Film Jury Awards
Best Picture - Trust in Love (Mick Davis, USA)
Nominees: Out of State-A Gothic Romance, Not for Nothing, Burst the Silence, The Problem of the Hero
Best Student Film - Tangerine Drum Machine (Reilly McHugh, USA)
Nominees: Lovie Dovie, Slanted Perspectives: My Life with SMA, The Hauntings of New Hope, Adagio, Mike & Frank, Living All of Life
Best Alternative Film - Divine Instinct (James Gossard, USA)
Nominees: Who Followed Us Home, The Blood Orange, Order My Steps, The Sun Rises in the East, The Problem of the Hero, White Noise, I Approve this Message
Best Short Film - What Ever Happened to Jonny Faith (Benjamin Pollack, USA)
Nominees: Mayfly, My Over There, Shatter the Glass, Minutes to Go, The Portrait, Payment in Kind, Pushover, Gypsy Rose Leezinski
Best Short Short - Millie's Care Free Day (Mike Licisyn, USA)
Nominees: The Blood Orange, Lovie Dovie, Stay, Look Back and Laugh, Pushover, Earth Machiavelli, In Search Of, Dad Bod
Best Documentary - Take the Ice (Rachel Koteen, USA)
Nominees: Hopper X Vermeer, Take the Ice, Rhino Man, Jerry's Last Mission, Breaking Tradition: The Hugh McElroy Story, Tell Me Iggy, Undivide Us, The Carnival: 125 Years of the Penn Relays
Best Horror Film - Quiet! Mom's Working! (P Patrick Hogan, USA)
Nominees: Dark Mommy, Girl with the Grey Eyes
Best Action Thriller - Mayfly (Keith Andreen, USA)
Nominees: Launch at Paradise, Earth Machiavelli, Girl with the Grey Eyes
Animal Welfare - Rhino Man (John Jurko II, Matt Lindenberg, Daniel Roberts, South Africa, UK, USA)
Nominees: Menhaden: The Biggest Little Fish You've Never Seen, By My Side
Cultural Spirit - Undivide Us (Kristi Kendall, USA)
Nominees: The Carnival: 125 Years of the Penn Relays, Rhino Man, Take the Ice, A Perfect Love, Black Uniform, Pioneering Women Muralists of Hyde Park, Single-Use Planet
Best Short Documentary - My Dear Hanna (Matthew Sullivan, USA)
Nominees: This Is Where I Learned Not to Sleep, Joe Barry Carroll, See Me, Hear Me, Know Me: The Welcome Project PA, Living Positive, My Superpower, I Am Living, Dad Bod
Best Foreign Film - Living All of Life (Marlen Rios-Farjat, Mexico)
Nominees: Walk With Me, The Old Young Crow, Je, Living All of Life, Black Sugar Red Blood, Moratorium, About People and About War
Community Spirit - Black Uniform (Robert Darwell, USA)
Nominees: The Sun Rises in the East, The Asbestos City, New Hope Rondo, The Hauntings of New Hope, Pioneering Women Muralists of Hyde Park, See Me, Hear Me, Know Me: The Welcome Project PA, I Am Living, Lady Ivory: The Life & Music of Liz DuFour
Best Local Film - See Me, Hear Me, Know Me: The Welcome Project PA (Eli Laban, USA)
Nominees: The Hauntings of New Hope, New Hope Rondo, Lady Ivory: The Life & Music of Liz DuFour, The Blood Orange
Best Biographical Film - Jerry's Last Mission (Louisa Merino, USA)
Nominees: My Dear Hanna, Tell Me Iggy, Black Uniform, Breaking Tradition: The Hugh McElroy Story
Best Experimental Short - Dark Mommy (Courtney Eck, USA)
Nominees: Interview with Traveler #582, Pushover, I Approve this Message, Adagio
Indie Spirit - Out of State-A Gothic Romance (Victoria Bugbee, USA)
Nominees: Burst the Silence, Black Uniform, The Asbestos City, Breaking Tradition: The Hugh McElroy Story
Best Animation - Black Sugar Red Blood (Luigi Toscano, Germany)
Nominees: Lovie Dovie, The Old Young Crow, Who Followed Us Home
Best Animated Film - Lovie Dovie (Francesca Brescia, USA)
Nominees: The Old Young Crow
