving films than can possibly win or be nominated. To the nominees, congratulations!
The following nominees were culled from a process that began with a record breaking 1,567 submissions for the 2022 festival. Each Feature Film category, unless otherwise noted, has 5 to 8 nominees. Each Short Film & Other category, unless otherwise noted, has 10 nominees. A “secret” nominee in most categories will be announced at the Awards Ceremony. These “secret nominees” often became the winner of their categories, and is our patented twist on the awards process, a unique and fun activity that many have come to enjoy.
Nomination laurels for the 2022 season can be found on our site here and via FilmFreeway here.
Congratulations to all the 2022 Award Nominees, and start spreading the word today! Use hashtags #filmquest #prepareforfantastic #filmquest2021 #thebestofthebest #filmquestawards as you promote online!
# Indicates award is a plaque’d award
2022 NOMINEES
BEST FEATURE FILM
#chadgetstheaxe
Breathing Happy
Bunker
Give Me An A
Influencer
Moon Garden
Murder, Anyone?
BEST COMEDY SHORT
Baby Fever
Cruise
Eric
Meat Jerky
Noche del Infierno (Hell Night)
Prom Car ’91
The Big Red Bastard
The Mages of Rage and the Desecration of the House of Mimicry
The Unusualist
BEST FANTASTIC SHORT
Blank
Fog of War
Lilias Adie
Loveseat
Nest
The Blood of the Dinosaurs
The Breakdown Parables
The Coupon
The Misanthrope
BEST FANTASY SHORT
Fábula
Fishwife
Grummy
House of the Unholy
Larvae
Night of the Cooters
Sylvain’s Hunt
The Rock of Ages
The Wallpaper Man
BEST FOREIGN SHORT
Backstage Fright
Bean Feasa (Wise Woman)
Being Born
Golem
Moshari
The Signal
The Wet Nurse
Tislebu
Unheimlich
BEST HORROR SHORT
7 Minuts in Hell
Black Dragon
Keep the Light On
Kickstart My Heart
Loose Ends
My Left Arm
Ringworms
This Is Our Home
While Mortals Sleep
BEST MICRO SHORT #
Cancelled
Fume
Funny Business
Get Out of There
Old Time Radio
Seaborne
Special Delivery
Wellness Check
Wolfman
BEST MIDNIGHT SHORT #
Baby Boom
Bad Acid
Chicks
Love is a Fire
Nycto
Shiny New World
Sucker
The Rise
Wuurm
BEST SCI-FI SHORT
Black Hole
Convergence
Defibrillator
Risen
Solus
Submittan
The Following Year
Through the Stars
Wakener
BEST STUDENT SHORT
Aperio
Black Whole
Mantis Club
OST
Swept Under
The Businessman
The Erl King
The Lion and the Firebird
The Rotting of Casey Culpepper
BEST UTAH SHORT #
Death Parts Us: A Lovecraftian Horror
El Moño
House of the Mummy
Inheritance
Moonstruck
The Cache
The Man in the Tree
Trouble
Where is Cody From?
BEST ANIMATED SHORT #
BackSpace
Beacon
Buzzkill
Everybody Goes to the Hospital
Ormur
The Fall
The Well
VRDLK: Family of Vurdulak
Your Battle of Mine
BEST MUSIC VIDEO #
Bones
Born to Die
Consensual
Fade Into You
Glass Ship
Here Comes the Wolves
Jungle Go Dumb
Knives
The Tragic Truth
BEST WEB SERIES #
Hot Department: Dark Web
Inappropriate Jokes Well Told
Infinity System
Interface
The Cloaked Realm: Tunnel 23
BEST DOCUMENTARY #
(No secret nominee)
A Life on the Farm
Beyond Tomorrow
Exegesis Lovecraft
Living with Chucky
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT #
(No secret nominee)
Belongings
Bloody Sun
Bridge City Sinners: Go to Hell
The Martyr
THE MINERVA AWARD #
(Awarded to a female filmmaker/duo/group whose work embodies the advancement of the voice and empowerment of the female filmmaker in genre cinema today. Must have been a film directed, written, and/or produced by the same female filmmaker.)
