SWFF Past winners
These are SWFF past winners from the last 10 festivals stemming from almost every SUNY school!!
SWFF 1 (2009)
Grand Prize - Gates, Door
Christopher Caporlingua, University of Buffalo
1st Place: Julie, Hannah Bailey - Purchase
2nd Place: The Starfish, Heather Personett - Fredonia
3rd Place: Back Beat, Shinji Matsuyama - Fredonia
Honorable Mention: l'origine, Elizabeth Crouch & Christa Haley - Oswego
Audience Choice: Roling Stoned, Jamie D. Loughlin - Oswego
Grand Prize - Gates, Door
SWFF 2 (2010)
Grand Prize - Vinegar + Brown Paper
Lisa Brotz, Fredonia
Animation Award: Illumination, Brandon Prinzi, Heather
Personett, Erich Von Hasseln, Fredonia
Documentary Award: Unseen Tears: The Native American
Residential/Boarding School Experinece in Western New York, Ron Douglas, University of Buffalo
Experimental Award: An Introduction to Physics, Caleb Foss, Purchase
Narrative Award: Unearthed, Alexander Atkins, Purchase
Audience Choice: Bonfire of the Humanities, Nicholas Shelton, Oswego
SWFF 3 (2011)
Grand Prize: Reciever
Caleb Foss, Purchase
1st Place Animation: Sweet Irony, William Lauko, Fredonia
1st Place Documentary: Nobody Else But Me, Alexander DePinto, New Paltz
1st Place Experimental: Tuesday, Jon Simmons, Fredonia
1st Place Narrative: Sleepers, Jason Latorre, New Paltz
Audience Choice: Legerdemain, David Van Keuren, Buffalo State
SWFF 4 (2012)
Grand Prize: Speechless
Kraig Adams, Buffalo State
1st Place Animation: Bramble, William Lauko, Fredonia
1st Place Documentary: Morning Mary Lou, Aaron Brewster, MK Pottenburgh, Todd Stoops, Tim Franklin Andre Cobham, Fredonia
1st Place Experimental: Tremors, Christine Henning, Fredonia
1st Place Narrative: Sex and Spaghetti, Nicole Favale, Purchase
Audience Choice: Morning Mary Lou, Aaron Brewster, MK Pottenburgh, Todd Stoops, Tim Franklin Andre Cobham, Fredonia
SWFF 5 (2014)
Grand Prize: First Name: Jogger Last Name: John
Kaleigh Griffin, Claudia Gallo, Keri Sheheen, Lindsay Nimphius, New Paltz
1st Place Animation: Gone Fishing, Peter Myers, Kaitlyn Murphy,
Nicole Natarese, Amu Lipsky, Nolan Metcalf, Oswego
1st Place Documentary: Secret Chamber, Jason van Staveren, Isabel
Bazaldua, University of Albany
1st Place Experimental: Myopia, Jeffrey Newell, Oswego
1st Place Narrative: Scuba-Tap Man, Grace Philips, Madison Amey,
Osman Sjhire, Joey Springer, Robert Sherman, James Toback, Buffalo State
1st Place Music Video: Ekiti Son,Calvin Nemec, Oswego
SWFF 6 (2015)
Grand Prize: Fallout
Ethan Alexis Scarduzio, Binghamton
1st Place Animation: Around My Head, Sarah Tuhro, Alfred
1st Place Documentary: The Superman Letters, Miriam Ward, New Paltz
1st Place Experimental: How to Breathe Underwater, Jennifer McCabe, Purchase
1st Place Fiction: Luna and the Tide, Ben Davis, Purchase
Audience Choice: Astro, Alexx Yates Mason, Alfred
SWFF 7 (2016)
Grand Prize: Waiting at the Door
Akram Shibly, University of Buffalo
1st Place Animation: Orchestrates, Peter Myers, Evan Maroun, Jesse Malone, Oswego
1st Place Experimental: No Real Distance, Tiffany Deater, SUNY ESF
1st Place Fiction: Mime, Jared Biunno, Binghamton
Audience Choice: One Love: The Eric Tallman Story, Chad Diamond Dann, Tompkins Cortland Community College
SWFF 8 (2017)
Grand Prize: Other Real
Torin Murphy, Alfred State
1st Place Animation: Kamunyak, Sarah Gaygen
1st Place Experimental: Losing It, Quinn Lachler
1st Place Fiction: Fraud, Anthony Riso
SWFF 9 (2019)
Grand Prize: Now, Tomorrow, Forever: The Persistence of School Segregation in America
Albany
1st Place Animation: Your Fault, Aidan Wilson, Alfred
1st Place Documentary: She Comes at Night, Forrest Miller, New Paltz
1st Place Experimental: Read @ 12:35am, Aidan Kaye, Purchase
1st Place Fiction: Jinju, Emily Park, Purchase
Audience Choice: Jefferson Takes Tampa, Ben Greco, Oswego
SWFF 10 (2021)
Grand Prize: Princesa
Melanie Rosete, Purchase
1st Place Animation: 3’s Ol Bamboo, Heather Kendall, Purchase
1st Place Documentary: Evolving Media, Jesse Pieratti, Dutchess Community College
1st Place Experimental: House Sparrow, Annelise Andre, Purchase
1st Place Fiction: Princesa, Melanie Rosete, Purchase
Audience Choice: The Fort, Anastasia Goldberg, Purchase
