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12th Annual (2024) Film Awards

Filmmaker of the Year

Cedric Thomas Smith (Winner)

David Reyes

Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid

Debra Markowitz

Benjamin T.W. Carlucci

Timothy Troy

Venita Ozols-Graham

Jacob Shelton

Pj Mills

Brittani Ward

Courtney Sposato, Mark Sposato

John Robb Saunders

Simon Stockdale

Lisa Reznik

Actress of the Year

Laken Giles

Sharihan Haddad

Emily Caelli

Sherine Menes

Dana Marisa Schoenfeld

Ana Coussirat

Leila Annastasia Scott

Ruth Reynolds

Rachel Noble

Jeanine Bartel (Winner)

Stacey Van Gorder

Shira Gross

Jess Paul

Billie J. Simmons

TOBE HOOPER AWARD

Glowzies (Winner)

Attack of the Swole People

Twig and Twine

Hellbound Taxi (Winner)

Unrest

Trick

The Fourth Assassin

Reverie

Candor

FishBowl

The Ossan

Remembered

Men in Cars

One Room

Texas Actor

Johnny Rey Diaz (Winner)

Justin Whitney

Alex Greenlee

Nathaniel Barber

Thomas Barron Sampson

Aaron G Hale

Ronald Short (Winner)

Fernando Guillen

Donato de Luca

Erik Anderson

Gregory Bordelon

Bill Poindexter

David DeLao

TEXAS SHORT COMEDY

LIABILITY (Winner)

Stateside

Bad Guacamole

Leverage

Reggie & Rainbow

ZOOM DOCTOR

The Perfect Boy

CINEMATOGRAPHY SHORT

Polish/English Phrasebook

All for Naught

FULL THROTTLE PARADISE

About Alice

Butt Stuff

CoVig 19

Polish/English Phrasebook

All for Naught

FULL THROTTLE PARADISE

About Alice

Butt Stuff

CoVig 19

US ACTRESS - SHORT

Nika Khitova

Shira Gross

Sabrina Diamond

Penny Fuller

Jenifer Pearl

Cathy Moriarty

April Hartman

Linda Collins

Cailtin Hutson

Jeanine Bartel

Melissa Skirboll

Jess Paul

Ruth Reynolds (Winner)
Quinn Wrigley Weber

US DRAMA

My Over There

The Line Between Us

The Lesson

The Better Man

The Prof

One Last Time

Filet De Femme

Reset

recovered (Winner)

Tina

Niece Day

Color of Autumn (Winner)

US ACTRESS - FEATURE

Lindsay Morgan

Laken Giles

Josie Davis

Jasveen Singh (Winner)

Devyn Hosier

US ACTOR - FEATURE

Trevor Morgan

Billy Zane

Simon Stockdale (Winner)

Michael Dorn

James Remar

BEST DOC SHORT

The Life of a Warrior

We Support You?

Preserving Our Place

Invasive Species (Winner)

The Blake

Piconland: The Quest for the Perfect Picon Punch

SERIES ACTOR

Bryna Weiss

Cedric Watson (Winner)

Darian Michael Garey

Paul Bird Edwards

DOC DIRECTOR

Christine Kane

Jeremey Lavoi

Mark Maynard
Erin Laine (Winner)

Aron Campisano

Vinícius de La Rocha

Emma Breslauer

Courtney Sposato, Mark Sposato

INTL ACTOR

Michael Joseph Delaney (Winner)

Jérémy Zocca

Christian Sloan

Steve Holliday

Xander Jones

Michael Valliant-Saunders

HS FILM

Left on Red. (Winner)

Sterling

BEST PODCAST

Bite Me (Winner)

Baseball Bucketlist

Baseball By Design

Table Read Podcast

FEMALE FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR

Venita Ozols-Graham

Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid (Winner)

Rozalyn Dione Mattocks

Sadie Dean

Melissa Skirboll

Melody Brooke

Charlotte Grady

Debra Markowitz

Sara Gaston

Amy Traurig

Kelli Horan

Octavia Ethridge

Erin Laine

Aimiende Negbenebor Sela

WRITER/DIRECTOR of the Year

Bob Celli

TL Westgate

Michèle Marie Jedlicka

Nick DeSimone

Timothy Troy

Molly Vernon

Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid

Rozalyn Dione Mattocks (Winner)

David Reyes

Octavia Ethridge

Olivia Carter

Michael Charron (Winner)

Aimiende Negbenebor Sela

Texas Filmmaker of the Year

Sempre Avanti

Men in Cars

Body

Unrest

Trick

All in a Day's Work

Popped Culture

Reverie (Winner)

Attack of the Swole People (Winner)

Paw Mama

Stateside

Bad Guacamole

Leverage

Reggie & Rainbow

Texas Genre Film

The Perfect Boy

Sempre Avanti (Winner)

Men in Cars

Body

Reverie

Unrest

Trick

All in a Day's Work

Popped Culture

Attack of the Swole People

BEST PRODUCED SCRIPT - SHORT

One Last Time

Filet De Femme

Reset (Winner)

recovered

Tina

Niece Day

Color of Autumn

About Alice

Butt Stuff

CoVig 19

Liberty Speaks

The British are Coming

Stakeout Gone Wrong

F/X SHORT

Superposition

Disregard

THE UNQUIET DEAD

Candor

The Ossan

Remembered

One Room

Lurk

You're Early

THE THIRD DEFECTOR

The Thing I Have To Do In That Place

Painted Amethyst

iNFLUENCE

I DON’T BITE (Winner)

US SHORT DIRECTOR

Daniel Florio

Eric Larson

Jackson Mirmina

Christopher Madden

Luis G. Blanco

Debra Markowitz

Joseph Le

Alyn Darnay

Raul Rosco Guerrero

Charlotte Grady (Winner)

