Award Recipients & Special Guests

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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