Fall Season Winners of LA Independent Women Film Awards

The LA Independent Women Film Awards is a seasonal competition with an annual screening event which takes place every year in January in Beverly Hills. The seasonal competition offers online promotion and screening through LA Independent Women for the winners and nominees of the season while the finalists of the year are screened further through Fine Arts Theater and LA independent Women in January. The festival brings together talented filmmakers and women in media from all over the world and aims to discover the most talented female voices in cinema. It is our pleasure to announce the latest winners of the competition.

Best Narrative Feature

The Goat

Director: Ilaria Borelli

Best Female Director

MAOUSSI

Director: Charlotte Schiøler

Best Narrative Short

THE LAST RANGER

Director: Cindy Lee

Best Feature Film Actress

Through life and death

Shang Gao

Best Short Film Actress

The Luckiest Man Alive

Kerri Lynn Miller

Best Producer

I KNOW YOU

Laura Angiulli

Best Cinematographer

Fish Out of Water

Idil Eryurekli

Best Editor

Spenser Reich

SAMSON

Best Composer

Yantra de Vilder

Back To The Garden

Best Documentary Feature

A World of 3 Zeros. Zero net carbon emissions. Zero poverty. Zero unemployment.

Directors: Aine Clarke, Michel Van der Veken

Best Documentary Short

The Miami Kids and The Maya

Director: Victoria Alonso Noujaim

Best Animation

She's My Best Friend (and I Hate Her)

Director: Candy Guard

Best Student Animation

Wedding on the Execution Ground

Director: Zilai Feng

Honorable Mention Animation

Irina

Director: Amelie Magdalena Loy

Honorable Mention Student Film

Fish Out of Water

Director: Francesca Scorsese

Best Experimental

Circulation

Director: Yun Yan Zeng

Best Student Film

All Jumbled Up

Director: Bella Catherine Pianko

Best L.A. Filmmaker

Rose Beth Johnson-Brown

Cuspid

Best International Filmmaker

Cherry Juice

Director: Mersiha Husagic

Best Science Fiction

REVERIE

Director: Kelli Elizabeth Horan

Best Series-Web-Pilot

Unravelling Anxiety

Director: Charlotte Wanhill

Best LGBTQ

The Lonely Cougar and The Heartbroken Stud

Director: Jana Bringlöv Ekspong

Best First-Time Filmmaker

COURTYARD

Director: CEREN SAHAN

Best Comedy of the season

Cocoa

Directors: Jody Mortara, Joe Gawalis

Best Music Video

The Little Drummer Boy | Hope and a Future

Director: Nora Fong

Best Horror

All Your Women Things

Director: Madison Bloom

Best Unproduced Script

The Match

Writer: Crystal Rivers

Best Produced Script

Midnight Girl

Writer: Kerri Randles

Best Thriller

The Dinner Game

Director: Lauren Boone

Best Human Rights

Riccy

Director: Mildred Yaneth Tejada

Best Youth Artist

Uma Sencindiver Forsby

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Best Youth Actress

Liyabona Magazi

The Last Ranger