2015 Award Winners and Nominees
| Best Actor in a Comedy Short WINNER Kevin C. Carr in The Midlifers Jonathan Spencer in Melon Head Andrew Keegan in Somebody's Mother Shawn Parsons in The Gunfighter Scott Schiaffo in the Puppet Apocalypse Brian K. Millard in the Midlifers | Best Actress in a Comedy Short Film WINNER Christine Lakin in Somebody's Mother Monica Potter in Truckin Pamela Adlon in Truckin Christina Vinsick in Growth Spurt Martine Moore in Escape from Garden Grove Sharon Lawrence in Somebody's Mother |
| Best Actor in a Short Film (Medium) Joe Sernio in Mourning on Charlotte Street Cairo George in Meet Mario Andrew Howard in Unbelief Peter Riegert in The Walk WINNER Kenneth John McGregor in Arrangement Richard Kind in What Cheer? | Best Actress in a Short Film(Medium) Rumer Wills in Six Letter Word WINNER Victoria Gates in Arrangement Halley Zien in Tiny Things Hayley McLaughlin in Capsized Doris Roberts in Zizi and Honeyboy Elise Rooker in Affliction |
| Best Actor in a Short Film (Long) Michael Wolfe in Straight Charles Haid in One Armed Man WINNER Mark Gessner in Guest House Keir O'Donnell in Bound for Greatness Ian Hart in Conversation with a Cigarette Vincent Pastore in Alienated | Best Actress in a Short Film (Long) Karen Gillan in Bound for Greatness WINNER Deanna Henson in Straight Bailee Madison in The Magic Bracelet Jilian Turnage in Boarding House Laura Shapanus in Acceptance |
| Best Ensemble Cast WINNER The Magic Bracelet The Gunfighter Somebody's Mother Failure Groupies Boats When the Gun Goes Down | Best Director in a Comedy Short Film Eric Kissack for the Gunfighter WINNER Mandy Fabian for Somebody's Mother Diane Newman for Truckin Justin Dec for Boats and Jennifer Lawrence is Coming Jason Knade is Doughnut Dance Andy Fortenbacher in Melon Head |
| Best Director in a Short Film (Medium) WINNER Mika Boorem for Love Thy Neighbor Francisco Solorzano for Floating Sunflowers Doug Cannon for Arrangement Aaron Wolf for The Walk Fabien Martorell for Unbelief Lisanne Sartor for Six Letter Word | Best Director in a Short Film (Long) Edward Kruglik for Straight Paul Borghese for Alienated Tim Guinee for One Armed Man WINNER Ali Eldin for When the Gun Goes Down Walter Gorey for Boarding House Jimmy Gadd for Bound for Greatness |
| Best Comedy Short Film WINNER The Gunfighter Somebody's Mother Truckin Boats Puppet Apocalypse Jennifer Lawrence is Coming | Best Short Film (Medium) The Walk What Cheer? Unbelief Love Thy Neighbor WINNER Floating Sunflowers Six Letter Word |
| Best Short Film (long) WINNER One Armed Man Guest House Bound for Greatness Straight Alienated The Magic Bracelet | Best Short Short Surrender WINNER Hypothetically Boats Jennifer Lawrence is Coming Doughnut Dance Zugzwang |
| Best NJ Short Film Comedy Sunday Best WINNER Failure Groupies Four Eyes Unexpected Twists Escape from Garden Grove The Midlifers | Best NJ Short Film Drama WINNER The Burning Tree Hands to the Sky When the Gun Goes Down Acceptance Arrangement 95 Decibels |
| Best Student Short Film Unexpected Twists 5 to Places Dead Flowers WINNER Nights like This Spirit of Negation Eli Over Darkness The Session | Best Student Experimental Short Film Dystopia Apocalypse Dreams The Emotional Dimensions of the James River WINNER Black Room The Music Box Hair Lockets |
| Best Cinematography Cassandra WINNER Growth Spurt Consolation Prize Bound for Greatness When the Gun Goes Down Floating Sunflowers | Best Animation WINNER I Need My Monster Coffee Tethered Anya |
| Best Thriller/Horror Short Film WINNER The Brief-case Red Deception Boarding House Imprissoned Souls Little Fish Arnold the Killer Clown | Best Documentary WINNER Love Life, Dream Big, Be Positive A Cup of Coffee New Jersey 350 Eye of the Storm Portrait of Abuse |
