Bob Trevino Likes It directed by Tracie Laymon took both the Best Narrative Feature award and the Audience Choice Award, Narrative at the 22nd New Hampshire Film Festival (NHFF). The film stars Barbie Ferreira as a young woman who searches for her estranged father, Bob Trevino, online and forms a bond with a different man of the same name played by John Leguizamo.
The Best Feature Documentary award went to Porcelain War directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev that follows three Ukrainian artists defiantly find inspiration and beauty as they stayed to defend their culture and their country.
Directed by Paul Heinzelmann and Jonathan Schwartz, Safe Sets – Dying to Work in the Film Industry, an investigative film exploring the hazardous working conditions in the Hollywood film industry won the Audience Choice Award, Documentary.
For the third consecutive year, NHFF was an Academy Awards qualifying festival for short films, making live action and animated shorts jury award recipients eligible to submit for Oscar consideration.
Winners of 2024 New Hampshire Film Festival
Best Screenplay:
Unconquered: The John Hollins Story (written by Phillip Hollins)
Best Student Film:
Works of Mercy (directed by Alex Yarber)
Best Short Comedy:
Airbag (directed by Timothy Leong)
Best Short Drama:
Loser (directed by Colleen McGuinness)
Audience Choice, Documentary:
Safe Sets — Dying to Work in the Film Industry (directed by Paul Heinzelmann & Jonathan Schwartz)
Audience Choice, Narrative:
Bob Trevino Likes It (directed by Tracie Laymon)
Grand Jury Award, Documentary:
Mistress Dispeller (directed by Elizabeth Lo)
Grand Jury Award, Narrative:
We Strangers (directed by Anu Valia)
Shorts Jury Award, Documentary:
Cycles (directed by Pisie Hochheim & Tony Oswald)
Shorts Jury Award, Animation (Academy-Qualifying):
Tennis, Oranges (directed by Sean Pecknold)
Shorts Jury Award, Live Action (Academy-Qualifying):
Bruno & Elena (directed by Javier Hirschler)
Best Documentary Feature:
Porcelain War (directed by Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev)
Best Narrative Feature:
Bob Trevino Likes It (directed by Tracie Laymon)
Best NH Performance:
Elle Shaheen – Live Catch
Best NH Short Documentary:
The Power of Water – directed by Matthew Myer Boulton
Best NH Short Narrative:
Keepers – directed by Paul Emile
NH Filmmaker of the Year:
Ian Scura – A Handmade Life and Liquid, Fragile, Perishable
Best NH Feature Documentary:
The Ride Ahead – directed by Dan Habib and Samuel Habib
Best NH Feature Narrative:
Eephus – directed by Carson Lund
NH Short Film of the Year (Jury Award):
109 Below – directed by Nick Martini
Van McLeod Award:
Eliza Coupe