Grand Jury Award Winners

Best Screenplay – Feature Film – Spitting Fire
Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series – Sorta Rican
Best Screenplay – Short Film – Bev and Beauregard Simon

Audience Award Winners

Best Screenplay – Feature Film – A Nightmare’s Reverie
Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series – Transitions
Best Screenplay – Short Film – Fear

Grand Jury Award Finalists

Finalist – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – Cuernavaca
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – Goodnightmare
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – Incubus
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – My Brother The Lion
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – On the Hook
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – The Complex
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – They Eat Their Own
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Feature Film – Whiskey Mountain Days
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series – Keaton – PILOT
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series – Monkey InthE Middle
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series – Vortex Pax
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Short Film – Gasp
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Short Film – Nails
Finalist – Best Screenplay – Short Film – The Revver

Source: FILA

Grand Jury Award Winners

Best Feature Film – Animation – Home is somewhere else
Best Feature Film – Comedy – Hanky Panky
Best Feature Film – Documentary – King Of The Butterflies
Best Feature Film – Drama – Marco Polo
Best Feature FIlm – Experimental/Arthouse – Nyctophobia
Best Feature Film – SciFi – Quantum Suicide
Best Featurette – Documentary – Culture vs war. Liberov
Best Featurette – Experimental/Arthouse – Cyano Sun Suite
Best Featurette – Horror – White Gaze
Best Featurette – Sci-Fi – Nauru
Best Short Film – Animation – Moving Day
Best Short Film – Comedy – The Word
Best Short Film – Dance – Herbarium
Best Short Film – Documentary – The Bare You
Best Short Film – Drama – Happy Ending
Best Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis
Best Short Film – Horror – Wake
Best Short Film – Sci-Fi – ID EST
Best TV/Web/Streaming Series – Bento Banana 3-4
Best Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360 – Vanilla Lily
Best Director – Feature Film – The Man With the Silver Case – Colin Best
Best Director – Featurette – Good Girls Get Fed – Kelly Lou Dennis
Best Director – Short Film – We Have Notes – Jordan McKittrick
Best Screenplay – Short Film – Happy Ending – Élodie Yung & Jonathan Howard
Best Screenplay – Feature Film (Unproduced) – Spitting Fire – Angie M. Comer
Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series (Unproduced) – Sorta Rican – Eric Rivera
Best Screenplay – Short Film (Unproduced) – Bev and Beauregard Simon – Alysha Haran
Best Lead Perfromer – Feature Film – Look At Me – Taylor Olson
Best Lead Perfromer – Featurette – Cyano Sun Suite – Tawhida Tanya Evanson
Best Lead Perfromer – Short Film – On Earth, as it is in Heaven – Jamie McShane
Best Supporting Perfromer – Feature Film – Look At Me – Stephanie MacDonald
Best Supporting Perfromer – Featurette – Nauru – Alessandra Vitanis
Best Supporting Perfromer – Short Film – We Have Notes – Madeleine Coghlan
Best Cast Perfromance – Feature Film – Hanky Panky
Best Cast Perfromance – Featurette – Good Girls Get Fed
Best Cast Perfromance – Short Film – The Word
Best Cinematography – Feature Film – The Man With the Silver Case – Jay Keitel
Best Cinematography – Featurette – Nauru – João Paulo Casalino
Best Cinematography – Short Film – Wake – David Khayznikov
Best Production Design – Feature Film – Quantum Suicide – Rafael Ceppetelli
Best Production Design – Featurette – Nauru – Juh Guedes
Best Production Design – Short Film – On Earth, as it is in Heaven – Amy Vuckovich
Best Sound Design – Feature Film – The Man With the Silver Case – Mark Binder
Best Sound Design – Featurette – Cyano Sun Suite – Shae Brossard & Tyler Crawford
Best Sound Design – Short Film – Intertitle – Alex Michael Jones

Grand Jury Awards – Determined by the festival’s official selection committee.

Source: FILA

Audience Award Winners

Best Feature Film – Comedy – All the Wrong Ingredients
Best Feature Film – Documentary – Hong Kong – Final Days of Freedom
Best Feature Film – Drama – Look At Me
Best Short Film – Animation – Hoang the Paper Boy
Best Short Film – Comedy – The Feeling Expert
Best Short Film – Drama – You Look So Good
Best Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – Girl Upstairs
Best Short Film – Horror – Vessel
Best Short Film – Sci-Fi – REVERIE
Best Immersive Short – The Carrier
Best Screenplay – Feature Film – A Nightmare’s Reverie – Lianna Perry Fountain
Best Screenplay – Pilot/Web Series – Transitions – Rachael CG Cudlitz
Best Screenplay – Short Film – Fear – Noelle Ann Mabry

Audience Awards – Determined by highly scientific instruments to measure audience satisfaction.

Source: FILA

Filmmakers Awards

Outstanding Short Film – Animation – Anansi the Spider
Outstanding Director – Animation – Moving Day – Sean Mirkovich
Outstanding Screenplay – Animation – Hinter-Land – Christopher Angus
Outstanding Cast Performance – Animation – Anansi the Spider – Daniel Jennings, Elijah Gallimore-Repole & Jared Hall
Outstanding Originality – Animation – Nostalgia Transplant
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – V-Card
Outstanding Director – Comedy – The Word – Rob M. Neilson
Outstanding Screenplay – Comedy – The Word – Colin Ochs, Rob M. Neilson, Sam Demaris & Billy D. Washington
Outstanding Cast Performance – Comedy – The Word
Outstanding Originality – Comedy – V-Card
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – Rites of Passage
Outstanding Director – Drama – On Earth, as it is in Heaven – Michael Cudlitz
Outstanding Screenplay – Drama – The Unreliables – Jen Robyn Jacobs & Adam Linkenhelt
Outstanding Cast Performance – Drama – On Earth, as it is in Heaven
Outstanding Originality – Drama – Intertitle
Outstanding Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – PANG
Outstanding Director – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis – Brennan Thomas McGee
Outstanding Screenplay – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis – Brennan Thomas McGee
Outstanding Cast Performance – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis
Outstanding Originality – Experimental/Arthouse – PANG
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – The Wheel
Outstanding Director – Horror – Wake
Outstanding Screenplay – Horror – The Wheel
Outstanding Cast Performance – Horror – Vessel
Outstanding Originality – Horror – You’re Dirty Now
Outstanding Short Film – Sci-Fi – OVERCLOCKED : Origins
Outstanding Director – Sci-Fi – ID EST – Shayda Frost
Outstanding Screenplay – Sci-Fi – REVERIE – Kelli Horan
Outstanding Cast Performance – Sci-Fi – REVERIE
Outstanding Originality – Sci-Fi – Somniscience

Filmmakers Awards – Determined by a panel of filmmakers whose films have been Official Selections previous years and given only to short films.

Source: FILA

Programmer’s Prize

Exceptional Filmmaking – Village of Death: Oradour-sur-Glane 1944
Exceptional Filmmaking – The 10,000 Mile Bridge
Exceptional Filmmaking – The Spectacular Absence Of God
Exceptional Filmmaking – At Ten Weeks
Exceptional Filmmaking – I DID
Exceptional Filmmaking – I’ll Be There
Exceptional Filmmaking – Oh My Sweetheart
Exceptional Filmmaking – Talia

Programmer’s Prize – Determined by festival programmer Jeff Howard as a reward for his hard work.  Importantly, having his own awards means he never has to put his finger on the scale for the other awards.

Source: FILA