All We Imagine as Light directed by Payal Kapadia snagged the jury’s Fiction Feature Prize at the 2024 Montclair Film Festival. Soundtrack to a Coup D’etat directed by Johan Gimonprez won the Bruce Sinofsky Award for Documentary Feature Competition.
The Audience Awards went to Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson for Fiction Feature and Zurawski v Texas by Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault took the Audience Award for Documentary Feature. Zurawski v Texas | Maisie Crow also won the New Jersey Films Competition Prize.
“This year’s award winners reflect the powerful ways in which cinema can bring the world together,” said Montclair Film Artistic Director and Co-Head Tom Hall. “We are incredibly honored to be able to share the work of these incredible artists and congratulate them, and all of our filmmakers, for their outstanding work.”
Full list of 2024 Montclair Film Festival winners:
Feature Film Jury Awards
Fiction Feature Prize
All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia
Special Jury Prize
The Seed of the Sacred Fig | Mohammad Rasoulof
Bruce Sinofsky Award for Documentary Feature Competition
Soundtrack to a Coup D’etat | Johan Gimonprez
Special Documentary Jury Prize
Apocalypse in the Tropics | Petra Costa
Future/Now Competition & The Mark Urman Award for Fiction Filmmaking
Extremely Unique Dynamic | Ivan Leung, Harrison Xu, Katherine Duddas
New Jersey Films Competition Prize
Zurawski v Texas | Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault
Audience Awards
Audience Award for Fiction Feature
The Piano Lesson | Malcolm Washington
Audience Award for Documentary Feature
Zurawski v Texas | Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault
Audience Award for World Cinema
Young Hearts | Anthony Schatteman
Audience Award for Short Film
Anuja | Adam Graves
Short Film Jurty Awards
Fiction Short Film Competition
Dissolution | Anthony Saxe
Documentary Short Film Competition
Death By Numbers | Kim A. Snyder
New Jersey Shorts Competition
The Believers | Evan Newman
Special Jury Prize
The Sacrifice | Christopher Werner
Junior Jury
Each year, The Montclair Film Festival welcomes our Junior Jury, made up of fifteen area high school students representing twelve area schools.
Junior Jury Award
Bird | Andrea Arnold
Special Jury Prize for Cinematography
Universal Language | Isabelle Stachtchenko, Matthew Rankin