62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival Award Winners
March 31, 2024
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is proud to announce this year’s award-winning filmmakers selected by jurors Su Friedrich, Deanna Morse, and Wenhua Shi. Read more about the 62nd AAFF Jurors here.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival provides direct support to filmmakers. Our 2024 awards competition presents $25,500 to filmmakers through cash and in-kind awards that include film stock, film processing, and camera equipment rental.
The 62nd AAFF Online Festival continues until April 7th at 11:59pm ET. An award from the AAFF confers prestige and financial support; it can also qualify filmmakers for an Oscar® nomination by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the short film category. Qualifying awards are the Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival, the Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film, and the Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film. Read more about our Awards here.
Watch the awards program online featuring select winners:
Awards 1 | Stream Online until April 7 at 11:59pm ET
Awards 2 | Stream Online until April 7 at 11:59pm ET
The Award Winners for the 62nd AAFF:
Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival
The Sketch | Tomas Cali
Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film
Bolero | Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
[will not be included in the online award program]
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker
Minus Plus Multiply | Chu-Chieh Lee
Kodak Cinematic Vision Award
Amaranth | Justin Black
Susan Dise Best Experimental Film
Mast-del | Maryam Tafakory
[will not be included in the online award program]
Best Documentary Film
Domus de Janus | Myriam Raccah
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for an Emerging Experimental Video Artist
This Is a Story Without a Plan | Cassie Shao
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film
Chasing Birds | Una Lorenzen
Gil Omenn Art & Science Award
In the Ice, Everything Leaves a Trace | Christopher Oeschger and Gianna Molinari
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film
Getting OK With Being OK That Things Are Not OK | Zoë Irvine and Pernille Spence
The Terri Schwartz Film Award for Parody and Satire
Catalog '93 | Grau Del Grau
The Eileen Maitland Award
Nothing Special | Efrat Berger
George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award
Is Heaven Blue? #2 | Paul de Nooijer and Menno de Nooijer
CameraMall Best Michigan Filmmaker Award
Kyubabe | Bem Willis
Lawther/Graff No Violence Award
Two One Two | Shira Avni
Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award
Between you and me | Cameron Kletke
Best Experimental Animation Award
Intersextion | Richard Reeves
The Edge of Your Seat Award
Matta and Matto | Bianca Caderas and Kerstin Zemp
Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design
Poem of E.L. | Maya Gurantz
Martin Contreras and Keith Orr Award for Best LGBTQ Film
Esther Newton Made Me Gay | Jean Carlomusto
The No. 1 African Film Award
Loving in Between | Jyoti Mistry
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film
Universe of Language | Guangli Liu and Bai Li
The Terri Schwartz Asian Film Award
I Would've Been Happy | Jordan Wong
Vox Populi Award
Brief Space of a Time | Fernando Antonio Saldivia Yáñez
Ghostly International Award for Best Music Video
Ghost Song | Joseph Keckler, M. Sharkey
Juror Awards:
Juror Award | Humoresque | Shinya Isobe
Juror Award | A Place Without Fear | Susanne Deeken
Juror Award | Born Days: How to Disappear | Louis Morton
Juror Award | Cinema for the Dead | Bruno Moreno and Renato Sircilli
Juror Award | Long Time No Techno | Eugenia Bakurin
Jurors Award | Beware | Wrik Mead
