AWARD WINNERS

BEST NARRATIVE
“Scrap”
Director: Vivian Kerr

BEST DOCUMENTARY
“Black Barbie”
Director: Lagueria Davis

SPECIAL ADVOCACY AWARD
“Deep Rising”
Director: Matthieu Rytz

SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL JURY PRIZE
“A Kind Of Kidnapping”
Director: D.G. Clark

SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
“The Rabbit Hole”
Director: Aaron Schoonover

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
“The Last Repair Shop”
Directors: Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
“Broken Gargoyles”
Director: Freddy Carter

SPECIAL ADVOCACY AWARD – INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
“You’re Not Crazy (No Estas Loca)”
Director: Maria Bestar

JURY CASH AWARDS

DR. GEORGE M. SANGER STUDENT FILM AWARDS

STUDENT GRAND PRIZE AWARD
“The Midwife”
Director: Anne-Sophie Bailly

BEST STUDENT FILM (Advanced)
“City of Lost Souls”
Director: Nikos Mpouyioukas

BEST STUDENT FILM (High School)
“Memories in Blue”
Director: Yezy Suh

DALE ST. DENNIS FEMALE FILMMAKER AWARDS

Fearless Female Filmmaker Award
“Breaking Silence”
Directors: Amy Bench and Annie Silverstein

“Black Girls Play”
Directors: Joe Brewster

Mary Pickford Award
“Confessions”
Director: Stephanie Kaznocha

Francis Marion Award
“Heritage Day”
Directors: Liz Blair And Lara Everly

“The Last Butterflies”
Director: Whitney Wegman-Wood

EMERALD AWARD

“Out There: The National Parks Story”
Director: Brenden Hall

ANIMATION

Jury Grand Prize Animation
“Spring Roll Dream”
Director: Mai Vu

Jury Special Recognition
“Canary”
Director: Pierre-Hugues Dallaire, Benoit Therriault

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS

Features(Narrative + Documentaries)

Best Narrative Feature
“Taste of Things”
Director: Anh Hung Tran

Best International Feature
“Shayda”
Director: Noora Niasari

Best Indie Narrative
“Heightened”
Director: Sara Friedman

Best Documentary Feature
“Humanity Stoked”
Director: Michael Ien Cohen

Best Advocacy Documentary
“Common Ground”
Director: Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell

Best Military Feature
“The Gift”
Director: David Kniess

SHORTS

Best Narrative Short
“Subtext”
Director: Erin Brown Thomas

Best Documentary Short
“Humanatee”
Director: Planet Froth

Best Advocacy Documentary Short
“Bumps in the Road”
Director: Alex Halpern, Rachel Kittner

Best Student Short
“Azizam”
Director: Alci Rengifo

Best International Short
“You’re Not Crazy”
Director: María Bestar

Culinary Spotlight
“When You Left Me on the Boulevard”
Director: Kayla Abuda Galang

Cultural Spotlight
“David Se Va”
Director: Joel Caleb Villegas Saldaña

ANIMATION

Best Animated Feature
“Robot Dreams”
Director: Pablo Berger

Best Animated Short
“Boat People”
Director: Thao Lam, Kjell Boersma

LOCAL CATEGORY

Best Local Narrative Feature
“The Secret Art of Human Flight”
Director: H.P. Mendoza

Best Local Documentary Feature
“The Big Dump”
Director: Allen Carrasco

Best Local Narrative Short
“Amazing Grace”
Director: Aiden Keltner

Best Local Documentary Short
“Little Tommy”
Director: Ninette Sosa

Best Local Student Narrative
“The Baseball Cap”
Director: Lucas Pierce

Best Local Student Documentary
“Unbreakable”
Director: May Thatun

BEST NARRATIVE
“Dealing with Dad”
Director: Tom Huang

BEST DOCUMENTARY
“Song For Hope - The Ryan Anthony Story”
Director: Chris Haigh

BEST NARRATIVE
“7 Days”
Director: Roshan Sethi

BEST DOCUMENTARY
“Bangla Surf Girls”
Director: Elizabeth D Costa

BEST INTERNATIONAL
“Atlas”
Director: Niccolò Castelli

THE LEONARD MALTIN TRIBUTE AWARD
“Nomadland”
Director: Chloé Zhao

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
“Two Ways Home”
Director: Ron Vignone

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“The Prison Within”
Director: Katherin Hervey

SPECIAL RECOGNITION DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Fish & Men”
Directors: Darby Duffin, Adam Jones

BEST SHORT
“Alina”
Director: Rami Kodeih

JURY CASH AWARDS

DR. GEORGE M. SANGER STUDENT FILM AWARDS

STUDENT GRAND PRIZE AWARD
“My War”
Director: Jojo Erholtz

JURY CASH AWARD RECIPIENTS

“Estranged”
Director: Aiden Keltner

“Anna & Sloane Go to the Beach”
Director: Willa Rydall

“Dia de las Carpas”
Director: João Dall'Stella

SPECIAL RECOGNITION
“The Humanity Test”
DirectorS: Samuel Mitchell, Lily Kaplan

DALE ST. DENNIS FEMALE FILMMAKER AWARDS

Fearless Female Filmmaker Award
“Double Exposure”
Directors: Daryl Getman

Mary Pickford Award
“Two Ways Home”
Director: Ron Vignone

Francis Marion Award
“Alina”
Directors: Rami Kodeih

EMERALD AWARD

“Kiss the Ground”
Directors: Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
“Nomadland”
Director: Chloé Zhao

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

“Runner ”
Director: Hanne Bruun

“Fish & Men”
DirectorS: Darby Duffin, Adam Jones

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“The Other Fab Four”
Director: Peggy DeBeliso

COMEDY SHORT
“Ms. Rossi”
Director: Pat Battistini

DRAMATIC/HORROR SHORT
“Over the Edge”
Director: Enzo Tedeschi

STUDENT NARRATIVE SHORT
“Brother’s Keeper”
Director: Owen Squire Smith

STUDENT DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“A Little Patch of Earth”
Director: Celine Francois