2021 Awards

Best Film          
VOODOO MACBETH                                                  

Best World Film
REFLECTION

Best Documentary        
100 YEARS FROM MISSISSIPPI     

Best World Documentary                             
QUEENS OF THE REVOLUTION                                      

Audience Award
COOGAN’S WAY

Best Director
JOSEPH E. AUSTIN II for SUNDAYS IN JULY

Best Documentary Director
ABBY GINZBERG for TRUTH TO POWER: BARBARA LEE SPEAKS FOR ME

Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
AVRIL E. RUSSELL for ALL ON A SUMMER’S DAY          

Best Actor
ELIJAH CANLAS in KALEL, 15

Best Actress
INGER TUDOR in VOODOO MACBETH

Best Production
VOODOO MACBETH

New York Vision Award
FULL CIRCLE

Best Short
BABY

Best Short Short
BEFORE I KNEW

Best Short Documentary 
ANTHONY CRAWFORD – THE MAN THE SOUTH FORGOT

Harlem Spotlight
THE DROP SHOT

Uptown Award
FIRST MOVE

Best Youth Short
I’M READY

Best Animation
GON, THE LITTLE FOX

Best Experimental Film
SUMMER IN HINDSIGHT

Best Music Video
SKYROCKET

Winning Webisode
PRAIZE

Best Virtual Reality
HOMINIDAE

Winning Feature Screenplay
ELLA, WITNESSING

Winning Short Script
SURVIVAL AS A GHOSTWRITER

Feature Screenplay Finalists
BAD LOVE STRIKES
DESTINY OF TAR AND FEATHERS
THE HARLEM BUTCHER
THE FORGE

Short Screenplay Finalists
BONGSAN MASK DANCE
THE FLOW
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE FREE