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Congratulations to the Winners of the 6th Annual Léman Film Festival

February 11, 2022

The Fine Arts department debuted their 2022 season with the 6th Annual Leman Film Festival.  28 films were submitted, 21 were passed to the judges, and 12 were screened as the winning and nominated films in 9 categories.  This year, there were six judges on the panel, all professionals in the film industry: Vidushi Chadha, Maren Lavelle, Kurt Leitner, Jeffrey Santoro, Nick Santoro, and Raghav Puri.  Vidushi Chadha served as the keynote speaker and spoke about the theme of courage and how that was present not only in the films themselves but in the process of making the films. The prompts and nominees/ winners are listed below:

 

Best Writing Nominees 

The words I cannot express by Kyla Smith

Outside by Flavia Marcos Mezzari

Best Writing Winner

The burdensome clock asks “where does the lost time go?” by Ali Elbanna

 

 

Best Sound Design Nominees

Eve by Joshua Weisman 

In The Red by Sam Nguyen-Jones

Best Sound Design Winner

The Watcher by Ruogo Li

 

 

Best Editing Nominees

inner child by Audrey Eusebio

The Watcher by Qingke Guan

Best Editing Winner

Eve by Ember Pires

 

 

Best Original Score Runner Up

U-Turn by Alejandro Esparza

Best Original Score Winner

Nameless by Levent Kucuk

 

 

Best Cinematography Nominees

inner child by Audrey Eusebio

Papier by George Buford

Best Cinematography Winner

Nameless by Erim Kucuk

 

 

Best Performance Nominees

The Runaway by Caelyn Osbern and Naila Girault Albert

Papier by Frederick Buford

Best Performance Winner

inner child by Audrey Eusebio

 

 

Best Direction Nominees

Eve by Joshua Weisman

Papier by Frederick Buford

Best Direction Winner

Nameless by Levent Kucuk

 

 

Best Picture Runner Up

Nameless by Levent Kucuk, Erim Kucuk, and James Douglas

Best Picture Winner

Eve by Ember Pires, Joshua Weisman, and Colette Mondschein