2016 AWARD WINNERS
Cinema Dulce – Best of Fest
Transpecos | directed by Greg Kwedar
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Audience Choice Award
Career Girl | directed by Fortunato Procopio and Johanna Watts
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Best Feature Film
Bear with Us | directed by William J. Stribling
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Best Short Film
The Fly | directed by Olly Williams
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Best Texas Film
Putting the Dog to Sleep | directed by Taylor Washington
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Best Documentary Film
TOWER | directed by Keith Maitland
Best Student Short Film
Fidelity | directed by Ilker Çatak
Best Director
Blayne Weaver for Cut To The Chase
Best Actor
Aaron Tveit | Stereotypically You directed by Benjamin Cox
Best Actress
Benita Robledo | Dependent’s Day directed by Michael David Lynch
Best Feature Screenplay
Baby Steps written by Rebecca Semik
Best Short Screenplay
Brandy written by Anika Contos
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS
Bear with Us | USA | Dark Comedy | William J. Stribling
Cut To The Chase | USA | Thriller | Blayne Weaver
Dependent’s Day | USA | Comedy | Michael David Lynch
Interwoven | USA | Drama | VW Scheich
MAD | USA | Dramedy | Robert G. Putka
Some Beasts | USA | Drama | Cameron Bruce Nelson
Stereotypically You | USA | Comedy | Benjamin Cox
Transpecos | USA | Thriller | Greg Kwedar
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS
A Song For You: The Austin City Limits Story | USA | Keith Maitland
Daylight Come | USA | Evan Vetter
Nathan East: For the Record | USA | Chris Gero
Rwanda & Juliet | USA | Ben Proudfoot
TOWER | USA | Keith Maitland
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS
Bunee: The Boy from Constanța | USA | Bunee Tomlinson
Even the Walls | USA | Sarah Kuck & Saman Maydani
Good Times at the Schützen Verein | USA | Erik McCowan
Reclaiming Pakistan | USA | Lisa Donato
The Night’s Watch: Protecting the Dark Skies of Texas | USA | Jeffrey Buras
The Texas Sun | USA | Ted Fisher
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SPECIAL SCREENINGS - FEATURE FILMS
The Last Picture Show | USA | Drama | Peter Bogdanovich
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The Book of Life | USA | Animation | Jorge R. Gutierrez
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FEATURE SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
Trigger written by Judson Vaughan
Collapse written by NT Bullock
Baby Steps written by Rebecca Semik
Massacre at Agua Caliente written by Craig Rainey
No Better Lot written by Christian Gridelli, Hunter Norris
The Devil’s Vein written by Chandler Wild
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SHORT SCREENPLAY FINALISTS
Brandy written by Anika Contos
US Navy Cine-Kodak written by Stephen M. Hunt
Jaguars written by Adrienne Dawes
The Call written by Tony Espinoza
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - SHORT FILMS
About a Mother | Russian Federation | Animation | Dina Velikovskaya
Aestas | Canada | Drama | Guillaume Comtois
Amy | USA | Dramadey | Jacob Chase
Ártún | Iceland | Drama | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Ave Maria | State of Palestine | Dramedy | Basil Khalil
Black and Blue | USA | Drama | CC Allen
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The Box | Germany | Horror | Sascha Zimmermann
Breaking the Curse | USA | Drama | Craig Nigh
Career Girl | USA | Dramedy | Fortunato Procopio and Johanna Watts
The Chicken | Germany | Drama | Una Gunjak
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Cowboys | Spain | Dramedy | Bernabé Rico
Eligeme | Spain | Drama | Carlos Muñoz
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The Fly | UK | Drama | Olly Williams
Food First | Germany | Drama | Pol Ponsarnau
Frontman | USA | Drama | Matthew Gentile
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The Gift | UK | Drama | Gabriel Robertson
The Girlfriend Experience | USA | Comedy | Mark Kunerth
Hello Charles | USA | Dramedy | Hamish Grieve
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The Holy Cave | Spain | Comedy | Aleix Massot
Honor Student | USA | Drama | Aaron B. Koontz
I Am Fairy | Australia | Comedy | James Vinson
Jackdaw | USA | Drama | Travis Champagne
Joseph’s Reel | UK | Drama | Michael Lavers
Kapunka | Israel | Comedy | Tal Greenberg
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The Listener | UK | Drama | Michael Gilhooly
Love is a Four Letter Word: Worth Seven Points | UK | Comedy | Tim
Beckmann and John Schwab
Marathon | USA | Drama | Lauren Smitelli
Mercy | USA | Drama | Mylissa Fitzsimmons
Military Men: Seize the Snow Mountain Castle | Sweden | Animation | Philip Helander & Gottfrid Helander
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Of Her I Dream | Norway | Drama | Katarina Gellin
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Pact | USA | Sci-fi | Zach Endres
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Perry’s Grind | USA | Drama | Dan Curtis
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Picawalico | UK | Animation | Malcolm Morrison
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Positive | USA | Drama | Paul Michael Merryman
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The Present | Germany | Animation | Jacob Frey
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Promise Me | USA | Drama | Kevin Machate
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Putting the Dog to Sleep | USA | Drama | Taylor Washington
The Red Thunder | Spain | Comedy | Alvaro Ron
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Rip It Up and Start Again | Ireland | Comedy | Stephen Ryan
Riva | USA | Drama | Christopher Wiegand
Roadside Assistance | USA | Thriller | Bears Fonté
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The Run | Germany | Thriller | Stefan Najib
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The Secession | USA | Comedy | Jay Hubert
Skål | France | Sci-fi | Benjamin Cappelletti
Solemates | USA | Drama | Bryce Dallas Howard
Speed Dating | USA | Comedy | Meghann Artes
Sweep | USA | Drama | Spencer Gillis
Tea Man | UK | Comedy | Tom Nicoll
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This Time It’s Shopping | USA | Comedy | Chek Wingo
Three Dalmatians | Norway | Drama | Ingrid Stenersen
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The Treatment | Germany | Thriller | Marvin Meiendresch
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The Unforgiven | USA | Drama | Jason Piccioni
The Usual Silence | USA | Drama | Samuel Z.P. Thomas
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Vindication | USA | Drama | Jarod O’Flaherty
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The Visitor | USA | Drama | Bennett Pellington
Wasted Beauty | USA | Drama | Martin Paves
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We Can’t Live Without Cosmos | Russian Federation | Animation | Konstantin Bronzit
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The Weight of Blood & Bones | USA | Western | Chris Ekstein
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Wrapped | Germany | Animation | Roman Kälin, Falko Paeper and Florian Wittmann