Author: Film Invasion L.A.

All of our 20245 Awards sorted by project title.  We know what you really want is to NOT search a huge list for a single title.

…post – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
1 in the Chamber – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Comedy –
American Import – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Pilot/Series – Steven Shehori
Archaic – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Horror –
Archaic – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Direction – Horror – Mark Perceval-Maxwell
Archaic – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cinematography – Horror – Benjamin Parry
Archaic – Grand Jury Award – Outstanding Editing – Short Film – Mark Perceval-Maxwell
As A Rake – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Horror –
Ashes and Grace – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
Babushka – Grand Jury Award – Best Featurette – Horror –
Babushka – Grand Jury Award – Best Cinematography – Featurette – – Robin Webster
Babushka – Grand Jury Award – Best Production Design – Featurette – – O.J. Hansen
Baby Husband – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Originality – Comedy –
Becoming an Oyster – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
Best Little Boy – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature LGBTQ+ (Unproduced) – – Daniel Hirsch
Broadway & Swan – Grand Jury Award – Best Director – Featurette – – Chris Fiore
Carter – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Horror
Chromatography – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cast Performance – SciFi – Renée Veronica Freeman & Folami Williams
Crossroads – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Pilot/Series – LGBTQ+ – Laura Katherine Winter
Curveball – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – LGBTQ+ – Nick Kilgore
Cut All Trees – Grand Jury Award – Best Cinematography – Short Film – – Red Jitar
Damned – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
Dark Matter – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cinematography – Drama – Ptolemy Culvenor
Dark Matter – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Originality – Drama –
Death in The Desert – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Writing – Drama – Anna Kathryn Long
Diwata – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Short Film – Shea Formanes
Double Trouble – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Short (Unproduced) – – Lauren Holiday
Fearless – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature (Unproduced) – – Rich Van Tine
Franks In Hell – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
Grillo – Grand Jury Award – Best Short Film – Documentary –
Grillo – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Direction – Documentary – Dima Puchkarev
Hey HeLP-O! Let’s Go! – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Originality – SciFi –
Horizon – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Short Film – Karen Campion
How Not To Write a Romance Novel – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – LGBTQ+ – Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez
I Am Duck – Grand Jury Award – Best Lead Performer – Animation – – Marianna Hersko
I am Duck – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Animation –
I am Duck – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Originality – Animation –
I Hate Birthdays! – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Short Film – Haiba Khan
If the Shoe Fits – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
In Old Ranchos – Grand Jury Award – Best Sound Design – Short Film – – Sam Welchel
In Old Ranchos – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – SciFi –
In Old Ranchos – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Writing – SciFi – Matthew Lucas & Patrick Flynn
In Old Ranchos – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cinematography – SciFi – Andrew Jeric
It’s Not For Me To Say – Grand Jury Award – Best Short Film – Animation –
Jesus Loves Me – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
Keeping Tabs – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Pilot/Series – LGBTQ+ – Michael Montgomery
Kuchikame – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
La Esposa – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – Matthew Benjamin Sheehan
Last Exit Gran Canaria – Grand Jury Award – Best Feature Film – Documentary
