Awards for 2015

Crystal Twister Audience Award

WINNER

The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man: Josh Hope (producer), Christopher Hong (producer), Mikki Raphael Rosenberg (producer), Tommy Beardmore (producer) (Olive Entertainment)

Twister Award

Best Actor - Short Film

WINNER

Nesting Grounds: Anthony Stratton
NOMINEES

In the Blind: Nick Sandow

In the Blind: Neal Huff

Best Actor - Feature Film

WINNER

Wildlike: Bruce Greenwood

Actor of the Year

WINNER

The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man: Tommy Beardmore

Best Actress - Feature Film

WINNER

Wildlike: Ella Purnell

Best Actress - Short Film

WINNER

February: Maryam Tarami (Damondi Works)

Actress of the Year

WINNER

The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man: Robyn Coffin

Best Supporting Actor

WINNER

Zar: Rafal Fudalej
NOMINEES

February: Armin Tashakoor (Damondi Works (production company))

Wildlike: Brian Geraghty

Iceland: Jimmie Tolliver

Moving Day: Brian Villalobos

Best Supporting Actress

WINNER

Wildlike: Ann Dowd

Best Director

WINNER

The Man from the City: Elias Plagianos
NOMINEE

Nesting Grounds: Ian Scott McCullough

Best Festival Screenplay

WINNER

Moving Day: Louis Hunter, Samuel Z.P. Thomas
NOMINEES

Nesting Grounds: Ian Scott McCullough (screenplay adaptation), Dakota Parobek (playwright)

February: Ashar Medina (writer), Wander Theunis (writer) (Damondi Works (production company))

Best Cinematography

NOMINEES

Nesting Grounds: Ian Scott McCullough

February: Artyom Zakharenko (cinematographer) (Damondi Works (production company))

Best Art Direction

WINNER

Nesting Grounds: Samantha DeMaria

Best Sound Design

WINNER

The Looking Planet: Alexandra Fehrman (Giant Dolphin Pictures)
NOMINEE

Nesting Grounds: Ryan Deffet (sound mixer), Cameron Aper (sound editor), Matt Gubernick (sound editor)

Best Editing

NOMINEES

Nesting Grounds: Ian Scott McCullough

February: Jelle Kuipers (editor) (Damondi Works (production company))

Best Score

NOMINEES

Nesting Grounds: Will McKelvey
with featured artist: Alison McKelvey

In the Blind: Spencer David Hutchings

Best Animated Short

WINNER

Me + Her

Best Family Short

WINNER

The Looking Planet

Best Drama Short

WINNER

Nobody
NOMINEES

Nesting Grounds: Ian Scott McCullough (director), Samantha DeMaria (producer) (Annotation Films (production company))

In the Blind

Best Midnight Short

WINNER

A Good Deal

Best Documentary Short

WINNER

Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution

Best Documentary Feature

WINNER

Mount Lawrence

Best Foreign Short

WINNER

The Chicken
NOMINEE

February: Maryam Tarami (producer), Siar Sedig (director) (Damondi Works (production company))

Next Gen

WINNERS

The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man: Chris Holder

The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man: Elyse Cantor

The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man: Mindy Fay Parks

Best Feature Comedy

WINNER

These Hopeless Savages

Emerging Artist

WINNERS

The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man: Sean Patrick Leonard

The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man: Kate Froehlich

The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man: Christopher Hong

The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man: Tony Scott-Green

Best Feature Drama

WINNER

Wildlike

Best Poster

WINNER

I Owe You
NOMINEE

Nesting Grounds

Best Midnight Feature

WINNER

Quad X: Rise of the Beaver Slayer