2023 FILMS
Jury Award Winners
Best Narrative Feature – Everybody Wants To Be Loved
A psychotherapist knows something is wrong — with her patients, her boyfriend, her daughter, her ex-husband, her overbearing mother and herself. Perpetual pleaser Ina needs to learn how to please herself. (Subtitles)
Director: Katharina Woll
Best Documentary Feature – Wine, Women, and Dementia
Filmmaker Kitty Norton sets on a comical cross-country road trip to meet other fellow dementia caregivers throughout the U.S. and shares their experiences from diagnosis to death, heartbreak, and even hilarity.
Director: Kitty Norton
Best Documentary Short – Powers
A budding 60-ish artist anonymously hangs unique sculptures on telephone poles to spread joy in her urban community. She learns that it is never too late to make peace with your past and discover one’s true passion.
Director: Paige Morrow Kimball
Best Dramatic Short – Faranak
A down-and-out ride-hailing driver reluctantly accepts a request to deliver a dog. What ensues changes his perception of himself and his place in the world. (subtitles)
Director: Mehrnoush Alia
Best Comedy Short – Fundamental Shapes
Jacob, an unemployed actor, stumbles into an unusual gig but he must keep his identity hidden when his secret crush turns up.
Director: Colin Alistair Campbell
Best Vero Visions – You Can’t Stop What’s Coming
A man left for dead in an old farmhouse aims to confront those responsible.
Director: John David Cranman
Next Up! Student Best Dramatic Film – Contagious Swagger
A romantic comedy of a forbidden love story when a young man meets his girlfriend’s parents for the first time
Director: Calvin Callins Jr.
Next Up! Student Best Documentary Film – Sands In The Wind
Intense climate-change fueled storms and beach development has negatively impacted the shoreline, turtle nesting, and the future of Florida’s coastal tourism economy.
Director: Marysa Tuttle
Audience Award Winners
Best Narrative Feature – Eyes Upon Waking
A troubled woman comes to terms with her own attempts at suicide and helps others while confined in a mental health holding facility. Inspired by a true life story and told with love and humor.
Director: Timothy Zwica
Co-Director: Jennifer Scott
Best Documentary Feature – Wine, Women, and Dementia
Filmmaker Kitty Norton sets on a comical cross-country road trip to meet other fellow dementia caregivers throughout the U.S. and shares their experiences from diagnosis to death, heartbreak, and even hilarity.
Director: Kitty Norton
Best Documentary Short – Powers
A budding 60-ish artist anonymously hangs unique sculptures on telephone poles to spread joy in her urban community. She learns that it is never too late to make peace with your past and discover one’s true passion.
Director: Paige Morrow Kimball
Best Dramatic Short – Don’t You Go Nowhere
A jazz dynamo belts his way through his weekly set until he makes an unexpected connection with an audience member. A film about the power of music over memory.
Director: Bryan Poyser
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