Lifted – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Direction – Animation – Daniel Robichaud
Lollie – Grand Jury Award – Best Lead Performer – Short Film – – Monique Hortolani
Lollie – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Drama –
Lollie – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Direction – Drama – Agnès Shinozaki
Lonesome Town – Grand Jury Award – Best Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse –
Lonesome Town – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Direction – Experimental/Arthouse – Caleb Garrett
Lonesome Town – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Writing – Experimental/Arthouse – Caleb Garrett
Lonesome Town – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cinematography – Experimental/Arthouse – Caleb Garrett
Lorica – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
Lost, Not Forgotten – Grand Jury Award – Best Featurette – Drama –
Love Song from Hiroshima – Grand Jury Award – Best Feature Film – Drama –
Love Song from Hiroshima – Grand Jury Award – Best Director – Feature Film – – Hideyuki Tokigawa
Love Song from Hiroshima – Grand Jury Award – Best Lead Performer – Feature Film – – Ryosuke Sota
Love Song from Hiroshima – Grand Jury Award – Best Performance by a Cast – Feature Film – –
Love Song from Hiroshima – Grand Jury Award – Best Sound Design – Feature Film – Kousuke Kobayashi
Love Song from Hiroshima – Grand Jury Award – Best Song – “Peace Song” by Chase Ziegler
Making Megaforce – Best in Fest – Feature FIlm – –
Making Megaforce – Grand Jury Award – Best Supporting Performer – Feature Film – – Barry Bostwick
Making Megaforce – Grand Jury Award – Best Editing – Feature Film – Felix Chamberlain
Making Megaforce Audience Award – Best Feature Film –
Max Q – Grand Jury Award – Best Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360 – –
Mondays at the Office – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Comedy –
Money Makers – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Pilot/Series – LGBTQ+ – Alex Rubin
More Dead Than Living – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
My Broken Arm – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Short Film – Matt Stone
Nancy – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Pilot / Series (Unproduced) – – Mark Strauss
Obsession – Grand Jury Award – Best Short Film – Horror –
Obsession – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Writing – Horror – Devon Kane
Obsession – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cast Performance – Horror – Rachel Deutsch, Joe Chambrello, Amanda Fritz
Old Girl in a Tutu: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Documentary –
Old Girl in a Tutu: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Originality – Documentary –
Once More, Like Rain Man – Grand Jury Award – Best Short Film – Comedy –
Once More, Like Rain Man – Grand Jury Award – Best Performance by a Cast – Short Film – –
Once More, Like Rain Man – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Direction – Comedy – Sue Ann Pien
Once More, Like Rain Man – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cast Performance – Comedy –
Pace – Grand Jury Award – Best Short Film – Drama –
Pace – Grand Jury Award – Best Director – Short Film – – Beck Williams
Paisano Overhang – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Documentary –
Paisano Overhang – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cinematography – Documentary – Catalina Guerra Hoffman
Papa’s Corner – Grand Jury Award – Best Supporting Performer – Short Film – – Val Victa
Paramedics: Emergency Response – Grand Jury Award – Best Series / Pilot – –
Parking – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Short Film – LGBTQ+ – Andrew Klaus-Vineyard
paSSive poWer Audience Award – Best Immersive Short –
Pickle Vision – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse –
Pickle Vision – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cast Performance – Experimental/Arthouse –
Pickle Vision – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Originality – Experimental/Arthouse – Best Original Soundtrack – Pickle Vision
Pickle Vision – Grand Jury Award – Best Original Soundtrack
Pierre West – Grand Jury Award – Best Lead Performer – Featurette – – Tomas Hartwig
Pierre West – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Featurette – – Henrik Larsson & Jakob Arevärn
