2024 Award Winners

Best of the Fest

  • The Best of the Fest award recognizes the film that combines a thought-provoking fungi-related topic with high-quality production.

  • 2020: Namai by Francesca Pazniokas

    2021: Terres Amères by Axel Cohen

    2022: Wrought by Joel Penner, Anna Sigrithur

    2023: Lichen by Anita Pico

Freshest Fungi Film

  • The FFF’s FFF award honors the film with the most innovative presentation of fungi or fungi-related topics.

  • 2020: Fly Amanita by David Fenster

    2021: The Boat by David Robinson & Bryan Michael Mills

    2022: Who’s Who in Mycology by Marie Dvorakova

    2023: Of Dreaming by Brad Necyk and Gary James Joynes

Avant-Myco

  • This award recognizes the film that presents fungi in the most eclectic, unorthodox, or radical manner.

  • 2020: The Place With the Whales by Matthew Pfeffer

    2021: The Hat Ballad by Nikodem Płaczek

    2022: Beneath by Beth Walker

    2023: Ergot by Mariela Schöffmann

Most Edutaining

  • This award honors the top film that is highly entertaining, richly informative, and accessible to a wide variety of audiences.

  • 2020: Shiitake Mushroom Farming by Costa Boutsikaris

    2021: A Flower by Pascal Gaubert

    2022: Azurescens: Through the Blue Lens by Hamilton Pevec

    2023: Medzz Too Strong by Cody Lucich

Audience Choice

  • The Audience Choice is picked at the Fest’s premiere screening in Portland, Oregon.

  • 2020: Touch: an e(rot)ic film by Bradley Williams

    2021: Grateful Dean by Gabriel Joncas, Kenzo Suzuki, and Guillaume Dubois

    2022: Wrought by Joel Penner and Anna Sigrithur

    2023: The Inner Rat by Katrina Mortko