2023 Winners & Nominees
*Honorable Mention
Fears, Wishes & Reality
Forty Winks
If The Price Is Right
Settle Down
Sunday Roast
Why’d he Leave his Phone?
Wonderstone
*Actor/Actress Under 18
Camp Koba – Veda Jade
Day Zero: Et Verbum Caro Factum Est – Kayli Brummer
Numb – Scarlet Rebeca Kim
Stars of Gold – Lux Elizabeth Wolett – WINNER
*Supporting Actor
Day Zero: Et Verbum Caro Factum Est – Shawn Stevens
Holbrook Boys – Jason Wixom – WINNER
See You Next Tuesday – Jake Ulasich
Trespassers – Damarr Jones
Trespassers – Travis Hunter
*Supporting Actress
Alta Valley – Allee-Sutton Hethcoat
Curse of the Werehuahua – Brittany Shamy
Dark Energy – Lauren Call
Iris – Jamie Tran
Jump Seat – Charla Bocchicchio – WINNER
*Lead Actor
Broken Bread – Paul Grace
Conflict – Chozy Aiyub
Curse of the Werehuahua – JR Timothy
Day Zero: Et Verbum Caro Factum Est – Eric McGraw
Porter Rockwell – Gunman and Saint – Jasen Wade
The Binding Bell – Lee Liston – WINNER
Trespassers – Kyle Paul
*Lead Actress
Alta Valley – Briza Covarrubias – WINNER
Dark Energy – Colleen Baum
Fly – Carlie Quesada
For Prophet – Valentina Garcia
Jump Seat – Elexa Re
Marilyn Monroe’s Last Press Conference – Amber Pratt
The Lady Edison – Dani Deette
*Ensemble Cast
Camp Koba
Dark Energy
Day Zero: Et Verbum Caro Factum Est
Eyes Upon Waking
Murder at the Hive
See You Next Tuesday – WINNER
That’s a Wrap
The Glade of Ardet Lili
The Real Moms
The Vanished
*Cinematography
Alta Valley – Jesse Edwards
Dungeons and Dragons: Play Your Way – Samuel Hart
Eulogy – Bennett Duchin – WINNER
Fly – Benjamin Garst
It Is Clean – Alan Baird
Jump Seat – Dru Williams
Porter Rockwell – Gunman and Saint – Carter Fawcett
The Status Quo – Marie-Pier Diamond
Tragedy Strikes – Brett Stanley & Larry Servin
Trespassers – Alan Baird
*Editing
Alta Valley – Zach Prichard – WINNER
Crooked River – Henry Shriber
Eulogy – Garrett Martin
Holbrook Boys – Lucas Hardy
Tragedy Strikes – Eliot Gurrin
Undone – Ike Mauga
Young Bucks – Andy McGraw
*VFX
Exiled – A Star Wars Fan Film – Joshua Garretson
The Glade of Ardet Lili – Joel Petrie
The Status Quo – Stephane Picotte & Kamran Chahkar – WINNER
Tragedy Strikes – Eliot Gurrin
*Sound Design
Camp Koba – Samuel Wickey
Exiled – A Star Wars Fan Film – Joshua Garretson – WINNER
It Is Clean – Paul Cartwright
Karu: Part One | A Short Star Wars Fan Film – Drew Longest
Resurgence – Rachel Corrales
The Glade of Ardet Lili – Jacob Proctor
*Music Score
Beyond the Lake – James Warren Morris
Compassion Spreads Like Wildfire: The Vicki Minor Story – Jason Ruffoni & Sue Rowe – WINNER
Gilead – Kait & Zach Kowach
The Glade of Ardet Lili – Chris Doucet
*Director – Short
Compassion Spreads Like Wildfire: The Vicki Minor Story – Tucker Debevec
Dark Energy – Christy Summerhays
Eulogy – Garrett Martin
Fly – Joe Quesada – WINNER
Jump Seat – Aaron Colborn
Law of 100 – James Anderson Cooper & Emma Cooper
Notification – Shane Morrisun
Perfect-Fit – Landen Erickson
Porter Rockwell – Gunman and Saint – Alberto Nunes
The Status Quo – Marie-Pier Diamond
Tragedy Strikes – Morgan Gullett
Trespassers – Zach Ryan Doumit
*Director – Feature
Alta Valley – Jesse Edwards – WINNER
Believe: The True Story of Real Bearded Santas – John Paget & James Waugh
For The Good of The People – Chris K. Daniels
The Gift – David Carl Kniess
Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West – Ashley Avis
*Screenplay – Short
Afternoon – Drew Henriksen
Kamren’s Haven – Derek G Bailey & Stephanie M Byrd
Someone You Loved – Allie A Arnold
The Breakable Shoes – Jeanne Dukes – WINNER
The Night I Proposed – Robert Salisbury
*Screenplay – Feature
A Nice Place to Visit – John Munn
Adventures in Serial Killing – John Munn
Culture Shock – Jodi Levitan
Life Support Remaining – Thom Jensen
Synastry: The Witch of Wander Lane – Alicia Oberle Farmer & Lauren Holdt
The Castle – Heidi McDonald – WINNER
The Morrisfield Misfits and The Sword of Fate – John Munn
*Music Video
A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief
Ain’t Nobody Sees Them – Finding Patience – WINNER
For A Few Dollars More
Our Hands
Searching
Skeletons
The Exiled
Tragedy Strikes
*Commercial/PSA
CDPH Holiday Vaccine Awareness Stories
Coming Home
Don’t Cry
Dungeons and Dragons: Play Your way – WINNER
*Series
Boomslang 3: Your Future
Camisado
Day Zero: Et Verbum Caro Factum Est
Imposters – WINNER
Legit Married
*Documentary – Short
A Girl Can Change The World
Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope
Dream Chasers: The Fit to Recover Story
Every Street SLC
Festival of Saraswati Puja
No Dreams Left Behind
Resurgence – WINNER
The Story of a Trout
*Documentary – Feature
Believe: The True Story of Real Bearded Santas
My Sister Liv
Showbusiness is My Life, But I Can’t Prove It
The Gift – WINNER
Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West
*Narrative – Short
An Ideal of Liberty
Conflict
Eulogy
Fly
Jump Seat
Law of 100
Notification
Past the Past
The Family Planner
Trespassers – WINNER
*Narrative – Feature
Alta Valley – WINNER
Curse of the Werehuahua
For Prophet
For The Good of The People
Out of Line
