Audience Award Winners

The Festival presents Audience Awards for: Best Feature, Best Debut Feature, Best Short, and Best Documentary. The Audience Award winners are determined by popular vote of the audience. At each screening, viewers receive a ballot to rate the film and then return the ballot at the end of the screenings. All votes are tabulated and the winners are announced at the Closing Celebration.

First place Audience Award winners receive a $500 cash prize due to the generosity of the sponsors listed below.

2012 Audience Award Winners

Catagory and Sponsor	Film Title
The Brant-Estes Best Feature Award Sponsored by David J Brant and Greg Estes.	Come as You Are (click here)
The Friebert-Hanuschock Best Debut Feature Award Sponsored by Sarah Friebert and Rita Hanuschock.	A Time to Spare (click here)
The Best Documentary Award Sponsored by Johannah Barry.	Searching for Sugarman (click here)
The Best Short Award Sponsored by the Rehoboth Beach Film Society Board of Directors.	Tsyuako (click here)

Prior Years Audience Award Winners

Year	Best Feature	Best Debut Feature	Best Documentary	Best Short
2011	The Round Up (click here)	The Hedgehog (click here)	Wish Me Away (click here)	I Don't Want to Go Back Alone (click here)
2010	Bride Flight (click here)	Like Stars on Earth (click here)	Soundtrack for a Revolution (click here)	Kavi (click here)
2009	Departures	Skin	Out in The Silence	Toyland
2008	Captain Abu Raed	The World Unseen	Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains	Tripe & Onions
2007	The Rocket	Dear Mr. Waldman	Nanking	The First Time
2006	Elsa & Fred	Sweet Land	Been Rich All My Life	Christmas Wish List
2005	Walk on Water	Ladies in Lavender	Music From the Inside Out	Perpetual Motion
2004	Facing Windows	My Mother Likes Women	Howard Zinn – You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train	The Dud
2003	Tipping The Velvet	James’ Journey to Jerusalem Diary of a Male Porn Star	My Flesh & Blood	Left Behind
2002	Autumn Spring (Bab i΄ lēto)	The Trip	War Photographer	Leonard
2001	Borstal Boy	The Next Big Thing	The Turandot Project	Zen and the Art of Landscaping
2000	My Mother Frank	Four Dogs Playing Poker	Pop & Me	Turkey.Cake.
1999	Bandits	24 Nights	Climb Against the Odds	A Mile in My Shoes
1998	not applicable	not applicable	not applicable	not applicable