SoCal Film Awards Winners Announced

DIAMOND AWARDS

Best in Show: Fantasy of Companionship Between Human and Inanimate / Dir. Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan
Best Feature Film: Dying to Sleep / Dir. Paris Dylan
Best Short: Stars of Gold / Dir. Michelle Wolett
Best Documentary Feature: From Food to Freedom / Dir. Nelson Campbell
Best Documentary Short: Free to Run / Dir. Carrie Highman, Tim Highman
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): The Merchant by Jesse Mattson, Bobby Davison
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Neath Port Talbot by Jesse Mattson

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Best Feature: Tinaash / Dir. Boudy Sfeir
Best Short: Tristan’s Plight / Dir. Curtis K Case
Best Documentary Feature: Shiran Ebadi: Until We Are Free / Dir. Dawn Gifford Engle
Best Documentary Short: The Halls of Power / Dir. Janay Joseph, Graciel Quezada, Bianca Vucetich
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Soul Survivors – An Obsession of the Heart Part One by Adam Poulos
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Pietra Fredda by Matthew Nicholson

AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Best Feature: Adalynn / Dir. Jake Byrd
Best Short: Vietnamese Coffee / Dir. Joseph Stanley Francis
Best Documentary Feature: I am, I Stay, I Smile / Dir. Montse Bertran Arqué
Best Documentary Short: Interim / Dir. Heath Yorke Bannard
Best Screenplay (Long-Form): Once Upon Another Life by Carol Capomaccio
Best Screenplay (Short-Form): Pripyat by Alicia Hayes

ADDITIONAL AWARDS

Best Actor in a Lead Role: Timmy Walczak / One Man Picture Show or The Modern Tragedy of Creation

Best Actress in a Lead Role: Paige Laree Poucel / Routine

Best Ensemble Cast: Chateau Laurier Season 2 / Dir. James Stewart

Best International Film: Teleportation / Dir. Susan Mey Lee Lim

Best Animated Short: Fantasy of Companionship Between Human and Inanimate / Dir. Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan

Best Music Video: The Cows Come Home / Dir. Haley Ahern

Best Micro Short: The Liberty Bell Museum / Dir. Carter Stoudt

Best Web Series: Sex Change / Dir. Timothy O’Shea

Best Youth Movie: No Time to Explain / Dir. Oscar Myles

Best First-Time Filmmaker: Misophonia / Dir. Angel Alvarez

Best Editing: Embers of Awakening: From Firestorms to Climate Healing / Dir. Phyllis Ann Rosenfield

Best Score: Down and Out in Vampire Hills / Dir. Craig Railsback

Best Sound Design: Chateau Laurier Season 2 / Dir. James Stewart

Best Cinematography: Voler – Love, Loss and Moving On / Dir. Mrunal Mestri

Best Experimental Movie: Somnia Corvus / Dir. Stevie Alexandria Maxwell, Paul Van Beaumont

Best Trailer: Staycation / Dir. Russell Emanuel

Best YouTube Creation: Queen Elizabeth / Dir. Shihyun Wang

Screenplay (Long-Form) Finalists:

Christmas Latte by Miriam E. Bavly
Da Fast Lane by Raymond Williams Williams, David Vernon
Horace Bell by Steven Wayne Knight, Elizabeth Baldwin Knight
Love in Italy by Sena Tunali
Single at Christmas by Joseph Anthony Francis

Screenplay (Short-Form) Finalists:

Biters and Bleeders by Charlie Carson Monroe
GeoAnthem by John Martins III
It’s All Good… Not by Lawrence Whitener
Kim-Ly and the Bottled Up Emotions by Anh Le
The Light of Hassia by Dr Angelina Yue

Feature Honorable Mention:

One Man Picture Show or The Modern Tragedy of Creation / Dir. Timmy Walczak
Todd / Dir. Aaron Warren

Short Honorable Mention:

7 Years / Dir. Andrew Sindt
Ashes / Dir. Cagan Kayi
Disconnected / Dir. Dave Shecter, Earl Gray
Fig Jam / Dir. Frank J. Avella
Forgetting Chloe / Dir. Maiqi Zuo
Grave Talk / Dir. Andrew Huggins
Made in China / Dir.  Stacy Singh
Panah / Dir. Fatemeh Ghadirinezhadian
The One Hundred / Dir. Shihyun Wang
tRuth / Dir. Sylvie Zaidman, Nic Shake

Documentary Feature Honorable Mention:

A Wolf in the Asylum / James Lilly
Science for Hire / Dir. Gary Null

Documentary Short Honorable Mention:

Living the Hospitality Lifestyle / Dir. Fabio Ciccarelli
When the Dust Clears / Leo Kang, Sam Lam

Screenplay Honorable Mention:

Bug Soup by Richard Scott Pool
Forever After by Emil Faithe
Night Terrors by Kenneth Hicks, Anne Rothman-Hicks
No Address by Julia Verdin, James Papa
Runaway Ship by Theodore Carl Soderberg
Six Impossible Things by Amanda Nitsa Oz
Soul Work by Dan Roentsch
The Tale of Jean Pierrer by Dijon Marquise McIntyre
The Trap by Nate Scott Plotkin, Nick Ford
The War on Christmas by Karl Larsson