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2023 AWARD WINNERS

Cinema Dulce – Best of Fest
Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom | directed by Ya'Ke Smith

 

Audience Choice Award
The Lady Bird Diaries | directed by Dawn Porter

 

Best Feature Film
I Like Movies | directed by Chandler Levak

 

Best Short Film
Written In Ink | directed by Cordelaine Kline

 

Best Texas Film
Cowboy Bourbon | directed by Chet Garner and Daniel Mecey

Best Documentary Film
Oklahoma Breakdown | directed by Christopher Fitzpatrick

 

Best Student Short Film
Green Water | directed by Carlos Estrada

 

Best Director
Lance Larson | Deadland

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Best Actress
Georgina Reilly | Match Me if You Can

 

Best Actor
Rudy Pankow | Chocolate Lizards

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS 


Chocolate Lizards | USA | Dramedy | Mark Lambert Bristol
 

Deadland | USA | Drama | Lance Larson
 

Good Egg | USA| Comedy | Nicole Gomez Fisher

I Like Movies | Canada | Dramedy | Chandler Levack

 

Match Me If You Can | USA | Comedy | Marian Yeager

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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS


Cowboy Bourbon: The Full Proof Tale of Garrison Brothers | USA | Chet Garner and Daniel Mecey

Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom | USA | Y
a'Ke Smith

 

The Lady Bird Diaries | USA | Dawn Porter
 

Oklahoma Breakdown | USA | Christopher Charles Fitzpatrick

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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS


Batsies | USA | Elizabeth Unger
 

A Boat for my Brother | USA | Matthew Boyd
 

Breaking Silence | USA | Amy Bench and Annie Silverstein

From Dreams to Dust | Indonesia | Muhammad Fadli and Stephanie Tangkilisan

Grey Horse | USA | Emil Lozada

 

You are Me & I am You | Ecuador | Melissa Kirkendall

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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - STUDENT SHORT FILMS

 

Boppie | USA | Drama | Ethan Gueck

Double Take | USA | Drama| Eli Canter

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Dust to Dust | USA | Drama | India Opzoomer

Girlfight | USA | Dramedy | Ava Smith

 

Green Water | USA | Drama | Carlos Estrada
 

Lesser Works | USA | Drama | Abbie Bergman and Madelyn Day
 

Longer than Night | USA | Action | Sammie Hottel
 

Supermarket Affairs | Viet Nam | Dramedy | Hang Luong Nguyen

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS - NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS

The Art of Tennis | USA | Comedy | Marshall Copous
 

Breakfast To Go | USA | Comedy | Ronald Short
 

Call Me Mommy | USA | Comedy | Haley Alea Erickson and Taylor Washington
 

Chipper | USA | Drama | Shaun MacLean

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Chukkers | Spain | Drama | Manuel Ramos

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Credit | USA | Drama | Patrick Kirton and Susan Kirton
 

Curtain Call | USA | Drama | Christian Jacob Ramón

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Fear | USA | Drama | Gemini Davis and Naveen Tan
 

The Garage Sale | USA | Drama | Alison Week
 

El Gato Feo | USA | Drama | Daniel Fabelo
 

Goblin | USA | Dramedy | Jenny Ward
 

Hijo | USA | Drama | Oscar Perez-Chairez
 

I Have No Tears, and I Must Cry | USA | Drama | Luis Fernando Puente
 

In the Water | USA | Drama | Drew Highlands
 

It Listens | USA | Horror | Paul Alanis
 

Looking Back | USA | Dramedy | Michael Charron
 

Mahogany Drive | USA | Comedy | Jerah Milligan
 

Misprint | USA | Thriller | Adam Volerich
 

Morgan | USA | Drama | Travis Patten
 

Mother Fucker | USA | Drama | Justin Arnold

New Shoes | USA | Drama | Thommy Kane and Bojan Vanovac

 

No Matter What | USA | Drama | Christopher James Thompson
 

Passing Through | USA | Drama | Erica Alexandria Silverman

 

The Problem With Time Travel | USA | Comedy | Mike Kearby
 

Savage Dawn | USA | Drama | Tamiah Bantum
 

(S)hit Squad | USA | Comedy | Johnathan Brownlee

 

The Singing Telegram | USA | Dramedy | Nic Cory and Eddie Grey
 

Social AnnXiety | USA | Comedy | Jason C. Brown
 

Strings | USA | Drama | Rodrigo Moreno-Fernandez
 

A Thousand Times A Day | USA | Drama | Chantelle James

 

What Would You Do? | USA | Drama | Alexander English and Veronica Kelly
 

Written In Ink | USA | Drama | Cordelaine Kline
 

WÜM | USA | Comedy | Anna Margaret Hollyman

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