Named Awards

  • 2025: Extremist by Alexander Molochnikov

    2024: The Loon, dir. Paula Bourgie

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 2025: Derin Celik

    2024: Lunise Cerin

    2021: Gabriele Urbonaite

    2020: Saladin White II

    2019: Ben Gottlieb

  • 2025: Mary Cecilia Walker

    2024: Zoé C Salicrup Junco

  • 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

  • 2024: Not My Name, dir. Juan Paulo Laserna

  • 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

  • 2021: Patrick Clement

    2020: Chloe Sarbib

    2019: Harriet Beaney

  • 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)

  • 2025: Tiankuo Men

    2024: Miruna Straut

    2022: Moara Passoni

    2021: Jorge Granados Ross

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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 Duffuor

    2024: 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)

  • 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

  • 2024: Chad Hamilton; Vishnu Sinha; Maggie Talbot-Minkin

  • 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

  • 2024: Sweet Summer by Grace Philips

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 2025: Nora Marris

    2024: Kunao (Frank) Yan

  • 2024: Trashy by Aliza Brugger, and ¡Independentzia! by Auroria Real De Asua

  • 2024: TBA

Topic Studios Award for Excellence in Producing