2022 Awards
Audience Awards:
Best of the Northwest Short
Jumping Into Fire (Chase Ogden, USA)
Best of the Northwest Feature
Reclaim Idaho (Laura Wing-Kamoosi, Jim Kamoosi, USA)
Best Documentary
Vinyl Nation (Christopher Boone, Kevin Smokler, USA)
Best Feature
Landlocked (Timothy Hall, USA)
Best Animated Short
Bad Seeds (Claude Cloutier, Canada) – Tie
Little Ox (Raf Wathion & Patrick Vandebroeck, Belgium) – Tie
Best Short
Kicksled Choir (Torfinn Iversen, Norway)
Juried Awards:
Best of the Northwest Feature
A Good Enough Day (Trevor St. John, USA)
Best of the Northwest Documentary
Reclaim Idaho (Laura Wing-Kamoosi, Jim Kamoosi, USA)
Best Documentary
Sisters Rising (Brad Heck, Willow O'Feral, USA)
Best Narrative Feature
Landlocked (Timothy Hall, USA) – Golden SpIFFy
We Burn Like This (Alana Waksman, USA) – Silver SpIFFy
Best of the Northwest Short
Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox (Stimson Snead, USA) – Golden SpIFFy
Western Exit (Scott Ballard, USA) – Silver SpIFFy
Best Animated Short
My Grandmother Is an Egg (Wu-Ching Chang, Taiwan) – Golden SpIFFy
Little Ox (Raf Wathion & Patrick Vandebroeck, Belgium) – Silver SpIFFy
Best International Short
Ala Kachuu (Take and Run) (Maria Brendle, Switzerland) – Golden SpIFFy
Snorrie (Mustachio) (Victoria Warmerdam, Netherlands) – Silver SpIFFy
Best LGBTQIA+ Short
Little Sky (Jess X. Snow, USA) – Golden SpIFFy
Between Us (Cailleah Scott-Grimes, Canada/Japan) – Silver SpIFFy
Best North American Short
Dogwood (Sipinikimm) (Maya Rose Dittloff, USA) – Golden SpIFFy
Break Any Spell (Anton Jøsef, USA) – Silver SpIFFy
Most Promising Filmmaker
Frances Grace Mortel “Dear Nanay”
Lachlan Pendragon “An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It”
Thanks to those who served on the SpIFF 2022 Jury:
- Drew Ayers
- Rachel Baker
- Mikayla Daniels
- Rachel Gerdes
- Zana Morrow
- Frances Grace Mortel
- Pete Porter
- Alena Schoonmaker
- Aaron Spickelmire
- Aimee Stormo
- Dan Webster
- Nathan Weinbender
- Sally Winkle
- Tim Winterstein
