Audience Award Winners
The 2018 Festival presents Audience Awards for: Best Feature, Best Debut Feature, 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.
| Best Feature | Best Debut Feature | Best Documentary | |
| FIRST PLACE | BECOMING ASTRID* | THE GUILTY |
THE LAVENDER SCARE |
| SECOND PLACE | ORCHESTRA CLASS* | THE SOWER | MOVING STORES, and LIYANA Tied |
| THIRD PLACE | 1985 | ON BORROWED TIME | |
| * Please note there was a difference of .017 between first and second place. | |||
PRIOR YEAR AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS
Note: There was no balloting for the 2016 Film Festival.
|
Year |
Best Feature |
Best Debut Feature |
Best Documentary |
Best Short |
|
2017 |
The Odyssey |
Lucky |
Dolores |
NA |
|
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 |