Female Eye Filmmaking - Hopper X Vermeer (Annie Dautane, France)
Nominees: Girl with the Grey Eyes, Lovie Dovie, Stay, Look Back and Laugh, Gypsy Rose Leezinski, In Search Of
Best Sci-Fi Film - Launch at Paradise (Carrie Ann Quinn, USA)
Nominees: Interview with Traveler #582, Earth Machiavelli, Pushover
Best Comedy - Brute Force (Tyler A. Wallach, USA)
Nominees: Pushover, Full Throttle Paradise, Coney Island Surprise, Low Risk Spectre, The Toms, Gypsy Rose Leezinski, Quiet! Mom's Working!, Dating Audrey
Best Period Film - The Problem of the Hero (Shaun Dozier, USA)
Nominees: About People and About War, My Over There
Student Cultural Spirit - Mike & Frank (Kylie Conner-Sax, USA)
Nominees: The Hauntings of New Hope, Slanted Perspectives: My Life with SMA, Lovie Dovie
New Hope - This Is Where I Learned Not to Sleep (Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly, USA)
Nominees: Breaking Tradition: The Hugh McElroy Story, The Asbestos City, My Superpower, A Perfect Love, Our Flag Was Still There, Living Positive
Artistic Spirit - Tell Me Iggy (BLONDY Sophie, France)
Nominees: Rhino Man, Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn, Take the Ice, Divine Instinct, Hopper X Vermeer
LGBTQ+ Spirit - There Are Things To Do (Mike Syers, USA)
Nominees: Love Dovie, See Me, Hear Me, Know Me: The Welcome Project PA, New Hope Rondo, Lady Ivory: The Life & Music of Liz DuFour, Mike & Frank, Living Positive, Trust in Love
Best Supernatural Film - Pushover (Brian Lederman, USA)
Nominees: Low Risk Spectre, Dark Mommy, Mayfly
Best Webisode - About People and About War (Artel Film Production, Russian Federation)
Nominees: Coney Island Surprise
Best Music Video - Dreaming (Jim Vacca, USA)
Nominees: Holding You Tight, The Light, Living All of Life
Best Alternative Music Video - The Light (Vincenzo Carubia, USA)
Nominees: Holding You Tight, Living All of Life
Best Narrative Feature - Not for Nothing (Tim Dowlin and Frank Tartaglia, USA)
Nominees: The Problem of the Hero, Trust in Love, Out of State-A Gothic Romance, Burst the Silence
Best Musical Score - Burst the Silence (Eric D. Schaeffer, USA)
Nominees: Living All of Life, The Blood Orange, Not for Nothing, Out of State-A Gothic Romance, Hopper X Vermeer, My Dear Hanna, Rhino Man, The Problem of the Hero
Best Director - Rachel Koteen (Take the Ice, USA)
Nominees: Tim Dowling and Frank Tartaglia (Not for Nothing), Mick Davis (Trust in Love), Annie Dautane (Hopper X Vermeer), BLONDY Sophie (Tell Me Iggy), Matthew Sullivan (My Dear Hanna), John Jurko II, Matt Lindenberg and Daniel Roberts (Rhino Man), Shaun Dozier (The Problem with the Hero)
Audience Choice Awards
Best Student Film - Tangerine Drum Machine (Reilly McHugh, USA)
Best Documentary - The Asbestos City (Joe DeVito III, USA)
Best Short Documentary - White Noise (SanMartin Garcia, USA)
Best Short Film - Dating Audrey (Dan Hertzog, USA)
Best Narrative Feature - Out of State-A Gothic Romance (Victoria Bugbee, USA)
Best Webisode - Coney Island Surprise (Chris Marcantel, USA)
Script Jury Awards
Best Script - The White Rose (David Joseph Cooley)
Nominees: All I Want for Christmas, Graham, Sundown, The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms
Best Narrative Feature Script - Sundown (Gretchen Elizabeth Jackson)
Nominees: Graham, The White Rose
Best Short Screenplay - All I Want for Christmas (Linda Tancs)
Nominees: The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms
