Award Winners

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2023

Jury Award Winners

Best Animated Short

Rosemary A.D. (After Dad)
Directed by Ethan Barrett
Juror: Ida Melum

Best Documentary Short

Creating Things
Directed by Bryan Simpson, Taylor Simpson
Juror: Njaimeh Njie

Best Live Action Short

Paris 70
Directed by Dani Feixas Roca
Juror: Sharon Badal

Programmers' Choice Winner

Dear Owner
Directed by Jonathan Coleman

Audience Award Winners

Best Overall Short

Paris 70
Directed by Dani Feixas Roca

Best Live Action Short

Infraction
Directed by Timothy Blackwood

Best Documentary Short

A Chocolate Lens
Directed by Gabriel Veras

Best Animated Short

Rosemary A.D. (After Dad)
Directed by Ethan Barrett

Best Comedy Short

They Grow Up so Fast
Directed by John F. Beach

Best Local Short

The Art of Weightlessness
Directed by Moshe Mahler

Best Student Short

Blue Hour
Directed by J.D. Shields

Best Chiller Theater Short

Get Away
Directed by Michael Gabriele

Best All Ages Short

The Missing Piece
Directed by Luis Madrid

2022

Jury Award Winners

Best Narrative

An Irish Goodbye
Directed by Tom Berkeley & Ross White
Juror: Maria Brendle

Best Documentary

Lalito 10
Directed by Jordan Matthew Horowitz
Juror: Brian Broome

Best Animated

Night of the Living Dread
Directed by Ida Melum
Juror: Linda Simensky

Programmers' Choice Winner

Warsha
Directed by Dania Bdeir

Audience Award Winners

Best Overall

North Star
Directed by P.J. Palmer

Best Narrative

Triggered
Directed by Tara Westwood

Best Documentary

Powers
Directed by Paige Morrow Kimball

Best Animated

Night of the Living Dread
Directed by Ida Melum

Best Comedy

The One Who Never Watched Friends
Directed by Charlotte Gabris

Best Specialty

Starfuckers
Directed by Antonio Marziale

Best Local

You Are, I Am
Directed by Dan Counihan

Best Student

Magdalena
Directed by Michael Lazovsky

Best Chiller Theater

Sprite Fright
Directed by Matthew Luhn

Best All Ages

Father, Son, and the Beach
Directed by Chieh-Huei Hsu

2021

Jury Award Winners

Best Narrative

The Ephemeral
Directed by Jorge Muriel
Juror: Kristen Bedno

Best Documentary

The Box
Directed by James Burns, Shal Ngo
Juror: Mridu Chandra

Best Animated

Souvenir Souvenir
Directed by Bastien Dubois
Juror: Mia Olufemi

Programmers' Choice Winner

RESIST: The Resistance Revival Chorus
Directed by Susan O'Brien

Audience Award Winners

Best Overall

Distances
Directed by Susan Béjar

Best Narrative

Over My Dead Body
Directed by Meital Cohen Navarro

Best Documentary

Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd
Directed by Cy Dodson

Best Animated

Migrants
Directed by Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte, Zoé Devise

Best Comedy

The Treatment
Directed by Álvaro Carmona

Best Specialty

"enough."
Directed by Caleb Slain

Best Local

Project Chick
Directed by Gregory Scott Williams, Jr.

Best Student

Refrigerate After Opening
Directed by Kevin Ung

Best Chiller Theater

The Sale
Directed by Max Cianci

Best All Ages

Windup
Directed by Yibing Jiang

2020

Jury Award Winners

Best Narrative

Ala Kachuu - Take and Run
Directed by Maria Brendle
Juror: Deesha Philyaw

Best Documentary

LIV
Directed by Alan Hicks
Juror: Martha Rial

Best Animated

Pangu
Directed by Shaofu Zhang 张少甫
Juror: Michael Killen

Programmers' Choice Winner

Misfits
Directed by Ciani Rey Walker

Audience Award Winners

Best Overall

1, 2, 3, All Eyes On Me
Directed by Emil Gallardo

Best Narrative

American Typecast
Directed by Dane Cook

Best Documentary

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
Directed by Aviva Kempner, Ben West

Best Animated

Umbrella
Directed by Helena Hilario, Mario Pece

Best Comedy

Demand Curve
Directed by The Bragg Brothers

Best Specialty

Human
Directed by Erin Brown Thomas

Best Local

Saving Amelia
Directed by Matthew Fridg

Best All Ages

Zog
Directed by Max Lang, Daniel Snaddon

Best Student

Mum's Hairpins
Directed by Tatiana Fedorovskaya

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