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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



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

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



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