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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