Melissa Skirboll

Jaysen Phillip Buterin

Benjamin T.W. Carlucci (Winner)

US SHORT COMEDY

Polish/English Phrasebook

All for Naught

FULL THROTTLE PARADISE

About Alice

Butt Stuff (Winner)

CoVig 19

Liberty Speaks

The British are Coming (Winner)

Stakeout Gone Wrong

Cult

Sedona(saur)

Living A Wife of Crime

We're Good

US FEATURE DIRECTOR

Brittani Ward

John Robb Saunders (Winner)

Simon Stockdale

Hank Braxtan

US FEATURE FILM

All The Weekend's Drama (Winner)

The Softening

Glowzies

BEST DOC FEATURE

Left Bank: The Women Who Rescued James Joyce's Ulysses (Winner)

Crosses In The Dust

ADAPT

SERIES ACTRESS

Dana Marisa Schoenfeld

Kathryn Taylor Smith (Winner)

Tiffany Lamson

Monica Quin

BEST SERIES

EAST (Winner)

Sunflower Care

Dry Bones

As the Cookie Crumbles

INTL SHORT

Surprise! You're Creative (Winner)

Guests

The Author

When I Look Ahead

FishBowl (Winner)

Sleep Tight

Twig and Twine

Hellbound Taxi

MUSIC VIDEO

Ameka and Her Magical Crown Music Video

William Beckmann - Danced All Night Long (Music Video)

CAGE. (Winner)

Dawn At Gougane Barra

PODCAST CREATORS

Paul Caputo.

Anna DiTomasso (Winner)

Jack Levy/Mark Knell/Shaan Sharma/Dave Pirinelli

Dawn At Gougane Barra

Julia Stier

ACTOR OF THE YEAR

Aaron Hale

Ben Richardsom

Cedric Watson

Hoyt Richards (Winner)

James Remar

Lukas Hassel

Wylie Rush

Roger Clark

Shaun Bedgood,

Zachary Coles

Simon Stockdale

Johnny Rey Diaz

ACTOR/DIRECTOR

Michèle Marie Jedlicka

TL Westgate

Jackson Mirmina (Winner)

Wylie Rush

Russell Whaley

Dana Marisa Schoenfeld (Winner)

Simon Stockdale

Sheilava

Brian Drolet

Nathaniel Barber

TEXAS ACTRESS

Rachel Nobel

Lesette Maxwell

Madison Davis

Ana Coussirat (Winner)

Anna Antonia

Natasha Straley

Annelisha DIxon

Ashlie Adams (Winner)

Beth Shea

Kimberlee Watson

Leila Annastasia Scott

Laura Frances

Christine Longoria

TEXAS SHORT DRAMA

BURLESON

Digging Out (Winner)

Deep Down

Smoke

I Was Gone for Awhile

BEST EDITING SHORT

He's Not Bryan

BIRDS

Carlos Bravo

The Inflection Scheme (Winner)

The Fourth Assassin

An American Family Calamity

My Over There

The Line Between Us

The Lesson

The Better Man

The Prof

One Last Time

US ACTOR - SHORT

Ben Richardson

Zach Westgate

Wylie Rush (Winner)

Jose Guns Alves

Michael Fedele

Darryl Cox

Josiah Paul

Ray Buffer

Shaun Bedgood

Zachary Coles

Robert Funaro

Michael James Daly

US ROMCOM

Liberal Arts Love

Waiting On You (Winner)

Delete

US GENRE FILM

Burying Baby

Disregard

THE UNQUIET DEAD

Candor. (Winner)

The Ossan

Remembered

One Room

Lurk

You're Early. (Winner)

THE THIRD DEFECTOR

Superposition

The Thing I Have To Do In That Place

Painted Amethyst

iNFLUENCE

I DON’T BITE

PRODUCED SCRIPT FEATURE/

All The Weekend's Drama

The Softening

Glowzies
Paw Mama (Winner)

Best Produced Genre Script

The Ossan

SERIES DIRECTOR

Dave Krause, Christopher Ragozzino

Dana Marisa Schoenfeld

Debi Yazbeck

Jeremey Lavoi

Aimiende Negbenebor Sela (Winner)

INTL ACTRESS

Michèle Marie Jedlicka

Louise Froideval

Emily Caelli

Ruby Lott

Gigi Saul Guerrero (Winner)

Sherine Menes

UNIVERSITY FILM

Real Criminals

Life is Like a Play

TRAILER

Back To Christmas (The Musical)

There Is No Sushi Chef (Winner)

The Matriarch

PODCAST HOST

Anna DiTomasso

Paul Caputo (Winner)

Julia Stier/Bukola Ogunmola

ANNOUNCED AT FESTIVAL

Inspirational Film - The Seed
Filmmaker over 50 - Melody Brooke
Eric Adair -Veteran Film" Losing Lalo
Film Instructor of the Year:
Matt Reed and Wojciech Lorenc

Director's Choice

Director's Choice - Feature ADAPT

Director's Choice - Short: The BlueEyed Boy and Mister Death/ The Thing I Have To Do In That Place/Bad Guacamole

Director's Choice - Feature Script: Blue Honey

Director's Choice - Actor: Lukas Hassle

Director's Choice - Actress: Paige Bourne

Director's Choice - Series: Dry Bones

Best In Show

Best In Show - Feature The Softening

Best In Show - Short: The Clogging

Best In Show - Feature Script: First Day in Hell

Best In Show - Short Script: Honed

Best In Show - Actor Erik Anderson

Best In Show - Actress: Jess Paul

Best In Show - Series : CORPSE CONTROL