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                Variety Audience Award,  Feature Film

                *Breaking Them Up


                Daily News Audience Award, Short Film

                *A Perfect Circle



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                  Nominees & Winners

                  2020




                  * Winners


                  Nominees


                  Variety Jury Award, Best Feature Film
                  Party With Me
                  *Our Lady of the Nile
                  Being Dead
                  Once Upon A River
                  Stitches
                  1986


                  Defiance Fuel Geraldine Page Award for Best Actress, Feature Film
                  *Patrycja Planik, Lillian
                  Amanda Mugabezakig, Our Lady of the Nile
                  Allison Flanigan, Party Like Me
                  Erin Daniels, Beautiful Dreamer
                  Vicky Knight, Dirty God
                  Snezana Bogdanovic, Stitches
                  Elizabeth Marvel, Being Dead


                  John Garfield Award for Best Actor, Feature Film
                  Marc Mechaca, #Like,
                  Buddy Duress, Beware of Dog,
                  Tatiana Means, Once Upon A River
                  Linus Roache, Being Dead
                  Enno Hesse, Trish For Hostage
                  *Jackson Rathbone, The Wall of Mexico


                  Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Best Director Award
                  Atiq Rahimi, Our Lady of the Nile
                  Robyn August, Beautiful Dreamer
                  John Meyers, Being Dead
                  *Amy Glazer, Beautiful Dreamer
                  Sarah Rich, #Like
                  Lothar Herzog, 1986


                  Daily News Best Screenplay

                  Lillian

                  H0US3

                  1986

                  Party With Me

                  Scent of My Daughter

                  *Being Dead


                  Rise Brewing Co. Best Supporting Actor, Feature Film
                  Florian Hacke, Fish for The Hostage
                  Kevin Iso, Beware of Dog
                  *John Ashton, Once Upon A River
                  James Russo, Woe
                  Jorge Sesan, High Tide
                  *Louie Ozawa, Beautiful Dreamer
                  Esai Morales, The Wall of Mexico
                  Michael J. Henderson, Party With Me


                  Best Supporting Actress, Feature Film
                  Paula Knupling, Beware of Dog
                  Pauline Bression, Vagabonds
                  Kathryn Erbe, Being Dead
                  *Wendie Malick, Beautiful Dreamer


                  Breakout Acting Award
                  *Sarah Rich, #Like
                  Marysol Fertard, Vagabonds
                  Marina Vasilyeva, Beware of Dog
                  Marisol Sacramento, The Wall of Mexico
                  Kenaldi DelaCerna, Once Upon a River
                  Dakota Lustick, #Like


                  Variety Best Ensemble Cast
                  Our Lady of the Nile
                  Vagabonds, Party with Me
                  H0US3, The Wall of Mexico
                  The Outside Story
                  Beautiful Dreamer

                  *Party With Me


                  Stella Artois Maverick Award for Quality in a Low-Budget Feature Film
                  Party With Me
                  *Breaking Them Up
                  Seven Short Short Stories About Our Marriage
                  The Outside Story
                  Woe
                  Disrupted
                  Relentless


                  Best Foreign Language Film
                  Our Lady of the Nile
                  1986
                  *Scent of My Daughter
                  Beware of Dog
                  *Stitches
                  High Tide


                  Festival Director Award for Outstanding Performance
                  Brain Tyree Henry, The Outside Story
                  *Marina Vasileva, Beware of Dog
                  Gloria Carra, High Tide
                  Geoffrey Lower, Disrupted


                  Variety Audience Award,  Feature Film

                  *Breaking Them Up


                  Daily News Audience Award, Short Film

                  *A Perfect Circle


                  Rising Star, Filmmaker Award
                  *Ben Senior, The Fall
                  Stephen Murphy, Relentless
                  Matthew Goodhue, Woe
                  Scott Dow, Breaking Them Up
                  Matthew Welsh, Disrupted


                  Jury Award, Best Short Film
                  Oleander
                  Koko Kids of Paris
                  *I’ll End Up in Jail
                  A Perfect Circle
                  Valerio’s Day Out
                  Paola Makes A Wish
                  Train Stop
                  Waiting For a Ride


                  Best Actress, Short Film
                  *Lou-Ann Zozime and Chaya Kama, KokoKids of Paris
                  Heather Allin, Chubby
                  *Beth Triffon and
                  Sarah Noble Peck, Patricia
                  Ashley Williams, Meats
                  Hannah Gross, Moving
                  Rakefet Abergel, Boo


                  Best Actor, Short Film
                  Boon Pin Koh, Hello Alma
                  Martine Francke, I’ll End Up in Jail

                  Aus Greidanus, Sr.,  New Dutch Herring

                  Rico Graziano, Waiting for a Ride
                  *Joshua Nazaroff,  Waiting for A Ride
                  BJ Averell, Patricia


                  Best Director, Short Film 
                  *Kate Hackett, Oleander
                  Alexia Collette, KokoKids of Paris
                  Kimberly Wilming, Wendy Wilming, Shangri-LA
                  Erica Olson, Wing Night
                  Sonia K. Hadad, Exam
                  Peter Falls, Roadside


                  Festival Directors Award, Best Film
                  Stitches

                  Lillian
                  Once Upon a River
                  Our Lady of the Nile
                  *Party With Me
                  Being Dead 
                  Beautiful Dreamer


                  Special Festival Directors Award, Best Ensemble Cast

                  *Vagabonds

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