Freewheeling Film Awards Winners

2022-2023

Ceremony on July 30th, 2022

Best short film: Orbital Christmas by Mitsuyasu Sakai

Best feature film: Emily or Oscar? by Chris M. Allport

Best documentary short film: View Finder by Dylan Lloyd

Best documentary feature film: Transition by Sas Carey

Best filmmaker short film: Lon Strickland from Billy Kills the internet

Best filmmaker feature film: Jordan O'Neal from Fabletown

Best actress short film: Allison Norris-Austin in Loves Me, Loves Me Not

Best actress feature film: Emma Van Lare in Fabletown

Best actor short film: Giovanni Mocibob in Loves Me, Loves Me Not

Best actor feature film: Walter Platz in Grandpa's Crazy?

Best animation short film: Know you well by Micheala Wadzinski

Best cinematography short film: The 7 Lives of Sara Blanchard by Kevin Ruiz

Best cinematography feature film: Tomorrow's Game by Trevor Wilson and Jonathan Coria

Best production design short film: The Masterpiece by Paul Myzia

Best visual effects short film: Billy Kills The Internet from Lon Strickland

Best costumes short film: The 7 Lives of Sara Blanchard by Kevin Ruiz

Best makeup short film: The Eve from Luca Machnich

Best editing short film: Loves Me, Loves Me Not from Bret Koehler

Best editing feature film: Fabletown by Jordan O'Neal

Best sound short film: The Masterpiece by Paul Myzia

Best sound feature film: Dissous Frankenstein by Robert Mizaki

Best screenplay short film: Loves Me, Loves Me Not by Ellen C. Burr

Best screenplay feature film: Grandpa's Crazy? by K. Danor Gerald

2021/2022

All seasonal winners competed to be the best of the best.

Summer Winners 2022

Best drama short film > Nowhere To Escape from ZiYuan Wang

Best sci-fi short film > Encounters: The Dinner Party from Luke Pilgrim and Brad Kennedy

Best comedy short film > Billy Kills The Internet from Lon Strickland

Best thriller short film > The Darkroom from Trivelle Simpson

Best horror short film > The Unlocking from Thomas Matthew Brush

Best romance short film > Love FM from DC Brandon

Best fantasy short film > Ancestral Land from Gabriel Bissonnette

Best action short film > One in the Chamber from Hubert Boorder

Best fan film short film > Billy Kills The Internet from Lon Strickland

Best costumes short film > For I Am Dead from Patricia Delso Lucas

Best cinematography short film > Anxiety Overcome from Philippe Hamelle

Best sound short film > The Night Garden from Tom Pearson, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Renata Zhigulina, Anastasia Nesterova, Daria Karpova

Best animation short film > The Pyramid from Mohamed Ghazala

Best documentary short film > Four Questions from Ned Daly

Best editing short film > Billy Kills The Internet from Lon Strickland

Best screenplay short film > Billy Kills The Internet from Lon Strickland

Best visual effects short film > Billy Kills The Internet from Lon Strickland

Best actress comedy short film > Best female ensemble from Billy Kills The Internet

Best actress sci-fi short film > Best female ensemble from Billy Kills The Internet

Best actress fan film short film > Best female ensemble from Billy Kills The Internet

Best drama feature film > The Last Race from Tomáš Hodan 

Best horror feature film > Zombiegeddon from Ray Mercer

Best action feature film > Scarlett Cross: Agents Of D.E.A.T.H. from Dean Meadows

Best cinematography feature film > Esme, My Love from Cory Choy

Best actor fantasy short film > Best male ensemble from Billy Kills The Internet

Best actor sci-fi short film > Best male ensemble from Billy Kills The Internet

Best actor comedy short film > Best male ensemble from Billy Kills The Internet

Best actor fan film short film > Best male ensemble from Billy Kills The Internet 

Best actress thriller short film > Faith Bowman from Abstraction

Best actor drama short film > Semaj Miller from #MoreLife

Best filmmaker drama short film > Jane Ashmore from Love

Best filmmaker horror short film > Xupeng Feng from The Somnambulism

Best filmmaker thriller short film > Gabriele Tacchi from When Buying a Fine Murder