After Mara & The Overkill – Joanna Tsanis
Bad Acid – Sam Fox
Dana – Lucía Forner Segarra
Defibrillator – Madeleine Coghlan
Domestic Bliss – Jennifer Scott & Nicole Townssend
Fishwife – Beth Park
Follow Her – Sylvia Caminer
Give Me An A – Tasha Halevi
Good Vibes Only – Robyn Von Swank
Kickstart My Heart – Kelsey Bollig
Lily’s Mirror – Linnea Frye
Meat Friend – Izzy Lee
Scooter – Chelsea Lupkin
The Coupon – Laura Seay
The Ones You Didn’t Burn – Elise Finnerty
BEST DIRECTOR – FEATURE
#chadgetstheaxe – Travis Bible
Breathing Happy – Shane Brady
Bunker – Adrian Langley
Follow Her – Sylvia Caminer
Influencer – Kurtis David Harder
Murder, Anyone? – James Cullen Bressack
The Ones You Didn’t Burn – Elise Finnerty
BEST SCREENPLAY – FEATURE
Breathing Happy – Shane Brady
Follow Her – Dani Barker
Influencer – Kurtis David Harder & Tesh Guttikonda
Murder, Anyone? – Gordon Bressack
Shifted – Adrian Konstant
BEST ACTOR – FEATURE
#chadgetstheaxe – Spencer Harrison Levin
Bashira – Liam Aiken
Bunker – Eddie Ramos
Follow Her – Luke Cook
The Ones You Didn’t Burn – Nathan Wallace
BEST ACTRESS – FEATURE
Cryo – Jyllian Petrie
Follow Her – Dani Barker
Influencer – Cassandra Naud
Moon Garden – Haven Lee Harris
Murder, Anyone? – Galadriel Stineman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – FEATURE #
#chadgetstheaxe – Michael Bonini
Bashira – Brandon Gill
Bunker – Patrick Moltane
Give Me An A – Sean Gunn
Shifted – Derek Laukenbauer
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – FEATURE #
Breathing Happy – June Carryl
Give Me An A – Gina Torres
Give Me An A – Molly Quinn
Influencer – Emily Tennant
Moon Garden – Augie Duke
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – FEATURE #
Breathing Happy
Bunker
Cryo
Give Me An A
Murder, Anyone?
Shifted
The Ones You Didn’t Burn
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – FEATURE #
Bashira
Breathing Happy
Bunker
Cryo
Influencer
Moon Garden
The Ones You Didn’t Burn
BEST EDITING – FEATURE #
#chadgetstheaxe
A Life on the Farm
Breathing Happy
Exegesis Lovecraft
Give Me An A
Living with Chucky
Moon Garden
BEST SOUND – FEATURE #
Bunker
Cryo
Follow Her
Influencer
Moon Garden
Shifted
The Ones You Didn’t Burn
BEST SCORE – FEATURE #
A Life on the Farm
Bashira
Follow Her
Influencer
Moon Garden
Murder, Anyone?
The Ones You Didn’t Burn
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTION – FEATURE #
Bashira
Breathing Happy
Bunker
Moon Garden
Murder, Anyone?
BEST COSTUMES – FEATURE #
(No secret nominee)
Bashira
Bunker
Give Me An A
Moon Garden
Murder, Anyone?
