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LA Independent Women Film Awards

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Festival Award July

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Best Documentary Short

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    Winner

    A Place at the Operating Table

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Best Female Director

    • Puk Grasten(director)
    • Den, der lever stille
    Regner Grasten Filmproduktion

Jury Prize

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Best Actress

  • Jandae Percem
    Winner
    • Jandae Percem
    • Alya
    Oceans Filmworks
    • Naomy Romo
    • La Pura Vida
    Verrechia Films

Best Cinematographer

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    Winner

    Help Yourself

    Malin LQ
    Droll Trollop
    Film and Tell

Best International Filmmaker

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    Winner

    Alya

    8.8 (160)
    Jandae Percem
    Oceans Filmworks

Best Science Fiction

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    Winner

    Golia

    Alice Hjorth(director)
    Selina Wilken(producer)
    David Lukunku(producer)

Festival Award September

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Best Documentary Feature

  • Winner

    Wof Zerash Coffee

    Sylwia Pecio
    Pic Tree Limited

Best L.A. Filmmaker

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    Winner

    Palmdale

    Lauren Moreno

Best Short Comedy

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    Winner

    BFFR

    Erika Apelgren(director)
    For Love Productions

Best Youth Artist

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    Winner

    Torn

    9.5 (10)
    Bethan Williams
    Frogspawn Film

Best Actress

  • Sharon Gardner
    Erika Apelgren
    • Sharon Gardner(actress)
    • Erika Apelgren(actress)
    • BFFR
  • Cybil Lake
    • Cybil Lake(actress)
    • Malibu Mother of Two
    Morgan Eagle Pictures

Best Narrative Short

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    BFFR

    Erika Apelgren(director)

Honorable Mention

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    Collateral Damage (animation)

    8.6 (5)
    Kynthia Piakis(director)

Festival Award February

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Best Female Director

  • Aslihan Unaldi
    Winner
    • Aslihan Unaldi
    • Afloat

Best Student Film

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    Winner

    Maifeld

    Nele Johann(director)

Honorable Mention Human Rights

  • A Kaddish for Selim

    Jane Wells
    Three Generations

Festival Award April

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Best Environmental

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    Winner

    Forecast: The Short

    Paula Randol-Smith(director/producer)
    GreenWisdom Media

Best Feature Documentary

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    I don't have my home anymore...

    7.8 (8)
    Katrine Moite

Festival Award May

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Best Director

  • Jan Miller Corran
    Winner
    • Jan Miller Corran
    • Concerto for Abigail
    Three Women in a Box Films
  • Winner
    • Mitzi Peirone
    • Saint Clare

Best Editor

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    Winner

    What if I Never Wake Up Again?

    8.9 (9)
    Youyin Zhang

Best First Time Film Maker

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    Winner

    Wrinkles of her Smile

    8.2 (12)
    Suzan van Eck
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    Concinnity

    Katherine Wise
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    Arranca

    Liliana M. Molina(Director)

Best LGBT Film

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    Winner

    Concerto for Abigail

    7.0 (318)
    Jan Miller Corran
    Three Women in a Box Films

Best Produced Script

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    Winner

    Noble Vision

    7.6 (18)
    Gen LaGreca(writer)
    Winged Victory Foundation

Best Student Film

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    Winner

    Matterhorn

    Anne Madeleine Mancosu(writer/director)
    Fondation Engelberts Des Arts Et De La Culture

Best Youth Artist

  • Dylan Chance
    Winner
    • Dylan Chance

Narrative Feature

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    Winner

    Saint Clare

    4.5 (522)
    Mitzi Peirone
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    Noble Vision

    7.6 (18)
    Gen LaGreca(executive producer)
    Winged Victory Foundation

Best Actress

    • Johanna Rosaly(Actress)
    • Arranca

Best Music Song

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    Concerto for Abigail

    7.0 (318)
    Monica Young
    Three Women in a Box Films

Best Narrative Short

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    Help Yourself

    Hedvig Andersson(Director)
    Droll Trollop
    Film and Tell
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    Concinnity

    Katherine Wise

Best Screenplay

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    Haha

    Sophia Porter

Best Short Animation

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    A Christmas Tale

    Natalie A. Evans

Festival Award January

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Best Short Animation

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    Winner

    The Sitters

    Hannah Franklin(director)

Best Comedy

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    W.I.L.S.D.M

    Chloe Owens
    Carter-Rose Productions

Best Director

  • Janelle Christa
    • Janelle Christa
    • Transcendent
    Janelle Christa Productions

Best Narrative Short

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    Transcendent

    Janelle Christa
    Devon James

Best Series Web Pilot

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    Men Who Live in Cars

    Chebo Productions

Best Student Film

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    Nuclear

    Natalie Grzeszczak
    Shalyn Delhaes

Honorable Mention

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    W.I.L.S.D.M

    Chloe Owens
    Carter-Rose Productions

  • Roaming Souls

    Lacy McClory
    Persevero Productions

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