| Best International Short Film February 28th (Russian Federation) WINNER The Struggle of Libations (Ireland) Head to Head (France) La Monedita (Ecuador) Bemuse (South Africa) El beso del astroauta (Spain) | Best Short Film Script The Mating Dance (Marnie Mitchell-Lister) WINNER Lost and Found (Debra S. Johnson) HONORABLE MENTION Gone Fishing (Steven Canfield Crowley) RUNNER UP Flight (Sheri Davenport) Another Day at the Office (Bruce Rose) A Tell-Tale Heart (Stephen M. Hunt) Welcome to Junior High (Dan Reheuser) Frank and Nuala's Wedding (Tracey Maye) Suicide Falls (Peter LiPera) Catchlights (Mark Ward) |
| Best Concept of a Short Bear The Bench Backstage WINNER Unbelief Diwali Dream Garage Conversation with a Cigarette | |
| Honorary Hang onto Your Shorts Film Festival Achievement of the Arts in Acting Award Joe Sernio | Honorary Hang onto Your Shorts Film Festival Achievement of the Arts for New Jersey Award Rich Robinson |
2014 Award Nominees and Winners
| Best Actress in a Comedy Short Film Mika Boorem in Out to Lunch WINNER Dixie O'Connell in The Exploration of Cole as Led by the Prepubescent Sandy Lainie Ventura in Sitter Emily West in Two Sides of Love Elizabeth Panos in Cellophane | Best Actor in a Comedy Short Film WINNER Kevin C. Carr in Two Sides of Love Ryan O'nan in Out to Lunch Jordan Allen in Cellophane Arnie Pantoja in Personal Day Adam Wahlberg in The Friend of My Friend is Apparently Not My Friend |
| Best Actor in a Short Film (medium) Thomas Randolph in The Devil and Red Wine Ben Sternberg in Gift from God Jayce Bartock in Walls WINNER Bill Sorvino Rory Connolly in No Messages | Best Actress in a Short (medium short) Ally Borgstrom in So Little Time Dominika Zybko in My Daphne Diana Budur in Exit Cathy Moriarty in Tammy WINNER Elizabeth Yoder in The Long Wait |
| Best Comedy Short Film WINNER Cellophane No Messages Out to Lunch Portals The Friend of my Friend is Apparently not my Friend | Best Short Film (Medium) The Devil and Red Wine My Daphne WINNER Harry Grows Up The Long Wait |
| Best Director in a Short (medium) Marc Nickelsbury for Harry Grows Up Maurice Paramore for Devil and Red Wine WINNER Nic Reader for Out to Lunch Philip Jessen for Personal Day Wolfgang Bodison for The Long Wait | Best Short Short WINNER Flights Portals Hanging Charlie The Last Gentleman Billy's A Kid |
| Best Diretor in a Short (long short) Carmela Hayslett for Death Follows Robert Hatch for Masque Gerard Mendez for Defective Maurice Paramore for Posion WINNER Thomas Baldinger for Two Sides of Love | Best NJ Short Comedy The Best Worst Student Film WINNER Sitter The Exploration of Cole as led by the Prepubescent Sandy Two Sides of Love Trip |
| Best Actor in a Short (long short) Liam McDermott for Defective WINNER Richard Losee for Masque Zak Lee in Rose, Mary and Time Thomas Randolph in Posion | Best NJ Drama Short Defective Posion WINNER The Devil and Red Wine Walls |
| Best Actress in a Short (long short) Lauren Holly in Masque WINNER Carmela Hayslett in Death Follows Jennifer LaForte in Morning After Mirabelle Bethany Geraghty in Jane Be Jane | Best Student Film Present WINNER Melody Sheltered Love Beautiful A Teen's Guide to Understanding and Communicating with People with Autism |
| Best Documentary WINNER A Teen's Guide to Understanding and Communicating with People with Autism My Time with the English Tourist The Last American Shoemaker Sugar Shack A Stroll Through the Park an Asbury Symphany | Best Short Film (long short) Poison WINNER Masque Defective Rose, Mary and Time Death Follows |
| Best International Short Film WINNER No Messages-from Ireland One Safe-from Singapore Rose, Mary and TIme-from the UK The Cell-from the UK Andromeda-from Belgium | Honorary Achievement of the Arts in Acting Award Brian Christopher O'Halloran |