Please Kill Robinson Scott Thomas – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – Frederick Jerome Taylor
Pool House – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Originality – Comedy –
Pride Night Out – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Pilot / Series LGBTQ+ (Unproduced) – – Chanessa Richa’rd
Puppetland – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Pilot/Series – Dominic Abeyta
Real Mother – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
Roughing It Audience Award – Best Short Film –
Roughing It – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Writing – Comedy – Michael D. Cohen
Roughing It – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cinematography – Comedy – Samuel Ott
Saint Lucifer – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – LGBTQ+ – Joseph DUrso
Scissor Sleepover – Grand Jury Award – Best Production Design – Short Film – – Margo Graff
Scissor Sleepover – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Originality – Horror –
Sentient – Grand Jury Award – Best Short Film – Thriller –
Sentient – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Direction – Thriller – R. Scott McHenry
Sentient – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Writing – Thriller – R. Scott McHenry
Sentient – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Originality – Thriller –
Shepherd Moon – Grand Jury Award – Best Short Film – SciFi –
Shepherd Moon – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Direction – SciFi – Michaela Wadzinski
Sitting at the Edge of the World Staring at the Mice – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Short LGBTQ+ (Unproduced) – – Guadalupe Birkbeck
Sometimes I Imagine Your Funeral – Best in Fest – Short FIlm – –
Suburban Nights – Grand Jury Award – Best Feature Film – Comedy –
Suburban Nights – Grand Jury Award – Best Performance by a Duo – – Ariel Barber & Zach Kanner
The Anatomy of Jane Doesn’t Exist – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Writing – Animation – Kai Brown
The Big Picture – Grand Jury Award – Best Music VIdeo – –
The Boy Who Earned His Magic: “Only You Can Save Her” – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Pilot/Series – Lynn H. Elliott
The Erebus – Grand Jury Award – Best Featurette – SciFi –
The Experience – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – Anna Kathryn Long & Olivia Haller
The Itch – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Horror –
The Last Light – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cast Performance – Drama – Fiona Rene & Herman Gambhir
The Last Light – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cinematography – Drama – Wesley Quinn
The Mannequin – Grand Jury Award – Best Feature Film – Horror –
The Mannequin – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – – John Berardo
The Mannequin – Grand Jury Award – Best Cinematography – Feature Film – – Jonathan Pope
The Mannequin – Grand Jury Award – Best Production Design – Feature Film – – Emily Peters
Tomorrow’s Bandits – Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking – –
When The Clocks Stop – Best in Fest – Featurette – –
When The Clocks Stop – Grand Jury Award – Best Performance by a Cast – Featurette – –
When The Clocks Stop Audience Award – Best Featurette –
Where We Goin?: The Power of Place – Grand Jury Award – Best Featurette – Documentary
Where We Goin?: The Power of Place – Grand Jury Award – Best Editing – Featurette – Devin Boss
Whispers – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Thriller –
Whispers – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cast Performance – Thriller –
Whispers – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Cinematography – Thriller – Giselle Gonzalez
Wicked Highway – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – Christy Price, Daniel Vidal Perez
Wildflower of the Valley: Carnal Bloom – Finalist – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Pilot/Series – Hannah Rose Vernot
Winter Psalm – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Writing – Drama – Hao Yan
With Arms Raised – Grand Jury Award – Best Screenplay – Short Film – – Jon Cvack
With Arms Raised – Filmmakers Award – Outstanding Short Film – Drama –
You Can Only Blink Once – Grand Jury Award – Best Featurette – Thriller –
You Can Only Blink Once – Grand Jury Award – Best Supporting Performer – Featurette – – Gabriel Quintella
You Can Only Blink Once – Grand Jury Award – Best Sound Design – Featurette – – Yunus Balkanli & Efe Tuncay

