Official Results

October 2021 Winners

Official results for the October 2021 New Jersey Film Awards competition.

Official Winners

The complete official October 2021 winners list.

Film Awards

20 awards

Best Feature Narrative Dead Destination

Best Short Film The World is My Stage

Best Drama Short Voice Box

Best Comedy Short Falafel

Best Horror Short The Long Night

Best Thriller The Plantain

Best LGBT Short Spin

Best Experimental Short La Paura Del Buio

Best Inspirational Short Song of the Same Night

Best Documentary Short Worldbuilding

Best International Short La Jeunesse of Alice

Best Microshort DIE

Best New Jersey Short We’re Good

Best College Short The Vow

Best High School Short Lights

Best Web Series/TV Pilot Segments of Jonah

Best Mobile Short Rene Hernandez Destroys The World

Best Trailer Drinking Glass

Best Movie Poster Caged

Best Concept Witness

Acting Awards

6 awards

Best Actor Leonidas Stanescu (Dawn of Spectral Darkness, Ghaar)

Best Actress Jillian Vitko (HoneyDough)

Best Supporting Actor Pascal Yen-Pfister (The Vow)

Best Supporting Actress Sierra Berkeley Fisher (Spin)

Best Ensemble The Plantain

Best Young Actor Ariela Rozentul (Follow the Crow)

Technical Awards

8 awards

Best Director Lisa Marie Tedesco (Spin)

Best First-Time Director Rodrigo Allende and Diego Isidoro Bautista (28-03-20)

Best Female Filmmaker Leeza Ann Mathew (Caged)

Best Cinematography Yury Ostrozhinsky (The World is My Stage)

Best Editing Kary H. Sarrey (Song of the Same Night)

Best Visual Effects Paul Van Beaumont (Dead Destination)

Best Sound Design Neil Benezra (The Vow)

Best Original Score David Andrew Wiebe (The Nobody Prayer)

Screenplay Awards

4 awards

Best Feature Screenplay “A Scottish Gem” by Yvonne Lucrezia Condrau

Best Feature Screenplay — Honorable Mention “The Crux of the Angst” by John McCloskey

Best Short Screenplay “Why I Had To Kill You While You Slept” by Anthony Marinelli