2024 Nominees

Best Feature Film

• Not Another Deaf Story — Hilari Scarl (USA)

• Pas le choix — Hrysto (France)

• Speak in a Whisper — Thomas Moore and Meret Kraft (France)

• You Shall Hear — Michael Smeaton (Germany)

 

Best Actor

• Lacrimosa — Austin Chapman (USA)

• Not Another Deaf Story — Justin Jackerson (USA)

• Pas le choix — Anthony Guyon (France)

• What? — John Maucere (USA)

 

Best Actress

• Not Another Deaf Story — Amber Zion (USA)

• Speak in a Whisper — Jennifer Knafo (France)

• What? — Amber Zion (USA)

• You Shall Hear — Anne Zander (Germany)

 

Best Director

• Not Another Deaf Story — Hilari Scarl (USA)

• Pas le choix — Hrysto (France)

• Speak in a Whisper — Chongyan Liu (France)

• You Shall Hear — Petra Katharina Wagner (Germany)

 

Best Screenplay

• Lacrimosa — Austin Chapman (USA)

• Not Another Deaf Story — Hilari Scarl (USA)

• Speak in a Whisper — Chongyan Liu + Martin Trouvé-Dugény (France)

• You Shall Hear — Katrin Bühlig (Germany)

 

Best Cinematography

• Changer: A Hand Telling — Kyle Seago and Raven Two Feathers (USA)

• Pas le choix —Alex Sambe (France)

• Speak in a Whisper —Yadi Liu (France)

• You Shall Hear — Peter Polsak (Germany)

 

Best Editing

• Changer: A Hand Telling — Kyle Seago (USA)

• Pas le choix — Natacha Rougier + Julien Joyeux Vittoriani (France)

• Speak in a Whisper — Chongyan Liu (France)

• You Shall Hear — Simone Klier (Germany)

 

Best Short Film

• Diagnonsense — Louis Neethling (UK)

• Father Tongue — Iris Ben Moshe (Israel)

• Fractal — Anslem Richardson (USA)

• Veneer — Becky Adams + Paul Mills (UK)

 

Best Feature Documentary

• Alfredo Corrado — Julien Bourges (France)

• Being Michelle — Atin Mehra + Mae Thornton Mehra (USA)

• Silent Rhythm — Sarah Goolishian (USA)

• The Tuba Thieves — Rachel Neervelde, Alison O’Daniel, Su Kim,                                                      Maya E. Rudolph (USA)

 

Best Short Documentary

• Breaking Silence — Monique Walton (USA)

• Elevated — Rachel Weinberg (USA)

• My Life in 2 Luggage — Gabriel Ponte-Fleary (USA)

• NINA — Joe Adams + Kristine Rivera (USA)

 

Best Episodic

• 4 Deaf Yorkshiremen and a Wedding— Camilla Arnold (UK)

• 4 Deaf Yorkshiremen’s Contest — Camilla Arnold (UK)

• Here/Not Here — Anne Beresford and Andrew Gillman (UK)

 

Best Animation

• Dimensions — Melissa Malzkuhn (USA)

• Ice Cubes — Lymon Thorn (USA)

• Greta’s Storm — Christopher Gustav Buhr (Germany)

 

Best Student Film

• Danceable — Joe Metcalf + Boson Wang (USA)

• Deaf Giants — Peter Hoffman Kimball (USA)

• DOSH — Radha Mehta (USA)

• Interpretation — MJ Kiego (USA)

 

Special Merit Award Winner

• Changer: A Hand Telling — Howie Seago (USA)