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| Dan Rather, Lifetime Achievement Award |
Lifetime Achievement Award - Dan Rather
Film Jury Awards
Danny Award, Best Picture - Bridge (Amit Ranjan Biswas, India)
Nominees: Look Again, Changeover, Intersection, Apparition, Niyazi Gul, The Galloping Vet,
Bridge, The Frogmarch, Primrose Lane
Best Director - Estes Tarver (Changeover, USA)
Nominees: Estes Tarver (Changeover), Quinn Snyder (Apparition), Teddy Cecil (Helio), Calvin
Steinken (Doug's Christmas), Mike P Nelson (The Goodbye), Richard Cousins
(Waiting for Dawn), Tim French (Intersection)
Best Documentary - Shallow Waters: The Public Death of Raymond Zack (Jaime Longhi, USA)
Nominees: Shallow Waters: The Public Death of Raymond Zack, Getting Better, The Legend of
Swee' Pea, She Started It, Chasing the Light, Hard to Believe, Stained Glass Windows
of the Shenandoah Valley, 2E: Twice Exceptional
Best Student Film - Escapement (Jae Williams, USA)
Nominees: Ruth's Great Escape, Babygirl, The Surface, Escapement, D. L.
Fitzsimmons Presents: The Class Acts!, Tunnel Vision, Empty Space, Escapement
Best Alternative Feature - Blood and Curry (Atul Sharma, USA)
Nominees: America is Still the Place, Blood & Curry, Empty Space, Intersection, Primrose
Lane, Roman Citizen
Best Short Film - Poor George (Jim Harris, USA)
Nominees: Doug's Christmas, Inertia, Figs for Italo, Brother of Abraham, Poor
George, Helio, The Mother, Waiting for Dawn, We Remember, The Goodbye
Best Short Documentary - The Birth of an Artist (Nataliya Babenko, Ukraine)
Nominees: The Birth of an Artist, My Fight at 50, Source of Hope, The Ballad of the Dreadnought,
Today is the Day
Best Foreign Film - Waiting for Dawn (Cousins Richard, UK)
Nominees: Bridge, Waiting for Dawn, We'll Meet Again, Niyazi Gul, The Galloping Vet
Best Biography - The Legend of Swee' Pea (Benjamin May, USA)
Nominees: The Legend of Swee' Pea, The Soul of a Tree
Best Experimental Short - The Great Grunklumpen Circus (Corri Voorhees, USA)
Nominees: Simon, Inertia, Avaritia, The Great Grunklumpen Circus, The Super, Terra Incognita,
Recently, Long Ago, The Goodbye
Indie Spirit Award - The Frogmarch (Jonathan D'Ambrosio, USA)
Nominees: Intersection, Look Again, Changeover, America is Still the Place, The Frogmarch,
Chemical Cut, Blood & Curry, The Bridge
Female Eye Filmmaking Award - Chemical Cut (Marjorie Conrad, USA)
Nominees: She Started It, Primrose Lane, Babygirl, Birth of an Artist, Out, Chemical Cut, Two
Weeks, Everything
Best Sci-Fi Film - Helio (Teddy Cecil, USA)
Nominees: I Am the Doorway, The Surface, Helio
Best TV Pilot - Life on a Leash (Thiago DaDalt, USA)
Nominees: Life on a Leash, Little Champion, Big Heroes
Best Comedy - Niyazi Gul, The Galloping Vet (Hakan Algul, Turkey)
Nominees: Niyazi Gul, The Galloping Vet, Life on a Leash, Poor George, Look Again, Miss
Teri, Playing Through
Student Cultural Spirit - My Fight at 50 (Deepashri Varadharajan, USA)
Nominees: Babygirl, Two Weeks, Birth of an Artist, My Fight at 50
Cultural Spirit Award - She Started It (Nora Poggi, Insiyah Saeed, USA)
Nominees: Getting Better, Shallow Waters: The Public Death of Raymond Zack, She Started It,
2E: Twice Exceptional, Writers Matter, Hard to Believe, Unslut: A Documentary
Film
New Hope Award - Getting Better (Gulserene Dastur, India, Switzerland)
Nominees: Getting Better, Source of Hope, Birth of an Artist, Dream Job Life, Second Chance,
She Started It, SMART, Titanium, Writers Matter
Artistic Spirit Award - Chasing the Light (Geoffrey Young, Australia)
Nominees: Dropped Bars, She Started It, Chasing the Light, SMART, Dan Rather: Courage
Under Fire, UnSlut: A Documentary Film
LGTB Spirit Award: Unconditional (Kent Igleheart, USA)
Nominees: Unconditional, Reinventing the Reel, We Remember
Best Supernatural Thriller - Apparition (Quinn Saunders, USA)
Nominees: Legacy, Apparition, Primrose Lane
Best Webisode - What Martha Said (Susan Skoog, USA)
Nominees: What Martha Said, Miss Teri, Dream Job Life, Downward Departure
Best Music Video - Our People (Albert Kahn, USA)
Nominees: Witch in Me, Our People, Mr. Bluebird, Masheenee Alcketiara
Film Audience Choice Awards
Best Webisode - Dream Job Life (Darrell Gurney, USA)
Best TV Pilot - Little Champions, Big Heroes (Stephen Stahl, USA)
Best Music Video - Witch in Me (Jacopo Miceli, UK)
Best Narrative Feature - Intersection (Tim French, USA)
Best Documentary - Getting Better (Gulserene Dastur, India, Switzerland)
Best Short Film - Second Chance (Tom Wardach, USA)
Best Student Film - Ruth's Great Escape (Thomas Bangert, USA)
Script Competition Awards
Best Script - Buenos Aires (Olga Rojer)
Nominees: Knights of the Shadows, Buenos Aires, Catch the Devil, Lion of the Sea, Dismas
and Gestas, About Bates: A True Urban Legend, Reaper's Time, Zinicala Chronicles:
The Arrival
Best Teleplay - Knights of the Shadows (Austin Priester)
Nominees: Palookaville, Knights of the Shadows, Fluke
Best Fantasy Script - Zinicala Chronicles: The Arrival (Dillon Betros)
Nominees: Matt and the Epic Microwave Odyssey, Post Tense, Switch Me Off, Tangled Spirits,
The Fallout, Zinicala Chronicles: The Arrival, Dismas and Gestas
Best Action Thriller Script - Reconquista (George Reese)
Nominees: About Bates: A True Urban Legend, Buenos Aires, Catch the Devil, Knights of the
Shadows, Lion of the Sea, Reaper's Time, Reconquista, Dismas and Gestas
Best Period Script - Catch the Devil (Martin Blinder)
Nominees: About Bates: A True Urban Legend, Fluke, Buenos Aires, Catch the Devil, Dismas
and Gestas, Fluke, Lion of the Sea, My Appointed Round, Palookaville, The Fallout
Best Short Screenplay - Matt and the Epic Microwave Odyssey (Michelle Sarkany)
Nominees: Switch Me Off, Post Tense, Reaper's Time, Matt and the Epic Microwave Odyssey
