Best in Fest
Best in Fest – Feature FIlm – Down Town
Best in Fest – Featurette – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes
Best in Fest – Short FIlm – Factory Drop
Grand Jury Awards
Best Screenplay – Feature (Unproduced) – – Adult Children of the American Revolution – Juliette Fairley
Best Screenplay – Short (Unproduced) – – Phillip – Jaimy Rose
Best Screenplay – Pilot / Web Series (Unproduced) – – Glass Ceiling – CJ Grooms
Best Feature Film – Action/Thriller – Listen Carefully
Best Feature Film – Comedy – Down Town
Best Feature Film – Documentary – SEGAL
Best Feature Film – Drama – You’re Not There
Best Feature Film – Horror – Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire
Best Feature Film – SciFi – Glasses
Best Featurette – Documentary – The Power of Small
Best Featurette – Drama – Palmdale
Best Featurette – SciFi – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes
Best Short Film – Action/Thriller – Surrender
Best Short Film – Animation – SUM: A Tale From the Afterlife
Best Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental – Ouroboros
Best Short Film – Comedy – Portland Is the New Portland
Best Short Film – Dance – The Dance After the Last Dance
Best Short Film – Documentary – They Call Me The Tattoo Witch
Best Short Film – Drama – Love Language
Best Short Film – Horror – Wake
Best Short Film – SciFi – Factory Drop
Best Music VIdeo – – Nightwish-Perfume Of The Timeless
Best Web Series / TV Pilot – – roomies
Best Director – Feature Film – – Down Town – Gavin Gaitan
Best Director – Featurette – – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes – Parker Croft
Best Director – Short Film – – Factory Drop – Petja Pulkrabek
Best Screenplay – Feature Film – – Down Town – Gavin Gaitan
Best Screenplay – Featurette – – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes – Aaron Golden & Parker Croft
Best Screenplay – Short Film – – Portland Is the New Portland – Christopher Scamurra & Nicholas Reynolds
Best Lead Performer – Feature Film – – You’re Not There – Nellie Spackman
Best Lead Performer – Featurette – – Palmdale – Isabelle Marchard
Best Lead Performer – Short Film – – Portland Is the New Portland – Matthew Danger Lippman
Best Supporting Performer – Feature Film – – Marco Polo – Jorge Zuloaga
Best Supporting Performer – Featurette – – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes – Sean Marquette
Best Supporting Performer – Short Film – – Two Breaths – Romeo Garcia
Best Performance by a Cast – Feature Film – – Marco Polo
Best Performance by a Cast – Featurette – – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes
Best Performance by a Cast – Short Film – – 6 Weeks
Best Cinematography – Feature Film – – Marco Polo – Marko Alonso
Best Cinematography – Featurette – – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes – Zakaree Sandberg
Best Cinematography – Short Film – – They Call Me The Tattoo Witch – Katie Eleneke
Best Production Design – Feature Film – – Glasses – NEED (Ian Wittenber?)
Best Production Design – Featurette – – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes – Kilby Rodell
Best Production Design – Short Film – – Factory Drop – Denis Stoecker & Lena Schøenman
Best Sound Design – Feature Film – – Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire – Joe Barrucco
Best Sound Design – Featurette – – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes – Aaron Golden
Best Sound Design – Short Film – – Factory Drop – Andreas Hellmanzik
Outstanding Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360 – – Ajax All Powerful
Outstanding Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360 – – The Carrier
Outstanding Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360 – – V. – Freaky Friday
Filmmakers Awards
Outstanding Screenplay – Feature (Unproduced) – – For Misty – Johnny Galvan III
Outstanding Screenplay – Short (Unproduced) – – Baby Mine – Christine Longoria
Outstanding Screenplay – Pilot / Web Series (Unproduced) – – Maddie and Zina – Frances McCoy
Outstanding Short Film – Animation – ALLURE
Outstanding Direction – Animation – ALLURE – Jerry van de Beek & Betsy De Fries
Outstanding Writing – Animation – SUM: A Tale From the Afterlife – David Eagleman
Outstanding Creativity – Animation – SUM: A Tale From the Afterlife
Outstanding Cinematography – Arthouse/Experimental – Heaven in a Wild Flower – NEED (Jesseca Ynez Simmons?)
Outstanding Writing – Arthouse/Experimental – Intertitle – Nicholas Burns
Outstanding Cast Performance – Arthouse/Experimental – Metta Michael
Outstanding Creativity – Arthouse/Experimental – Muck
Outstanding Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental – PANG
Outstanding Direction – Arthouse/Experimental – PANG – Jamin Scotti
Outstanding Writing – Comedy – Big Brothers – Matt Mazany
Outstanding Direction – Comedy – Method to their Madness – Will Limpert
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – The Word
Outstanding Creativity – Comedy – Well-Rounded
Outstanding Cinematography – Comedy – Wesley Loses His Penis – Kenzen Takahashi
Outstanding Cast Performance – Comedy – Will You Please Hit Me?
Outstanding Short Film – Documentary – ARCH-
Outstanding Cinematography – Documentary – ARCH- – Ahmad Alariqi
Outstanding Direction – Documentary – They Call Me The Tattoo Witch – Lindsay Nyman
Outstanding Writing – Drama – 4251 – Dezmo DeGano
Outstanding Creativity – Drama – Grand Romantic Gestures
Outstanding Cast Performance – Drama – Noteworthy
Outstanding Direction – Drama – Re-Entry – Ariel Mahler
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – Two Breaths
Outstanding Cinematography – Drama – Two Breaths – Timur Guseynov
Outstanding Writing – Horror – A Shining Example – Clarke Wolfe & Dylan Guerra
Outstanding Direction – Horror – Cheat Meal – Drew Bierut
Outstanding Cast Performance – Horror – Dry
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – Rancho Mirage
Outstanding Creativity – Horror – Rancho Mirage
Outstanding Cinematography – Horror – Wake – David Khayznikov
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – Wire
Outstanding Direction – SciFi – Factory Drop – Petja Pulkrabek
Outstanding Cinematography – SciFi – Factory Drop – Monika Plura & Tobias Meik
Outstanding Cast Performance – SciFi – Factory Drop
Outstanding Short Film – SciFi – Hardhead
Outstanding Writing – SciFi – Hardhead – John Mudge
Outstanding Creativity – SciFi – Hardhead
Programmer’s Prize
A Shining Example
ALY
Baby Something
Breaking Normal
Burying Baby
Fervor
Handle with Care
Hey Man
Śokasana
The Trade
What Friends Do
What’s Your Favorite Color
Award Definitions/Explanations
Best In Fest – determined by the festival’s official selection committee, this category was added to pander to important organizations that demand a festival give out awards not specific to genre/category.
Grand Jury Awards – determined by the festival’s official selection committee.
Filmmakers Awards – given only to short films, these are determined by a panel of filmmakers whose films have been Official Selections previous years.
Programmer’s Prize – given by festival runner Jeff Howard as a reward for his hard work. Having his own award means that he never has to put his finger on the scale for the other awards.