2022 Final Selections
OPENING NIGHT FEATURE FILM
⬥ Dark Matters: A History Of Afrofuture, director, James Van Der Pool
⬥ Woman In Motion, director, Todd Thompson
THURSDAY NIGHT FEATURE FILM
⬥ One Print At A Time, director, Aaron Hose’
DOCUMENTARY category
⬥ 2020 Year of the Nurse, director, Robyn Jones
⬥ Ferguson Rises, director, Mobolaji Olambiwonnu
⬥ The Road to Justice, directors, Kaliya Warren and Brendan Hall
⬥ Son of a Sweeper, director, Lisa Mills
⬥ Woman In Motion, director, Todd Thompson
⬥ Sunlight Around the Corner, director, Alicia Aroche
⬥ One Print At A Time, director, Aaron Hose’
Student Film Category
⬥ Tati the Great, director, Kelly Gray Bobino
⬥ Move, director, Aaron J. Brooks
⬥ From Heart to Pen, director, Anthony Canet Jr.
⬥ Apart, director, Eliar Tabrizi
Animation music video category
⬥ OUROBOROS, director, Heather Knott
⬥ Love Me, director, Amanda Phelps
⬥ WAP, directors, Will Thomas and Domingo Guyton
⬥ GEORGE FLOYD: SAY THEIR NAMES, directors, Christopher R. Owens, Alyssa Dann
⬥ 2020 Year of the Nurse, director, Robyn Jones
⬥ Someday, director, Wes Clark
WEB SERIES CATEGORY
⬥ Gangsta Island, director, Ken Lewis
⬥ Collision, director, Quentin Washington
⬥ Predestined, director, Aaron Avant Johnson
SHORt FILM CATEGORY
⬥ Did Showing Up Save My Life, director, Robyn Jones
⬥ Black Unicorn, director, Essex O’Brien
⬥ Second Try, director, Henrique Eller (Sci-Fi)
⬥ The Company You Keep, director, Laura Fielder
⬥ Beautiful Violence, director, Joey Medina
⬥ Passage, director, David M. Massey
⬥ Mickey Hardaway, director, Marcellus Cox
⬥ Awakenings, director James Hakeem Fidel
⬥ White Tears, director, Tommy Franklin
⬥ Simulacrum, director, Ryan Barker
⬥ SoulHood Prime, director, Carlos Smith II
⬥ When We Prey On Them, directors, Shirod Greene and Ronald Green
FEATURE FILM CATEGORY
⬥ WATCH YOUR SIX, director, Bryan Bostic
⬥ A MONSTER, director, Ronald Dillard, Jr.
⬥ Young and Reckless, director, Timothy Barker, Jr.
⬥ Connect, director, Bobby Huntley II
BEST SCREENPLAY CATEGORY
⬥ In Search of…Califia written by Phil Hollins and John McCarney
⬥ At the Mercy of Faith, written by Samuel Lee Taylor
⬥ Hidden, written by Patricia D. Lewis
⬥ The Madness of James Crowe, written by James Banner
⬥ The Legna Angel of Death, written by Tyrone Tizak Jackson