2022 Arizona International Film Festival
Panavision Award
for Best Cinematography in a US Feature
MEGAN STACEY for BALLOON ANIMAL
Best of Category
Festival Grand Prize
NOWHERE MAN AND A WHISKEY GIRL
Chris Charles Scott, USA, 2022
Best Dramatic Feature
SWAMP LION
Torben Bech, USA, 2022
Best Comedy Feature
DEALING WITH DAD
Tom Huang, USA, 2022
Best Indie Film
LOVE GODS FROM PLANET ZERO
Jeff Kimble, USA, 2021
Best Foreign Feature
FORBIDDEN WOMANHOOD
Maryam Zahirimehr, Iran, 2022
Best First Feature
SWEET DISASTER
Laura Lehmus, Germany, 2021
Best Documentary
VETERANS JOURNEY HOME
Leaving it on the LandFrederick Marx, USA, 2022
Best Foreign Documentary
LAURA'S CHOICE
Sam Lara & Cathy Henkel, Australia, 2021
Best Environmental Documentary
POWERLANDS
Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, USA, 2022
Best Verité Documentary
ONE ROAD TO QUARTZSITE
Ryan Maxey, USA, 2022
Best Short Documentary
WHEN THE SWALLOWS FLY AWAY
Sebastien Pins, Belgium, 2022
Best Short Feature
BROTHER TROLL
Gudmund Helmsdal, Faeroe Islands, 2021
Best Dramatic Short
BURROS
Jefferson Stein, USA, 2021
Best Foreign Short
FIRST…
Adam Hartwinski, Poland, 2021
Best Indigenous Short
SEEDS
Ajuawak Kapashesit & Morningstar Angeline, USA, 2022
Best Comedy Short
PREGGERS
Sylvia Ray, USA, 2020
Best Experimental Short
LIVING IN A BUBBLE
Natalie MacMahon & Nikola Drvoshanov, Germany, 2021
Best Animation Short
FULCRUM
Timothy David Orme, USA, 2021
Best of Arizona
8000 FT UP
Alan Williams, USA, 2022
Special Jury Awards
Special Jury Award for Bridging Cultures
MARIPOSAS DEL CAMPO
Bill Yahraus & Robin Rosenthal, USA, 2021
Special Jury Award for Historical Filmmaking
TANTURA
Alon Schwarz, Israel, 2022
Special Jury Award for Best Performance
MICHAEL RAY ESCAMILLA
in SWAMP LION
Special Jury Award for Outstanding Cinematography
THOMAS ZELLER
for AMERICAN WALL
Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling
THE TAPE
Martha Tilston, United Kingdom, 2021
Special Jury Award for Sci-Fi Filmmaking
FIELDTRIP
Paul Arion & Soren Bendt, United Kingdom, 2022
Jury Awards
for Creative Achievement
EVEREST: A Graphic Novel Opera
(USA, 2021)
Animated Graphic Novel
GUT FEELINGS
(USA, 2021)
Comedy
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
(USA, 2021)
Animation
KILLING CURRY
(USA, 2022)
Experimental
IndieYouth Shorts Awards
Best of IndieYouth
LENZ
Amir Hossein Tabbat, Iran, 2021
Best IndieYouth Animation
DISCONNECTED HEAD
Andreas Hans Dürr, Germany, 2022
Best IndieYouth Documentary
DEL MARTIN & PHYLLIS LYON
Pioneers of the Lesbian Rights Movement
Ava Barton, Natalia Coutino & Amelia Moss,USA, 2022
Best IndieYouth Experimental
BRIGHT
Ahoora Ebrahimi, Iran, 2021
Best IndieYouth Narrative
THE RIGHT CHOICE
Karen Beutler & Oscar Cole, Australia, 2021