Best In Fest

Feature Film – Making Megaforce
Featurette – When The Clocks Stop
Short Film – Sometimes I Imagine Your Funeral

Grand Jury Awards

Best Feature Film – Comedy – Suburban Nights
Best Feature Film – Documentary – Last Exit Gran Canaria
Best Feature Film – Drama – Love Song from Hiroshima
Best Feature Film – Horror – The Mannequin
Best Featurette – Drama – Lost, Not Forgotten
Best Featurette – Thriller – You Can Only Blink Once
Best Featurette – Documentary – Where We Goin?: The Power of Place
Best Featurette – Horror – Babushka
Best Featurette – SciFi – The Erebus
Best Music Video – The Big Picture
Best Series / Pilot – Paramedics: Emergency Response
Best Short Film – Animation – It’s Not For Me To Say
Best Short Film – Comedy – Once More, Like Rain Man
Best Short Film – Documentary – Grillo
Best Short Film – Drama – Pace
Best Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – Lonesome Town
Best Short Film – Horror – Obsession
Best Short Film – SciFi – Shepherd Moon
Best Short Film – Thriller – Sentient
Best Director – Feature Film – Love Song from Hiroshima – Hideyuki Tokigawa
Best Director – Featurette – Broadway & Swan – Chris Fiore
Best Director – Short Film – Pace – Beck Williams
Best Lead Performer – Feature Film – Love Song from Hiroshima – Ryosuke Sota
Best Lead Performer – Featurette – Pierre West – Tomas Hartwig
Best Lead Performer – Short Film – Lollie – Monique Hortolani
Best Lead Performer – Animation – I Am Duck – Marianna Hersko
Best Performance by a Duo – Suburban Nights – Ariel Barber & Zach Kanner
Best Supporting Performer – Feature Film – Making Megaforce – Barry Bostwick
Best Supporting Performer – Featurette – You Can Only Blink Once – Gabriel Quintella
Best Supporting Performer – Short Film – Papa’s Corner – Val Victa
Best Performance by a Cast – Feature Film – Love Song from Hiroshima
Best Performance by a Cast – Featurette – When The Clocks Stop
Best Performance by a Cast – Short Film – Once More, Like Rain Man
Best Screenplay – Feature Film – The Mannequin – John Berardo
Best Screenplay – Featurette – Pierre West – Henrik Larsson & Jakob Arevärn
Best Screenplay – Short Film – With Arms Raised – Jon Cvack
Best Screenplay – Feature (Unproduced) – Fearless – Rich Van Tine
Best Screenplay – Short (Unproduced) – Double Trouble – Lauren Holiday
Best Screenplay – Pilot / Series (Unproduced) – Nancy – Mark Strauss
Best Screenplay – Feature LGBTQ+ (Unproduced) – Best Little Boy – Daniel Hirsch
Best Screenplay – Short LGBTQ+ (Unproduced) – Sitting at the Edge of the World Staring at the Mice – Guadalupe Birkbeck
Best Screenplay – Pilot / Series LGBTQ+ (Unproduced) – Pride Night Out – Chanessa Richa’rd
Best Editing – Feature Film – Making Megaforce – Felix Chamberlain
Best Editing – Featurette – Where We Goin?: The Power of Place – Devin Boss
Best Editing – Short Film – Archaic – Mark Perceval-Maxwell
Best Cinematography – Feature Film – The Mannequin – Jonathan Pope
Best Cinematography – Featurette – Babushka – Robin Webster
Best Cinematography – Short Film – Cut All Trees – Red Jitar
Best Production Design – Feature Film – The Mannequin – Emily Peters
Best Production Design – Featurette – Babushka – O.J. Hansen
Best Production Design – Short Film – Scissor Sleepover – Margo Graff
Best Sound Design – Feature Film – Love Song from Hiroshima – Kousuke Kobayashi
Best Sound Design – Featurette – You Can Only Blink Once – Yunus Balkanli & Efe Tuncay
Best Sound Design – Short Film – In Old Ranchos – Sam Welchel
Best Original Soundtrack – Pickle Vision
Best Song – Love Song from Hiroshima – “Peace Song” by Chase Ziegler
Best Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360 – Max Q

Audience Awards

Best Feature Film – Making Megaforce
Best Featurette – When The Clocks Stop
Best Short Film – Roughing It
Best Immersive Short – paSSive poWer

