2018 Awards

Best Film
The Best of All Worlds

Best World Film
Elvis Walks Home

Best Documentary
My Tourette’s

Best World Documentary
Retracing Jeneba

Audience Award
The Rainbow Experiment

Best Director
John Irvin (Mandela’s Gun)

Best Documentary Director
Hugo Berkeley (The Jazz Ambassadors)

Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
Indrani Kopal for Incarcerated Rhythm

Best Experimental Film
The Silent Eye

Best Actress
Verena Altenberger (The Best of All Worlds)

Best Actor
Tumisho Masha (Mandela’s Gun)

Best Cinematography
Sayakbay

New York Showcase Award
Write When You Get Work

Harlem Spotlight (Feature)
The Breeding

Harlem Spotlight (Short)
Congo Cabaret

Best Short
Hold Me Down

Best Short Documentary
Home Street Home

Best Youth Short
Blacked Out

Best Animation
Two Balloons

Best Music Video
Stand Down

Winning Webisode
A Whole New Irving

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Winning Feature Screenplay
The Other Side
Alexandra Farias

Winning Short Script
Crushing
Simbi Kali

Feature Screenplay Finalists
Ice Cream Don’t Melt in Englewood
Richard Ehrenreich

Horse Up a Tree
Terrance J. Lynam

Sardis the Merciful
Christian Thomas

When There Was Time
James Gillard

Orpheus Star
Donn Swaby

Short Screenplay Finalists
Falafel Thirst
Justin Bozonelis

Black Like Me
Joseph A. Halsey