2021 Arizona International Film Festival
Best of Category
Festival Grand Prize
MARGHE AND HER MOTHER
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, United Kingdom, 2020
Best Dramatic Feature
SHE’S IN PORTLAND
Marc Carlini, USA, 2019
Best Indie Film
DUSTWUN
Genevieve Anderson, USA, 2020
Best Foreign Feature
TOPRAK
Sevgi Hirschhäuser, Turkey, 2020
Best Documentary
STALKING CHERNOBYL
Exploration After Apocalypse
Iara Lee, Ukraine/USA/Bulgaria/Slovakia, 2020
Best Music Documentary
AFTER SO MANY DAYS
Jim Hanft & Samantha Yonack, USA, 2020
Best First Feature
JUMP THE FENCE
Molly Elizabeth Parker, USA, 2020
Best Short Feature
ONDINE
Tomasz Sliwinski, Poland, 2019
Best Short Documentary
CHARLIE’S LOT
Thomas Carroll, USA, 2020
Best Dramatic Short
GENERATION LOCKDOWN
Sirad Balducci, USA, 2019
Best Foreign Short
ANNA
Dekel Berenson, United Kingdom, 2019
Best Comedy Short
MONEYBAG HEAD
Patrick O’Brien, USA, 2020
Best Experimental Short
TIDES
Andre Silva, USA, 2020
Best Animation Short
DAUGHTER
Daria Kashcheeva, Czech Republic, 2019
Best of Arizona
SOLEDAD
Lisa Molomot, USA, 2019
Best of IndieYouth
DIAMOND GAME
Nolan Hieu Trifunovic, USA, 2020
SPECIAL JURY AWARDS
Special Jury Award for Bridging Cultures
WHORES ON FILM
Juliana Piccillo, USA, 2019
Special Jury Award for Historical Filmmaking
LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE
Gavin Guerra, USA, 2019
Special Jury Award for Best Performance to
TAWNY CYPRESS in INEZ & DOUG & KIRA
Special Jury Award for Outstanding Cinematography
DEVIN WHETSTONE for SHE’S IN PORTLAND
Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling
WOMAN OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS
Takeshi Kushida, Japan, 2020
Special Jury Award for Animation
IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU
Will McCormack & Michael Govier, USA, 2020
JURY AWARDS
for Creative Achievement
A HANDFUL OF DATES (Sudan, 2019)
Drama
KITE (China, 2020)
Animation
MY DINNER WITH WERNER (USA, 2019)
Comedy