2017.
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DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
Cutting Chai -- Disturbing the Peace -- The War to Be Her = Alice Guy Blache Emerging Female Filmmaker Award -- I Am Not Your Negro = Tied for Ron Tibbett Audience Award Hoka -- Jackson -- Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey = Tied for Ron Tibbett Audience Award Hoka -- Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World -- First Lady of the Revolution = Hoka Winner-- Swim Team -- William Eggleston in the Real World
MUSIC DOCUMENTARIES
Acoustic Ninja -- The Arkansas Wild Man -- Shake Em On Down = Hoka Award Winner -- Stronger than Bullets -- Two Trains Runnin
NARRATIVE FEATURES
All The Birds Have Flown South -- Anti Matter -- Chasing Amy -- Folk Hero & Funny Guy -- Gold Star = Lisa Blount Memorial Acting Award -- Hybrids Family, The -- Midnight Express -- She's Allergic to Cats -- Some Freaks = Hoka Winner -- To Keep The Light
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Boatman, The -- Carousel, The --Flavor Saver, The -- I, Whiskey: The Human Spirit -- Ira Wallace: A Seed with a Story -- Little Kurdistan -- Lives Restarted -- Perfectly Normal -- Pickle -- Refuge = Hoka Winner -- Soul City -- Through the Wall
NARRATIVE SHORTS
Arrow Of Light -- Big City -- Ctrl-Z -- Death in a Small Town -- Dreamkeeper - Empty Bed -- Escape, The -- Feeding Time -- From the Gut -- Goodbye Neenaw = Hoka Winner -- He Could've Gone Pro -- Killer Spaceman From Planet X -- Man From Mars, The -- Memoir -- Move Me -- Native --On Sunday -- Quantified Self, The -- Set Adrift -- Shy Guys -- Stand, The -- Stay -- Step 9 -- Teeth -- Twinsburg — Witching Hour, The
MISSISSIPPI FEATURES
Atoning, The -- Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies — Don't Come Around Here = Hoka Winner -- Joel Blass -- Late Blossom Blues -- Strange Weather
MISSISSIPPI SHORTS
Bare Knuckle --Big House Books: Protecting the Right to Read -- Born in the Blues --Firemax -- I Was a Space Refugee -- Less Hell, More Angel = Reel South Winner -- Monsters Anonymous -- Otha Turner = Hoka Winner -- Prisma -- Sammy Long: Woodturner --Science: A Film by Horizons Rising 5th Graders -- Shabati -- Telekinetic Tim -- Tinker -- Two Birds
LGBTQ
A Doll's Eyes -- All Are Welcome Here -- Breakfast = Best Editing Award — Chance -- Dawn -- Friday the 14th -- Horizon -- How Love Won: The Fight for Marriage Equality -- My Big Fat Lesbian Bat Mitzvah -- Small Town Gay Bar -- Swirl -- The Happys -- The Yoga Bridge -- Woman on Fire = Hoka Winner -- You Deserve Everything
EXPERIMENTAL & ANIMATED SHORTS
A Stones Throw Away -- Black River -- Cup of Stars -- Deep in the Woods -- Etude 1a: Release (1) -- Fall -- Holy Ghost -- I of the Storm -- Lithics -- News from the Sun -- Now Appearing in Bucharest -- Ode to the Port -- Periphery -- SWABS -- Trader, The = Hoka Winner -- Underbelly Up -- We R the World/Mold — A Little Love Goes A Long Clay = Honorable Mention and Winner of the Pat Rasberry Emerging Mississippi Filmmaker Award -- Evocation of a Nightmare -- Fox and the Whale = Hoka Winner -- Invisible -- Itching, The -- Panic Attack! -- Rabbit Blood -- Stamped
MISSISSIPPI MUSIC VIDEO
Broken Paths = Hoka Winner -- Catching Hell by The Great Dying -- Emisora -- Magic8 -- Me & My Gal -- She's Got Such a Lovely Pair -- Wayward Wind
NEW MEDIA
East Coast Grow -- Gunner Jackson = Honorable Mention -- My Mechanical Friend -- Other Kids, The -- Paco = Hoka Winner -- Petrol -- Welcome to the Theater Company
VIRTUAL REALITY
Ashes -- Back to the Summer -- Haunt -- I, Phillip = Hoka Winner-- Nobel's Nightmare --Say it With Music -- Songs of the Vine -- The Rock Presents: Escape From Calypso Island -- Tomorrow -- Umphrey's McGee 360 VR Puppet String
Children’s Film
Sonic Boom: Eggman the Auteur — Keepin it Weird TV
PANELS
Fest Forward Panel
LISA BLOUNT MEMORIAL ACTING AWARD
Victoria Negri, Gold Star
BEST EDITING AWARD
Breakfast
ALICE GUY-BLACHE FILMMAKER AWARD
The War to Be Her
