Announcing the WINNERS of the 2nd annual 2022 DIRECTORS CHOICE fan film awards!

Beginning last year, there are now multiple annual awards shows open exclusively to fan films. Some are specific to just Star Trek fan films, but the DIRECTORS CHOICE AWARDS are open to fan films from any franchise or genre that were released in the previous calendar year (in the case of the current awards, the year was 2022).

Created and administered by GLEN L. WOLFE and DAN REYNOLDS of WARP 66 STUDIOS in Arkansas, the showrunners behind THE FEDERATION FILES “fanthology” series, the cost to enter was $10 per film, which included consideration in up to six categories (chosen by the submitter at the time they filled out the entry form). The judges were the directors of those submitted films, and casting a ballot was required in order for a director’s film(s) not to be disqualified. Also, a director was not allowed to vote for their own fan film (lest the final tallies wound up with each film getting one vote each!).

This year, Dan and Glen sweetened the pot a little (okay, a lot) by adding a $250 grand prize for “Best in Fest,” determined by which fan film received the most total votes across all categories.

The idea behind contests like these, in addition to honoring the fan filmmakers and their work, is to provide more exposure for these productions. So hopefully, you’ll check out at least a few of these fan films to see something you might like a lot. I did and was pleasantly surprised by more than a few of them!

Glen Wolfe concurred…

My goal was to bring some publicity to all of the fan filmmakers out there, and it looks like this is helping with that. I have received several comments from fans and fan filmmakers that, because of this award show, they viewed films that they would otherwise have been unaware of. From my perspective, I am very happy with the diversity of the films entered into the contest this year, as well as the diversity of the winning films. So hopefully that continues, and we will have a even more diverse field next year.

For a list of all 53 fan films that were entered, all of the nominees in each category, and all the winners, you can watch their presentation video. Below is a list of the winners and runners up in all the categories, along with YouTube links to those specific fan films. There’s also a list of MVPs (most valuable producers) supplied by the entrants themselves to acknowledge someone in their cast and/or crew whose contribution to the project was significant enough to merit special recognition.

And finally, at the bottom on this blog page, there’s a list of fan films voted the best for each franchise, the winners for best foreign and domestic fan films, and at the very bottom, the $250 winner for Best in Fest…

BEST DIRECTOR

Winner:
Ambush – A Star Trek Fan Production
Greg Lock

Runner Up:
Batman: Broken Promise
Stephen Trumble

BEST ACTOR

Winner:
Secrets of the Temple PT 2: A Star Wars Fan Film
Tanner McNatt as Aylek

Runner Up:
Batman: Broken Promise
David Trumble as Harvey Dent/Two-Face

BEST ACTRESS

Winner:
The 53rd Annual Hunger Games
Abigail Knol

Runner Up:
Renegade: A Tribute to a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Sina Schwery as Rubera

BEST COSTUMING

Winner:
Legacy of the Mandalorian

Runner Up:
Secrets of the Temple PT 1: A Star Wars Fan Film

BEST HAIR/ MAKE-UP

Winner:
Resistance: A Star Trek Fan Production
Melissa Clarkson

Runner Up:
The Federation Files: Escape from Magna Roma
Michele Reynolds & Kali Green

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Winner:
Karu: Part One: A Short Star Wars Fan Film

Runner Up:
LAST STAND: A Star Wars Fan Film

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC

Winner:
Batman: Broken Promise
Claire Wickes

Runner Up:
The Federation Files: Mudd’s Mission
Stephanie Browning

BEST AUDIO MIXING

Winner:
The Forgotten Time Lord

Runner Up:
Karu: Part One: A Short Star Wars Fan Film

BEST CGI

Winner:
Cybertron Falls: The War Within (TRANSFORMERS CGI FAN FILM)

Runner Up:
Devil in the Desert: A Jurassic World Fan Film

BEST GREEN SCREEN

Winner:
The Federation Files: Escape From Magna Roma
Dan R. Reynolds

Runner Up:
One Small Step – A Star Trek Fan Production
Samuel Cocking

BEST F/X MAKE-UP

Winner:
Renegade: A Tribute to a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Runner Up:
Evil Returns: A Halloween Fan Film

BEST LIGHTING

Winner:
The Oath: A Batman Fan Film

Runner Up:
Indiana Jones and The Tomb of Olympias

BEST SCREENPLAY

Winner:
Spider-Man: Seasons of Change

Runner Up:
Batman: Broken Promise

BEST COMEDY/PARODY

Winner:
The One with the Whales

Runner Up:
A Star Wars Movie

BEST ANIMATED

Winner:
Batman: Broken Promise

Runner Up:
Cybertron Falls: The War Within (TRANSFORMERS CGI FAN FILM)

