AWARD THIS! 2023 NOMINEES & WINNERS!
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AWARD THIS! FILM ABOUT MOVIES OR FILMMAKING
Back to the Drive-In (WINNER!)
The Horror Crowd
Only In Theaters (WINNER!)
Pennywise: The Story of It
The Story of Film: A New Generation
AWARD THIS! MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Finding Her Beat (WINNER!)
One for ALL: The DJ Chris Villa Story
Pistoleros: Death, Drugs and Rock N’ Roll
This is Gwar (WINNER!)
We Thrive
AWARD THIS! SOCIALLY RELEVANT DOCUMENTARY
Clean Slate
The Irritable Heart
Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic
Syndrome K (WINNER!)
Truelove: The Film
This Land
AWARD THIS! POP CULTURE DOCUMENTARY
Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez
Batman and Me
Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection (WINNER!)
Out in the Ring
The Pez Outlaw
The Rookie Season
UNREAL OUTSIDERS DOCUMENTARY
The Balcony Movie
Chop and Steele (WINNER!)
Eternal Spring
A Life On The Farm
My Old School
Science Friction
AWARD THIS! DOCUMENTARY
A Life On The Farm
Chop and Steele
Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection
Eternal Spring
Finding Her Beat
This is Gwar
This Land (WINNER!)
Truelove: The Film
AWARD THIS! INDIE SCI-FI
Alpha Code
The Breach
Breaking the Loop
Life Cycle (WINNER!)
Madelines
Talent Keyhole
AWARD THIS! INDIE HORROR
Blood Relatives
Bloody Bridget
Brightwood
Terrifier 2
The Quantum Terror (WINNER!)
Wormhole (WINNER!)
AWARD THIS! INDIE COMEDY
Bernice, Too (WINNER!)
The Daphne Project
I Love My Dad
Support Group Olympus
The Take Out Movie
Turbo Cola (WINNER!)
AWARD THIS! INDIE LGBTQ+ THEMED FILM
Bliss of Evil
Borrowed
Bristol Fashion (WINNER!)
Neptune Frost
Swallowed
Triple Threat
AWARD THIS! INDIE ANIMATION
Absolute Denial
Death of a Rockstar
Eternal Spring (WINNER!)
Mad God
Unicorn Boy
AWARD THIS! INDIE ACTION/THRILLER
Corsicana
Creatures of Necessity
Escape the Field
Hunt Her, Kill Her
Once Upon a Time in the District (WINNER!)
The Squad
AWARD THIS! WTF INDIE LIKE “WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS MOVIE EVEN?”
Bernice, Too
Mad Heidi
Ninja Badass (WINNER!)
The Nudels of Nudeland
No Shark
Yule Log
AWARD THIS! INDIE ROMANTIC COMEDY
The Good Hearts Club
Hank and Jolene
I Love My Dad
Love in Kilnerry
Seize the Night (WINNER!)
Tehranto
AWARD THIS! INDIE DRAMA
18 ½
Icon (WINNER!)
Crossing
Ragged Heart
Topside
Waiting for Bojangles
AWARD THIS! INDIE MADE FOR LESS THAN THE CONTENTS OF AN OSCAR GIFT BAG (UNDER $100K)
18 ½
Bernice, Too
Creatures of Necessity
The Daphne Project
The Nudels of Nudeland
Planet Of The Astronauts (WINNER!)
AWARD THIS! Christmas horror film
A Christmas Karen (WINNER!)
AWARD THIS! SHORT FILM
Bunco Babes
Home Sweet Home
Incidental
Pulp Friction
Return to Sender
Same Old
Starship
The Wrong Guy (WINNER!)
AWARD THIS! DIRECTOR
Christopher Morvant (Life Cycle) (WINNER!)
Damien Leone (Terrifier 2)
Dan Mirvish (18 ½)
Isaiah Washington (Corsicana)
James Morisini (I Love My Dad)
Justin Souriau-Levine (Planet Of The Astronauts)
Luke Covert (Turbo Cola)
AWARD THIS! DIRECTRESS
April Wright (Back to the Drive-In)
Dawn Mikkelson & Keri Pickett (Finding Her Beat)
Lisa Hagopian, Co-Director (We Thrive)
Maria Peek (Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic)
Stacy Maltin (Triple Threat) (WINNER!)
Susan Stern (Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez)
Zora Iman Crews, Co-Director (The Daphne Project)
AWARD THIS! INDIE MOVIE OF THE YEAR
18 ½
Brightwood
The Daphne Project
I Love My Dad
Mad Heidi
Planet Of The Astronauts
Terrifier 2
Turbo Cola (WINNER!)