BWiFF 2024

Breakup Season

Cottage Grove

The House That Stood

2024 Features Official Selections

• Breakup Season (United States)
• The Fight for Black Lives (United States)
• The House That Stood (Italy)
• Marco Polo (Spain)
• The Problem of the Hero (United States)
• Roger (France)
• Undivide Us (United States)

2024 Shorts Official Selections

• Apolitical (United States)
• The Bend (United States)
• Blue Hour (United States)
• Caught on Tape (United States)
• Cottage Grove (United States)
• Favorite Things (United States)
• The Fire in Me (United States)
• Geezers (United States)
• Ivania (Spain)
• Katele (Mudskipper) (Australia)
• Life is Elsewhere (United States)
• Maybe It Was Me (United States)
• Mississippi Mud: A Natural History of the Blues (United States)
• Náttúrubönd (United States)
• No Matter How Much (United States)
• Not the Same Clarence (United States)
• Or, The Whale (United States)
• Seasalter Road (United Kingdom)
• Seatbelts (United States)
• Things I’ve Made My Roommate Do (United States)
• Tilt (United States)
• Trying (United States)
• Twenty (United Kingdom)
• Unibrow (Canada)
• The Visit (United States)
• Wider Than the Sky (United Kingdom)
• Won’t Be Around (United States)

2024 Beyond Official Selections

• Chicken (Canada)
• Continue (United States)
• Exhale (Sweden)
• Fire Department, Inc. (United States)
• Implosions (United States)
• The Last Drop (United States)
• Love & Irony (United States)
• The Overlook (United States)
• Park Life (United States)
• Spirit of Place (United Kingdom)
• Swatted (United States)
• Unbroken (United States)
• Unspoken (United States)
• White With Fear (United States)

2024 Award Winners

Best Original Score
Luke Coltman, Seasalter Road

Best Production Design
Kevin O’Brien, Katele (Mudskipper)

Best Cinematography
Marko Alonso, Marco Polo

Best Sound
Morten Brogaard & Birgit de Priester, Náttúrubönd

Best Editing
Jack Bexell, Cottage Grove

Best Supporting Actor
Brandon Haynes as Canada Lee/Bigger in The Problem of the Hero

Best Supporting Actress
Carly Stewart as Liz in Breakup Season

Best Achievement by a Young Actor
Finnegan Collins as Finn in Caught on Tape

Best Actress
Lydia Brayshaw as Emily in Twenty

Best Actor
A.P. Looze as The Traveler in The Bend

Best Screenplay
H. Nelson Tracey, Breakup Season

Best Director
H. Nelson Tracey, Breakup Season

Best Experimental
Náttúrubönd

Best Music Video
No Matter How Much

Best Documentary Short
Geezers

Best Narrative Short (Comedy)
Caught on Tape

Best Narrative Short (Drama)
Blue Hour

Best Documentary Feature
Undivide Us

Best Narrative Feature
Breakup Season

Audience Favorite
The House That Stood

Best of Illinois
Cottage Grove

Best of Fest
Breakup Season

2024 Screening Schedule