MOST CANON

Winner:
Doomsday: A Star Trek Fan Production

Runner Up:
Devil in the Desert: A Jurassic World Fan Film

BEST EDITING

Winner:
LAST STAND: A Star Wars Fan Film

Runner Up:
The Oath: A Batman Fan Film

BEST PORTRAYAL OF EXISTING CHARACTER

Winner:
The Oath: A Batman Fan Film
Guillermo Mejia as Michael Keaton’s Batman

Runner Up:
Batman: Broken Promise
Brian Vaughan as Bruce Wayne/Batman

BEST ENSEMBLE

Winner:
The Order – EPISODE ONE: ROSIER (HARRY POTTER FAN FILM)

Runner Up:
Secrets of the Temple PT 1: A Star Wars Fan Film

MVP LIST

*Constar Chronicles – Dive: A Star Trek Fan Film*	Alec Peters
*New Dawn (Star Wars Fan Film)*	Jason Kleber – Creative Advisor
*A Star Wars Movie*	James Ito
*Ambush – A Star Trek Fan Production*	Thomas Saville
*Batman: Broken Promise*	Claire Wickes
*Battle of Velsak 2 – A Star Trek Fan Production*	Nick Cook
*Constar Chronicles: Some of Stand on Our Own… Together*	Royce Leonard Major
*Cybertron Falls: The War Within (TRANSFORMERS CGI FAN FILM)*	Jed Vargo, Samuel J Flatman, Rajarajan Manoharan
*Duty Calls – A Star Trek Fan Production*	Emma Thorne
*Egotastic Trek Ep.4 “The Oracle”*	Matt Weiss
*Evil Returns: A Halloween Fan Film*	Tatum Boswell
*Indiana Jones and The Tomb of Olympias*	Elisha Miller
*Karu: Part One: A Short Star Wars Fan Film*	Jonas Frederik
*LAST STAND: A Star Wars Fan Film*	Chris Gallegos
*Legacy of the Mandalorian*	Kiefer Jenkins
*Maledictus (A Harry Potter Fan Film)*	Devin Baranski
*One Small Step – A Star Trek Fan Production*	Nimran Saund
*Outbreak A Star Trek Fan Production*	Clayton Orgles – Director of Photography
PSIODUEL, A Star Trek Fan Production	Radek Belina
*Renegade: A Tribute to a Galaxy Far, Far away.*	Remo Szalai
*Resistance: a Star Trek Fan Production*	Aaron Chappell – Actor, Production Designer, Executive Producer
*Secrets of the Temple PT 1 : A Star Wars Fan Film*	Dallin Dvorak, Micah Roberts,
*Secrets of the Temple PT 2 : A Star Wars Fan Film*	Kevin Charles Robbins
*Spider-Man: Hunted*	Hunter McCoy
*Spider-Man: Seasons of Change*	Hamish Garnham
*Star Wars Dark Revan*	Samuel Peron
*The 53rd Annual Hunger Games*	Rachel Traub
*The Kill Order (A Maze Runner Fan Film)*	Erica Holman
The Needs Of The One	David Huff
*The Order – EPISODE ONE: ROSIER (HARRY POTTER FAN FILM)*	Ursula Toon
*The Forgotten Time Lord*	Thomas Blondell
*A Question of Balance*	Jason Herdt
*Batman Rebirth*	Nicholas Riggs
*The Federation Files: Escape From Magna Roma*	David Whitney
*House of Freddy: A Nightmare on Elm Street*	Kira Brock
*James Bond – I SEE RED [Fan Film]*	Christoph Kumpf
*Loreley: A Star Trek Fan Production “Kommandoubernahme”*	Heiko Thies
*The Federation Files: Mudd’s Mission*	Dan R Reynolds
*Opportunity: A Star Trek Fan Production*	Billy Swanson
*Red Right Hand: A Scream Fan Film*	Andrew Oliver
*Refugee: A Star Trek Fan Production*	Victoria Avalon
*The Death Collector: A James Bond Fan Film*	Benjamin Kalliomäki
*Valhalla Calling*	Michael Stutelberg
*War Targ: A Star Trek Fan Production*	Billy Swanson
*Yorktown A Time to Heal*
*You Are Recalled*	Vance Major
*The Death Collector: A James Bond Fan Film*	Carl-Anders Lundberg as Q