2024 Festival Award Winners
Directors’ Choice Awards 2024:
Best Feature – Drama: Tokyo Cowboy
Best Feature – Comedy: Rules of Living
Best International Feature: Driving Madeleine
Best Humanitarian Feature: The Old Oak
Best Indie-Spirit Feature: A Little Family Drama
Best Impact Film: The Business of Pleasure
Best Empowerment/Social Impact Film: Empire Waist
Most Inspirational Film: Freedom Hair
Best Documentary: To Kill a Tiger
Best International Documentary: The Price of Truth
Best Environmental Documentary: Songs of Earth
Most Inspirational Documentary: Into the Spotlight
Best Indie-Spirit Documentary: The Cowboy and the Queen
Best Non-Fiction Storytelling: Tell Them You Love Me
Non-Fiction New Visions Award: Lovely Jackson
Best Documentary Short: Goodboy
Best Environmental Documentary Short: Between Earth & Sky
Most Inspirational Documentary Short: The Last Repair Shop
Best Indie-Spirit Documentary Short: Far West
Best Student Documentary Short: Down the Road
Best Short – Drama: Mayfly and The Day of (tie)
Best Short – Comedy: Fundamental Shapes
Best Short – Dramedy: The Ballad of Tita and the Machines
Best Mixed Media Short: Lost Bird
Best International Short: The Red Suitcase
Best Student Short: Nakam
Best Humanitarian Short: Sevap/Mitzvah
The Lavender Award: Honey & Milk
Best Current Affairs Short: Límite
Award for Excellence: Our Males and Females
Audience Choice Winners 2024
Best Short – Drama: Sevap/Mitzvah
Best Short – Comedy: Dead Cat
Best Student Short: Nakam
Best Documentary Short: Range Rider
Best Documentary Feature: Into the Spotlight
Best Feature Drama: Rose
Best Feature Comedy: My Neighbor Adolf
Best International Film: Marguerite’s Theorem
BEST OF FEST NARRATIVE: Driving Madeleine
BEST OF FEST DOCUMENTARY: Robert Shields: My Life as a Robot
SCREENPLAY AWARDS
Best TV Pilot Screenplay: “The Grind” by Laurel Gans
Best Feature Screenplay: “The Ex Change” by Jake Thomas
Best Short Screenplay: “This is Jan” by Robert Larriviere, Hunter Burke, Nick Lavil
Special Awards 2024:
Outstanding Actress: Wendie Malick
Lifetime Achievement (Directing): James Ivory
Lifetime Achievement (Directing): Randal Kleiser
Lifetime Achievement (Comedy): Gary Mule Deer
Heart of the Festival Award: Patty Herrman-Juda
Superstar Award: Steve Carr (publicist)
Marion Herrman Excellence in Filmmaking: Robert Shields: My Life as a Robot