Audience Award Winners
The 2017 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. The winners are announced after all votes are tallied.
First place Audience Award winners receive a $500 cash prize due to the generosity of the sponsors listed below.
Note: There was no balloting for the 2016 Film Festival.
| Best Feature | Best Debut Feature | Best Documentary |
| The Odyssey | Lucky | Dolores |
PRIOR YEAR AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS
|
Year |
Best Feature |
Best Debut Feature |
Best Documentary |
Best Short |
|
2015 |
The Passion of Augustine |
A Brilliant Young Mind |
Landfill Harmonic |
NA |
|
2014 |
Lakshmi |
Frontera |
Alive Inside |
Of Many |
| 2014 Atlantic Theaters/The Movies at Midway Special Recognition Film Award: |
A Thousand Times Good Night (click here) |
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2013 |
Still Mine |
Touch of the Light |
Muscle Shoals |
Not Any More: |
|
2012 |
Come as You Are |
A Time to Spare |
Searching for Sugarman |
Tsyuako |
|
2011 |
The Round Up |
The Hedgehog |
Wish Me Away |
I Don’t Want to Go Back Alone |
|
2010 |
Bride Flight |
Like Stars on Earth |
Soundtrack for a Revolution |
Kavi |
|
2009 |
Departures |
Skin |
Out in The Silence |
Toyland |
|
2008 |
Captain Abu Raed |
The World Unseen |
Stranded: I’ve Come |
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 |
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 |