Technical Award Winners

Scriptwriting Winners

Acting Award Winners

Best in Film Winners

 

Technical and Special Acting Award Winners

Best Cinematography

Son to Son – Kevin Garrison

 

Best Editing

Swiped Right – Dana Marisa Schoenfeld

 

Best Original Score

SIJI: Driver – Tasos Eliopoulos

 

Best Art Direction

Son to Son – Todd Jeffrey

 

Best Original Song

Swiped Right – Travis Elliott – Miles Away

 

When a film in the technical award competition has the perfect integration of technical elements in three categories, and we consider that our Triple Play Winner. This does not happen every year, but it has in 2018.

Triple Play Winner for:

Best Cinematography – Sandbox – Eddie Lebron

Best Editing – Sandbox – Eddie Lebron

Best Original Score – Sandbox – Chris Lott

 

Best Actor

Kill AL – Anthony Grasso

  

Best Actor Honorable Mention

Mortal Wounds – Neil Holland

 

Best Actress

Sandbox – Nadia Levin

 

Best Supporting Actor

Mortal Wounds – Clark Middleton

 

Best Supporting Actress

Swiped Right – Stephanie Weppler

 

 

Screenwriting Competition at 2018 LIIFE

Winner:

Steven Tsapelas
The Land That Time Like Totally Forgot

Runner up:
Beth Bollinger
Until the End of the Ninth

 

Nominees and Winners in Best Film Categories – Winners are Bolded and Marked with *

Nominations for Best Documentary Film

John Hemmer & The Showgirls

*Alex

Hatom

Always a General

Out of the Shadows: Negro Baseball

Honorable Mention:The Dogfather

Nominations for Best Feature Film

Pickins

Block Island

Love & Everything in Between

One Bedroom

One Life To Give

*SIJI: Driver

Nominations for Best Foreign Feature Film

*Elvis Walks Home

Kupal

Torments of Love

Jamaica Man

Nominations for Best Animation

*High Intensity

Sprout

Blows in the Wind

Collision Course

Brightside

Nominations for Best Music Video

Emoji Song

Me The Force

*Freedom ‘Fighter

Shut Up I’m On a Roll

White Rapper

Your Letter

Nominations for Best Webisode

Luber

*Playing Dirty

The Reunion

Nominations for Best Foreign Short

Deep Storage

Hot Girl

(Out)Caste

AINHOA

Welcome to the World

*2 Strangers Who Meet 5 Times

I See A Woman

Nominations Best Short

The Dollmaker

Rainmaker

Truce

I Got A Call Back

*The Son the Father

The Prime

As It Seems

Kill Al

3 minutes

 

Nominations for Best Long Island Film

To Kill A Cat

A Thousand Words

The Museum of Lost Things

Awakening

The Perfect Fit

The Eye

Mortal Wounds

*Poughkeepsie

Handle With Care

Nominations for Best Student Film

*College Senior

The Adventures of Penny Patterson

Brightside

Do Not Lose

Follow Me

Limbo

Nomination for Best Comedy

Handle with Care

*One Bedroom

Sexual Healing

Swiped Right

I Got a Call Back

Honorable Mention: To Kill a Cat

Audience Choice – Feature – *Dinosaur/Honor Amongst Men

Audience Choice – Documentary – *Free Advice

Alan Fortunoff Humanitarian Film Award – *Always a General

Nominations for Best Story

Deep Storage

Kupal

*Museum of Lost Things

The Doll Maker

2 Strangers Who Meet 5 Times

Elvis Walks Home

The Sandbox

Nominations for Best Director – Short

*As It Seems – Nancy Menagh

3 Minutes

Kill AL

Dollmaker

The Son The Father

Mortal Wounds

Nominations for Best Director – Feature

*One Life to Give – Benji Dunaief

One Bedroom

Block Island

Pickins

SIJI: Driver