11th Edition of LA Independent Women Film Awards

LA Independent Women Film Awards is about empowering and promoting female voices in cinema. Every year in January, the annual Women's Lens Screening screens the finalists of the year in LA at the cinema. The bi-monthly IMDb competition offers promotion and screening to the winners of each edition. The festival committee continuously invites female artists and filmmakers to join as jury members of each edition. The festival has various categories for female producers, cinematographers, screenwriters and directors from all over the world.

Best Narrative Feature

The Gift

Director: Dalmira Tilepbergenova

Best Narrative Short

"Dirty Rotten Tofu and the Gohan Girls"

Director: June K Inuzuka

Best Female Director

Michelle Danner

Miranda's Victim

Best Actress

Milo

Jennifer K Preston

Honorable Mention Best Actress

Holly Kenney

Stranger In The Woods

Best Producer

Rieneke Van Santen

Sānsūr

Best Cinematographer

Ingrid Sanchez

Savage Dawn

Best Editor

Ninety Minutes Later

Sara Mosier​

Best Composer

Amy Summers

Every Morning

Best Produced Script

Notre Dame de Moncton

Mélanie Léger

Best Unproduced Script

THE ACTRESS

Oksana Prysiazhniuk

Best Documentary Feature

The Woman Carrying the Prey揹獵物的女人

Director: Rngrang HN

Best Documentary Short

I Was One of Them

Director: Carol Ciancutti

Best Short Director

Bonnie Cee

Casino Beach

Best Feature Director

Veena Sud

The Stranger

Best Animation

Sound of the Shadow

Director: Gairah Praskovia

Best Horror

Dysmorphia

Director: Amy Geist

Best Experimental

Tenuto

Director: Meg Halski

Best Student Film

Embrace

Director: Alicia Tremblay

Best L.A. Filmmaker

Bienvenidos a Los Angeles

Lisa Cole

Best International Filmmaker

Carol Polakoff

Speak Sunlight

Best Science Fiction

Foreign Planetary

Director: Tiffany Lin

Best Music Video

Spirit Girl

Kim Soo Goodtrack

Best Series-Web-Pilot

CANCER/EVOLUTION Episode 1: The Dustbin of History

Maggie Jones, Brad Jones

Best LGBTQ

Marimacha

Director: Cami Cruz Thomas

Best First-Time Filmmaker

Emerging from the Silence

Director: Tino Theresa Dungl

Best Comedy

ANACONDA

Director: Chelsea Gonzalez

Best Thriller

LA CALIFORNIA

Director: CINZIA BOMOLL

Best Youth Artist

Elizabeth Last & Catherine Last

The Girl Without Magic