Award Recipients & Special Guests
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Directors’s Spotlight: Bernardo Britto
Film in Action: Alexandria Bombach
Scholar-in-Residence & Jury President: James Choi
Artist-in-Residence: H.P. Mendoza
Critic-in-Residence: Brian Tallerico
Grand Jury Prize: Sisa Quispe, Urpi: Her Last Wish | Max Rykov, Hindsight
Student Jury Prize: Nathan Xia, Adam’s Song
Best Director: Katie Colosimo, Friyay
Best Performance: Nathan Xia, Adam’s Song
Best Cinematography: Maria Pankova, The Sound of the Wind
Best Editing: Pisie Hochheim & Tony Oswald, Cycles
Audience Choice: Jodi Cash & Ethan Payne, The Green Flash
Community Action: Ouray Mountain Rescue Team
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Director’s Spotlight: Hannah Peterson
Film in Action: Jeffrey Palmer
Lifetime Achievement: Paul Raci
Scholar-in-Residence: Colleen Thurston
Artist-in-Residence: Gregg Deal
Excellent in International Filmmaking: Maria Pankova
Best Feature: Hannah Peterson, The Graduates
Best Short: Linh Tran, Video Funeral
Student Jury Prize: Deborah Kaufman & Alan Snitow, Town Destroyer
Best Director: H.P. Mendoza, The Secret Art of Human Flight
Best Performance: Mina Sundwall, The Graduates
Best Cinematography: Jordan Bellamy, Ship Happens
Best Editing: Viktor Petrenko, Breathing
Audience Choice: Hannah Peterson, The Graduates
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Director’s Spotlight: Jim Cummings
Film in Action: Zaire Love
Scholar-in-Residence: Skinner Myers
Artist-in-Residence: Jonathan Rattner
Best Feature: Anna Baumgarten, Disfluency
Best Short: Dania Bedeir, Warsha
Best Director: Michil Thomas, Gemmel & Tim
Best Performance: Charline Antunes, Kaolin
Best Cinematpgrpahy: Tommy Joyce, Dhaulagiri
Best Editing: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, The Headhunter’s Daughter
Audience Choice: Anna Baumgarten, Disfluency
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Director’ Spotlight: Ethan Payne & Brian Foster
Film in Action: Tiffany Hsiung
Lifetime Achievement: Jim Hart
Best Picture: Ajitpal Singh, Fire in the Mountains
Best Director: Farbod Ardebili, Forbidden to See Us Screen in Tehran
Best Actor: Nicolas Belvalette, To the Bone
Best Actress: Sadaf Asgari, Exam
Best Cinematography: Noé Bach, So What if the Goats Die?
Best Editing: John-Michael Powell, Women is Losers
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Director’s Spotlight: Michiel Thomas
Film in Action: Sarah-Jane Murray
Excellence in International Filmmaking: Alexa Kahn & Trevor Doyle, The Steed
Best Picture: Michiel Thomas, That’s Wild
Best Animation: Radheya Jegatheva, The Quiet
Best Actress: Svetlana Alekseevna Barandich, Anna
Best Actor: Gregory Bordelon, Voicemail
Best Cinematography:Dmitry Shpilenok, Sockeye Salmon: Red Fish