New Zealand's Vision Feast Film Festival
 
 

After a thorough review of all this year's submissions, we're excited to reveal our 2024 nominees. Congratulations to all! Our winners will be announced online very soon!

A huge thank you to all the incredible filmmakers who entered this year! It was a challenging task of evaluating many exceptional entries, and while it wasn't easy to choose, we appreciate every single one of you. Your passion, dedication, and creativity continue to inspire us.

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2024 New zealand Nominations



Best Aotearoa project 

The Winner of Best Aotearoa project receives $1000 worth of Rental from Rubber Monkey and a Golden Chompy 🏆

TOW - Directed by Taylor Nixon

Molly Payton, Accelerate - Directed by Oscar Keys

Search for Hawaiki - Directed by Fredrick Pokai

Planet 13 - Directed by Joe Murdie

In Her Steps - Directed by Emma Duncan, Ashlee Stevens

MAYDAY - Directed by Ian Sweeney

 

Best NZ Short Film

Planet 13 - Directed by Joe Murdie

Search for Hawaiki - Directed by Fredrick Pokai

The Balloon - Directed by James Fink-Jensen

In The Zone - Directed by Connor Pritchard

BALLSY - Directed by Warren Franz Rodricks

Hudson Hemisphere - Directed by Robert Liam Richards

TOW - Directed by Taylor Nixon

MAYDAY - Directed by Ian Sweeney

Ave Marie - Directed by Celestina Louisa Marie Sumby

Montell2099 - Live from Lake Alta - Directed by Matthew Clode

Best NZ FEATURE FILM

Revelation At Sea - Directed by Bertrand Remaut

Oops, I Murdered the Person the Person I Like Likes - Directed by Ross Ozarka

Weaving the People - Directed by Dan Inglis

The Piss-Up - Directed by Michael Huang

The Bostrom Scenario - Directed by Ricky Townsend

 

Best NZ Music Video

Girls Like U - Directed by Robby Peters

Asymptomatrix - Directed by Dane Jacobs

Molly Payton, Accelerate - Directed byOscar Keys

Poi Tukua, Makayla - Directed by Matthew Clode

Snapped Up (By The Boss) - Directed by Ashley Pitman

Love Letter - Directed by Crystal Chen, Matt Hunter

Tōtara - Directed by Hattie Adams, Ryan Bradley

BEST NZ Documentary

Son of Samoa - Directed by Laman Time

Endometriosis An Invisible Battle - Directed by Emma Wilburn

Barefoot Monster - Directed by James Kevin Gray

Milking Colours - Directed by George Meehan, Cora Bedwell

Detangling the Stigma - Directed by Jzayla Marcya Hughey

Pōneke Classical Sessions - Directed by Sebastian Kerebs

 

BEST NZ STUDENT LIVE ACTION WORK

The Great South - Directed by Taniora Heketanga Ormsby

In Her Steps - Directed by Emma Duncan, Ashlee Stevens

Got The Spirit - Directed by Tom Lewis, Molly Power

The Puppet Show - Directed by Sam Pay

Cubephoria - Directed by Wei-Chi Lin

Embrace - Directed by Thomas Webster

Dear Future Generation - Directed by Yana Chernova

Dive - Directed by Tyler Stanley redmond

Act Blind 101- Directed by Wei-Chi Lin


 

Best NZ STUDENT Animation

Tooth Be Told - Directed by Sam Lockhart

Interception - Directed by Peter McCully

Day in the Life of Gerry - Directed by Evelyn Ardinah Alsemgeest

Journey of Cooking - Directed by Qingyi (Echo) Sun

Dust Bunnies - Directed by Peter McCully

Visionary NZ Nominations 2024


Visionary NZ Director

TOW - Directed by Taylor Nixon

MAYDAY - Directed by Ian Sweeney

Search for Hawaiki - Directed by Fredrick Pokai

BALLSY - Directed by Warren Franz Rodricks

 
 

Visionary NZ Cinematography

The Balloon - Cinematography By Hendrikus De Vaan

BALLSY - Cinematography By Tim Flower

Planet 13 - Cinematography By Joe Murdie

MAYDAY - Cinematography By Julian Vares

Visionary NZ ACTOR

MAYDAY - Emma Brittenden

Search for Hawaiki - Maaka Pohatu

TOW - Lauie Tofa

In Her Steps - Rebecca Parker

 

Visionary NZ Editing

In The Zone - Directed by Connor Pritchard

Molly Payton - Accelerate - Directed by Oscar Keys

MAYDAY - Directed by Ian Sweeney

BALLSY - Directed by Warren Franz Rodricks

 
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2024 INTERNATIONAL NOMINATIONS 

 

