2019 Festival Award Winners

Opening Night Celebration

An opening-night slate of films selected from across the festival.

Opening Night Celebration – Encore Screening

Encore presentation of Opening Night Celebration.

And So It Begins

• Behave, Kids — Tripp Crosby (USA)
• The Great Unknown — Anna Jones (USA)
• Lullaby — Bobby Serros (USA)
• Master Maggie — Matthew Bonifacio (USA)
• Sides of a Horn — Toby Wosskow (South Africa, USA)
• 40 Minutes Over Maui — Michael Feld, Josh Covitt (USA)

It’s a Hard DOC’s Life 1

• The Flip — Reed Rickert (USA)
• The Muralist — Eric Forman
• The Kaleidoscope Guy at the Market — Russell Brown
• Lily — Adrienne Gruben
• Still Plays with Trains — Ross Kauffman

Life Interrupted

• Date — Scott Rodgers (USA)
• How Does It Start — Amber Sealey (USA)
• Lockdown — Logan George, Celine Held (USA)
• Mthunzi — Tebogo Malebogo (South Africa)
• Night Swim — Victoria Rivera (USA)
• On The Clock — Tayo Amos (USA)
• The Orphan — Carolina Markowicz (Brazil)

Embattled: The Other Side of War

• The 11th Order — Joshua DeFour (USA)
• Autumn Waltz — Ognjen Petković (Serbia)
• Bad People — Giorgi Tavartkiladze (Georgia)
• Milk — Pennie Hunt (New Zealand)
• War Paint — Joseph Colby Doler, Taylor Bracewell (USA)

World Cinema 1

• Ashes — Prashant Singh, Tej Sisodia (India)
• Brave Little Army — Michelle D’Alessandro Hatt (Canada)
• Homesick — Koya Kamura (France, Japan)
• Luna — Xu Zhang (USA, China)
• Nefta Football Club — Yves Piat (France, Tunisia)

The World Beyond 1

• Boléro — Sarah Gross (USA)
• The Bumbry Encounter — Jay K Raja (USA)
• Game Day — Christopher Roberts (UK)
• Tacit Blue — Wenkai Duan (China)
• The Way the Future Was — Raphael Kryszek (USA)

Make ‘Em Laugh

• Men of Vision — Frank Todaro (USA)
• The Book of Craig — Tyler Stuart (USA)
• Coffee Time with the Bros — JD Boxley (USA)
• Dirty Rotten Liars — Chris Chalklen (UK)
• Fantastic Cars — Barney Elliott (Peru)
• Lady Hater — Alexandra Barreto (USA)
• The Last Piece — Will Lowell (USA)
• Peggy — Justin O’Neal Miller (USA)
• Potato — Kelly Gleason (USA)
• Relationship Deli — Ian Van der Werff (USA)

It Was a Dark & Stormy Night

• How To Be Alone — Kate Trefry (USA)
• The Priest, the Whore, and the Man at the Door — Josh Litman (USA)
• The Strangers We Know — Alana Grace (USA)
• Sven — Christopher Rucinski (USA)
• The Tattooed Heart — Sheldon Wong Schwartz (USA)
• The Teacher — Jeremy Weiss (USA)
• The Wolves — Matthew Barber (USA)

Kids & Family

• Leap — Chris Yoon (USA)
• The Most Magnificent Thing — Arna Selznick (Canada)
• Two Balloons — Mark C. Smith (USA)
• The Girl At The End Of The Garden — Bonnie Dempsey (Ireland)
• My Moon — Eusong Lee (USA)
• All In Good Time — Bonnie Dempsey (Ireland)

Through the Looking Glass

• A Snake Marked — Juan Riedinger (Canada)
• Dodgson — Dan Michael (USA)
• Self Tape — Sam Kressner (USA)
• Tea Time for Lions — Joel Fleurent, Rob Fleurent (USA)
• Will “The Machine” — Kent Lamm (USA)
• Without — Jacob Combs (USA)

Return of the Ink & Paint Club

• Closed Circuit — Lauren Morrison (USA)
• Featherweight — Kayleigh Gibbons (UK)
• Ladder to You — Victoria Watson, Chris Watson (UK)
• Mind My Mind — Floor Adams (Netherlands)
• My Moon — Eusong Lee (USA)
• Two Balloons — Mark C. Smith (USA)
• Wild Love — Paul Autric, Quentin Camus, Léa Georges, Maryka Laudet, Zoé Sottiaux, Corentin Yvergniaux (France)
• Tacit Blue — Wenkai Duan (China)

