BEST SHORT:
SPONSORED BY TOON BOOM STORYBOARD SOFTWARE
Grand Prize: “Tanghi Argenti”
Directed by: Guys Thys (BELGIUM)

First Place: “Moi”
Directed by: Yan England (CANADA)

Second Place: “Partus”
Directed by: Mikkel Munch-Fals (DENMARK)

DIRECTORIAL DISCOVERY AWARD: “Matters of Life and Death” Directed by: Joseph Mazzello (USA)

BEST ACTING AWARD
Bodil Jørgensen for “Partus”
Directed by: Mikkel Munch-Fals (DENMARK)

INTERNATIONAL DISCOVERY AWARD
Alicia Vikander for “Darkness of Truth”
Directed by: Kristian A Söderström (SWEDEN)

BEST FEATURE

Grand Prize: “Just Like the Son”
Directed by: Morgan J. Freeman (USA)

First Place: “The Man from Earth”
Directed by: Richard Schenkman (USA)

Second Place: “Last Stop for Paul”
Directed by: Neill Mandt, Director (USA)

BEST ANIMATION
SPONSORED BY TOON BOOM STUDIO
Grand Prize: “For the Love of God”
Directed by: Joe Tucker (UNITED KINGDOM)

First Place: “Everything Will Be OK”
Directed by: Don Hertzfeldt (USA)

Second Place:(TIE)
“Mirage”
Directed by: Youngwoong Jang (USA)

“Voodoo Bayou”
Directed by: Javier Gutierrez (MEXICO)

BEST COMEDY SHORT
Grand Prize: “The Happiest Day of His Life”
Directed by: Ursula Burton (USA)

First Place: “Shrinks”
Directed by: Gregg Brown (USA)

Second Place: “The Blacksmith and the Carpenter”
Directed by: Chris Redish (USA)

BEST EDITING

Grand Prize: Stephen Green for “The Union: The Business Behind Getting High”
Directed by: Brett Harvey (CANADA)

First Place: Philippe Gagnon for “Moi”
Directed by: Yan England (CANADA)

Second Place: (TIE)
Leo King for “Wednesday”
Directed by: Rob Sorrenti (UNITED KINGDOM)

John Farbrother for “The 5:22”
Directed by: Bernadette Demisay (USA)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Grand Prize: Milton Kam for “Vanaja”
Directed by: Rajnesh Domalpalli (INDIA)

First Place: Roger Singh for “Pismo” (The Letter)
Directed by: Matvei Zhivov (RUSSIA)

Second Place:
Bogdan George Apetri for “Last Day of December”
Directed by: Bogdan George Apetri (ROMANIA)

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Grand Prize: “Soldiers of Conscience”
Directed by: Gary Weimberg & Catherine Ryan (USA)

First Place: “Been Down that Muddy Road”
Directed by: Carol Carimi Acutt (USA)

Second Place: (TIE)
“The Wonder of It All”
Directed by: Jeffrey Roth (USA)

“The Dhamma Brothers”
Directed by: Andrew Kukura, Jenny Phillips & Anne Marie Stein (USA)

RIIFF ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS AWARD
Grand Prize: “Escape from Suburbia”
Directed by: Gregory Greene (CANADA)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL

Grand Prize: “Twee Dromen”
Directed by: Arend Steenbergen (NETHERLANDS)

First Place: “Happily Ever After”
Directed by: Lidia Sheinin, Director (USA)

Second Place: (TIE)
“Arthur’s Paradise”
Directed by: Luc Beauchamp (CANADA)

“Arrivals”
Directed by: Naomi Jaye (CANADA)

BEST SCORE
Grand Prize:
“Half-Life: A Journey to Chernobyl” (Dmitri Tchamovouf, Composer; David Bickerstaff, Sound Design; David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky, Directors; Phil Grabsky, Seventh Art Productions, Producer) UNITED KINGDOM

First Place:
“Voodoo Bayou” (Rodrigo Barbera, Composer; Javier Gutierrez, Director; Susana Jacques, Producer) MEXICO
Second Place:
“Secondhand” (Pepe) (Luke Fischbeck, Composer; Hanna Shell & Vanessa Bertozzi Directors; Hanna Shell, Producer) CANADA

ALTERNATIVE SPIRIT

Grand Prize: “Back Soon”
Directed by: Rob Williams (USA)

First Place: "Gódir Gestir" (Family Reunion)
Directed by: Isold Uggadottir (ICELAND)

Second Place: “Red Without Blue”
Directed by: Benita Sills, Brooke Sebold, Todd Sills (USA)

BEST SCREENPLAY (Top Prize winner receives Final Draft Software)
Grand Prize: “Man from Earth”
Written By: Jerome Bixby
Directed by: Richard Schenkman (USA)

First Place: “Personal Spectator”
Written by: Carol Frechette & Emmanuel Jespers
Directed by: Emannuel Jespers (BELGIUM)

Second Place: “One Last Drink Before Morning”
Written by: Paolo Giuseppe Cabrielli & David McDonagh
Directed by: JD Kelleher (UNITED KINGDOM)

KIDSEYE™ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL [Films Made BY Kids]

(TIE)
SPONSORED BY TOON BOOM STUDIO
Grand Prize: “Project Kick Talk”
Directed by: Aaron Kohn (USA)

“Western Spaghetti”
Directed by: Joe Procopio (CANADA)

KIDSEYE™ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL [Films Made FOR Kids]

Grand Prize: “Mondmann (Moonman)”
Directed by: Fritz Bohm (GERMANY)

First Place: “Her Best Move”
Directed by: Norm Hunter (USA)

Second Place: “Chinese Dumplings”
Directed by: Michelle Hung (USA)

New England Student Competition
Grand Prize: “Brandon”
Directed by: Rachel Israel (USA)

First Place: “Tuesday Morning”
Directed by: Brian Singele (USA)

Second Place: “Little White Flowers”
Directed by: Christopher Messing (USA)

PROVIDENCE FILM FESTIVAL (for local filmmakers of Rhode Island)

Grand Prize: “Strongest Ever”
Produced by: Jacqueline Willemsen, Christopher Lavigne, Ben Crane

First Place: “The Times Were Never So Bad: The Life of Andre Dubus” Directed and Produced by: Edward J. Delaney

Second Place:
“The Strange Case of Marie France”
Directed by: Till Newmann

Viola M. Marshall Audience Choice Awards

Best Documentary

Grand Prize: "From the 50 Yard Line"
Directed by: Doug Lantz

1st Place: "Italian Americans and Federal Hill"
Directed by: Jon Raben

Best Feature

Grand Prize: "Body/Antibody"
Directed by: Kerry Douglas Dye and Jordan Hoffman

First Place: “Her Best Move”
Directed by: Norm Hunter

Best Short

Grand Prize: "Driftwood"
Directed by: Michelle Steffes (USA)

1st Place: “The Strange Case of Marie France”
Directed by: Till Newmann (USA)