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