Nominees for Best Acting Performance

Meet the Nominees for Best Performance at Film Prize

This year, Film Prize is changing the way best performance is awarded which will see all twenty nominees compete for one winning spot. Audiences and judges will each vote for three of their favorite performers. The Film Prize Mentor Judges will count for 50% of the vote and audiences will count for the other 50% of the total vote, just like the Film Prize Grand Prize winner. On your ballot, you will mark a number “1” in your first favorite performer, “2” for your second favorite performer, and “3” for your third favorite performer.

CAILEY FLEMING Addie and the Lightning Bugs

Calvin o’neal, JR. Cosmic

MATT GARVIN Day of the Deb

MARK D. BONNER

Bamber Bridge

BRAD MAULE Credit

IROKO ANYOGU Emanuel 9

DAVID M. LONG Betty Lou Had a Son

GIO MARCH The Crying Bull

BLAYNE WEAVER In the Closet

KAILA SAFFLE The Blue Dress

KIMBERLY TALLEY The Cut

ALiyah henderson The Mover of Things

ANTHONY HOFF Notes on the War

IVY MCGREW Ruminant CHRIS ALAN EVANS

Peeping Todd

MATTHEW ELI JUDD Strangers in Common JAYA MCSHARMA Please Scream Inside Your Heart

JOHN F. BEACH They Grow Up So Fast

KERNESHA STEELE Rising Dawn

LORNA STREET DOPSON Unicorn Poop

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Florentina Almonte

Florentina is currently the Content Acquisitions Executive for Shorts TV International. She was named one of “The Most Influential Latinas in cable” for 2016 by CableFax. She has served as a juror at the NY Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS)/ Emmys Awards and Film Festivals. She is also a member of the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) and the

Sharon Badal

Sharon is vice president of programming for Tribeca and has been with the festival since its inception. She is a Distinguished Teacher at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is the author of “Swimming Upstream – A Lifesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution,” She received her B.F.A. in film and television production and her M.A. in cinema studies and business, both from NYU.

Elle Roth-Brunet

Elle has dedicated her career to helping 60+ underrepresented voices gain equity in entertainment through partnerships with Hello Sunshine, ARRAY, Paul Fieg’s Powderkeg, the Producers Guild of America, Women In Film, and the Black List. She’s produced 11 shorts and will be producing her first feature, Molokai Bound, in 2023. Her shorts are recognized by Slamdance, SXSW, SeriesFest, Palm Springs and Aspen Shortfest, and the

Milan Chakraborty

Milan is Head of Film at Marginal MediaWorks, an 18 year veteran of the film industry, and has worked for Warner Bros and New Line Cinema on projects including Batman Begins, Superman Returns, History of Violence, and V for Vendetta. He has produced and executive produced over 20 features, including My Friend Dahmer, Assassination Nation, Where Hope Grows, The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, and Four Samosas.

Darion D’Anjou

Darion D’Anjou founded the One Minute film School, a challenge that calls on indie filmmakers around the world to create one-minute films that are eligible for a cash prize. In addition to the official website and YouTube Channel, D’Anjou runs a popular room on the Clubhouse app, where filmmakers and content creators come together to network, share their experiences, and offer tips and collaborate on the challenge.

Colette Freedman

Colette is a screenwriter, novelist, and playwright. She has produced 11 thrillers for Lifetime and written 10 novels. Colette co-produced the award-winning film Quality Problems, which is currently on VOD, and LA Film Festival winner, And Then There Was Eve. Her film Miles Underwater is in post-production and her film Meli is currently filming in Hawaii. Colette is a top Hollywood script doctor and ghostwriter.

James Hibberd

James is an award-winning entertainment journalist. Across his two decades covering the industry at Entertainment Weekly and now The Hollywood Reporter, Hibberd has broken news exclusives and written dozens of cover stories chronicling the entertainment business and celebrities. He’s best known for reporting on HBO’s Game of Thrones & writing the show’s behind-the-scenes book, Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon.

David has spent the past 16 years as a writer, actor, and producer working in LA. He’s been the Head of acquisitions for Glass House Distribution since 2018, producing television content and developing feature films for co-productions. Previously he was story consultant for Alpha Animation. His film credits include Ask me to Dance, Trauma Therapy, and Trauma Therapy Psychosis.

Tim Molloy

Tim Molloy is the editor and owner of MovieMaker Magazine and Moviemaker.com, as well as the host of the MovieMaker podcast. He and his wife, MovieMaker publisher Deirdre McCarrick, took over the publication in September 2019, and it has most recently profiled Aubrey Plaza, Nicolas Cage, and The Batman director Matt Reeves.

Judah Ray

In 2005, Judah produced his first feature film, One Among Us, which was distributed through Netflix. Judah went on to work at MGM Entertainment, where he developed ideas for remakes of many of the films in their library, which are currently in production. Judah has also worked at MTV, and as an Art Director, for the music videos of several superstars such as Brandy, Fabulous, and Pharrell Williams.

Greg Sorvig

Greg is the Artistic Director for Heartland Film and its Academy Award®qualifying Indy Shorts and Heartland Film Festival events in Indianapolis, and is also Senior Associate Programmer for the Tribeca Festival shorts team. Greg also regularly serves as a jury member at international film festivals and top 20 film school student festivals, including USC and DePaul University.

Paul Sloop

Paul Sloop has been the lead programmer of short films for the Oscar qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival since 2002. He is also the Director of Programming for both Film Pittsburgh and the Cordillera International Film Festival in Reno/Tahoe, NV. He is the proud father of seven daughters and one son and lives in Mentor, OH with Sarah, his wonderful wife of over 20 years.

Ben Thompson

After Ben joined the Tribeca film festival, he discovered a passion for short-form storytelling and creativity and began working with the programming team watching film submissions. In 2010 he became the Shorts Programmer for the festival. Ben is fascinated by the influence film has on our world and culture and travels to search for new stories from around the globe. He has watched over 10,000 short films for Tribeca.

Craig Williams

Craig is the producer for the short film Mechanic’s Rose and is a member of the WarnerMedia Discovery 2022 TV Writers Access Program. Together, he and his wife of 20 years have made more than fifty film projects. He is also a writing mentor for Women of Color Unite Start with 8 Mentorship Program, The Craft Institute, and a visiting professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University.