April 2017 Results


Best Feature
Winner: Artifice
Nominee: Psycho Magnet
Nominee: Pechorin
Nominee: The Last Beautiful Girl
Nominee: Repatriation
Nominee: Shut Up Anthony

Best Documentary Feature
Winner: The Bentley Effect
Winner: The Dog Meat
    Professionals: South Korea
Nominee: GV29 A Meditation:
    Women the Power Paradigm

Best Documentary Short
Winner: Do You Like Peacocks?
Winner: Parivara
Best Short
Winner: The Talk
Nominee: Bring Me Out the Dark
Nominee: The Woman Who Knocked
    on My Door
Nominee: The Man Up the Stairs
Nominee: Undatement Center
Nominee: Vigilantes
Nominee: Mantra
Nominee: Honeymoon
Nominee: On a Sunday

Best Animated Short
Winner: Cupid is Not a Terrorist

Best Experimental Short
Winner: Everyday Misfortune
Nominee: Side by Side
Best Music Video
Winner: Bring Me Out the Dark
Nominee: Switzerland

Best Web Series
Winner: Hooked
Nominee: Clever Girl

Best Student Film
Winner: The Wheels on the Bus
Nominee: 4242
Nominee: Mirror
Nominee: Self Help
Nominee: The Veiled
Nominee: Mistakes
Nominee: The Life of Davie
Nominee: God Only Knows
Best Director
Winner: Side by Side
Nominee: 4242
Nominee: Mirror
Nominee: The Madame in Black
Nominee: The Hag: Bloodline
Nominee: The Man Up the Stairs
Nominee: Tears in the Rain
Nominee: Shut Up Anthony
Nominee: The Talk
Nominee: On a Sunday
Nominee: Repatriation
Nominee: Gwendolyn
Nominee: New York 2150
Nominee: Clever Girl

Best Cinematography
Winner: The Man Up the Stairs
Nominee: The Madame in Black
Nominee: Believers
Nominee: Gwendolyn
Nominee: Artifice
Nominee: New York 2150
Nominee: Hooked
Nominee: Parivara
Best Actor
Winner: Artifice
    (Brandon Sean Pearson)
Nominee: Father's Day
    (Jeffrey Hart Peterson)
Nominee: Spark (Tom Althoff)
Nominee: Love in Motion
    (Albert Goikhman)
Nominee: Clever Girl (Kip Bennett)
Nominee: Shut Up Anthony
    (Robert D'Esposito)
Nominee: Repatriation
    (Ryan Barton-Grimley)

Best Actress
Winner: Mantra (Dyani Rajae)
Nominee: The Friend Zone
    (Emilie Krause)
Nominee: The Veiled
    (Monette Lee)
Nominee: The Hag: Bloodline
    (Danielle Pollari)
Nominee: The Madame in Black
    (Ida Gyllensten)
Nominee: Clever Girl (Shannon Faith)
Best Sound
Winner: Mantra
Nominee: The Man Up the Stairs
Nominee: Side by Side
Nominee: Guilty
Nominee: Pechorin
Nominee: Mistakes
Nominee: Artifice

Best Music
Winner: Artifice
Nominee: The Hag: Bloodline
Nominee: Bring Me Out the Dark
Nominee: The Man Up the Stairs
Nominee: Clever Girl

Best Original Idea
Winner: The Life of Davie
Winner: Vigilantes
Nominee: Believers
Nominee: The Woman Who Knocked
    on My Door
Nominee: Undatement Center
Nominee: Gwendolyn
Best Writing
Winner: Pechorin
Nominee: 4242
Nominee: The Hag: Bloodline
Nominee: The Wheels on the Bus
Nominee: The Woman Who Knocked
    on My Door
Nominee: The Man Up the Stairs
Nominee: Shut Up Anthony
Nominee: The Date
Nominee: Love in Motion

Best Editing
Winner: The Bentley Effect
Nominee: Father's Day
Nominee: The Hag: Bloodline
Nominee: The Man Up the Stairs
Nominee: The Friend Zone
Nominee: Side by Side
Nominee: Shut Up Anthony
Nominee: Guilty
Nominee: New York 2150
Nominee: Hooked
Nominee: Do You Like Peacocks?
Best FX
Winner: Psycho Magnet
Nominee: Hada
Nominee: New York 2150

Best Twist
Winner: Tears in the Rain
Nominee: Guilty
Nominee: Honeymoon

Best Message
Winner: GV29 A Meditation:
    Women the Power Paradigm
Winner: The Bentley Effect
Winner: The Dog Meat
    Professionals: South Korea
Nominee: Spark
Nominee: Self Help

Most Terrifying
Winner: Hada
Winner: The Madame in Black
Nominee: The Hag: Bloodline
Best Humor
Winner: The Date
Nominee: The Wheels on the Bus
Nominee: Mantra
Nominee: I've got a date tonight...
Nominee: Fetish
Nominee: The Last Beautiful Girl
Nominee: The Talk
Nominee: Vigilantes
Nominee: God Only Knows
Nominee: Hooked
Nominee: Jill and Bobby

Best Romantic Comedy
Winner: Side by Side
Winner: Undatement Center

No Budget Spirit
Winner: Gwendolyn
Nominee: The Cut Before the Bloom
Nominee: Jill and Bobby

Best Feature Script
Winner: Happiness and Wealth:
    The Quest for the Rhodes
Nominee: Table for Four
Nominee: The Salt Box
Nominee: All-American
Best Short Script
Winner: Dark Matter
Nominee: Haus Pandora
Nominee: Brad, Actually
Nominee: A Run