Awards
Best Feature Film: Panavision-love and the organ by Kim Albright
Best Documentary Feature: Bad Press, directed by Rebecca Landsberry-baker and Joe Peeler
Special award for documentary jury-“Aitamaako' TAMISSKAPI NATOSI: Before the Sun” by Banchi Hanuse
Best New Mexico feature-length narrative, “Little Brother,” directed by Sheridan o'donnell
Best New Mexico documentary-“We bombed New Mexico first”, directed by Louise Lippman
Best Narrative short film: Panavision-“Mirage”, directed by Jhanvi Motla
Short story jury special award-“Rabbit Hole” by Aaron Schoonover
Best Documentary Short: The Test, directed by Claudia Myrs and Laura Waters Singson
Special Jury Award for documentary short film-eating flowers, director: River Autumn Finlay
Animated short film, 95 senses, directed by Jerusha Hess and Jarred Hess
Animation Short Jury Special Award-kamran S. Rosen's lost freedom
Best Experimental Short Film: Lovebugs, directed by Teddy Alvarez-nissen
Best New Mexican short film-border lords, Andy Pollak
Aboriginal filmmaker best short film: Ulpi: her last wish, directed by Cesar Quispe
Audience Choice Awards
Audience Choice Award: best feature feature film, “The Promised Land”, directed by Nicholas of Cusa Asser
Audience Choice: best special screening documentary “Anselm”, directed by Wim Wenders
Audience Choice Award: best competition narrative feature, “Chronicle of the Wandering Saints”, directed by Tomas Gomez Bustillo
Audience Choice Award: Best Documentary Contest: We Bombed New Mexico first, directed by Louise Lippman
Viewer's Choice: Best Short Film: Twenty, directed by Jayson Hougen
The documentary jury
Glenn Silber, a two-time Academy Awards nominee, is an influential producer who has directed films such as family wars and the atomic artist.
Ivy Al-kamil dobbles, director of the award-winning documentary Powerlands.
Michelle Chiappetta Garça and Michelle Garça are the founding producers of the KCET film series, the series offers audiences the best Hollywood, indie and holiday movies before they are released in theaters or streaming, and is a producer at the Earth Focus Environment Film Festival, the festival hosts documentary filmmakers, environmentalism and award-winning scientists.
Gaye Dillingham Gay Dillingham, producer director owner of CNS Communications, began making The Wipp Trail film, told by Robert Redford. In 2022, her work as a filmmaker and one of 30 international female representatives was featured in the documentary crossroads. She is currently chair of the Santa Fe Board of film and digital media and vice president of Wild Earth Guardians.
Sandrine Cassiday, Director of Festival and distribution at the University of Southern California School of Film Arts, Sandrine Cassiday, advises students and alumni, teach them how to make the best short films on the festival circuit.