2020 Awards

Best Film          
HAINGOSOA                                                  

Best World Film
OMAR AND US

Best Documentary        
THUMBS UP FOR MOTHER UNIVERSE     

Best World Documentary                             
OPEKA                                        

Audience Award
THE PATTERSON

Best Director
CHARLES MUDEDE for THIN SKIN 

Best Documentary Director
KAREN AKINS for EL SUSTO

Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
LANIE ZIPOY for THE SUBJECT            

Best Actor
KHALID AHMED in WAITING

Best Actress
RUBY RUIZ in ISKA

Best Production
BEFORE THE FIRE

New York Vision Award
#LIKE

Best Short
LITTLE BROTHER

Best Short Short
W

Best Short Documentary 
FINDING ELIJAH

Harlem Spotlight
FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARD AKA
FOOD & DRINK BOULEVARD AKA
F.D.B.

Uptown Award
SUNDAYS AT THE TRIPLE NICKEL

Best Youth Short
SHINE & SHADE

Best Animation
MALAKOUT

Best Experimental Film
BUBBLE

Best Music Video
ON MY MIND

Winning Webisode
BEFORE WE WRAP

Best Virtual Reality
RECONSTRUCT: FIVE CONFEDERATES AND A TENNIS PLAYER

Winning Feature Screenplay
THE AMBASSADOR OF LOVE

Winning Short Script
CHANNEL BIBI 

Feature Screenplay Finalists
BLACK JESUS           
CAIRENE DREAMS                                                  
JAZZLAND
PLEASE FORGIVE ME                             
TAXI LADY

Short Screenplay Finalists
PEOPLE IN A BOX
WRITER’S BLOCK A LOVE STORY