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LA Independent Women Film Awards is devoted to the promotion and screening of female talents from the US and all over the world. The festival is honored to announce the latest winners of its competition. The winners of each edition go through the annual programming and the finalists of the year are screened in LA for the annual festival which includes networking events for female talents in order to provide exposure to film projects and seek distribution. The mission of the festival is designed to help create a platform for talented female artists to be recognized for their projects and more importantly, get them the industry exposure to help sustain their craft for many years to come. LA Independent Women Film Awards is an outstanding event for promoting and screening female artists working in media from all over the world. It is our pleasure to announce the latest winners of LA Independent Women Film Awards.
Winners of LA Independent Women Film Festival
12th edition
Best Narrative Feature
Sweat
Director: Jennifer Nichols
Best Narrative Short
Eviction: A Single Mother's Struggle to Survive the Housing Crisis
Director: Luciana Fulhaber
Best Female Director
Old Times Director: Monica Raymund
Best Actress
Chantae Miller
Old Times
Best Producer
The Wait to Nowhere
Heidi Baskfield
Lizzie Costello
Shannon Umetani
Honorable Mention Documentary
Director: Nancy Hamilton Myers
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Best Cinematographer
Maddie Staszak
Three A.M.
Best Editor
Kellan Marvin
The Tip
Best Composer
Siubhan Ni Ghriofa
The Pageturner
Best Produced Script
(WO)MEN
Writers: Didi Cederström & Molly Wagner
Best Documentary Feature & Best Human Rights
Where Can We Live In Peace?
Judy Mary Jackson
Best Documentary Short
The Body in the Woods
Bel Trew
Honorable Mention Short Documentary
Director: George Larkin
Best Animation
A BOAT IN THE RAIN
Yoana Atanasova Atanasova
Best Horror
The Knowing
Erin Lovett
Best Experimental
Antígônadá
Dora Longo Bahia
Best Student Film
Vulture City, Wyoming
Anna Shea Keating
Best Emerging L.A. Filmmaker
Everyday Shit Director: Lorena E. Gonzalez
Best International Filmmaker
LYCANTHROPY
Nieves Gómez
Best Science Fiction
The Rising
Mila Perkins
Best Music Video
One Last Time
Shannon Rugani
Best Series-Web-Pilot
An American Abroad Pilot
Marcia Kimpton
Best LGBTQ
Gina
MICHELLE PIANA
Best LGBTQ Animation
Director: Aubrey Scott
Best First-Time Short Filmmaker
Pandemonium
Rebecca Noguchi
Best Comedy
TAMPOO
Zara Burdett
Honorable Mention Comedy
Director: Dawn Macleod
Best Thriller
The Ghost of You
Max Mallar, Kenzie Yango
Best Youth Actor
Sacha Huyghe
Gina
Best Youth Actress
Mengyue Niu
Left Behind
Honorable Mention Director
Director: Yiqing ZHU
Best Unproduced Script
Shining Star Writer: Jackie Thornton
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