Award Winners - 3rd HIDFF



AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Heart Whispers
Ash Verwiel

CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE AWARD
Killing the Shepherd
T.A. Opre

LGBTQ PERSPECTIVE AWARD
My Friend, The Mayor: Small-Town Politics in the Age of Trump
Max Westerman

FEMALE PERSPECTIVE AWARD
Rosie
Tessa Germaine

BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Sky Blossom: Diaries of the Next Greatest Generation
Richard Lui

BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
Magician: Game of Detective
Tanxuan Shi

BEST ACTRESS AWARD
Chronicles of Her
Vanessa Mghames

BEST ACTOR AWARD
Standing Ovation
Chase Gutzmore

BEST WRITER AWARD
Grandma's House
Eduardo Olmos and Dante Jiayu Liu

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD
Tuscaloosa
Theo Stanley

BEST EDITING AWARD
My Babushka Smokes a Pipe
Ivan Pavlov

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
Flying Bird's Diary
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
Hungered
Alessandra Jara Del Castillo

BEST TV SCRIPT
Gray Widows
Brianna Gardner and Erin Smith



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