World Beyond 2

• Home in Time — Patrick Hagarty (Canada)
• N.I. — Sallyanne Massimini (USA)
• Progeny — Justin Daering (USA)
• The Resistance — Natasha Straley (USA)
• Virtually — P. Patrick Hogan (USA)

The Uniqueness of Me

• Black Hat — Sarah Smith (USA)
• Dee-Brief — Sarah Hickey (Australia)
• Greta — Sparkman Clark (USA)
• The Interview — Nate Duncan (USA)
• Jack and Anna — Ksenia Ivanova (USA)

Meet The Filmmakers

• Influence — Indy Dang (USA)
• Pipe Dream — Chris King (USA)

World Cinema 2

• CA$H — Tan Wei Ting (Singapore)
• Dunk — Sophie Martin (France)
• I’m Listening — Katja Korhonen (Finland)
• Kneeling Sheep — Hai Rihan (USA, China)
• SVAH: So be it! — Gauri Daswani (India)
• To The Sea — Emily Dynes (Australia)

The Human Experience

• A Birthday Gift — Dan Zhou (China)
• Believin’ — Daryl Lathon (USA)
• How To Swim — Noa Gusakov (Israel)
• Hypocrite — Brett Maline (USA)
• Jack — Nick Paoness (USA)
• Portraitist — Cyrus Neshvad (Luxembourg)
• The Translator — Pagorn Jungrungruang (Singapore)

Laughter After Dark

• Game Night — Penelope Berkemeier (Australia)
• Hors Piste — Léo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, Oscar Malet (France)
• Made Public — Foster Wilson (USA)
• Rubbish Robbers — Anders Teig (Norway)
• Six Pack — Madeline Mack (USA, Australia)
• Sorry, Not Sorry — Monique Sorgen (USA)
• The Stew — Chris Wood (USA)
• White Guys Solve Sexism — Christopher Guerrero (USA)
• Wild Love — Paul Autric, Quentin Camus, Léa Georges, Maryka Laudet, Zoé Sottiaux, Corentin Yvergniaux (France)

Make ‘Em Laugh – Encore Screening

Encore presentation of Make ‘Em Laugh.

Family Matters

• Count — Samuel Askland Gordon (USA)
• Elephante — Caitlyn Knisely (USA)
• From This Day Forward — Karel van Bellingen (UK)
• The Hall — Ted Leonard (USA)
• The Lost Weekend — Ryan O’Leary (USA)
• One Twice a Day — Sofia Streisand (USA)
• Pozole — Jessica Mendez Siqueiros (USA)
• Road to Zion — Andrew Reid (USA)

World Cinema Three

• Arch-Rival — Liu Qiang (China)
• Ashmina — Dekel Berenson (Nepal)
• Ella — Tommy Naess (Norway)
• Hot Water — Madeline Mack (USA, Australia)
• Rocket Boy — Simon Sorted (UK)
• Sound of Two — Sachin Ramdas (United Arab Emirates)
• Taking a Piss — Josh Romyn (Canada)
• Time Machinery — Mei Fa Tan (Canada, Switzerland)

The Alternative Universe

• All In Good Time — Bonnie Dempsey (Ireland)
• The Change — Nick Anderson (USA)
• Chaos — Samuel Auer (Germany)
• The Hour After Westerly — Nate Bell, Andrew Morehouse (USA)
• Rocket — Christian Walsh (USA)
• Troll Bridge — Daniel Knight (Australia)

It’s a Hard DOC’s Life 2

• Coach — Jordan Axelrod, Matthew Ellison
• Guaxuma — Nara Normande
• Lost Weekend — Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb
• Girl in the Hallway — Valerie Barnhart (Canada)
• The Traffic Separating Device — Johan Palmgren

Closing Night – Best of the Festival

Award-winning films and the presentation of the festival awards.

Musically Inclined

• One Fourth Gone — Andy Arthur Smith (USA)
• Red Watch — David Kennedy (USA)
• Rewind — Ying Liu Hatch (China)
• Stood Up — Cjay Boisclair (Canada)
• Swan Song — Blythe Ashton (Australia)
• I’m Listening — Katja Korhonen (Finland)
• The Most Magnificent Thing — Arna Selznick (Canada)

Festival Rewind 2019 – Audience Choice

Audience Choice winners, as voted by festival audiences.