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2022

Award Winners

The 22nd Anniversary Edition of the Beverly Hills Film Festival has warmly welcomed an exceptional set of filmmakers and writers.

Remaining dedicated and focused on its artists’ creative vision, the Beverly Hills Film Festival® is more than honored to present the 22nd Edition of its Awards with the close collaborative efforts of the Beverly Hills Film Festival Executive Directorial Team and the Beverly Hills Film Festival President of the Jury.

2022 Beverly Hills Film Festival Golden Palm Award

Missile From the East

Director: Justin Stokes

Country: UK

RT: 91min

Synopsis: The story of East German motorcycle racer Ernst Degner, who, at the height of the Cold War and on the cusp of achieving his life ambition to win the world championship, fled East Germany with his family in a heart-stopping escape....

2022 Screenplay Awards

GOLDEN PALM AWARD

Making Twain

Greg Beattie

1ST RUNNER UP

Summer Job

Jarrett Bryant

2ND RUNNER UP

Secret Library

Laurel King

2022 Film Awards

Best Director, Best Cinematography

The Grand Bolero

Country: Italy

RT: 190min

Director: Gabriele Fabbro

In this Covid-era Italian thriller, Roxanne, a cold middle-aged pipe organ restorer, battles to suppress her obsessive attraction to her new young and mute assistant....

Best Short Documentary

Remnants of Memory

Country: United States

RT: 25min

Director: Michael Arlen Davis

Fine Art Photographer Charles Johnstone explores the canals and passageways of Venice Italy in search of a new project. A meditation on artistry and craft, "Remnants of Memory" celebrates beauty in the overlooked objects we pass every day....

Best Foreign Film

Oliver & the Pool

Country: Mexico

RT: 101min

Director: Arcadi Palerm-Artis

When something unexpected happens in 13-year-old Oliver's family, all he wants to do is walk away. He takes up residence in a poolside lounge chair and decides there's no reason to move. Ever....

Best Student Film

Magdalena

Country: United States

RT: 26min

Director: Michael Lazovsky

Czechoslovakia, 1971. A Slovakian woman cannot shake the demons of her horrific past as they come back to haunt her and threaten to destroy the life she's tirelessly trying to build....

Best Producer

Missile From the East

Country: UK

RT: 91min

Director: Justin Stokes

The story of East German motorcycle racer Ernst Degner, who, at the height of the Cold War and on the cusp of achieving his life ambition to win the world championship, fled East Germany with his family in a heart-stopping escape....

Best Actress, Best Feature Film

Continue

Country: United States

RT: 115min

Director: Nadine Crocker

Story: A depressed girl attempts suicide, gets admitted to a mental institution involuntarily. She finds friends, love, and a new outlook on life, but learns some choices are irreversible. She has one life to live....

Best Actor

Grounds of Hope

Country: France

RT: 192min

Director: Lionel Bernardin

Former boxer Alex, working as a laborer, is forced into illegal fight clubs to protect his twin sister, a refugee and his daughter from violent local gangsters. This gripping tale explores love, loyalty and resilience in a desperate time....

Best Animated Film

Soft Rain

Country: Singapore

RT: 7min

Director: Sacha Goedegebure

A man suffering from depression is caught in a sudden downpour of pink, fluffy balls. At a crowded bus stop, a cheerful looking woman offers him a spot under her umbrella, and together they enjoy the soft rain....

Best Editing

The Father’s Job

Country: Germany

RT: 19min

Director: Frank Christian Wagner

A Father's Job tells the story of a Jewish woman's fate in the middle of the last century in Germany. Step by step connections become apparent and result in an overall view that doesn't just comes up with an unexpected counterpart but also turns temporal orientation upside down....

2022 SPECIAL JURY AWARDS

Best Short Film

The Last Supper

Country: United States

RT: 10min

Director: Michael Risley

An Albanian boy accidentally releases a turkey and must get it back in time for New Year's Eve dinner....

Best Actress, Best Feature Film

Continue

Country: United States

RT: 115min

Director: Nadine Crocker

Story: A depressed girl attempts suicide, gets admitted to a mental institution involuntarily. She finds friends, love, and a new outlook on life, but learns some choices are irreversible. She has one life to live....

Best Documentary

Roger Corman: The pope of pop cinema

Country: France

RT: 52min

Director: Bertrand Tessier

The exploitation career of maverick producer Roger Corman, covering his heyday as a director touching upon subjects that major studios wouldn't allow that appealed mainly to youth audiences at their local drive-ins....

2022 AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

Best Feature Documentary

TRUELOVE: The Film

Country: United States

RT: 97min

Director: Phil Viardo

Teen Callie Truelove, who has Williams syndrome, travels America meeting others with the condition. Her documentary shows their stories and unique perspectives while spreading love and awareness to help heal the world....

Best Feature Film

Balloon Animal

Country: United States

RT: 88min

Director: Em Johnson

A young circus performer, stuck under the harsh rules of her father and community expectations, finds herself captivated by small-town America, forcing her to question everything....

Best Short Film

The Stranger

Country: United States

RT: 13min

Director: Dan Burks

When a stranger takes a family hostage in their small-town feed store, the father's only hope of saving them is to answer the stranger's solitary demand: "Tell me who I am."...

2022 Juries

Amy Lord

Amy Lord began her career in NYC at the Noble Talent agency. ...

John Posey

John Posey, a graduate of the University of Florida, hails from Florida. ...

Joe Cortese

Joe Cortese is in the Oscar-winning Green Book (2019) opposite Viggo Mortensen. ...

Brett Leonard

Brett Leonard is a film director. ...

Kirk Shaw

In September 2017, Kirk Shaw embraced a new film-making adventure by forming the publicly traded company, Wonderfilm, as a founding producer along with Dan Grodnik, Jeff Bowler and Bret Saxon. ...

Nate Thomas

Nate Thomas has directed and produced numerous projects ranging from award-winning PBS documentaries to feature films, IMAX films, television commercials, public service ads, etc. ...

Gary Shapiro

Gary Shapiro launched his career in the movie business in NYC working for Columbia Pictures immediately after graduating from college in Los Angeles to the present where he has moved into the new digital technologies with several major Hollywood film studios. ...

Roberta Augusto

Roberta Augusto is Brazilian-born stalwart in the film industry, boasting an illustrious career spanning two decades. ...

Frederico Lapenda

Award-winning filmmaker Frederico Lapenda is a global executive who has worked in the entertainment industry for almost 30 years. Lapenda is a pioneer of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and is credited as one of those responsible for the globalization of sport. ...