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 (Click here)	A Brilliant Young Mind (Click here)	Landfill Harmonic (Click here)	NA
2014	Lakshmi (click here)	Frontera (click here)	Alive Inside (click here)	Of Many (click here)
2014 Atlantic Theaters/The Movies at Midway Special Recognition Film Award:			A Thousand Times Good Night (click here)
2013	Still Mine (click here)	Touch of the Light (click here)	Muscle Shoals (click here)	Not Any More: Story of a Revolution (click here)
2012	Come as You Are (click here)	A Time to Spare (click here)	Searching for Sugarman (click here)	Tsyuako (click here)
2011	The Round Up (click here)	The Hedgehog	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