AWARD WINNERS
List of Awardees CFF 2021
- Best Animated Film: Dumpling Dash – Directed by Lisa Cui
- Best Comedy: The Yawndemic – Directed by Jean Pierre
- Best Documentary Feature: Sky So Blue, Directed by Michael J. Finnegan, David L. Trapasso Jr.
- Best Drama: Mickey Hardaway – Directed by Marcellus Cox
- Best Cinematography: Chicago: America’s Hidden War – Directed by Daylight Supreme
- Best Emerging Filmmaker: James Sampsel – If I Tell Them
- Best Environmental Feature: Laws of the Lizard – Directed by Neil Losin, Nathan Dappen
- Best Environmental Short: Hidden Wild – Directed by Neil Losin, Nathan Dappen
- Best International Film: The Wound – Directed by Sahar Nourmonavar
- Best Made In Maryland Film: Our Story: Lifetime Wells – Directed by Rob Simmons
- Best Performance – Actor: Theo Adams IV, Tyndall Typewriters
- Best Short Film: Pooch Sitter – Directed by Monda Raquel Webb
- Best Sound Editing: Heroes’ Honeymoon – Directed by Rich West
- Best Screenplay: Harold Jackson, III, Liam White
- Best Editing: The Heat is On – Directed by Kelley Ashford and Irene Magafan
- Best Director: The Tower Road Bus – Directed by Michael Streissguth
- Best Thriller: Sleep Tight – Directed by Michael Seabolt
- Jury’s Prize: RUMBLE: The Indians who Rocked the World – Directed by Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana
List of Awardees CFF 2020
- Best Animated Film – Les Animaux Domestiques, Willow
- Best Comedy – A Piece of Cake
- Best Director – Stephan Schwartz – About Us
- Best Documentary Feature – You Don’t Know Nothin’ Bout Groove City
- Best Drama – Unarmed Man
- Best Editing – Fort Bliss
- Best Emerging Filmmaker – Mason Mirabile – Never Too Small and Micaa Thomas, Our House is On Fire
- Best Environmental Feature – Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air
- Best Environmental Short – Seeds of Hope
- Best International Film – Imaginarius
- Best Made in Maryland Film – Squeegee
- Best Performance – Actor – Both Aaron Williamson, case investigator by Shaun Woodland and Greg Yelich, Police Officer by Danny Gavigan in Unarmed Man
- Best Short Film – Wake Up
- Best Sound Editing – Balloon Man
- Jury’s Prize – Emanuel
List of Awardees CFF 2019
- Best Environmental Feature – Sharkwater Extinction
- Best Environmental Short – Nassawango Legacy
- Best Documentary Feature – The Pollinators
- Best Short Film – Appy Days
- Best Biographical Feature Film – The Spy Behind Home Plate
- Best Animated Film – Late Afternoon
- Best Emerging Filmmaker – Joshua Ziggy Popkin – “Bishop”
- Best Emerging Performance – Actor – Herman J. Johansen – The Land
- Best Emerging Director – Light from Light – Paul Harrill
- Best Editing – Sea of Shadows
- Best Sound Editing – The Bonobo Connection
- Jury’s Prize – The Cold Blue
List of Awardees CFF 2018
- Best Environmental Feature – Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction
- Best Environmental Short Animation – Lynne Tomlinson – The Elephant’s Song
- Best Environmental Short – Current Revolution
- Best Documentary Feature – Moving Stories
- Best Narrative Short – Othello-San
- Best Sound Design – The Elephant’s Song
- Best Narrative Feature – I, Matter – Llysa Rie & Shayne Pax
- Best Animated Short – Shadow – Lei Lei
- Best Emerging Filmmaker – Shayla Racquel – Riverment
- Best Editing – In the Executioner’s Shadow: A Story of Justice, Injustice and the Death Penalty
- Best Actress – Llysa Rie – I, Matter
- Best Actor – Timothy Troy – Hold My Horse
- Best Director – Llysa Rie & Shayne Pax – I, Matter