Finalists and winners

Best Film 2022
Feeling Through, Dir. Doug Roland (winner)

International
Feeling Through, Dir. Doug Roland (winner)
The Departure, Dir Said Hamich
Heading South, Dir. Yuan Yuan
Flawless, Nathan Franck

Australian Drama
Dry Fire, Dir. Dan Farmer, Adam Bigum, Ramas McRae (winner)
Something has died in the forest, Dir. Eva Justine Torkkola
LittleFish, Dir.  Benjamin Laut

West
Dry Fire, Dir. Dan Farmer, Adam Bigum, Ramas McRae
Fire Rabbit, Dir. Jack Wilson-Lee
LittleFish, Dir.  Benjamin Laut (Winner)

Documentary
Painting My Canvas, Dir. Mark Hellinger (winner)
Baba, Dir. Firass Dirani
Good Gnocchi, Dir. Stephen Di Gravio

Cultural Diversity
Feeling Through, Dir. Doug Roland
Baba, Dir. Firass Dirani (winner)
Dry Fire, Dir. Dan Farmer, Adam Bigum, Ramas McRae

Best Female Filmmaker
Every Sunday, Dir. Keti Papadema
Gas Station (Sub Eng), Dir. Olga Torrico
Gud, Dir. Alana Spencer
Heading South, Dir. Yuan Yuan (winner)

Best Secondary 
Gender Identity, Dir. Ava Lutton, Olive Dillon, Phy Goodenough, Tess Hemley (winner)
Grow Up, Dir. Sam Huybers
Sisyphus, Dir. Edward Mayo King
Burnout, Dir. Theo Huynh

Emerging
Fire Rabbit, Jack Wilson Lee, Patrick Campbell (winner)
A Heart for Vendetta

Best performance
Catherine Lillian, Dry Fire (winner)
Robert Tarango, Feeling Through
Olga Torrico, Gas Station
Sarah Krndija, Something has Died in the Forest

Winner
Animation
Mum is pouring rain