Best filmmaker comedy short film > Lon Strickland from Billy Kills The Internet

Best filmmaker sci-fi short film > Lon Strickland from Billy Kills The Internet

Best filmmaker fan film short film > Lon Strickland from Billy Kills The Internet

Spring Winners 2022

Best short drama > The Masterpiece from Paul Myzia 

Best short comedy > Nosey from RJ Ignatius

Best short romance > John & Julie from Joel Familier 

Best short sci-fi > Outrun LA from Stephen Vanderpool

Best short action > Time Cop from Ethan Hawthorne-Dallas

Best short horror > Hear No Evil from Caleb Cooke

Best short thriller > The Rough and Tumble from Franklin Carpio

Best short doc > Cinema Now from Louis Holder

Best short fantasy > The 7 lives of Sara Blanchard from Kevin Ruiz

Best feature drama > For Hannah from John Wesley Norton

Best feature fantasy > They Don’t Cast Shadows from Melissa Goad

Best feature horror > The Wet Ones from Wigwolf

Best feature doc > Eight Colours a Week from Aaron Stevenson

Best feature thriller > Safe House 1618 from Calvin T. Sheperd

Best feature comedy > Lysistrata from James Thomas

Best feature sci-fi > Tomorrow’s Game from Trevor Wilson and Jonathan Coria

Best actress short drama > Sepideh Moafi from Ghost Girl

Best actress short horror > Pamela Kaval from Mothering Sunday

Best actress short comedy > Kristen McCabe from Pole Climb

Best actress short romance > Ulrica de la Mar from A Handkerchief’s Tale

Best actor short drama > Paul Black from Knuckles

Best actor short comedy > Giovanni Mocibob from Loves Me, Loves Me Not

Best actor short romance > Ruud Borra from A Handkerchief’s Tale

Best filmmaker short drama > Paul Myzia from The Masterpiece

Best filmmaker short romance > Joe Schufreider from 15 Roses

Best filmmaker short sci-fi > Jon Mancinetti from Life’s Work 

Best filmmaker short horror > Brandon L. Pennick from Sedalia

Best filmmaker short thriller > Pat Bradley from Double Zero 

Best filmmaker short doc > Stephen English from In My Own Words

Best filmmaker short fantasy > Kevin Ruiz from The 7 lives of Sara Blanchard 

Best filmmaker short comedy > Bret Koehler from Loves Me, Loves Me Not

Best filmmaker feature thriller > Calvin T. Sheperd from Safe House 1618 

Best filmmaker feature comedy > Stew Replogle from The Families Feud

Best actress feature thriller > Best female ensemble cast from Safe House 1618

Best actress feature comedy > Candice Janee from Lysistrata

Best actress feature drama > Sammi Lappin from Angels Eat Ravioli

Best actor feature comedy > Best male ensemble cast from The Families Feud

Best costumes short > The 7 lives of Sara Blanchard from Kevin Ruiz

Best makeup short > Nilus Cogus from Sadie Black  

Best screenplay short > Loves Me, Loves Me Not from 

Best cinematography short > The Masterpiece from Paul Myzia

Best production design short > The Masterpiece from Paul Myzia

Winter Winners 2021

Best doc short: View Finder by Dylan Lloyd

Best doc feature: Transition by Sas Carey

Best comedy short: Bobby Jaws by Iggy Blanco

Best drama short: Esperanza by Tom Procida 

Best horror short: Hazel’s Eyes by Jesse McAnally

Best sci-fi short: Orbital Christmas by Mitsuyasu Sakai

Best romance short: Parts of Us by GS Rocha

Best fantasy short: A Sirens Call by Adam Moses

Best filmmaker romance short: GS Rocha from Parts of Us 

Best filmmaker comedy short: Iggy Blanco from Bobby Jaws

Best filmmaker short doc: Dylan Lloyd from View Finder 

Best filmmaker drama short: Remi Bakkar from My daughter

Best actress romance short: Juliana Soares from Parts of Us by GS Rocha

Best actress comedy short: Johanna Jowett from Little Package by Kent Smith

Best actress drama short: Claire Pegram from Sorry For My Loss by D'Adonis Moquette