Filmmakers Awards

Outstanding Short Film – Animation – I am Duck –
Outstanding Direction – Animation – Lifted – Daniel Robichaud
Outstanding Writing – Animation – The Anatomy of Jane Doesn’t Exist – Kai Brown
Outstanding Originality – Animation – I am Duck
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – Mondays at the Office
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – 1 in the Chamber –
Outstanding Direction – Comedy – Once More, Like Rain Man – Sue Ann Pien
Outstanding Writing – Comedy – Roughing It – Michael D. Cohen
Outstanding Cast Performance – Comedy – Once More, Like Rain Man –
Outstanding Cinematography – Comedy – Roughing It – Samuel Ott
Outstanding Originality – Comedy – Pool House –
Outstanding Originality – Comedy – Baby Husband –
Outstanding Short Film – Documentary – Old Girl in a Tutu: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History –
Outstanding Short Film – Documentary – Paisano Overhang –
Outstanding Direction – Documentary – Grillo – Dima Puchkarev
Outstanding Cinematography – Documentary – Paisano Overhang – Catalina Guerra Hoffman
Outstanding Originality – Documentary – Old Girl in a Tutu: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History –
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – Lollie –
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – With Arms Raised –
Outstanding Direction – Drama – Lollie – Agnès Shinozaki
Outstanding Writing – Drama – Death in The Desert – Anna Kathryn Long
Outstanding Writing – Drama – Winter Psalm – Hao Yan
Outstanding Cast Performance – Drama – The Last Light – Fiona Rene & Herman Gambhir
Outstanding Cinematography – Drama – Dark Matter – Ptolemy Culvenor
Outstanding Cinematography – Drama – The Last Light – Wesley Quinn
Outstanding Originality – Drama – Dark Matter –
Outstanding Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – Pickle Vision –
Outstanding Direction – Experimental/Arthouse – Lonesome Town – Caleb Garrett
Outstanding Writing – Experimental/Arthouse – Lonesome Town – Caleb Garrett
Outstanding Cast Performance – Experimental/Arthouse – Pickle Vision –
Outstanding Cinematography – Experimental/Arthouse – Lonesome Town – Caleb Garrett
Outstanding Originality – Experimental/Arthouse – Pickle Vision – Shawn Welles Linzey
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – Archaic
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – As A Rake
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – Carter
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – The Itch
Outstanding Direction – Horror – Archaic – Mark Perceval-Maxwell
Outstanding Writing – Horror – Obsession – Devon Kane
Outstanding Cast Performance – Horror – Obsession – Rachel Deutsch, Joe Chambrello, Amanda Fritz
Outstanding Cinematography – Horror – Archaic – Benjamin Parry
Outstanding Originality – Horror – Scissor Sleepover –
Outstanding Short Film – SciFi – In Old Ranchos –
Outstanding Direction – SciFi – Shepherd Moon – Michaela Wadzinski
Outstanding Writing – SciFi – In Old Ranchos – Matthew Lucas & Patrick Flynn
Outstanding Cast Performance – SciFi – Chromatography – Renée Veronica Freeman & Folami Williams
Outstanding Cinematography – SciFi – In Old Ranchos – Andrew Jeric
Outstanding Originality – SciFi – Hey HeLP-O! Let’s Go! –
Outstanding Short Film – Thriller – Whispers –
Outstanding Direction – Thriller – Sentient – R. Scott McHenry
Outstanding Writing – Thriller – Sentient – R. Scott McHenry
Outstanding Cast Performance – Thriller – Whispers –
Outstanding Cinematography – Thriller – Whispers – Giselle Gonzalez
Outstanding Originality – Thriller – Sentient –

Programmer’s Prizes

Exceptional Filmmaking – …post
Exceptional Filmmaking – Ashes and Grace
Exceptional Filmmaking – Becoming an Oyster
Exceptional Filmmaking – Damned
Exceptional Filmmaking – Franks In Hell
Exceptional Filmmaking – If the Shoe Fits
Exceptional Filmmaking – Jesus Loves Me
Exceptional Filmmaking – Kuchikame
Exceptional Filmmaking – Lorica
Exceptional Filmmaking – More Dead Than Living
Exceptional Filmmaking – Real Mother
Exceptional Filmmaking – Tomorrow’s Bandits

Finalists – Screenplay Grand Jury Awards

American Import by Steven Shehori
Crossroads by Laura Katherine Winter
Curveball by Nick Kilgore
Diwata by Shea Formanes
Horizon by Karen Campion
How Not To Write a Romance Novel by Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez
I Hate Birthdays! by Haiba Khan
Keeping Tabs by Michael Montgomery
La Esposa by Matthew Benjamin Sheehan
Money Makers by Alex Rubin
My Broken Arm by Matt Stone
Parking by Andrew Klaus-Vineyard
Please Kill Robinson Scott Thomas by Frederick Jerome Taylor
Puppetland by Dominic Abeyta
Saint Lucifer by Joseph DUrso
The Boy Who Earned His Magic: “Only You Can Save Her” by Lynn H. Elliott
The Experience by Anna Kathryn Long & Olivia Haller
Wicked Highway by Christy Price, Daniel Vidal Perez
Wildflower of the Valley: Carnal Bloom by Hannah Rose Vernot

