WINNERS OF THE 2022 DUMBO FILM FESTIVAL

2022 GRAND BRIDGE AWARD

BEST FILM OF THE YEAR

BACON ‘N’ LACES

directed by Stephen Michael SImon

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Runtime: 00:19:20
Producers: Stephen Michael Simon, James

Vasco Rodrigues

A single dad of three boys manages a diner. But, there’s more to John than meets the eye.

 

BEST IN CATEGORY AWARDS

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE

FOREST REBELS

directed by Gordon Kaemmerer and Staatstheater Cottbus

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Runtime: 01:20:03
Producer: Gordon Kämmerer and Staatstheater Cottbus
Cast: G. Kämmerer, Marie Rathscheck, Max Thommes, Lisa Schützenberger, Boris Schwiebert, Lucie L. Thiede, Markus Paul, Sophie Bock

A young Berlin play-director team comes to the “Staatstheater Cottbus” to try out a play about the Germans and their forest. A documentary team is on site to accompany this process on film. But the rehearsals are not going as planned.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

OBJECTS

directed by Vincent Liota

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Runtime: 01:04:00
Producer: Vincent Liota, Sally Roy
Cast: Robert Krulwich, Heidi Julavits, Rick Rawlins

‘Objects’ follows three unique people who have held onto things which have gained incredible meaning for them over decades. These objects are not things they flaunt. They are things that touch them secretly…a fifty-year-old clump of grass, a sweater that once belonged to French actress, and a forty-year old sugar egg.

BEST SHORT NARRATIVE

THE SEA CALLS FOR ME

directed by Tumpal Tampubolon

 

Runtime: 00:17:26
Writer: Tumpal Tampubolon
Producer: Mandy Marahimin
Cast: Muhammad Umar

Sura lives alone in the fishing village, waiting for his father to return home. When one day he finds an inflatable sex doll, he finds a companion and a surrogate parent. But this companionship is threatened by Argo, who wants to take it away from Sura.

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

THE MILITIAMAN

directed by David Peter Hansen

 

Runtime: 00:31:52
Producer: David Peter Hansen
Cast: Christian Yingling, Bob Gardner, John Wagner, Magie Yingling

In the hills of rural Pennsylvania, the leader of a local militia must prepare his men for the turbulent political landscape of 2020 while at war with his own conscience.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL

MESHES OF THE AFTER

directed by Meg Case and Brad Porter

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Runtime: 00:10:13
Producers: Meg Case and Brad Porter
Cast: Meg Case

Meg Case and Brad Porter’s work explores a personal cinema at the intersection of the collective unconscious, exploitative power structures, and the continual becoming of each person through the liberating medium of experimental filmmaking.

BEST ANIMATION

BLACK SLIDE

directed by Uri Lotan

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Duration: 00:11:12
Writer: Uri Lotan

Eviah, a young and timid kid on the brink of puberty and his best friend sneak into the Black slide, the most terrifying ride in Aqua Fun. There Eviah will gain insight to prepare him for events about to unfold at home.