The New York Science Fiction Film Festival Announces 2022 Award Winners

(New York City, N.Y.) May 17, 2022 — The 2022 New York Science Fiction Film Festival has announced the award winners for its second edition, which featured a lineup of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror films and screenplay entries. Held virtually on Friday, May 13th, and Sunday, May 15th, and in-person on Saturday, May 14th at the Producers Club Theaters in Midtown Manhattan, the festival honored the city’s diverse filmmaking community and recognized 15 official selections for exceptional storytelling.

– Pedro de Lima Marques’ Tales of Tomorrow Awarded Top Prize For Best Sci-Fi Feature
– Qais Pasha’s Exegesis: Lovecraft Named Best Documentary

Congratulations to the award winners of The 2022 New York Science Fiction Film Festival:

Best Sci-fi Feature
Tales of Tomorrow (2020)
Director: Pedro de Lima Marques
Run Time/Country: 85 min, Brazil
Synopsis: In 2165, the kidnapping of a young girl puts the last stronghold of human
civilization at war! The problem is that, in order to save humanity, it will be necessary
to rely on the help of an adolescent who lives in 1999.

Best Sci-fi Feature in a Dramatic Setting
12 Months of KAI (2021) — East Coast Premiere
Director: Mutsumi Kameyama
Run Time/Country: 83 min, Japan
Synopsis: What would you do if an “impossible thing” was born between humanoids
and humans? Kyoka, who works as a web director in Tokyo, gets a personal care
humanoid (PCH) Kai. Kai learns various things about the owner. Kyoka gradually
invites Kai to “more emotions as a thing.”

Best Documentary
Exegesis: Lovecraft (2021) — EAST COAST PREMIERE
Director: Qais Pasha
Run Time/Country: 120 min, Canada
Synopsis: A cathartic journey that Qais Pasha, a Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker embarks
on as he traces the life of cult author H.P. Lovecraft, from woodland cemeteries in Rhode
Island to the docks of New York and on to the cobbled stone streets of Quebec City.

Best Sci-fi Short
One-Hit Wonder (2021)
Director: Amanda Dow
Run Time/Country: 11 min, USA
Synopsis: A cab driver takes a former pop star on a one-way Twilight Zone-like ride.

Best Supernatural Short
Moore’s Void (2020)
Director: Brad Bangsboll
Run Time/Country: 16 min, Canada
Synopsis: A grieving mother attempts to speak with her deceased son.

Best Diversity in Sci-fi Short
Looking Glass (2020)
Director: Ginew Benton
Run Time/Country: 20 min, USA
Synopsis: After his father was murdered Benjamin Looking Glass II, a young Native
American man builds a time machine using modern science and ancient knowledge
in an attempt to bring his father back but ultimately discovers his true purpose in creation.

Best Fantasy Short
Fulgidusen (2020)
Director: Alexander Feichter
Run Time/Country: 23 min, Germany
Synopsis: Felix has first met his paper friends: He has discovered them on the pages of
some of the old books on the bookshelf. Uncle Armin calls them the Fulgiduses. As Felix
is browsing through the books again, he discovers something new: Tentacled beings
called Skures.

Best Animation
Kaiju Decode (2021)
Director: S/N
Run Time/Country: 9 min, Japan
Synopsis: The catastrophe “Skyfall” was brought by the collapsed orbital space colony
crashed into the Earth. Inside the crater at the crash site now inhabit Kaiju born by a
gene mutation. Ray, an avatar, comes to the area to collect the scattered “seeds”, not
knowing what really is going on there, He soon meets Mil, a mysterious girl. Is she a
human, or a Kaiju. A secret government film from the 1960s reveals a scientist desperate
to work a mysterious AI to uncover the secrets of a fictional reality invading our own.

Best Virtual Reality
Kaiju Decode: First Contact (2021)
Creator: Tsuburaya Productions, Toei Animation
Country: Japan
Synopsis: This virtual reality animation work is about a girl, Mil, who encounters, plays,
and interacts with a Kaiju. This VR film can be watched from three different viewpoints:
the audience’s perspective (default), the Kaiju’s perspective, and Mil’s perspective.

Best Web Series
Atlas – Chapter One (2021)
Director: Ayman Chaudhry
Run Time/Country: 10 min, UK
Synopsis: Technology has replaced currency. Wealth has replaced humanity. When a rebel
cell interrogates a corrupt politician, they uncover a secret more terrifying than anything
they could have imagined

Best Trailer
In Search of Hawaiian Bigfoot (2021)
Director: MarQ Morrison 
Run Time/Country: 1 min, USA
Synopsis: This award-winning experimental, hybrid, cinematic, vlog film follows “marQ,” an
award-winning micro-documentary filmmaker turned Cine-Vlogger as he searches for the
Maui Skunk Ape a.k.a. Hawaiian Bigfoot in the jungles of Maui.

Best Supernatural Screenplay
The Bad Ones
Writer: Dempsey James Tillman, Ted Dewberry

Best Sci-fi Screenplay
The Cheating Vaccine
Writer: Duncan B. Putney

Best World-Building Screenplay
Escape to Hollow Earth
Writer: Colin K. Stewart

Best Short Screenplay
Transistor
Writer: Brendan P Lee

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About The New York Science Fiction Film Festival
Founded in 2017, The New York Science Fiction Film Festival celebrates freedom of expression and the unique approaches of independent filmmakers as a merit to the science fiction, supernatural, horror, and fantasy genres. By honoring a groundbreaking past and looking ahead to an unprecedented future, the festival is committed to encompassing the brilliance of film.

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