2024 Winners + Nominees
2024 Nominations
Actor/Actress Under 18
Canta Santiago – Jacob Estrada (Winner)
Renaissance Kid – Patrick Williams
The Last Ashlyn – Sophia Jarque
The Purple Glasses – Carolina Rezende
Animation Film
Camp Kona
Deadline
Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate
Little T (Winner)
The Happy Statue
The Sprayer
BIPOC Filmmaker
Above Ground
Confused Blood
Never Fade Away
The Quilt: A Living History of African American Music
The Steak
Volveré (Winner)
Cinematography
Canta Santiago
Dancing Through The Shadow
Good Grief
Haunted (Brandon Young)
Headlamp
I Be a Witch (Winner)
Still (Steven Bartholomew)
The Time Machine
To Err
Volveré
Director Feature
An Open Door – Temple Grandin
Chateau Laurier
Dancing Through The Shadow
Fierce
He Never Left (Winner)
Love in Focus
Renaissance Kid
What I Should Have Said
Director Short
Check Mate, The Last King
Good Grief
Headlamp
Look Like You
Still (Steven Bartholomew)
The Time Machine
To Err (Winner)
Volveré
Documentary Feature Film
An Open Door – Temple Grandin
Fierce (Winner)
Sloane: A Jazz Singer
The Call We Carry: Confronting PTSD In The Fire Service
Where the Rope Ends
Documentary Short Film
A Dirty Secret- Compassion in Wildfire
Bears Ears: Echoes of Time
Irreplaceable
Ministry of Surf
The Garden Of Peace
The Story of Michael Carbis
Whales of the High Desert
Who Speaks for Charlie? (Winner)
Editing
Cancer/Evolution – Episode 1: The Dustbin of History
I Be a Witch
Renaissance Kid (Winner)
Still (Steven Bartholomew)
Volveré
Ensemble Cast
Chateau Laurier
I Be a Witch
Love in Focus
Neverland PD
The Faculty (Winner)
What I Should Have Said
Exceptional Ability Filmmaker
Tape Over (Winner)
Experimental
Enter the Green Abyss
Honey (Winner)
Roman Pilgrim – The Tale of Wishful Creek
Tides
High School Short
Layers
Overcast (Winner)
Room
Steady Hands
Lead Actor
Chateau Laurier – Luke Humphrey
Dancing Through The Shadow – Jonathan Kim
Haunted – Dennis Record (Winner)
He Never Left – Colin Cunningham
Love in Focus – Dan Fowlks
Renaissance Kid – Tal Hughes
The Cold Ground – Shane Morrisun
To Err – Dave Martinez
Volveré – Christopher Gallegos
Where Flowers Won’t Grow – Louis Boakye
Lead Actress
Chateau Laurier – Kate Ross Leckie
Dancing Through The Shadow – Kristina Tonteri-Young
Hey Alexa – Stevie Lynn Jones
I Be a Witch – Lori Prescott Hansen
I Choose You – Kaylah Pollock
Imposter The Series #5 – Veronica Maccari
Renaissance Kid – Landry Townsend
The Cold Ground – Crystal Harris
The Faculty – Heather Larsen
Where Flowers Won’t Grow – Rylee Jensen (Winner)
LGBTQ+ Filmmaker
Cleveland
Scraps
Subsurface
Tower Theatre (Winner)
We Couldn’t Stop It
Makeup
Chateau Laurier (Winner)
Dancing Through The Shadow
Trundle and the Lost Borscht of Atlantis
Volveré
Music Score
Dancing Through The Shadow (Winner)
Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate
He Never Left
Hey Alexa
Music Video
Currents
Fleeting (Back in Time)
Good to be Alive (Winner)
Haunted (Rachelle Price)
Hold You Down
Like A Bottle Of Liquor
Stay
Stronger Than Yesterday
Tell Me Where To Go
The Saddest Words
Narrative Feature
Dancing Through The Shadow
He Never Left (Winner)
Love in Focus
Renaissance Kid
What I Should Have Said
Narrative Short
Blood On The Leaves
Desert Sky
Fatefully Undone
Fili (Winner)
Fishers of Men
Gideon Up!
