2018 Festival Award Winners

Opening Night Celebration

• O.I. — N’Cee Van Heerden (Canada)
• Hula Girl — Riess Hill (USA)
• The Driver is Red — Randall Christopher (USA)
• Under Mom’s Skirt — Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix (France)
• One Small Step — Andrew Chesworth & Bobby Pontillas (USA)
• Skin — Guy Nattiv (USA)

Opening Night Celebration – Encore Screening

Encore presentation of Opening Night Celebration.

Festival Rewind: 10 Years of Make ’em Laugh

Comedy favorites from the festival’s first 10 years.

Festival Rewind: 10 Years of World Cinema

World Cinema favorites from the festival’s first 10 years.

World Cinema One

• Denmark — Max Mauroux (France)
• Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times — Marcus Markou (UK)
• By Blood — Jonathan Delerue & Guillaume Enard (France)
• O.I. — N’Cee Van Heerden (Canada)
• Easy As… — Andrea Niada (UK)

Let’s Get This Party Started

• The Wedding Scene — Dan Levy Dagerman (USA)
• The Eleven O’Clock — Derin Seale (Australia)
• Magic H8 Ball — Dan Hass (USA)
• Build Ramps Not Walls — Rebecca Scotti (Mexico)
• Other People — Jacqueline Christy (USA)
• Always A Thorn — J.R. Griffin (USA)

Make ‘em Laugh

• Sump — Mike Wozniak (UK)
• Bloom — Kieran Wheeler (Australia)
• Sam Did It — Dominic Burgess (USA)
• Deep Dish Apocalypse — David Codeglia (USA)
• Holiday Hostage — D.W. Moffett (USA)
• Under The Hammer — Daniel Reisinger (Australia)
• Whelmed — David Zwolenski (Australia)
• Under Mom’s Skirt — Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix (France)

A Hard DOCs Life

• Crime of the Big Leagues — Randy Field (USA)
• My Grandfather’s Memory Book — Colin Levy (USA)
• Zord — Alexander Hinojosa (USA)
• Hula Girl — Riess Hill (USA)
• Day Zero — Edward Adams (USA)
• Moonshadow — David Elkins (USA)
• Walk Walk Walk: The Story Of Stand Proud — Ken Kobre (USA)
• I Love Your Fu@#ing Name — Finn O’Hara (Canada)

Beyond Midnight

• Mona — Adam Finley (USA)
• Night Call — Amanda Renee Knox (USA)
• Rider — Aaron Wasserteil (USA)
• Mamba — Sam Puefua (USA)
• Mates — Max Price (USA)
• Tutu Grande — Derek Sitter (USA)
• Thin Walls — Susan McCormick (USA)
• Latched — Justin Harding (Canada)

Sins Of The Fathers

• De la Madre — Keith Lango (USA)
• Caroline — Celine Held, Logan George (USA)
• Champ — Nashwa Zaman (USA)
• White River Tales — Joachim Gautier (USA)

Kids & Family

• Earthy Encounters — Sam Johnson (UK)
• El Cielo a mi Favor — Salvador Ilizaliturri (USA)
• Intrepid — Alexa Tuttle (USA)
• Bullies — Daniel Bydlowski (USA)
• First Comes Love — Daniel Ceballos (USA)
• One Small Step — Andrew Chesworth & Bobby Pontillas (USA)

Embattled: The Other Side Of War

• The Visitor — Justin Olstein (Australia)
• Weltschmerz — Christian Walsh (USA)
• Window To The World — Martijn Schinkel (Netherlands)
• JAP — Derek Pike (USA)
• Do No Harm — Marielle Woods (USA)
• The Chocolate Soldier — Jackson Smith (USA)
• The Driver Is Red — Randall Christopher (USA)

Life Interrupted

• Souls Of Totality — Richard Raymond (USA)
• Yogurt — Mark Lammerding (USA)
• Parts & Labor — Benjamin Galland (USA)
• Good Mourning — Ian Morgan (South Africa)
• Skin — Guy Nattiv (USA)

