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California Women's Film Festival

    • 2020s
    • 2010s
    • 20192018201720162015

    Jury Prize

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    Best Actor

    • Gabriel Burrafato
      Winner
      • Gabriel Burrafato
      • Plaything

    Jury Award

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    Best Actor

    • Randy Wayne in Union Bound (2016)
      Winner
      • Randy Wayne
      • It Happened Again Last Night
    • Gabriel Burrafato
      Winner
      • Gabriel Burrafato
      • Plaything
    • Oscar Cardenas
      • Oscar Cardenas
      • Bon Appétit

    Best Actress

    • Marianne Bourg
      Winner
      • Marianne Bourg
      • Plaything
      Red Velvet Productions
    • Marianne Bourg
      Winner
      • Marianne Bourg
      • Plaything
      Red Velvet Productions
    • Gabrielle Stone directs Amy Smart in 'After Emma'
      Winner
      • Gabrielle Stone
      • It Happened Again Last Night
    • Alicja Bachleda
      • Alicja Bachleda
      • Polaris
    • "First Lady" FLOTUS Kate 2019
      • Nancy Stafford
      • Common Threads
      Team 2 Entertainment

    Best Director (Feature Film)

    • Cannes Film Festival
      Winner
      • Natalie Metzger(director)
      • Special Blood
      Rare & Potentially Fatal

    Best Director (Short Film)

    • Winner
      • Yufei Qiao(director)
      • Plaything
    • Winners
      • Jacquelyn 'Jac' Piette(director)
      • Nasheet Zaman(director)
      • One Per Person
    • Winner
      • Rocco Cataldo(director)
      • Emergence
    • William Shockley
      • William Shockley
      • Common Threads
      Team 2 Entertainment

    Best Feature Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Polaris

      4.7 (183)
      Soudabeh Moradian(director)
      Christina Jo'Leigh(producer)
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Boy in the Mirror

      Fernanda Schein(director)

    Best Foreign Film

    • nov 25
      Winner
      • Carmen Molinar
      Mallorca Film Production

    Best Music Video

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Porter: La China

      Jorge G. Camarena(director)
      Unlimited Films

    Best Short Documentary Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Women Prayed and Preyed Upon

      Kankana Chakraborty(director)

    Best Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Common Threads

      8.0 (9)
      William Shockley
      Team 2 Entertainment

    Best Director

    • On set - Polaris
      • Soudabeh Moradian
      • Polaris
    • Gabrielle Stone directs Amy Smart in 'After Emma'
      • Gabrielle Stone
      • Roze
      • It Happened Again Last Night

    Best Supporting Actress

    • Sydney Scotia
      • Sydney Scotia
      • Common Threads
      Team 2 Entertainment
    • Ally Downs
      • Ally Downs
      • Ed

    Festival Award

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    Audience Award

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Madame Esmeralda and the Audition

      Victoria Murad(executive producer)
      Todd J. Phelps(director)
      Paul Whitehead(director/producer)
      Lila Cardea Productions
      Chickenhow Productions
      Car Window Films
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Ignofear

      Monia Ayachi(writer/producer/actor)
      Jonathan Cocco(director)
      Nanou Films
    • [object Object]

      Things That Happen at Night

      Laura Jean Bransky(director)
    • [object Object]

      Black in Red Out

      Monica Moore Suriyage(director)
    • [object Object]

      Niles Canyon

      Sallyanne Massimini(director)
      David Paul Francis(writer)

    Best Experimental Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      To Quiet My Mind

      Hollis Sherman-Pepe
      Farmer's Daughter Productions

    Best Feature Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Part of Me Now: Living with Breast Cancer

      Emily Gerhardson

    Best Lead Actress

    • Headshot
      Winner
      • Frida Farrell
      • Apartment 407
    • Bar Paly
      • Bar Paly
      • Lost Girls
    • Piercey Dalton
      • Piercey Dalton
      • Chocolate
      D. Ellen Miller Productions

    Best Narrative Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Bi the Way

      Anes Hasi(writer, lead actor)
      Sarah Kaufmann(director, editor)

    Best Supporting Actress

    • Yolanda T. Ross
      Winner
      • Yolanda T. Ross
      • Tiff
      • Cristina Cibrian(Actress)
      • Lost Girls

    Best Actor

    • Ramsey Krull
      • Ramsey Krull
      • This Path

    Best Director

      • Cheyenne Pasquer
      • Worth It?
    • Julia Verdin
      • Julia Verdin(Director)
      • Lost Girls

    Best Short Film

    • [object Object]

      Another Life

      Javid Rezai
      Pravato Pictures
    • Jaret Martino
      • Jaret Martino(producer)
      Jaret Martino Productions

    Best Short Script

    • [object Object]

      Seeds of Change

      Frances Wilkerson

    Best Student Film

    • [object Object]

      Straw

      Tyna Ezenma

    Audience Award

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    • [object Object]

      Tiff

      Kimberley T. Curtis
      MzK!M Productions

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    • http://www.calwomensfest.com/

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