Grand Jury Award
Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film- Agenda
Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film – Graffiti Flowers
Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Film – Popwhore: A New American Dream
Grand Jury Award for Best Actor – Robert Rusler in Agenda
Grand Jury Award for Best Actress - Arune Kital in Chepachet

Best Director Awards
Best Director of a Feature Film– Vohn Regensburger for Last of the Romantics
Best Director of a Short Film- Daniel Frei for Off Hour
Best Director of a Documentary (Feature) – James Hanlon for Popwhore: A New American Dream
Best Director of a Documentary (Short) – Mark Schoen for XXX Marriage
New York Director Memorial Award – Justin Lee Peterson for Confessions
Best New York Director – Norman Hall for It All Starts With the Script/Seems Like Old Times

Best Directorial Debut Awards
Best Directorial Debut of a Feature Film – R. Bobby Persad for Purple Paradise
Best Directorial Debut of a Short Film– Courtney Silberberg for Committed
Best Directorial Debut of Documentary –Adam Litwinski for Confusion Burning

Founder’s Choice Award
Founder’s Choice Award for a Feature Film- Return with Honor
Founder’s Choice Award for a Short Film- Poker Nights
Founder’s Choice Award for a Documentary (Feature) – My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures
Founder’s Choice Award for a Documentary (Short) –Spilled Milk
Founder’s Choice Award for Best Director – Rick Ernst for Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal

Achievement in Filmmaking
Achievement in Filmmaking for a Feature Film- Rivaaz “Trapped in Tradition”
Achievement in Filmmaking for a Short Film– Forgotten Souls
Achievement in Filmmaking for a Documentary (Feature)– 911 Eyewitness From Hoboken
Achievement in Filmmaking for a Documentary (Short) – Indecisive Moments: Video Diary of a Still Photographer
Achievement in Filmmaking: Best Cinematography – Hurricane on the Bayou
Achievement in Filmmaking: Best Director – Alan Ezequiel Jais for El viaje de Ana/Anna’s Trip

Excellence in Cinema Award
Excellence in Cinema for a Feature Film -“Haru no Kouen” Spring in a Park
Excellence in Cinema for a Short Film– Pictures at an Exhibition (Choreographed Paintings)
Excellence in Cinema for a Documentary (Feature) –Odyssey in Rome
Excellence in Cinema for a Documentary (Short) – Delicious Peace Grows in an Ugandan Coffee Bean
Excellence in Cinema: Best New Director – Dan Frank for Devil’s Canyon

International Film Awards
Best International Feature Film- The Soulmates
Best International Short Film- Dos Miradas (Two Looks)
Best International Documentary - Waiting For Europe
Best International Director (Feature)- Toda Hiroshi for Jyunigatuno Sora – Sky in December
Best International Director (Short)- John Conroy for Poker Nights
Best International Director (Documentary)- Anny Carraro for Impossible Venice
Best International Directorial Debut – Sadananda Gogoi for Darkness of Century
International Award for Best Cinematography of a Feature Film– La Cascara (The Rind)
International Award for Best Cinematography of a Short Film- Healing Rani
International Award for Best Cinematography of a Documentary– Rafah: One Year in the Gaza Strip
Best International Comedy Award- The Documents
Best International Drama Award – The Rivals
Best International Experimental Award– Adults Only
Best International Avant Garde Award – Nobody’s Pet
Best International Womens Interest Award- Tre
Best International Historical Documentary Award– Midnight Sunrise

Feature Film-Genre Awards
Best Comedy- An Adventure of Captain Slam!
Best Action –The Cold Dish
Best Drama – Chepachet
Best Crime – Christmas Day
Best Childrens – The King O’Cats
Best Gay/Lesbian – Rome & Juliet
Best Narrative – The Long Way Home: A Big Foot Story

Short Film-Genre Awards
Best Comedy- Known Donor
Best Drama – Ghosts of Ybor’ The End is Blossoming or Confessions
Best Thriller- Acassis
Best Music Video – SMatka
Best Musical - Cooking The Books: A Recipe For Murder!
Best Animation – The Bully Caterpillar
Best Dark Comedy – The Truth of Fiction
Best Experimental – PxDx (Physical Diagnosis)
Best Suspense – Sex & Sensuality
Best PSA – Canvas
Best Short Horror – Blood on Bath Tiles
Best Childrens – King’s Red “Roar Into Action”
Best Action – Anno Domini
Best Environmental– Keep It Clean
Best Womens Issues –Canvas
Best Student – Bedford Stuyvesant

Documentary Awards
Best Political Documentary -Return to Chernobyl
Best Social Documentary – Darfur Too Dark too Far
Best Arts Documentary - John Ravilious: A World in Photographs
Best Socio-Political Documentary –Miraculum
Best Educational Documentary– Confusion Burning
Best Music Documentary – Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal
Best Sports Documentary– The Squad
Best Historical Documentary -Angels of the Basin
Best Researched Documentary - Never Forgotten –Hurricane Katrina’s Unknown Victims, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Actor Awards
Best Actor in a Feature Film – Javen Tanner in Return with Honor
Best Actress in a Feature Film –Eliana Alexander in Agenda
Best Actor in a Short Film – Adrian Grenier in Off Hour
Best Actress in a Short Film – Chyna Lane in Silent Cries of a Child

Thank you to all participating filmmakers
Much luck with all future projects

The Staff of
The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival