FEATURE Films

The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle, Best Feature , Fran Burst-Terranella

Safe Harbor Amsterdam -Best First Feature Film Award, Jack Luceno  

The Algebra of Need - Best Experimental Feature, David Williams

The World of Which we Dream Doesn't Exist - Best Experimental Foreign Feature, Ayoub Qanir

Promises - Best Romance Feature, Melody Brooke and Michael Henricks

Lend a Hand- Best Foreign Comedy Feature, Raffaella Covino

Spent- Best Feature Comedy, Lisa Mikitarian

Mafiosa - Best Feature Action Film, Yusaku Mizoguchi and Veronica Russo

Is This Now – Best Musical Feature, Joe Scott

SFashion - Best Foreign Horror Feature,  Mauro John Capece, Giuseppe Lepore 

Nephilim - Best Animation Feature, Danny Wilson

Torments of Love - Best Foreign Feature,  Caroline Jules

URVI​ - Best Foreign Feature Producer , Airier Drreams

Unmarked - Best Young Filmmaker , Alec Ybarra

Back to '97 - Best Foreign Youth Feature Film, Zeca Brito, Leo Garcia

Jungle Book 2016 CC - Best Web/New Media Feature

Documentary Feature:

Unveiled: The Kohistan Video Scandal -Best Feature Documentary: Women Rights Subject, Brishkay Ahmed

All Love Schmidt - Best Foreign Documentary, Lars PapeDirector, Holger Schuermann

Hoda's Story - Best inspirational Feature Documentary, Johan Eriksson

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Short Films

(A)utomated (I)rritation - Best Short Story, Bo Liebman

Journey Notes - Best Foreign Short Story, Andrea Natale

Emmott & Rowland - Best Historical Short, Aneel Ahmad

The Example - Best Short Historical Fiction, Wyatt Cagle, Gordon S. Williams, Kenneth Dupuis

New Neighbors - Best Short Film,  E.G. Bailey, Sha Cage

Brutal - Best Foreign Drama Short, Hoseung Lee

The Eve - Best Experimental Short, Luca Machnich

Believers - Best Original Short Story, Stephen M. Hunt

A big Love - Best Foreign Short, Max Chicco

Reuben - Best Short Drama Student , Kaisania Calubaquib

Fresh Choppuccino​ - Best High School Student Film , Anthony Cintron

Cheaters - Best Short Foreign Comedy, Jarrad Bhatia

The Love Suckers - Best Short Comedy,  Jim Politano 

Invisible Eyes - Best Foreign Short Student, Gustavo Sani

No Sunday West of Newton - Best Western Short, Spencer Cameron

Switch - Best Short Student, Robin Wan

The Barber's Cut - Best Short Horror Comedy, Mark Brocking

Redshift - Best SciFi/Futuristic Short , Benjamin Crane

Triangle - Best SciFi Short, Christopher Fox

Sunny and Gerd in Spring Cleaning - Best Short Animation Story , DaCosta Bayley

Freaktown - Best Foreign Short Animation, Diana Cruz Gonzalez

The Family Blend! - Best Short Animation, Sebastian Foxworth

Memoire - Best Animation Short Student, Collin McAtee

Extinguished - Best Animation Short Student, Ashley Anderson & Jacob Mann

Mum, I'm back - Best LGBT Short Foreign, Dimitris Katsimiris

Bereavement - Best Foreign Short Drama, Yolanda Roman

Identification - Best Foreign Short Film Producer, Julia Deak

4242 - Best Student Short, Sara Eustaquio

Documentaries & Experimentals:

Surviving International Boulevard: Domestic Child Sex Trafficking-Best Short Documentary/

Social subject , Sian Taylor Gowan

The Great Outdoors...​ - Best Sports Documentary, Jerry Kelleher

From State Prisoner To State Professor​ - Best inspirational Documentary, Joshua Jackson

My Name is Joan - Best Short Documentary, Margaret Stapor Costa

Alchemy​ - Best Short Domestic Experimental, Brandon Polanco,  Ian Kevin Scott

Not Waving - Best Experimental Foreign Short, Freya Billingto

PM 2.5​ - Best Foreign Environmental Subject Short, Piotr Biedroń

Sisi Ni Mashujaa - Best Foreign Short Ethnographical Documentary, Juan Jaume Fernandez 

The Underwater Forest - Best Ecological Short Documentary, Ben Raines

Webisode/New Media:

The Family Blend! - Best Web & New Media, Short Animation, Sebastian Foxworth

The Superhost - Best Foreign  Short Web / New Media , Britta Thie

anexperimentalviralvlog - Best Short Video Art / Web / New Media , Vasco Diogo

Tv /Music Video:

The Old Man by Indigorado - Best Foreign Music Video, Kenneth Aakerland Berg

My Help - Best Religious Music Video, Darlene TINA Batten

Forty Miles to Macon - Best Documentarial Music Video, Daniel Espeut, Tyler Goforth

Food To Ate - Best Experimental Music Video, Randy Huling

The Theater - Best Trailer, Paul Pastore

New York 2150 - Best TV Pilot, Harry Assouline

Miss Winn's Garden - Best Television Short Director, Shanalyna C. Palmer

 

