Best Feature

Winner:

Ray Cavaleri for Charlie Valentine

Nominations:
My Name is Jerry
Who Loves Judus
Becoming Eduardo
Lily’s Thorn

Best Sci-Fi

Winner:

Jason and Matt Shumway for Enigma

Nominations:
Enigma
Serum 1831

Best Short

Winner:

Peter Besson for True Beauty, This Night

Nominations:
Direct To Your Door
Ceremonial Behaviors
True Beauty This Night
Ugly

Best Commercial

Winner:

Kelly Anne Burns for HBO The Deal Breaker

Ezra J. Stanley & Alejandro Wilkins for Levi’s True Love Ad

Nominations:
HBO - The Deal Breaker
Levi’s True Love Ad

Best Documentary

Winner:

Gus, An American Icon

Nominations:
Finding Face
Macho Like Me
Gus, An American Icon
Residentially Challenged

Best Cinematography

Winner:

Samuel Benavides for Mansfield Path

Nominations:
Resurrection of Officer Rollins
Mansfield Path
Enigma

Best Student Film

Winner:

Rafael Flores for Jale

Nominations:
Jale
La Niña del Desierto
Tar Art

Best Based on A True Story

Winner:

Mark Esslinger for Grace Bedell

Nominations:
Grace Bedell

Best Film Noir

Winner:

Michael Tanner Cusumano for Sage

Nominations:
Laura
Sage
A Little Vinegar

Best Directing

Winner:

Daniel Sametz for Buroinfierno

Nominations:
Buroinfierno
Head In The Sand

Best Animated Short

Winner:

Skylight

Nominations:
We Are All Here
Skylight
NstaCharge

Best Socially Conscious Film

Winner:

Michael Webber for The Elephant in the Living Room

Bob Bowdon for The Cartel

Nominations:
The Elephant in the Living Room
The Cartel

Best Drama

Winner:

Tracey Birdsall-Smith for Tick Tock

Nominations:
Tick Tock
The Predator’s Return
Juche Rules

Shortest Short

Winner:

Douglas Williams for Peel

Nominations:
Peel
The Author
Direct to your Door

Best Western

Winner:

Alano Massi for The Sierra

Nominations:
The Sierra

Best Screenplay

Winner:

Daniel D. Molinoff for Outrider

Nominations:
Medicine Ave
Outrider
Returning Warhol

Best Music Video

Winner:

Mitch Barany for City of Noise

Nominations:
California Roll
City of Noise
We Are Punky Pets
The Magic Rabbit

Best Historical Piece

Winner:

Mark Kirkland for A Letter From Home

Nominations:
A Letter From Home

Best Live Action/Animation

Winner:

Nominations:

Best Editing

Winner:

James Coblentz for Mansfield Path

Nominations:
City of Noise
Living/Dead
Mansfield Path

Best Foreign Film

Winner:

Sushrut Jain for Andheri

Nominations:
La Niña del Desierto
Scissu
Andheri
Grandpa?!
Jale

Best Acting

Winner:

Peter Green for Poetry Man

Nominations:
Peter Green
Micheal R. Escamilla
Raymond J. Barry

Best Sci-Fi Comedy

Winner:

Harland Williams for Fudgy Wudgy Fudge Face

Chris Beck for The Adventures of Zion Man & The Supreme Commander

Nominations:
Fudgy Wudgy Fudge Face
The Adventures of Zion Man
& The Supreme Commander

President’s Award

Winner:

James McSherry for Poetry Man

Nominations:
Resurrection of Officer Rollins
Mansfield Path
Poetry Man
Enigma

Honorable Mentions

Coma
Cruzando
Cubes
Finding Face
Nstacharge
Returning Warhol
Star Crossed
The Seer
Ugly