2021 AWARD WINNERS
Jury Awards
Best Narrative Feature
Sweetheart
(Director: Marley Morrison)
Best Documentary
Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music
(Director: T.J. Parsell)
Best International Film (TIE)
A Distant Place
(Director: Kun-Young Park)
Bliss
(Director: Henrika Kull)
Best First Feature
The Novice
(Director: Lauren Hadaway)
Best Drama Short Film
Inertia
(Director: Mat Johns)
Special Award for Excellence in Cinematography – Short Film
Flames
(Director of Photography: Edward Martinez)
Best Director
Lauren Hadaway
(The Novice)
Best Screenplay
Kelly Walker
(My Fiona)
Best Ensemble
Sweetheart
Audience Awards
Best Narrative Feature (TIE)
Firebird
(Director: Peter Reebane)
All Boys Aren’t Blue
(Director: Nathan Hale Williams)
Best Documentary
Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music (Director: T.J. Parsell)
Runner-up
Keep the Cameras Rolling: The Pedro Zamora Way (Directors: William T. Horner, Stacey Worlfel)
Best International Film
Flee (Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
Runner-up
Mascarpone (Directors: Alessandro Guida, Matteo Pilati)
Best Comedy
Potato Dreams of America
(Director: Wes Hurley)
Best Narrative Short Film (TIE)
Sheer Qorma
(Director: Faraz Arif Ansari)
As Simple as That
(Director: Luciana Bitencourt)
Best Comedy Short Film
Flex (Director: Matt Porter)
Best Horror Short Film
Griffica (Director: C.J. Arellano)
Best Animated Short Film (TIE)
Together Again (Director: Stuart Ruston)
My Aunties (Director: Richard O’Connor)
Best Local Short Film
Over My Dead Body
(Director: Quinlan Orear)
Runner-up (TIE)
Black Boi Majik
(Director: Lyrik London)
Flames
(Directors: Deondray Gassfield, Quincy Le Near)
Best Trans Short Film
Before the Eruption
(Director: Roberto Pérez Toledo)
Best Web Series
I am Syd Stone
(Director: Denis Theriault)