2015 AWARD WINNERS

Jury Awards

Best Feature
“How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)” (directed by Josh Kim)

Best Director
(tie) Josh Kim for “How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) and Pat Mills for “Guidance”

Best Actor
Jonathan Gordon of “Those People”
Best Actress: Kalki Koechlin of “Margarita With a Straw”

Best Ensemble
“That’s Not Us” (directed by William Sullivan and starring David Rysdahl, Sarah Wharton, Mark Berger, Nicole Pursell, Elizabeth Gray, and Tommy Nelms)

Best First Feature
“Naz and Maalik” (directed by Jay Dockendorf)

Best Documentary
(tie) “The Guy With the Knife” (directed by Alison Armstrong) and “Game Face” (directed by Michiel Thomas)

Best Women’s Short
(tie) “V is the Warmest Color” (directed by Anna Margarita and Albelo) and “11 Life Lessons form an Awesome Old Dyke”(Allison Khoury)

Best Men’s Short
“Hole” (directed by Martin Edralin) and “Tom in America” (directed by Flavio Alves)

Best Documentary Short
“In the Hollow” (Austin Bunn)

Best Animated Short
“We Can’t Live Without Cosmos” (directed by Konstantin Bronzit

Best Documentary
“Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank”
Runner-up – “Born to Fly”

Best Women’s Shorts
“Alone With People”

Best Men’s Shorts
“Nomansland”
Runner-up : “Jayson Bend: For Queen and Country”

Best Animated Short
“Happy & Gay”

Audience Awards

Overall Feature
“Fourth Man Out” (directed by Andrew Nackman)
Runner-up: “Freeheld” (directed by Peter Sollett)

Drama Feature
(tie) “Daddy” (directed by Gerald McCullouch) and “Those People” (directed by Joey Kuhn)

Women’s Feature
“Liz in September” (directed by Fina Torres)

Comedy Feature
“Guidance” (directed by Pat Mills)

Best Transgender Feature
“Two 4 One” (directed by Maureen Bradley)

Best Documentary
“Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw” (directed by Rick Goldsmith)

Best Women’s Short
“11 Life Lessons from an Awesome Old Dyke” (directed by Allison Khoury)

Best Men’s Short
(tie) “Unconditional” (directed by Kent Igleheart), “Tremulo” (directed by Robert Fiesco) and “Pretty Boy” (directed by Cameron Thrower)

Best Animated Short
“We Can’t Live Without Cosmos” (directed by Konstantin Bronzit)