Named Awards
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2025: Extremist by Alexander Molochnikov
2024: The Loon, dir. Paula Bourgie
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2025: Jean Chapiro
2024: Nina Cochran -
2025: Yaél Bermudez, Jeffrey Lichtenstein
2024: Sharon Mayo
2022: Fernando González Ortiz
2021: Silvia Chen
2020: Scott Gerlomes, Jungyoon Kim
2019: Camila Zavala
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2021: Tal Para Cual (d. Kathy Esquenazi-Mitrani, p. Olivia Peralta)
2020: Dance With Me (d. Szu-Wei Chen, p. Silvia Chen)
2019: Dahlia (d. Brusi Olason, p. Kari Ulfsson)
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2025: Derin Celik
2024: Lunise Cerin
2021: Gabriele Urbonaite
2020: Saladin White II
2019: Ben Gottlieb
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2025: Mary Cecilia Walker
2024: Zoé C Salicrup Junco
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2021: Forgotten Lovers (d. Aliza Brugger, p. Kristin Kohlmeyer); Free-Range (d. Rider Laskin, p. Stephanie Fine); Wall to Wall (d. Dong-Ren Hong, p. Silvia Chen)
2020: The Volunteer (d. Neda Jebelli, p. Victoria Rivera)
2019: Estefania de la Chica, Lauren Lopez de Victoria, Taylor Mendonca, Jaclyn Noel, Eric Salmon, Grace Swee
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2024: Not My Name, dir. Juan Paulo Laserna
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2025: John Foster, Anqi Yu, Fei Yu, Wenjing Zheng
2024: Amie Song, Apa Agbayani
2021: Wan Xin Tang
2019: Ivan Durovic, Ricardo Varona -
2021: Edward (d. Minkyu Kang, p. Bofan Zhang); Angel Wings and Open Wounds (d. Mathilde Hauducoeur, p. Adelaide Pallincourt)
2020: Bona Fide Marriage (d.Yihao Zheng, p. Joyce Yueyi Wang); Hickey (d. Katie Kim, p. Flora Jiwu Hwang)
2019: Lucia (d. Victoria Rivera, p. Barbara Twist)
The William Goldstein / Dr. Phibes Award for Screenwriting
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2021: Patrick Clement
2020: Chloe Sarbib
2019: Harriet Beaney
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2025: Quetzali Lopez, Isabella Stargardter, Zichen Zhao, Yuxi Zhu
2024: Zing Chen, Laura Ganotis, Claire Hackett
2021: Patrick Nicholas, Adelaide Pallincourt
2020: Mona Maahn
2019: Claire Brooks -
2024:
Quietly (d. Kai Wen Hu, p. Shuyin Zheng)
Winners and Losers (d. Cece Wheeler, p. Lauren Harris)
A House is Not Always a Home (d. Murdo Barker-Mill, p. Yu-han Tsai)
September, All Over (d. Kali Kahn, p. Edy Kennedy)
Last Day in the North (d. Tonghuan Zhao, p. Xueyang Li)
2023:
El Silencio Loco (d. Hector Prats, p. Heather Francis)
Embla (d. Katla Solnes, p. Ji Hye Yoo)
In Heat (d. Kai Wen Kevin Hu, p. Cody Young)
Les Choix (d. Hallel Mujingila Diakalenga, p. Julie Liebhard)
Speedy (d. Jiin Oh, p. Michael Kim)
2022:
Brat, Otac (Brother, Father), (d. Zuko Garagic, p. Tomo Selaković)
Happy New Year (d. Tang Wan Xin, p. Judith Tong)
The Cell Phone (p. Rui Dong-Scott)
Shade and Honey (d. Kanne Ge, p. Kathy Esqinazi Mitrani, p. Shae Xu)
No Returns (d. Javier Hirschler, p. Zing Zixen Chen)
2021:
Bag Lady (d. Max McGillivray, p. Kinder Labatt)
Bonehead (d. Ivan Durovic, p. Donovan Tolledo)
Max & Taco (Get Their Shit Together), (d. Caitlin Ferrell, p. Leila Chediak)
Te Wheke (The Octopus) (d. Cooper Troxell)
Glide Speed Drifter (d. John Kim, p. Yukyoung Lee)
2020:
Bite the Hand (d.Minka Bleakley, p. Solomon Chidi Amadiume)
Choke Hold (d.Max McGillivray, p. Solomon Chidi Amadiume)
Daddy's Night (d.Will Pinke, p. Harrison Perkins)
Reckless (d. Major Dorfman, p. Werner Traut)
What Happened to Heather (d. Annie Pettinga, p. Brittany Fauconnet)
2019:
The Bride (p. Brittany Fauconnet, d. Andrew Bell)
Calvados (d.Chloe Sarbib, p. Waleed Alqahtani)
El Clásico (d. Joel Vazquez Cardenas, p. Andres Fernandez)
Entre tu y Milagros (d.Mariana Saffon, p. Jorge Granados Ross)
Flush (d. Bam Johnson, p. Ronald Brown)
Lacuna (d. Selman Nacar, p. Mustafa Kaymak and Melik Kuru)
Old Dream (d. Esteban Garcia Vernaza)
Ruki (p. Katya Skakun)
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2025: Tiankuo Men
2024: Miruna Straut
2022: Moara Passoni
2021: Jorge Granados Ross
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2021: Babalawo (d. Christopher Blanco, p. Jonathan Brown); Limpia (d. Jesahel Newton-Bernal, p. Meera Vaidya)
2020: Sparks Lampini (d.Rebecca O’Neill, p. Antonio Farias)