Screenplays

Dakota Caves - 2 Miles​ - Best Short Screenplay, Robert J. Rogers

Farewell Cinema​ - Best Short Foreign Screenplay, Reinhard J. Steiner

Breathless - Best Short Story , Anaiis Cisco

Never Too Late - Best Screen Play Short/Web Series/TV/Treatment, Bryan Whorton

Twirling At Ole Miss​ - Best Comedy Short Screenplay, John M Tyson

Santa Klawn - Best Horror Feature Screenplay, Jeffrey Lee DuPree

Mea Culpa​ - Best Television Screenplay, Leonard Nannarone

American Snake Pit - Best Historical Screenplay, Dan Tomasulo

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Cast & Acting

Pajero (The Wanker:) - Best Actor Short Film,  Javier Chueca 

The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle -  Best Actress,  April Billingsley

Spent- Best Actor in Feature film, Nick Nerangis

Alchemy - Best Actor in Short Film,  Ian Kevin Scott

116 - Best Actress in Short film, Julia Campanelli 

Believers - Best Foreign Actress , Allison O'Flynn

GOOD'n Screwed - Best Supporting Actress, Suzanne H. Smart

Triangle - Best Supporting Actress, Margo Goodman

Apples for Bullies - Best Youth Actress , Abigail Friend

Listen - Best Foreign Youth Actor, Mathieu Denesle

Good 'n Screwed - Best Ensemble Cast , Short

Safe Harbour Amsterdam, Best Ensemble Cast,  Feature

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Editing, Cinematography, Sound

A big Love - Best Editing in Foreign film, Max Chicco

Crime Confidential - Best Foreign Short Editing, Julian Lim, Julia Van Der Hoeven

The Madame in Black - Best Editing, Short,

Spent- Best Editor, Jeff Herberger, Erik Kristopher Myers

Triangle - Best Sound Design, Christopher Fox

​Five Minutes with Mary - Best Soundtrack

The Barber's Cut - Best Art Direction, Mark Brocking

Lend a Hand - Best Costume design 

The Madame in Black - Best Cinematography in Foreign Short,  Jarno Lee Vinsencius

A big Love - Best Cinemotography, Short

Torments of Love - Best Feature Cinematography, Stéphane Patti

 

Directing & Producing

The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle - Best Women Director ,Fran Burst-Terranella

GOOD'n Screwed - Best women filmmaker in short screenwriting, Joanna Bonaro

Forward - Best Women Theme Short film, Cole Sax

The Lighthouse - Best Short Young Filmmaker ,Mark Leschinsky

The Final Barrier - Best Foreign Feature Director, Jasmin Durakovic

Listen - Best Foreign Director, Short, Niko Mikadze

Spent – Best Producer , Lisa Mikitarian

Another Day - Best Short Director Drama, Marc Lyon Galang

Here Again​ - Best Veteran Director, Foreign Short, Robin Brockman

Pajero (The Wanker:) - Best Director Foreign Short Comedy, Aitor Gonzalez Iturbe  

Creatures of Whitechapel - Best Student Filmmaker, Jonathan Martin

We Are Friends - Best Domestic Short Animation Producer 

Video Art

anexperimentalviralvlog - Best Short Video Art

VOICES - Best Experimental Video Art, Alberto Nacci

Imaginary Novels - Best Video Art Animation, Nancy Gifford

Sacred And Profane Faceless Jacks - Best Video Art-Live Action, Vagabond Beaumont

New Song - Best Virtual Reality, Kate Gardner

 

GRAND JURY AWARDS

Balloon Ride - Grand Jury Award, Best  Short  Animation, Evan Hughes

The Buzzing of a Bumblebee - Grand Jury Student Film Award, Vladimir Beldian

The blind side - Grand Jury, First Short Film Award, David Manzi

Blockbuster - A Life in Moving Pictures: Grand Jury Award, Feature Film

The Conspiracy Project - Grand Jury Award Short Screenplay , Sarah McKinnon

Is This Now - Grand Jury Award Feature Screenplay, Joe Scott

My Pretty Pony - Best Foreign Short , Maciej Barczewski

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Five Minutes with Mary  Honorable Mention Short , Matt Beurois

The shortest are always the best! - Honorable Mention Foreign Short Fiction, Daniel Jenny

January - Honorable Mention - Script writing, Craig Pospisil

It Plays Like Love - Honorable Mention Feature Film, Jeremy Waltman, Adam Lucas

Pompeii, Oregon - Honorable Mention-Feature Animation, Mark Andres

Four Journeys - Honorable Mention Feature Documentary, Teresa Mular

The Dream/in Space - Honorable Mention - Video Art - Animation, Eva Ingolf

The Scope of Seperation - Honorable Mention Foreign Feature Film, Yue Chen, Weilin Wang,  Kun Fu

The Queen - Honorable Mention - Short Fantasy, Hugo Teugels

Pittari - Honorable Mention - Short Animation, Patrick Smith

Requembarren - Honorable Mention - Foreign Experimental Short, Roman Rubert

Darker - Honorable Mention - Short Horror, Alex Torres

Eileen - Honorable Mention - Feature Screenplay, Elizabeth Samaroo     

The Global Fund - Honorable Mention, Short Screenplay, Josep Colomer    

Long Yearning - Honorable Mention Foreign Short Experimental Documentary, Elliot Spencer

a la mémoire de Lune - Honorable Mention Short

Becoming Lucy - Honorable Mention Short Drama

HELL OF A NEW YEAR - Best Honorable Mention Short Horror

Back Page Ripper - Honorable Mention Short, Stephen Rutterford 

Sisters' Sunday Funday! - Honorable Mention - Short Experimental Film, Storm Garner

Kaddish! - Honorable Mention - Musical Short Comedy, Emeline Castaneda

Jetty Cats - Honorable Mention, Mid lenght Feature Documentary

New Neighbors -Honorable Mention- Best Actress, Sha Cage

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Only 15 percent of Award Winning Films will be screened at the festival.

Please see our screening list.

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