Award Nominees
2023 CORDILLERA INT'L FILM FESTIVAL
GRAND JURY AWARDS
100k in Prize Packages
Winners & Nominees announced during live awards ceremony
SCREENPLAY AWARDS
All screenplays are finalists and therefore eligible for an award.
Winners announced during live awards ceremony
SPECIAL JURY AWARDS
JOHN SINGLETON IMPACT AWARD
Half-Day, From the hood to the Holler, She Dreams at Sunrise, The Queen of Basketball, Shut-up and Paint, Dear Mama...
INNOVATE AWARD
Censor of Dreams, Mondo Domino, Lilith & Eve, Cancelled, Heart Failure
BEST LGBTQIA+ FILM
North Star, Powers, Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine, Play it Again, The Beauty President
BEST FEMALE FOCUS
Walking Two Worlds, Frimas, More Than I Remember, Triggered, Americanized
BEST INDIGENOUS FILM
Now is the Time, Walking Two Worlds, Mariah: A Boxer's Dream, Only the Earth and the Mountains, Burros
BEST NEVADA FILM
Three Weeks: The 1960 Winter Olympics and the Civil Rights Movement in Reno Nevada, Blunt, Death and Magic Castles, Radio Waves, Play Me Like That, Tom Gordon's BATTLE SCAR Behind the Scenes Documentary
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Drug Bleed, Zombified, Alhamdu - Muslim Futurism, Time for Wonder, Summersett: I Accept Pale Ember
FESTIVAL AWARDS
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
From the Hood to the Holler, One Pint at a Time
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM
I Love My Dad, Ninjababy, The Justice of Bunny King, Freaks Out, Beautiful Minds
BEST PERFORMANCE FEATURE FILM
I Love My Dad - Patton Oswald, The Justice of Bunny King - Essie Davis, Ninjababy - Kristine Kujath Thorp, Disfluency - Libe Barer, Beautiful Minds - Alexandre Jollien
BEST DIRECTOR FEATURE FILM
I Love My Dad - James Morosini, Beautiful Minds - Alexandre Jollien & Bernard Campan, Ninjababy - Yngvild Sve Flikke, Freaks Out - Gabriele Mainetti, The Justice of Bunny King - Gaysorn Thavat
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
The Queen of Basketball, The Box, Now is the Time, Shut Up and Paint, Bad Hombrewood
BEST FAMILY SHORT FILM
Pimento!, Superworm, Father Son and the Beach, The Night I Left America, Eger, 1552
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Mr. Spam Gets a New Hat, Freebird, She Dreams at Sunrise, Mum is Pouring Rain, Death and the Lady, More Than I Remember
BEST SCI-FI/FANTASY SHORT FILM
June, Silly Human, Censor of Dreams, Inertia, Eger, 1552
BEST HORROR/THRILLER SHORT FILM
Sprite Fright, Lilias Adie, OST., Canceled, Girls Night In
BEST COMEDY SHORT FILM
The One Who Never Watched Friends, The Treatment, Troy, Melons, Tell-Tale Wank, Shark
BEST DRAMA SHORT FILM
North Star, Triggered, The Wake, Under the LIghts, Chaperone
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
Georgia, Parents, NAKAM, Canceled, SISSY
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Wei-Lai, Bad Hombrewood, El Carrito, Heart Failure, NAKAM, Pimento!
BEST PERFORMANCE SHORT FILM
Triggered - Isiah Whitlock Jr., North Star - Colman Domingo, Canceled - Roy 'Fresku' Reymound, Chaperone - Zachary Quinto, Americanized - Terry Hu
BEST DIRECTOR SHORT FILM
North Start - P.J. Palmer, Chaperone - Sam Max, Americanized - Erica Eng, Triggered - Tara Westwood, Frimas - Marianne Farley