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – FEATURE #
(No secret nominee)
#chadgetstheaxe
Bashira
Bunker
Moon Garden
BEST MAKEUP – FEATURE #
(No secret nominee)
Bashira
Bunker
Moon Garden
Shifted
BEST DIRECTOR – SHORT
Demon Box – Sean Wainsteim
Fishwife – Beth Park
From Where It Hides – Quinn Halleck
House of the Unholy – Daniel Merlot
Lilias Adie – Elize du Toit
The Breakdown Parables – Emil Benjamin
The Following Year – Miguel Campaña
Through the Stars – Ariel Danziger
While Mortals Sleep – Alex Fofonoff
BEST SCREENPLAY – SHORT
Black Hole – Jamie Parslow
Demon Box – Sean Wainsteim & Aurora de Peña
Keep the Light On – Freddie Paull
Larvae – Alessandro Rota
Loose Ends – Randall Greenland & Jason Tostevin
Relationshirt – Joshua Paul Radford
Standing Woman – Max Gee
The Coupon – Micah Cohen
The Following Year – Miguel Campaña & Luis López Carrasco
BEST ACTOR – SHORT
Black Dragon – Matthew Del Negro
Convergence – Anthony Caldwell
Keep the Light On – Brad Grubenhoff
Monkey-Love, Please Hold – Dan Mousseau
The Baby Next Door – Isaac Joy
The Bottom – James Kautz
The Following Year – Kieran O’Brien
The Living – Brad Dourif
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox – Samuel Dunning
BEST ACTRESS – SHORT
10:33 – Alison Louder
A Roll in the Hay – Clémentine Verdier
Being Born – Hitomi Ando
How to Disappear – Kerry Howard
Incubus – Malou Coindreau
Lilias Adie – Kate Dickie
Return to Sender – Allison Tolman
The Following Year – Rachel Keller
Ursula – Hannah Heller
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – SHORT #
Aperio – Paulo Azevedo
Box on the Hill – Eric Odom
Eric – Oliver Powell
Loose Ends – Todd Allen
Mantis Club – Reginald James
Meat Jerky – Lee Citron
Sam and Doug – Craig Charles
The Bottom – Alex Grubbs
Ursula – Martin Starr
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – SHORT #
After Mara – Jessica Pontes
Bebe AI – Amanda Abington
Finger – Gates McFadden
Heartbeater – Hailee Lipscomb
Hellion – Deidre Rubenstein
House of the Mummy – Emily Ashby
Pretty Pickle – Whitney Masters
Prom Car ’91 – Jayne McLendon
Where is Cody From? – Cherie Julander
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – SHORT #
(no secret nominee)
Baby Fever
Demon Box
Fog of War
Hip Cat
Hometown Boys
Larvae
Miltown
Noche del Infierno (Hell Night)
Otherkin
The Breakdown Parables
The Coupon
The Devil’s Daughters
The Fourth
The Mages of Rage and the Desecration of the House of Mimicry
The Phoenix
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – SHORT #
Hysteric
Lilias Adie
Loveseat
Macagni’ Symphony
Nest
Once Upon a Time in a Haunted House
Paracosm
The Following Year
The Little Match Girl
BEST EDITING – SHORT #
Black Hole
Convergence
Demon Box
OST
Ringworms
Solus
The Big Red Bastard
The Following Year
Through the Stars
BEST SOUND – SHORT #
Anomaly
Black Dragon
Creep Box
From Where It Hides
House of the Unholy
Jim of Earth
Keep the Light On
Nest
The Mages of Rage and the Desecration of the House of Mimicry
BEST SCORE – SHORT #
Blue
Convergence
Fábula
House of the Unholy
Motherlord
Noche del Infierno (Hell Night)
Once Upon a Time in a Haunted House
Paracosm
The Following Year
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTION – SHORT #
Angel City Horror
Grummy
House of the Unholy
Out of this World
Tank Fairy
The Blood of the Dinosaurs
The Molok
The Wet Nurse
Zombie King of Balacombe
BEST COSTUMES – SHORT #
Fieldtrip
Fog of War
Golem
House of the Unholy
Larvae
Lilias Adie
Mummering Legends
The Lion and the Firebird
The Rock of Ages
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – SHORT #
Black Dragon
Convergence
Creator
Darkside
June
Red Gaia
Ringworms
The Fore-Men
Wakener
BEST MAKEUP – SHORT #
From Where It Hides
