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About Us

LA Independent Women Film Awards focuses on international and U.S. female filmmakers, screenwriters, actresses and all female artists working in media.

All film projects with a female producer, director, lead actress, writer, cinematographer and editor are qualified to submit to the festival. All topics related to women's thoughts, women's fate, life conditions, women's views and so on are welcome to participate.

The festival seeks to recognize independent shorts and features of all genres from U.S. and international filmmakers. The festival focuses on arthouse cinema and will feature and screen films every month for the award winners.

All the winners will be promoted through various online magazines in California and can request to receive certificates and laurels.

All the award winning artists of the monthly categories are further nominated by our programmers in order be an official selection of the annual festival in October. The annual festival will be a hybrid event with online screenings, announcements and networking events for artists.

The members of our jury will be award winning artists working in media from all over the world. All the monthly award winners can request to be a jury member of a new edition of the festival in order to vote for one of the categories.

LA Independent Women Film Awards is an outstanding event for promoting female artists working in media from all over the world.

Best Narrative Feature

Last Tour Home

Director: Baylee Toney

Best Narrative Short

Bark

Director: Michele Evouna

Best Female Director

Agiter

Director: Amanda Moresco

Best Actress

Ann March

I See You

Best Producer

Joanna MORITZ, Antoine Paul Blanche

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Best Composer

Eve Buigues

College In Prison: Life With the Possibility Of Transformation

 

Best Unproduced Script

BullsEye

Vicki Liviakis

Best Documentary Feature

Wof Zerash Coffee

Director: Sylwia Pecio

Best Documentary Short

I take refuge

Directo: Priyanka Suryaneni

 Best Director

UNFEELING

Director: Ozlem Cingirlar

 Best Animation

Collateral Damage

Director: Kynthia Piakis, Faith Teo

 

Best Experimental

Let Me Leave

Director: Alexia Haick

 Best Student Film

Nerot Shel Shabbat

Director: Lital Mizrahi

Best L.A. Filmmaker

Palmdale

Director: Lauren Moreno

Best Science Fiction

Berlin Loop

Director: Emily Manthei

Best Music Video

Overtime

Chelsea Thedinga

Best Series-Web-Pilot

SWIPE

Director: Kaleigh Fitzgerald

Best LGBTQ

The Sibling Rule

Director: Mari SanGiovanni

Best Comedy

BFFR

Director: Erika Apelgren

Best Thriller

PEOPLE

Director: Laura Anastasia Jones

Best Human Rights

Cuba es Mi Patria: The Homeland I Keep Inside

Director: Rose Marie Perez

Best Youth Artist

TORN

Bethan Williams

Best Environmental

Tambopata

Director: Adele Davis, Ceci Davis

Best First-Time Filmm

Butterfly Wings

Director: Carin Smolinski

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