CIFF 2024 NOMINEES & WINNERS
2024 CORDILLERA INT'L FILM FESTIVAL
Award Nominees & Winners
GRAND JURY AWARDS
BEST OF FEST - FEATURE FILM
Bad Shabbos
Riley; Secret Mall Apartment; Bad Shabbos
BEST OF FEST - SHORT FILM
Room Taken
Room Taken; Trapped; The Last Ranger; Anita, Lost in the News; Jane Austen's Period Drama
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS
BEST NEVADA FILM
Goodnight, My Love
BEST SHORT FILM
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
BEST FEATURE FILM
Riley
BEST SCREENPLAY
$elf-checkout
BEST OF FESTIVAL - Highest Overall Audience Score
Bad Shabbos
SPECIAL JURY AWARDS
IMPACT AWARD
WINNER: Gangsta Gardener
Thomasville; Shoebox; Gangsta Gardener
INNOVATE AWARD
WINNER: Hangman
Border Hopper; Hangman; Barely Breathing
BEST LGBTQIA+ FILM
WINNER: Shimmer
Shimmer; Riley; Jamie
BEST FEMALE FOCUS
WINNER: Bite
Vlog; Before You; Bite; Hoodie; Ladybug
BEST INDIGENOUS FILM
WINNER: Fire Tender
Fire Tender; Urpi: Her Last Wish; The River; Two Breaths; I am Kanaka
BEST NEVADA FILM
WINNER: Watching Walter
For Sale; Line of Fire; Goodnight, My Love; Watching Walter; Catharsis
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
WINNER: "Sand" by Dove Cameron
“Money Game Part 3” by Ren; “Ruling in the Deep”; “Croissant Queen" by More Fatter;
“I Hear Your Voice” by Loren Allred; “Sand” by Dove Cameron
FESTIVAL AWARDS
BEST COMEDY SHORT
WINNER: Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Anne Frank Gift Shop; Favourites; It was Written;
Jane Austen’s Period Drama; We Have Notes
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
WINNER: Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World
Gangsta Gardener; Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World;
Planetwalker; Motorcycle Mary; Dreamcaster
BEST FAMILY SHORT FILM
WINNER: Tabby McTat
The Brave Locomotive; Boom; Nubbinwood; Tabby McTat; Mushka
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
WINNER: Anita, Lost in the News
Mushka; Anita, Lost in the News; Humo (Smoke); Homemaker; Wander to Wonder
BEST HORROR SHORT FILM
WINNER: Wander to Wonder
Hide Your Crazy; Room Tone; Wander to Wonder; Meat Puppet; Endzgiving
BEST SCI-FI SHORT
WINNER: Memo, Inc.
The Move; Resets; Memo, Inc.; Last Weekend; Splinter
BEST DRAMA SHORT FILM
WINNER: The Last Ranger
Line of Fire; Bite; O & 0; Jedo’s Dead; The Last Ranger
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
WINNER: Complications
Complications; Delivery; Paris 70; Clodagh; Restraining order
JOANNA O'NEAL AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
WINNER: Desync
On the 8th Day; Desync; Syncope; Homemaker; Paumo D'amour
BEST PERFORMANCE SHORT FILM
WINNER: O & 0 - Jack Lafferty
Hoodie - Renée Felice Smith; Vlog - Yvonne Strahovski; O & 0 - Jack Lafferty;
Watching Walter - Stephen Tobolowsky; Bite - Troian Bellisario
BEST DIRECTOR SHORT FILM
WINNER: Ladybug - Daniela Schrier Kafshi
Ladybug - Daniela Schrier Kafshi; Room Taken - TJ O'Grady-Peyton; Hangman - Megan Brotherton
O & 0 - Griffin Davis, Jack Lafferty; Trapped - Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz
BEST NEVADA DOC
WINNER: Motorcycle Mary
Rising Heat: Latino Labor in Extreme United States; The Invisible Enemy
The September Family; Ten Times Better; Motorcycle Mary
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Devil's Instrument
BEST GENRE SCREENPLAY
WINNER: All the Blood of Beasts
BEST COMEDY SCREENPLAY
WINNER: The Cottages
BEST DRAMA SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Riverwalk
BEST OF FEST SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Call Me Thor
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
WINNER: Secret Mall Apartment
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
WINNER: Isabel's Garden
BEST PERFORMANCE FEATURE
WINNER: Riley - Jake Holley
Riley - Jake Holley; The Everything Pot - Lisa Edelstein;
Isabel's Garden - Karen David; Bad Shabbos - Kyra Sedgwick; The Weekend - Uzoamaka Aniunoh
BEST DIRECTOR FEATURE
WINNER: The Everything Pot - Sherise Dorf