Film Festival Awards Past Winners

MISSISSIPPI FILM

• 2021 = Bastard’s Crossing

• 2020 = Far East Deep South

• 2019 = Door Ajar: The M.B. Mayfield Story

  • Pat Rasberry Emerging Mississippi Filmmaker Award: Roots and Wings

• 2018 = The Process: The Way of Pablo Sierra

  • Pat Rasberry Emerging Mississippi Filmmaker Award: Truth Rises

• 2017: Don't Come Around Here

  • Pat Rasberry Emerging Mississippi Filmmaker Award: A Little Love Goes A Long Clay

  • Short: Otha Turner

• 2016 = Finding Cleveland

  • Short: The Gift

• 2015 = A Mississippi Love Story

  • Short: Garage Sale

• 2014 = Landscapes of the Heart

  • Short: Evergreen

• 2013 = April's Way

  • Short: Tube

• 2012 = Showtime

  • Short: Old Oak

• 2011 = The South Will Rise Again

  • Short: Murderabilia

• 2010 = Now or Never

• 2009 = Neshoba

• 2008 = Sorry We're Open

• 2007 = Whole Hog

LGBTQ

• 2021 = Dramarama

  • Short: Kiko’s Saints

• 2020 = From Baghdad to the Bay

  • Short: Unspoken

• 2019 = The Gospel of Eureka

  • Short: All We Are/ The One You Never Forget (tie)

• 2018 = Boys for Sale

• 2017 = Woman on Fire

MUSIC
VIDEO

• 2021 = Touch Tone Telephone

  • Best Mississippi Music Video = The Vacant (American Automatic)

• 2020 = Pain

• 2019 = Wash My Hands

• 2018 = Manna

• 2017 - Broken Paths

• 2016 = Fallen Star

• 2015 = A Long Journey

• 2014 = Poor Lost Souls

• 2013 = Growing Pains

• 2012 = Positions in Space

• 2011 = Cold Red Clay

• 2009 = Crystal

• 2008 = Temporary Virgin

• 2007 = Seabeast

• 2005 = Moving Along

MUSIC DOCUMENTARY

• 2021 = Bleeding Audio

• 2020 = Rockabul

  • Short: All I have to Offer You Is Me

• 2019 =Negro Terror

  • Short: It’s Now or Never

• 2018 = Word is Bond

• 2017 - Shake Em on Down

FEST FORWARD

• 2021

  • Experimental: Haiku

  • Animation: A Head Shorter

• 2020

  • Experimental: Joints

  • Animation: Umbilical

• 2019

  • Experimental: Remission

  • Animation: My Moon

• 2018 

  • Animation: Two Balloons

• 2017

  • Experimental: The Trader

  • Animation: The Fox and The Whale

  • New Media: Paco

  • Virtual Reality: I, Phillip

• 2016

  • Experimental: cybergenesis

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• 2015

  • Experimental: A Perfect Day

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• 2014

  • Experimental: Virtuos Virtuel

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• 2013

  • Experimental: Don't Break Down

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• 2012

  • Experimental: Only in Dreams

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• 2011

  • Experimental: Inside Out/Side One

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• 2010

  • Experimental: Utsav Mela

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• 2009

  • Experimental: Grand Wheel

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• 2008

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• 2007

  • Experimental: What the Water Saw

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• 2005

  • Experimental: Hallaig

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Mississippi Short

• 2021 = Genderf*ck Drag

Reel South Award

• 2021 = Road to Step

Best Student Film

• 2021 = Millennium Hour

• 2020 = Elephant in the Room

Angie Thomas Zeitgeist

• 2021 = The Meaning of Daisey

• 2020 = Coffee Shop Names

Best Foreign Language Film

• 2021 = Sublet

• 2020 = I Am Not Alone

Ron Tibbett Audience Award

• 2021 = None

• 2020 = None

• 2019 = Ghost Light

• 2017 = I Am Not Your Negro & Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey (a tie)

• 2016 = Yalo

• 2015 = The Gunfighter

• 2014 = Being Awesome

• 2013 = An Ordinary Hero

• 2012 = Showtime

• 2011 = Mississippi Innocence

• 2010 = The Last Survivor

• 2009 = Prom Night in Mississippi

• 2008 = The Elephant King

• 2007 = Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life

• 2005 = Glorious Mail

• 2004 = Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story

ARTIST VODKA CONTEST

2020 = WONDER

2019= Petit Four

2018= Nation Down

Best Editing Award

• 2018 = Cop Chronicles: Loose Cannons: Legend of the Haj-Mirage

• 2017 = Breakfast

• 2016 = Viola: A Mother's Story of Juvenile Justice

Audience Awards Online Alumni Contest

• 2016 = West of Elvis

The Lisa Blount Memorial Award for Acting

• 2021 = Alexandra Grey, Gossamer Folds

• 2020= Danielle Deadwyler, RECKONING

• 2019 = Roger Bart, Ghost Light

• 2018 =Catherine Eaton, The Sounding

• 2017 = Victoria Negri, Gold Star

• 2016 = Robert Longstreet, The Missing Girl

• 2015 = David Strathairn and Brian Lee Franklin, Repeater

• 2014 = Barry Nash, Bob Birdnow's Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and the Transcendence of Self

• 2013 = Rebecca Jernigan, Tube

• 2012 = Christina Beck, Perfection

• 2011 = Ed Lowry, Pillow

Alice Guy-Blaché Filmmaker Award

SPONSORED BY THE LOUIS M RABINOWITZ FOUNDATION

• 2021 = Khadifa Wong, Uprooted - The Journey of Jazz Dance

• 2020 = Haroula Rose, Once Upon A River

• 2019 = Wrestle

• 2018 = Liyana

• 2017 = Girl Unbound

• 2016 = Claire Carre, Embers