Grummy
Heartbeater
Old Time Radio
Shiny New Worlds
The Erl King
The Rotting of Casey Culpepper
When You’re Gone
While Mortals Sleep
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – FEATURES (Top 50)
A Nice Place to Visit by John Munn
Aerials by Stephen Michael Vanderpool
Antarctica by Ryan M. Lange and Alan Peery
Apocryphal by Hudson Henry Franzoni
Baby Girl by Jason Von Godi
Catfish by Stephanie Moore & Vincenti DiSanti
Cizin by James Croke
Close by Kristen Wade
Cove by Thomas O’Malley
Dark Astral by Jerry Sampson, JC McNaughton & Jared Rogers
Decomposer by Mason & Tabitha McDonald
Drift Off by Avishai Weinberger
Eve of Destruction by James Holmes & Jeffrey Stackhouse
Eyes of Eve by Dan Bronzite
Frostbite by Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum
Halloween Parade by Julie Sharbutt
He’s a Vampire, but At Least He’s Jewish by Jeremy Padow & Rakefet Abergel
Hell by Lonzo Bentley & David Bornstein
Hey Bestie! by Lulenoxx
Hollowed by David Bowman
Intergalactic Io by Seth Nesenholtz
Kiss Me Before You Go by Kevin Sluder
Leper Khan by Michael Graf
Lupe Q and the Galactic Earworms by Javier Badillo & Nat Marshik
Mourn by DW Medoff
Mutt by Zachary Eglington
Not Dead Enough by Joseph DeFrancesco
Not Like Other Girls by Rebecca Moret, Jasper Garner Gore & Lachlan Marks
Of the Forest by Brant Karnes
Oread by Lee David Copeland
Pine Tree Mary by Nath Milburn & Luke Baker
Problematic by Jerry J Sampson
Regent of the Sun by Jeremy Storey
Restoration by Don Stroud & Winter Mead
Septicemia by Ben Floss
StarFighter: Zero by C.J. Duke
Stranger Dreams by Alyssa Stevens
Suspension by Bryan Ricke
Tales from the Necronomicon: Chapter 1: The Innsmouth Case by Luca Vilante & Annarose Schiavone
The Blackening by Biagio Gulino & Tyler Kamens
The Hearth by Joss Refauvelet & Blake Nespica
The Horror in the Hills by Eric L Thompson & Andrew Garrett
The Man Inside by Kymberly Harris
The Murder Show by Shane Spiegal & Justin Reager
The Rats in the Walls by Luca Violante & Annarosa Schiavone
The Seeker Brothers by Philip Tice
The Spirit Wants by Kathernie LaVictoire
Theater Crawlers by Jeff Craig Bassetti & Christopher John Fetherolf
Time, Space, and The Poet by John Turner
Timestop by John Dowalo & Josh Mabie
Tramps Like Us by Julian David Hoxter
Trick of the Eye by Dennis Haseley
Video Nasties by C.J. Duke
Wolf Mother by Shane & Celina Bernstein
SCREENPLAY FINALISTS – SHORTS (Top 25)
/Haaw/ by Joey Scoma
A New Leaf by Kieran Shea
Allusion by Scott Hutz
Ash in Amber by Allison Hana
Boneseed by Brett Brooks & Joshua David Matthews
EMF by Vincente DiSanti, Jeremy Brown & Mike Meade
Entrainment by Bill Prokopow
Gentlemen of Leisure by Jason Kupfer
Hiccups by Jason Von Godi
House of Wolves by Andrew Yeremeyev
I Wouldn’t Touch That by Meik V. Fischer
Inherit by Melissa Balint
Killer Crush by Rakefet Abergel
LoveSick by Michael Muchnij
Make Me A Pizza by Talia Shea Levin, Woodrow Currie & Katie Peabody
Man Baby by Aaron Murtagh
Marieta by Cassie C. Phillips
Moko Jumbi by PJ Germain
Murmur by Matthew Woods & Kevin Burns
Regenesis by Stephonika W. Kaye
Scam by Julie Sharbutt
Skinny Dip by Daniel Pappas
Stranded by Kevin Machate
Surprise Baby Shower by Tim Troemner
Sweet Molly by J.C. McNaughton
The Ghost Light by Nick Burchard
The Safety Games by Jerry Sampson
The Unknowners by Stirling McLaughlin & Wilder Konschak
The Whisper Tree by Daniel Alan Kiely
This Modern Love by Nate Southard
Unbound by Tavis Doucette
Witch, Please! by Meg Swertlow
The Top 20 Feature Screenplay Finalists and Top 10 Short Screenplay Finalists will be announced at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony.
CONGRATULATIONS to ALL the 2022 FilmQuest Official Selections and Nominees!