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2021: Good Dog (d. Anika Benkov, p. Patrick Nichols)
2020: Dahan (d. Aiman Mimiko, p. Meera Vaidya)
2019: Bike (d. Adewale Olukayode, p. Jungyoon Kim); Dahlia (d. Brusi Olason, p. Kari Ulfsson); Foraster (d. Lucia Alenar Iglesias, p. Marta Cruanas Compes)
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2025: Martin Granada, Lauren Harris, Raman Nimmala, Kaustubh Singh
2024: Jeffrey Lichtenstein, Fernando Morett, Guang Ren
2022: Nina Cochran, Kaelo Iyizoba, Yoko Kohmoto
2021: Alexis Stodghill, Donovan Tolledo
2020: Solomon Chidi Amadiume, Tyler St. Pierre
2019: Caroline Blair, Barbara Twist -
2021: Up Above Brooklyn (d. Ricardo Varona, p. Munir Atalla)
2020: Role Play (d. Tae Jung Choi, p. Caroline Blair)
2019: Blood Sisters (d.Jasmin Tenucci, p. Kari Ulfsson)
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2021: Fat Lip (d. Ryan Craver, p. Donovan Tolledo); I Was Always Coming Back (d. Christian Jones, p. Solomon Chidi Amadiume)
2020: Imogene’s Orders (d.Katie Blair, p. Silvia Chen); Berry Pickers (d. Agnes Karlsson, p. Mona Maahn)
2019: Aleeya (d.Nina Mahesh, p. Betsey Grupp); Muscle Memory (d. Saladin White II, p. Najah Diop)
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2025: Hallelujah Night by Ivan Rome
2024: When the Goats Come Home by Rali Chaouni
2021: Alies Sluiter
2020: Saim Sadiq
2019: Bane Fakih -
2025: Alexander Molochnikov, Cameron Clay, Greta Díaz Moreau,
Annie Ning, Nana Duffuor2024: Something Between Us, dir.Prash Sampathkumaran
2021: Muscle Memory, Must Love Pie
2019: Ayaan, Last Call, Silento -
2021: Children of Light (d. Minkyu Kang, p. Bofan Zhang); She Always Wins (d. Hazel McKibbin, p. Lauren Goetzman); So They Say (d. Natalia Luque, p. Donovan Tolledo); Tuo Tuo (d. An Chu, p. Hongwei Wu)
2020: Leah (d.Christina Yoon, p. Grace Merriman); My Independence Day (d.Constanza Majluf Baeza, p. Cecilia Otero); Poplars (d.Gleb Osatinski, p. Mike Cummings); Raps (d.Cameron Nelson, p. Bofan Zhang)
2019: The Dinner Party (d.Neda Jebelli, p. Barbara Twist); Louis I, King of Sheep (d.Markus Wulf, p. Susie Kim); Seen Not Heard (d.Gina Hackett, p. Christina Wood); Tropicalia (d.Rodney Llaverias, p. Lauren Lopez de Victoria)
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2025: Alexander Molochnikov
2024: The Loon, dir. Paula Bourgie; and Bruno and Elena, dir. Javier Hirschler
2021: Noelia R. Deza, Ese verano nos quedamos en cas -
2025: Ellis Finney
2024: Anastasia Ayazi De Marchi
2021: Yearning (d. Shae Xu, p. Yixuan Qi)
2020: Fish Knows Not of Water (d. Ricardo Varona) -
2020: Gina Hackett, Cameron Nelson
2019: Ursula Ellis
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2024: Chad Hamilton; Vishnu Sinha; Maggie Talbot-Minkin
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2025: Nana Duffuor
2024: The Loon, dir. Paula Bourgie
2021: Mariana Saffon, Entre tu y Milagros
2019: Alies Sluiter, Ayaan -
2024: When the Goats Come Home by Rali Chaouni
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2024: Sweet Summer by Grace Philips
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2025: Mengsheng Zeng
2024: Sofia Voss
2021: Grace Phillips
2020: Olive Nwosu
2019: Shannon Kelley -
2021: Cole Smith, Felix van Kann, Rachel Ward
2020: Bag Lady, Kristin Curtis and Max McGillivray; Jason, Harry Bartle; Marcia Marcela Madre Mujer, Constanza Majluf Baeza
2019: The Bridge Between Us, Gina Hackett; Malpelo, Victoria Rivera
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2021: Elegy for a Glacier (d. Stephanie Falkeis, p. Nicholas Nyhof); The Lion and the Firebird (d. Daniel Byers, p. Fernando Gonzalez Ortiz)
2020: It Might As Well Be Spring (d.Ben Eckersley, p. Flora Jiwu Hwang & Caroline Blair); Let There Be Light (d.Jon Jones, p. Jonathan Brown)
2019: Sound to Sea (d. Ryan Craver, p. Glenn Brown); Wood Thrush (d. Peter Forbes, p. Jungyoon Kim)
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2025: Taafaki Moore
2024: Kathryn Kearney
2021: Danielle Douge
2020: Adewale Olukayode
2019: Josalynn Smith -
2025: Meet me @ the mall by Krsyana Maragh
2024: Heir Apparent by William Turner
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2025: Nora Marris
2024: Kunao (Frank) Yan
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2024: Trashy by Aliza Brugger, and ¡Independentzia! by Auroria Real De Asua
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2024: TBA

