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Award category lineup
Best International feature
Best
Documentary feature
Best
Screenplay
Best
Director
Best
Actor
Best
Actress
Best Cinematographer
best documentary short
Best
us Short
Best International Short
Best
Texas Short
Best Emerging Filmmaker
Audience
Choice Award
Award Winners
Best International Feature:
Love Lives Here
Writer: Nikita Tu-Bryant
Director: Nikita Tu-Bryant
Best Documentary Feature:
Vanishing: A Love Story
Writers: Sandra Luckow & Cai Emmons
Director: Sandra Luckow
Best Screenplay:
Hostile View
Writer: Lindsay Waite
Best Director:
Meghan Ross & Justin Ross
How We Grieve
Best Actor:
Christopher Woodley
"Jake" in Child Check
Best Actress:
Nicole Onyeje
"Lanetta" in Help!
Bethany Michalski
The Children
Best Documentary Short:
Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage
Director: Liz McGregor
Best US Short:
Shelly Belly
Writer: Stephanie Mishelle Ard
Director: Stephanie Mishelle Ard
Best International Short:
Moan
Writer: Róisín O'Donovan
Directors: Neil O'Driscoll and Róisín O'Donovan
Best Texas Short:
Help!
Writer: Alex Chew
Director: Alex Chew
Best Emerging Filmmaker:
Caitlin Carver
Glue
Audience Choice Award:
Manchild
Director: Anna Schatte
Best Animation:
Romeo & Juliet: A Parody in Silhouette
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Director: Kathy Baur
SEP 18
Opening night mixer
Filmmakers and their guests will enjoy a mixer with light refreshments at the McCrory Timmerman.
What
happens Next?
SEP 19
Awards ceremony
The festival will recognize finalists & celebrate selected films at Black Sparrow Music Parlor.
SEP 20
Winners announced
Award winners will be shared after the
She Speaks Film Festival.
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