Prize Definitions/Explanations

Best In Fest – Determined by the festival’s official selection committee, this category was added because overall awards can help make us eligible to be an Oscar Qualifying festival.  (A nice person at the Academy explained that our idealistic belief that awards should be divided by genre prevented us from becoming an Oscar Qualifying festival.  We adapted and… wish us luck!)
Grand Jury Awards – Determined by the festival’s official selection committee.
Filmmakers Awards – Determined by a panel of filmmakers whose films have been Official Selections previous years and given only to short films.
Audience Awards – Determined by highly scientific instruments to measure audience satisfaction.
Programmer’s Prize – Determined by festival programmer Jeff Howard as a reward for his hard work.  Importantly, having his own awards means he never has to put his finger on the scale for the other awards.

Best In Fest

Feature Film – The Man With the Silver Case
Featurette – Good Girls Get Fed
Short Film – We Have Notes

Grand Jury Award Winners

Best Feature Film – Animation – Home is somewhere else
Best Feature Film – Comedy – Hanky Panky
Best Feature Film – Documentary – King Of The Butterflies
Best Feature Film – Drama – Marco Polo
Best Feature FIlm – Experimental/Arthouse – Nyctophobia
Best Feature Film – SciFi – Quantum Suicide
Best Featurette – Documentary – Culture vs war. Liberov
Best Featurette – Experimental/Arthouse – Cyano Sun Suite
Best Featurette – Horror – White Gaze
Best Featurette – Sci-Fi – Nauru
Best Short Film – Animation – Moving Day
Best Short Film – Comedy – The Word
Best Short Film – Dance – Herbarium
Best Short Film – Documentary – The Bare You
Best Short Film – Drama – Happy Ending
Best Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis
Best Short Film – Horror – Wake
Best Short Film – Sci-Fi – ID EST
Best TV/Web/Streaming Series – Bento Banana 3-4
Best Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360 – Vanilla Lily
Best Director – Feature Film – The Man With the Silver Case – Colin Best
Best Director – Featurette – Good Girls Get Fed – Kelly Lou Dennis
Best Director – Short Film – We Have Notes – Jordan McKittrick
Best Screenplay – Short Film – Happy Ending – Élodie Yung & Jonathan Howard
Best Screenplay – Feature Film (Unproduced) – Spitting Fire – Angie M. Comer
Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series (Unproduced) – Sorta Rican – Eric Rivera
Best Screenplay – Short Film (Unproduced) – Bev and Beauregard Simon – Alysha Haran
Best Lead Perfromer – Feature Film – Look At Me – Taylor Olson
Best Lead Perfromer – Featurette – Cyano Sun Suite – Tawhida Tanya Evanson
Best Lead Perfromer – Short Film – On Earth, as it is in Heaven – Jamie McShane
Best Supporting Perfromer – Feature Film – Look At Me – Stephanie MacDonald
Best Supporting Perfromer – Featurette – Nauru – Alessandra Vitanis
Best Supporting Perfromer – Short Film – We Have Notes – Madeleine Coghlan
Best Cast Perfromance – Feature Film – Hanky Panky
Best Cast Perfromance – Featurette – Good Girls Get Fed
Best Cast Perfromance – Short Film – The Word
Best Cinematography – Feature Film – The Man With the Silver Case – Jay Keitel
Best Cinematography – Featurette – Nauru – João Paulo Casalino
Best Cinematography – Short Film – Wake – David Khayznikov
Best Production Design – Feature Film – Quantum Suicide – Rafael Ceppetelli
Best Production Design – Featurette – Nauru – Juh Guedes
Best Production Design – Short Film – On Earth, as it is in Heaven – Amy Vuckovich
Best Sound Design – Feature Film – The Man With the Silver Case – Mark Binder
Best Sound Design – Featurette – Cyano Sun Suite – Shae Brossard & Tyler Crawford
Best Sound Design – Short Film – Intertitle – Alex Michael Jones