Hannah Harbor
Highway
Hitman’s Gambit
Love, Grandma
Near
Nisei
Social AnnXiety
The Bet
The Handbook
To Err
Trundle and the Lost Borscht of Atlantis
Production Design
Dancing Through The Shadow
Dollhouse
Hedgehog
Hey Alexa (Winner)
I Be a Witch
The Ballad of the Westwind Kid
Screenplay Feature
A Broken Heart & the Immortal Hen
Good News Greenie
Hard Twisted
Quarantine in the Grand Hotel
Strange Bliss
The Alchemy Effect
The Four Of Us Are Dying (Winner)
Thursday’s Secret
Vagrant
Screenplay Short
A Ray of Hope
I’ll Never Forget
Michael and Jessica
Paper Son and Little Red Dragon
Six-Shooters and Sorcerers (Winner)
Solipsism
The Baobab Tree
The Fishfolk of Luton Hill
To Err
Volveré
Who I Am
Series
Cancer/Evolution – Episode 1: The Dustbin of History
Chateau Laurier (Winner)
Imposter The Series #5
The Faculty
Sound Design/Mixer
Dancing Through The Shadow
Haunted (Brandon Young) (Winner)
Volveré
Wretched
Stunt Coordinator
He Never Left
Icarian
Nisei
The Last Ashlyn (Winner)
Supporting Actor
Chateau Laurier – Emmanuel Kabongo
Check Mate, The Last King – Damarr Jones
Dancing Through The Shadow – Russell Yuen
He Never Left – David McMahon (Winner)
Love in Focus – Colin Cunningham
Renaissance Kid – Aarman Toure
Supporting Actress
Dancing Through The Shadow – Uni Park
He Never Left – Jessica Staples
I Be a Witch – Cherie Julander
Love in Focus – Charla Bocchiocchio (Winner)
Renaissance Kid – Kayli Brummer
The Faculty – Chandler Austin
The Faculty – Ischa Bee
Volveré – Payton Prince
University Animation
Manny (Winner)
The Market
University Documentary
Do You See Me? (Winner)
Qosqo
Ring of Fire
The Kitty CrusAIDe
University Narrative
An Arrangement of Skin
Canta Santiago
Enactment (Winner)
Game of Love
In a Foreign and Unknown Land
Phase III
Seeing Kelly
Still (Steven Bartholomew)
The Ballad of the Westwind Kid
The Steak
Two Souls
Wardrobe
A Moving Picture
Chateau Laurier
Dancing Through The Shadow
I Be a Witch
Icarian (Winner)
The Ballad of the Westwind Kid
The Bet
The Purple Glasses
Whales of the High Desert
Women Filmmaker
Box Boy
Hey Alexa
I Be a Witch (Winner)
I Choose You
Non Grata
Out to Lunch
Paths
Where Flowers Won’t Grow
Honorable Mentions
A Moving Picture
Another
Big George
Compulsion
Dark Cell
Dwayne’s Place
Experience Experiment
Fall to Blossom
Feeding Alaska
Future Tense
Good Deeds
Highlights
Homestead
Hometown Hero
in Sickness and in Health(care)
Intruder
Kalu – Growing Up Wild
Operation Mom
Our Mother
Payday
Raj
Rear
Replay
Sanctus Infernal
Shop at the Edge of Town
Sonder
Still (Caleb Payne)
Sagen
The Astronaut
The Framed Soul
The Lantern Man
The Other Half
The Poet of Sugar Creek
The Red Zone
The System
The Tell-Tale Heart
Unnamed
When No One Else Believed
Where the winds die
Who is God?
Witch, Reborn
Wrong Way Down
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