Live Festival

Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2023

Virtual Festival

Oct 2, – Oct 8, 2023

AWARD WINNERS

 

2022 Chesapeake Film Festival 15th Annual AWARDS Include:

 

  • Best Environmental Short
    Into the Dark
    Directed by Michael O. Snyder
  • Best Environmental Feature
    Trashy: A Zero Waste Film
    Directed by Heather Gustafson
  • Best Documentary Short
    The Long Shore
    Directed by Tyler Ford
  • Best Documentary Feature
    Resisterhood
    Directed by Chery Jacobs Crim
  • ((tied with))
  • Best Documentary Feature
    The Other Boys of Summer
    Directed by Lauren Meyer
  • Best Narrative Short
    Noisy
    Directed by Cedric Hill
  • Best Narrative Feature
    Nowhere
    Directed by David and Franscisco Salazar
  • Best Animated Film
    Yellowstone 88 – Song of Fire
    Directed by Jerry van de Beek and Betsy De Fries
  • Best Student Short
    Stop Pebble Mine
    Directed by Mason Mirabile
  • Best Director
    Harold Jackson, III
    Last Night
  • Jury’s Prize
    The Automat
    Directed by Lisa Hurwi

2021 Chesapeake Film Festival 14th Annual AWARDS Include:

  • Best Animated Film
    Dumpling Dash
    Directed by Lisa Cui
  • Best Comedy
    The Yawndemic
    Directed by Jean Pierre
  • Best Documentary Feature
    Sky So Blue
    Directed by Michael J. Finnegan, David L. Trapasso Jr.
  • Best Drama
    Mickey Hardaway
    Directed by Marcellus Cox
  • Best Cinematography
    Chicago: America’s Hidden War
    Directed by Daylight Supreme
  • Best Emerging Filmmaker
    James Sampsel
    If I Tell Them
  • Best Environmental Feature
    Laws of the Lizard
    Directed by Neil Losin, Nathan Dappen
  • Best Environmental Short
    Hidden Wild
    Directed by Neil Losin, Nathan Dappen
  • Best International Film
    The Wound
    Directed by Sahar Nourmonavar
  • Best Made In Maryland Film
    Our Story: Lifetime Wells
    Directed by Rob Simmons
  • Best Performance
    Actor: Theo Adams IV
    Tyndall Typewriters
  • Best Short Film
    Pooch Sitter
    Directed by Monda Raquel Webb
  • Best Sound Editing
    Heroes’ Honeymoon
    Directed by Rich West
  • Best Screenplay
    Harold Jackson, III
    Liam White
  • Best Editing
    The Heat is On
    Directed by Kelley Ashford and Irene Magafan
  • Best Director
    The Tower Road Bus
    Directed by Michael Streissguth
  • Best Thriller
    Sleep Tight
    Directed by Michael Seabolt
  • Jury’s Prize
    RUMBLE: The Indians who Rocked the World
    Directed by Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana

2020 Chesapeake Film Festival 13th Annual AWARDS Include:

  • Best Animated Film
    Les Animaux Domestiques
    Willow
  • Best Comedy
    A Piece of Cake
  • Best Director
    Stephan Schwartz
    About Us
  • Best Documentary Feature
    You Don’t Know Nothin’ Bout Groove City
  • Best Drama
    Unarmed Man
  • Best Editing
    Fort Bliss
  • Best Emerging Filmmaker
    Mason Mirabile; Micaa Thomas
    Never Too Small; Our House is On Fire
  • Best Environmental Feature
    Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air
  • Best Environmental Short
    Seeds of Hope
  • Best International Film
    Imaginarius
  • Best Made in Maryland Film
    Squeegee
  • Best Performance
    Aaron Williamson; Greg Yelich
    Police Officer by Danny Gavigan
    Unarmed Man
  • Best Short Film
    Wake Up
  • Best Sound Editing
    Balloon Man
  • Jury’s Prize
    Emanuel

2019 Chesapeake Film Festival 12th Annual AWARDS Include:

  • Best Environmental Feature
    Sharkwater Extinction
  • Best Environmental Short
    Nassawango Legacy
  • Best Documentary Feature
    The Pollinators
  • Best Short Film
    Appy Days
  • Best Biographical Feature Film
    The Spy Behind Home Plate
  • Best Animated Film
    Late Afternoon
  • Best Emerging Filmmaker
    Joshua Ziggy Popkin
    Bishop
  • Best Emerging Performance
    Herman J. Johansen
    The Land
  • Best Emerging Director
    Light from Light
    Paul Harrill
  • Best Editing
    Sea of Shadows
  • Best Sound Editing
    The Bonobo Connection
  • Jury’s Prize
    The Cold Blue

2018 Chesapeake Film Festival 11th Annual AWARDS Include:

  • Best Environmental Feature
    Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction
  • Best Environmental Short Animation
    The Elephant’s Song
    Lynne Tomlinson
  • Best Environmental Short
    Current Revolution
  • Best Documentary Feature
    Moving Stories
  • Best Narrative Short
    Othello-San
  • Best Sound Design
    The Elephant’s Song
  • Best Narrative Feature
    I, Matter
    Llysa Rie & Shayne Pax
  • Best Animated Short
    Shadow
    Lei Lei
  • Best Emerging Filmmaker
    Shayla Racquel
    Riverment
  • Best Editing
    In the Executioner’s Shadow: A Story of Justice, Injustice and the Death Penalty
  • Best Actress
    Llysa Rie
    I, Matter
  • Best Actor
    Timothy Troy
    Hold My Horse
  • Best Director
    Llysa Rie & Shayne Pax
    I, Matter