Audience Award Winners

Best Feature Film – Comedy – All the Wrong Ingredients
Best Feature Film – Documentary – Hong Kong – Final Days of Freedom
Best Feature Film – Drama – Look At Me
Best Short Film – Animation – Hoang the Paper Boy
Best Short Film – Comedy – The Feeling Expert
Best Short Film – Drama – You Look So Good
Best Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – Girl Upstairs
Best Short Film – Horror – Vessel
Best Short Film – Sci-Fi – REVERIE
Best Immersive Short – The Carrier
Best Screenplay – Feature Film – A Nightmare’s Reverie – Lianna Perry Fountain
Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series – Transitions – Rachael CG Cudlitz
Best Screenplay – Short Film – Fear – Noelle Ann Mabry

Filmmakers Awards

Outstanding Short Film – Animation – Anansi the Spider
Outstanding Director – Animation – Moving Day – Sean Mirkovich
Outstanding Screenplay – Animation – Hinter-Land – Christopher Angus
Outstanding Cast Performance – Animation – Anansi the Spider – Daniel Jennings, Elijah Gallimore-Repole & Jared Hall
Outstanding Originality – Animation – Nostalgia Transplant
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – V-Card
Outstanding Director – Comedy – The Word – Rob M. Neilson
Outstanding Screenplay – Comedy – The Word – Colin Ochs, Rob M. Neilson, Sam Demaris & Billy D. Washington
Outstanding Cast Performance – Comedy – The Word
Outstanding Originality – Comedy – V-Card
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – Rites of Passage
Outstanding Director – Drama – On Earth, as it is in Heaven – Michael Cudlitz
Outstanding Screenplay – Drama – The Unreliables – Jen Robyn Jacobs & Adam Linkenhelt
Outstanding Cast Performance – Drama – On Earth, as it is in Heaven
Outstanding Originality – Drama – Intertitle
Outstanding Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – PANG
Outstanding Director – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis – Brennan Thomas McGee
Outstanding Screenplay – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis – Brennan Thomas McGee
Outstanding Cast Performance – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis
Outstanding Originality – Experimental/Arthouse – PANG
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – The Wheel
Outstanding Director – Horror – Wake
Outstanding Screenplay – Horror – The Wheel
Outstanding Cast Performance – Horror – Vessel
Outstanding Originality – Horror – You’re Dirty Now
Outstanding Short Film – Sci-Fi – OVERCLOCKED : Origins
Outstanding Director – Sci-Fi – ID EST – Shayda Frost
Outstanding Screenplay – Sci-Fi – REVERIE – Kelli Horan
Outstanding Cast Performance – Sci-Fi – REVERIE
Outstanding Originality – Sci-Fi – Somniscience

Programmer’s Prize

Exceptional Filmmaking – Village of Death: Oradour-sur-Glane 1944
Exceptional Filmmaking – The 10,000 Mile Bridge
Exceptional Filmmaking – The Spectacular Absence Of God
Exceptional Filmmaking – At Ten Weeks
Exceptional Filmmaking – I DID
Exceptional Filmmaking – I’ll Be There
Exceptional Filmmaking – Oh My Sweetheart
Exceptional Filmmaking – Talia

Prize Definitions/Explanations

Best In Fest – Determined by the festival’s official selection committee, this category was added because overall awards can help make us eligible to be an Oscar Qualifying festival.  (We learned that our idealistic belief that awards should be divided by genre was getting in the way of that and we’d really like to become an Oscar Qualifying festival.  If you know someone… hook us up!)
Grand Jury Awards – Determined by the festival’s official selection committee.
Filmmakers Awards – Determined by a panel of filmmakers whose films have been Official Selections previous years and given only to short films.
Audience Awards – Determined by highly scientific instruments to measure audience satisfaction.
Programmer’s Prize – Determined by festival programmer Jeff Howard as a reward for his hard work.  Importantly, having his own awards means he never has to put his finger on the scale for the other awards.

Best In Fest

Feature Film – The Man With the Silver Case
Featurette – Good Girls Get Fed
Short Film – We Have Notes

Best In Fest – Determined by the festival’s official selection committee, this category was added because overall awards can help make us eligible to be an Oscar Qualifying festival.

(We learned that our idealistic belief that awards should be divided by genre was getting in the way of that and we’d really like to become an Oscar Qualifying festival.  If you know someone… hook us up!)