Best Narrative Feature & Best Director:

Farewell Beijing
Director: Xixi Cao

 

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Best Narrative Short & Best Cinematography 

Broke Down Drone

Director: Marquis Simmons

 

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Best Documentary Feature

Citizen of Moria

Director: Jawad Mir, Ahmad Ebrahimi

 

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Best Documentary short

The Black Raven

Director: George Wyhinny

 

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Best Experimental

HOTEP-Know Thy Self

Director: Petri Salo

 

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Best Animation

LEA'S SECRET

Director: Rico Gutierrez

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Best Horror

Rewilding

Director: Ric Rawlins

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Best Producer

Martina Adamcova

My Wacko Parents

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Best Actress

Martina Sivori              

Freefall

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Honorable mention Actress:

Jennifer Scott

Eyes Upon Waking

 

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Best Actor

Arsi Nami

Aion

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Best Editing & Honorable mention First time filmmaker: 

SHASHTHI
Director: Jude Peter Damian

 

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Best Original Script

Stripped from Insanity                

Writer: Tercola Durham, Edwin Maker Jr.

 

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Best Unproduced script

The Remarkable Tale of Phineas P. Gage

Writer: Tom Vecchio

 

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Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

A Promise of Vengeance
Giacomo Giammatteo

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Best Comedy

My Wacko Parents

Director: Tina Adams

 

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Best Student Film

Hand that Feeds

Director:  Matthew Dunlap

 

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Best Music Video

Tragedy Strikes

Director: Morgan Gullett

 

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Best Thriller

A Deadly Conversation

Director: David Pratt

 

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Best Trailer

SFI Trailer

Director: Sharrie Mccain

 

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Best Composer

Matthew Ferraro

The Runner 

    

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Best First-Time Filmmaker

UKWATI // The Wedding

Director: Sean William Economou

 

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Best Female Filmmaker

Xixi Cao

Farewell Beijing

 

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Best Indie Film

Joe Haladin: The Case of the Missing Sister

Director: Jody Stelzig