Monday, August 1, 2016

2016 Award Winners

Dan Rather, Lifetime Achievement Award
Special 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