2019 AWARD WINNERS

Jury Awards

Best Narrative Feature
Song Lang
Runner-up:
Straight Up

Best Documentary
Changing the Game
Runners-up:
For They Know Not What They Do
5B
Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America 

Best International Film
End of the Century
Runner-up:
Billie and Emma

Special Jury Prize for Performance Excellence
Sam Harris for Ham: A Musical Memoir

Best Actor (tie):    
Colin Morgan of Benjamin and Lean Binh Phat for Song Lang

Best Actress
Vanessa Paradis for Knife + Heart

Best Director
Leon Le, Song Lang 

Best Ensemble (tie)
The cast of Saint Frances and the cast of Before You Know It
Runner-up:
The cast of Sell By

Best Screenplay
Straight Up

Best First Film
Song Lang

Best Overall Short
The One You Never Forget

Best Women’s Short
I Know Her

Best International Short Film
Kiko’s Saints

Best Trans Short
The Back-Up Plan

Best Documentary Short
Sweetheart Dancers

Audience Awards

Best Narrative Feature
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Runners-up
Song Lang and HAM: A Musical Memoir 

Best Documentary  (tie)
5B
 For They Know Not What They Do
Making Sweet Tea
Runner-up
Gay Chorus, Deep South

Best Comedy
The Shiny Shrimps
Runner-up:
Six Characters in Search of a Play

Best International Film
The Shiny Shrimps
Runner-up
 An Almost Ordinary Summer

Best Women’s Film
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Runner-up:
Good Kisser

Overall Short Film
The One You Never Forget

Men’s Short (tie)
Killer Date, Next Level Shit and Touchscreen 
Runner-up:
Cognitive 

Women’s Short
I Know Her

Trans Short
The Back-Up Plan

International Short Film
After the Party