World Cinema Two

• Silent Campine — Steffen Geypens (Belgium)
• Carga — Yad Deen (UK)
• Silence Please — Carlos Villafaina (Spain)
• Babs — Logan George & Celine Held (UK)
• Metroland — Benjamin Bee (UK)
• Last Christmas — Oliver Kember (UK)

Return Of The Ink & Paint Club

• Cat Noir — O’Neil Bürgi (Switzerland)
• El Cielo a mi Favor — Salvador Ilizaliturri (USA)
• Invaders — Daniel Prince (UK)
• Blind Mice — Nicholas D’Agostino (USA)
• One Small Step — Andrew Chesworth & Bobby Pontillas (USA)
• Pour 585 — Patrick Smith (USA)
• First Comes Love — Daniel Ceballos (USA)
• Elora — Caroline Choi (USA)
• Bristled — Scott Farrell (USA)
• L’Homme et le Poisson — Lewis Leon (Canada)
• Rebooted — Sagar Arun (USA)
• The Driver Is Red — Randall Christopher (USA)

Meet The Filmmakers

• Guest Of Honor — Lisa Belcher (USA)
• #NoMore — Emily Skyle (USA)

The World Beyond

• UI – Soon We Will All Be One — Johannes Muecke & Patrick Sturm (Austria)
• Echoes — Mark Kerins (USA)
• The Replacement — Sean Miller (USA)
• Suspended — William Groebe (USA)
• The Blazing World — Carlson Young (USA)
• Dawn Of Man — Victor Ridaura (USA)
• Earthy Encounters — Sam Johnson (UK)

A Dark & Stormy Night

• What Happened To Evie — Kate Cheeseman (UK)
• Delivery — Joe Boothe (USA)
• Knock At The Door — Michael Constable (UK)
• The Badlands Girl — Evan Ari Kelman (USA)
• Blinders — Edward Klau (USA)
• The Dark Kill — Kenneth Lui (USA)

Make ‘Em Laugh – Encore Screening

Encore presentation of Make ‘Em Laugh.

World Cinema One – Encore Screening

Encore presentation of World Cinema One.

Musically Inclined

• The Reason To Live — Boyoung Kim (USA)
• Voxgirl — David Bashford (USA)
• One Small Step — Andrew Chesworth & Bobby Pontillas (USA)
• Room Tone — Morgan Cooper (USA)
• The Elephant’s Song — Lynn Tomlinson (USA)
• Melodi — Michael Kam (Singapore)

World Cinema Three

• The Peculiar Abilities Of Mr. Mahler — Paul Philipp (Germany)
• Three August Days — Madli Laane (Estonia)
• The Last Babushka Doll — Angelo Salamanca (Australia)
• Man Of The Hour — James Curle & Linda Ludwig (UK)
• Take A Shot — Camille Verschooris (Canada)

NorCal Filmmakers

• The Tolls — Liz Anderson (USA)
• Sonder — Neth Nom (USA)
• Rebooted — Sagar Arun (USA)
• Moonshadow — David Elkins (USA)
• Growing Pains — Indy Dang (USA)
• The Return OF Harbor Porpoises To San Francisco Bay — Jim Sugar (USA)

That Which Divides Us

• Emergency — Carey Williams (USA)
• Skin — Guy Nattiv (USA)
• Marcus — J.R. Poli (USA)
• What Happens To A Dream Deferred — Scott Boehm (USA)
• Ablution — Omar Al Dakheel (USA)
• Running Eagle — Konrad Tho Fiedler (USA)

The Human Experience

• Twenty-One Points — Pete Circuitt (New Zealand)
• Time Traveller — Steve Kenny (Ireland)
• Guest Of Honor — Lisa Belcher (USA)
• Dear Mom — Travis Lupher (USA)
• The Mingle — Jacob Pinger (USA)
• Chateau Laurier — James Stewar (Canada)
• Zord — Alexander Hinojosa (USA)
• The Race — Dina Rudick (USA)

What’d I Miss?

A final look at audience favorites, selected over the weekend.

Closing Night Screening

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