Best actor drama short: Matt Guajardo Kelsey from Her Place by Matt Guajardo Kelsey

Best actor comedy short: Jason Allen King from Little Package by Kent Smith

Best actor romance short: Neto Mahnic from Parts of Us by GS Rocha

Best editing short: Her Place by Matt Guajardo Kelsey

Best cinematography short: Sorry For My Loss by D'Adonis Moquette

Best screenplay short: Charles vs. Charlie by Madhu Narayanaswamy Ramanathan 

Best sound short: Her Place by Matt Guajardo Kelsey

Best fantasy feature: Emily or Oscar? by Chris M. Allport

Best thriller feature: The Hurt We Share by Vega Montanez 

Best drama feature: Grandpa’s Crazy? by K. Danor Gerald 

Best filmmaker thriller feature: Vega Montanez from The Hurt We Share

Best filmmaker drama feature: K. Danor Gerald from Grandpa’s Crazy

Best actor thriller feature: Bryce Jones from The Hurt We Share by Vega Montanez

Best actor drama feature: Walter Platz from Grandpa’s Crazy? by K. Danor Gerald 

Best screenplay feature: Grandpa’s Crazy? by K. Danor Gerald 

Best sound feature: Dissous Frankenstein by Robert Mizaki 

Fall Winners 2021

Best feature drama: Ebony Hustle by Jamezz Hampton

Best feature comedy: Border Brothers by Rickey Bird

Best short fantasy: Dao Hides, No Name by Xan Gilmour

Best feature fanfilm: Fabletown by Jordan O'Neal

Best feature documentary: Can I Askew a Question? by Marlee Archer and James C. Durrah II

Best filmmaker short comedy: Kyle Waters Geller from Piller

Best filmmaker short fantasy: Xan Gilmour from Dao Hides, No Name

Best filmmaker short thriller: Andrew Brooks, Rayshun Johnson from Terror on the Rappahannock

Best filmmaker feature fanfilm: Jordan O’Neal from Fabletown

Best filmmaker feature documentary: Michael Douglas Carlin from Minnesota: The Modern Day Selma

Best actress short comedy: Liesel Hlista from Piller

Best actress short horror: Mary Wall from The Eve

Best actor short drama: Edmund C. Short from In Isolation

Best actor short comedy: Tomer David from Piller 

Best actor short horror: Valerio Santosuosso from The Eve

Best actress feature fanfilm: Emma Van Lare from Fabletown by Jordan O'Neal

Best actor feature fanfilm: Jordan O’Neal from Fabletown

Best special effects short: The Eve

Best costumes short: The Eve

Best makeup short: The Eve

Best cinematography feature: Fabletown by Jordan O'Neal

Best editing feature: Fabletown by Jordan O'Neal

Best screenplay webseries: Thunderbolt! by Priscilla Webbe

Best production design short: In insolation by Edmund C. Short

Best actress drama short: Ylaria Rogers from Letter from Bobeyan

Best filmmaker documentary short: Steven Lancefield from The Telscombe Hauntings

Best filmmaker horror short: Piero Cannata from Script

Best filmmaker drama short: Josh Craig from Routine

Best documentary short: Mechanical Man by Diana Taylor

Best sound short: Piller by Kyle Waters Geller

Best sci-fi short: Honor Among Thieves by Justin Eugene Evans

Best animation short: Know You Well by Micheala Wadzinski

Best screenplay short: Script by Piero Cannata

Best editing short: The Candidate by Erkut Altındağ

Best cinematography short: Letter from Bobeyan by Stephen Paul Cooke

Best horror short: Lonely by Elin-Margareta Nordin

Best Thriller Short: Face to face by Valerie Knill

Best comedy short: The Witch Hunters Are Coming by James Atkins 

Best drama short:  RIP Till We Meet Again by Udayyan Raathore

Best romance short: Mango Jam by Kartikeya Narayan Singh

Best Screenplay Feature: Doctor Psy & Co Presents: Gruesome Tales of Horror by Mark Denham