Film Award Winners

Best Film Award

Extremist, Dir. Alexander Molochnikov, P. Jean Chapiro

3Pas Studios Award for Excellence in Producing

Jean Chapiro, Extremist

James Ponsoldt Award for Best Director

Alexander Molochnikov, Extremist

Richard Brick Fund for Special Distinction in Line Producing

Yaél Bermudez
Jeffrey Lichtenstein

Award for Social and Cultural Impact

Greta Díaz Moreau, Loquita Por Ti

Adrienne Shelly Foundation Award for Female Director

Nana Duffuor, Rainbow Girls

National Board of Review Student Grant Nominees

Marion Carter Green Award Nominee

Cameron Clay, JESUS IS COMING (to take the Church away)

Norman T. Strauss Award Nominee
Sierra Nutkevitch, The Golem

Audience Awards

Program A: Mouthfeel, Dir. Max Tullio, P. Imani Cook-Gist
Program B: Embla, Dir. Katla Solnes, P. Ji Hye Yoo
Program C: No Experience Necessary, Dir. Emily Everhard, P. Sharvari Bhat
Program D: Loquita Por Ti, Dir. Greta Díaz Moreau, P. Pau Pérez Puig
Program E: JESUS IS COMING (to take the Church Away), Dir. Cameron Clay, P. Yaél Bermudez
Program F: Spring Comes by Itself, Dir. Noah Namgoong, P. Yaél Bermudez
Program G: The Allowance, Dir. Andrew Howell, P. Jeffrey Lichtenstein and Sydney Simoncini

The Michael Hausman/Buffalo Mike Filmhaus Foundation Award Recipients

Quetzali Lopez
Isabella Stargardter
Zichen Zhao
Yuxi Zhu

Miloš Forman Directing Fellowships

John Foster
Anqi Yu
Fei Yu
Wenjing Zheng

Arthur Krim Memorial Award

Martin Granada
Lauren Harris
Raman Nimmala
Kaustubh Singh

David Henry Hammer Award

Nora Marris

Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation Launch Fund for Queer Filmmakers

Ellis Finney

Alex Sichel Fellowship for a Promising Female Filmmaker

Mengsheng Zeng

Bobby Kashif Cox Memorial Screenwriting Scholarship

Mary Cecilia Walker