We are happy to announce our award winners for TCFF XIII! For those of you who couldn’t make it to our awards ceremony, check out the list of winners or the Facebook Live Stream below.

AUDIENCE AWARDS

BEST FICTION FILM

“The Divine Order” by Petra Volpe

Runner Up: “Truman” by Cesc Gay

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

“I Am Evidence” by Trish Adlesic, Geeta Gandbhir

Runner Up: “Chasing Coral” by Jeff Orlowski

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

“Viola, Franca” by Marta Savina

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

“Knife Skills” by Thomas Lennon

BEST KIDS SHORT

“Hola Llamigo” by Charlie Parisi, Christina Chang

FOUNDERS AWARDS

 FOUNDERS GRAND PRIZE

Raoul Peck for “I Am Not Your Negro” and “The Young Karl Marx”

 BEST US DOCUMENTARY FILM

“500 Years” by Pamela Yates

 BEST FOREIGN FICTION FILM

 “The Divine Order” by Petra Volpe

 BEST US FICTION FILM

 “Mr. Roosevelt” by Noël Wells

BUZZ WILSON PRIZE FOR BEST AVANT GARDE FILM

“Austerlitz” by Sergei Loznitsa

STUART J. HOLLANDER PRIZE FOR BEST FAMILY FILM

“Fanny’s Journey” by Lola Doillon

ROGER EBERT PRIZE FOR BEST FILM BY A FIRST TIME FILMMAKER

Pau Faus for “Ada for Mayor”

 KNOWLEDGE IS POWER SCIENCE PRIZE

“AlphaGo” by Greg Kohs

 SPECIAL FOUNDERS PRIZE

“Long Strange Trip” by Amir Bar-Lev

 SPECIAL FOUNDERS PRIZE FOR CITIZEN JOURNALISM

· Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently in “City of Ghosts”

· Nori Sharif in “Nowhere to Hide”

· Curt Guyette in “Here’s to Flint”

· Myron Dewey in “Awake, a Dream from Standing Rock”

BEST FOREIGN DOCUMENTARY FILM

“Cause of Death: Unknown” by Anniken Hoel

SHORT FILM AWARD WINNERS

SPECIAL MENTION SHORT FILM

“Skull + Bone” by Victoria Rivera

 SPECIAL MENTION SHORT FILM

“It’s Alright” by Nina Knag

 LARS KELTO PRIZE FOR BEST COMEDY SHORT FILM

“Hot Winter: A Film by Dick Pierre” by Jack Henry Robbins

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

“Ten Meter Tower” by Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson

 BEST FICTION SHORT FILM

“Retouch” by Kaveh Mazaheri

WINNERS OF THE TCFF BUMPER CONTEST, SPONSORED BY FIM GROUP

 First Place Award Winners – $1,000 prize

“Travel” by John Plough

“Big on Film” by Anders Kelto, Megan Kelto, and Caroline Kim

Runners Up – $500 prize

“Secret Life of Volunteers” by Tami Evans and Brenda Smith

“Are You Ready?” by Michael Afendakis

Honorable Mention

·     “Fantasy” by Brody Steele

·     “Genre Leaping to TCFF” by Robert Langworthy

·     “Movie Date” by Don Blubaugh

·     “Popcorn Training” by Brian Steinberg

·     “The Power of Movies: A Documen-Tree” by Kathleen Jacobsen

·     “The Syndrome” by Don Kuehlhorn

·     “A TCFF Mini Doc” by Molly Jeszke