The 2022 New York Science Fiction Film Festival has announced the award winners. Held virtually Friday, May13th and Sunday May 15th and in person May 14th at the Producer's Club theaters, this was the second edition that featured a lineup of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror films, as well as screenplay entries.

Top Prize for Best Sci-Fi Feature went to Pedro de Lima Marques' TALES OF TOMORROW. Named Best Documentary was Qais Pasha's EXEGESIS: LOVECRAFT.

A full list of winners:

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.

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."

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.

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.

Moore's Void (2020)

Director: Brad Bangsboll

Run Time/Country: 16 min, Canada

Synopsis: A grieving mother attempts to speak with her deceased son.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Writer: Dempsey James Tillman, Ted Dewberry

Writer: Duncan B. Putney

Writer: Colin K. Stewart

Writer: Brendan P Lee

More information about the festival can be found here: www.newyorksci-fifest.com.