2022 Award Winners

Our Snow Leopard Award was specially designed and executed by sculptor, Sir Daniel Winn.

Snow Leopard Award for Best Film - The Last Film Show directed by Pan Nalin (India)

Snow Leopard Award for Best Actor - Mohsen Tanabandeh for World War III (Iran).

Snow Leopard Award for Best Actress - Hui Fang Hong for Ajoomma (Singapore).

Snow Leopard Special Jury Award - World War III (Iran) directed by Houman Seyedi

Snow Leopard Audience Award – Aurora's Sunrise (Armenia) directed by Inna Sahakyan.

Dr. Dao and Dr. Linh Filmmaker Cash Award of $10K-

HFPA Short Film Scholarship Award $5K - Warsha (Lebanon / France) directed by Dania Bdeir.

Panavision $60K Grant for Best Feature Cinematography - Kerr (Turkey) Andreas Sinanos Director of Photography

Panavision $15K Grant for Best HFPA Short Cinematography - Deer (Iran) directed by Hadi Babaeifar.

Stars Collective Emerging Filmmaker Award of $2k - Burul (Kyrgyzstan) directed by Adilet Karzhoev.

The Bruce Lee Award, presented in partnership with the Bruce Lee Foundation - Daniel Wu, actor, martial artist, director, and producer.

Snow Leopard Award for Outstanding Cinematic Achievement - Park Chan-wook, writer, director, and producer.

Snow Leopard Lifetime Achievement Award – Albert S. Ruddy, producer.

Snow Leopard Rising Star Award – Desmond Chiam, actor, writer, and producer.

Ladies Tiffany Circle/Red Cross Courage to Dream Award - Dr. Michael Dao and Dr. Linh Bui, physicians and philanthropists.

Winn Slavin Humanitarian Award - Truong Ngoc Anh, philanthropist.

One Heart Award - Love Life Learning Foundation, co-founders Alan Vo Ford and Jenny Ai Trinh Thai.

Angel Benefactor Award – Jennifer McCormick and Lani Netter, Ladies Tiffany Circle American Red Cross

Angel Benefactor Award - Raghu Kilambi, CEO/CFO, Power Tap Hydrogen Fueling Corporation

Best New Director - Breaking Dawn by Wenqing Chen

Best Cinematography - Drift Alone by Yijun Wang

Best Script - Scrapbooks by Marie Rouhban

Best Short Film - Blind Stitch by Alexander Bergman