Award Winners

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

2019

Jury Award Winners

Best Narrative

The Neighbors' Window

Directed by Marshall Curry

Juror: Kevin Smith

Best Documentary

St. Louis Superman

Directed by Smriti Mundhra, Sami Khan

Juror: Iris Samson

Best Animated

Mind my Mind

Directed by Floor Adams

Juror: Ellen Doherty

Audience Award Winners

Best Overall

Footsteps of my Father

Directed by Paul Allman

Best Narrative

Sylvia

Directed by Richard Prendergast

Best Documentary

Unforgivable

Directed by Giosue Petrone

Best Animated

Wild Love

Directed by Paul Autric

Best Comedy

Made Public

Directed by Foster Wilson

Best Local Film

The Return

Directed by Jon Fish

Best Student Film

Esta es tu Cuba

Directed by Brian Robau

Best All Ages Film

All in Good Time

Directed by Bonnie Dempsey

2018

Jury Award Winners

Best Narrative

Three Pages

Directed by Roger Gariépy

Juror: Charlie Humphrey

Best Documentary

Period. End of Sentence.

Directed by Rayka Zehtabchi

Juror: Minette Seate

Best Animated

Two Balloons

Directed by Mark C. Smith

Juror: Marcel Lamont Walker

Audience Award Winners

Best Narrative

Bagheera

Directed by Christopher R. Watson

Best Documentary

Beneath the Ink

Directed by Cy Dodson

Best Animated

One Small Step

Directed by Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas

Best Comedy

Stag

Directed by Jonnie Stapleton

Best Pennsylvania Film

My Paintbrush Bites

Directed by Joel Pincosy, Joe Egender

Best Student Film

Mammoth

Directed by Ariel Heller

Programmer's Choice Winners

The Astronaut

Directed by Manuel Trotta

Sacred Hair

Directed by Mario Morin

2017

Jury Award Winners

Best Narrative

Red Light

Directed by Toma Waszarow

Juror: Jesse Shapira

Best Documentary

Woody's Order!

Directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger

Juror: Rick Sebak

Best Animated

Coin Operated

Directed by Nicholas Arioli

Juror: Janera Solomon

Audience Award Winners

Best Narrative

My Mom and the Girl

Directed by Susie Singer Carter

Best Documentary

The Gnomist

Directed by Sharon Liese

Best Animated

Coin Operated

Directed by Nicholas Arioli