2019 WINNERS
Best of Fest: This is Your Cuba (Esta Es Tu Cuba)
Best Foreign Film: This Time Away
Special Mention: From This Day Forward
Best Drama: IAGO
Best Comedy: Housekeeping
Special Mention: Baby Bird
Best Animation: The Ostrich Politic
Special Mention: Guaxuma
Best Documentary: The Return
Best Experimental: Song Without Words
Best High School Short: The Doves
Best Web Series: Production Incorporated
Best New Chinese Filmmaker: Lip Reader: Game Of Detective
Special Mention: The Outlying Islands
Best Sci Fi: Slice of Life
Best Horror: Once Upon a Time in a Haunted House
Best Music Video: Lost Kings "When We Were Young"
Best Actor: Timothy Spall (This Time Away), Kim Estes (Together)
Best Actress: Sheila Hancock (From This Day Forward)
Screenplay Competition Winner
BORN IN L.A. "Dolls and All" by Marlene Sharp
2018 WINNERS
Best of Fest
Little Match Girl
Drama / Sweden / 17 min
Director: Bjorne Larson
Producers: Kim Magnusson, Oliver Oftedal
Best Foreign Film
The Hangman
Drama / South Africa / 22 min
Director: Zwelethu Radebe
Producers: Dumisani Mvumvu, Kearen Pennells
Best Drama
It Gets Better
Drama / Germany / 21 min
Director: Adi Wojaczek
Producer: Patrick Mölleken
Best Comedy
The Dreamer
Comedy / USA / 5 min
Directors: Armand & Nat Prisco, Eric Eckelman
Producer: Mark Forlenza
Best Comedy
Fire in Cardboard City
Comedy/Animation / New Zealand / 9 min
Director: Phil Brough
Producers: Matt Heath, Orlando Stewart
Best Animation
IAN
Animation / Argentina / 9 min.
Director: Abel Goldfarb
Producers: Gastón Gorali, Juan Jose Campanella
Best Documentary
We Became Fragments
Documentary / USA / 13 min.
Directors: Luisa Conlon, Lacy Roberts, Hanna Miller
Producer: Luisa Conlon
Best Experimental
Intrusion
Experimental / Australia / 5 min.
Director/Producer: Ming-Zhu Hii
Best Music Video
Disconnected
Music Video / USA / 5 min.
Director/Producer: Dave Suchanek
Best Actors
Philip Baker Hall - (Dear Chickens)
Owen Miller - (Marcus)
Best Actress
Joan Collins - (Gerry)
LA Shorts Screenplay Competition Winner
Requiem Terezin by Elad Tzadok
Best High School Film
Catman: The Love Thief
Comedy / USA / 17 min.
Director: Austin Coombs-Perez
Producers: Austin Coombs-Perez, Ginger Port