BEST FEATURE

KAAZH - Directed By Mohanraj VJ

Journey - Directed By Damien Osborn

Coulda Beens & Wannabes - Directed By Peter O'Brien

Mum Said - Directed By Sabina Sattar

ZOOMERS - Directed By Dylan Chow


 

Best Short FILM

Septichexen - Directed By Anders Elsrud Hultgreen

Fili - Directed By Peter Filimaua

The Third Eye - Directed By Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini, Banafsheh Jahed

Let The Tides Take Us - Directed By Sonia Lim

The Night before the Wedding - Directed By 阿齊

BATTLER - Directed By Samuel Azariah Martin

Broken Heart Sells Sofa - Directed By Laura Blazquez-Pachon

Welcome To The Esh Life - Directed By Abdul Mateen

Wasteland - Directed By Servaes Dewispelaere

Best Animation

Woo and Wah's Castaway - Directed By Takuma Aomatsu

Les Bêtes - Directed By Michael Granberry

The dogs' highway - Directed By Carlos Rueda

Hymns of a Tiny World - The Birds of New Zealand - Directed By Izabella Itzia Anguiano-Jacobs

Komaneko - A New Journey- Directed By Tsuneo Goda

Cherno - Directed By Valeriya Luchenzov, Shir Yosef

Space Station Village EP8:Miss You to the Stars - Directed By Yi-Feng Kao

The Magic Violet Rabbit - Directed By Kotoko Nakamura

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

The Fungus - Voodoo - Directed By Adam Jordan

New Me - Directed By Chico Bennett

HYGEIA - Femme - Directed By Micah Baird, Zach Myers

Sean Reyes - Won't (W.T.D) - Directed By Kareen Mallon

Corona-Man - Directed By Shacham Rubin

Farvæl/Goodbye - Directed By Dawn Florinda Wall

 
 

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Auto-Mated - Directed By Troy Hale

Raj kapoor s LONI Tunes - Directed By Nadir Ahmad

One Second at a Time: Battling the Monster of Addiction - Directed By Tim Searfoss

Laura McMahon Trials Joke Theft - Directed By Laura Mcmahon

Soundscape - Directed By Timmy ONeill

INTERNATIONAL Visionary Nominations 2024


Visionary Director

The Third Eye - Directed by Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini, Banafsheh Jahed

Twenty - Directed by Jason Hogan

TICKER - Directed by Thom Petty

Wasteland - Directed by Servaes Dewispelaere

BATTLER - Directed by Samuel Azariah Martin

 
 

Visionary Cinematography

The Third Eye - Cinematography by Mohammadhossein Afzali

Wasteland - Cinematography by Yann De Moerloose

TICKER - Cinematography by Barbara van Schaik

Twenty - Cinematography by Rob O’Kelly

BATTLER - Cinematography by Levin Mundinger

Visionary ACTOR

The Third Eye - Payam Ahmadi Nia

Wasteland - Jan Bijvoet

Let The Tides Take Us - Caryn Cheng

Twenty - Lorraine Ashbourne

THE RISING OF THE SAP - Joanna Scanlan

TICKER - Ian Gelder

BATTLER - Don Mallard

 

Visionary Editing

Twenty - Directed by Jason Hogan

THE RISING OF THE SAP - Directed by Susie Jones

KIN - Directed by James Waterhouse

Wasteland - Directed by Servaes Dewispelaere

 
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 2024 spotlight NOMINATIONS 

 

country spotlight BEST u.k project

Walking Fernando - Directed By Max Mir

TICKER - Directed By Thom Petty

Twenty - Directed By Jason Hogan

THE RISING OF THE SAP - Directed By Susie Jones

Little Brown Bird - Directed By Peter Rogers

A Reflection - Directed By Laurie Barraclough

KIN - Directed By James Waterhouse


 

BEST RETROSPECTIVE PROJECT

Guilty Bunch of Flowers - Directed By Wayne Kelly, Matt Holt

Canniversary - Directed By Ross Ozarka

Invincible City - Directed By David Finkelstein

BEST VFX

Perilune- Directed By Peter McCully

Journey- Directed By Damien Osborn

A Reflection - Directed By Laurie Barraclough

BEST EXPERIMENTAL Project

A Very Perry Parable - Directed By Daisy Lawless

Drop - Directed By Mike Hohaia

Supernova - Directed By Flora Xie

The Bytes Dreams are Made of - Directed By Alessandro Amaducci



 

BEST SHOT SCREENPLAY

Tīki's Tales - Written by Tabea Isabelle von Gruenewaldt

EL MALE- Written by leonardo Mileikowsky

Broken- Written by Kate Jirelle

Fukkles the Clown- Written by Suzan Averitt

Blue Sky Out of the Oresteia - Written by Katherine Taylor