LAFA Winners - March 2023

Best Picture

A Forgotten Life - Matt Komo

Best Narrative Feature

Moon Students - Daniel Patrick Holland

Best Narrative Short

Quietus Of Man - Frank Rice Jr.

Honorable Mention: Narrative Film

Burnout - Lindsay St. Clair

Best Indie Feature

Nine Times Fired - Harry Hyun, Hanseok Nah, Sejin Kim

Best Indie Short

Look Around - Ulisses Malta Junior, Gustavo Azevedo Santos

Honorable Mention: Indie Film

Fatman - Raffaele Patti

Best Drama

Long Long River - Chi Zhang

Best Comedy

The Bored Room - Jean-Diar Kalantar

Best Horror

Water Dawg - Christopher Baiza

Best Inspirational Film

My Gift - Johannes Arro, Platon Tinn, Michael Burich

Best Musical/Dance Film

Reverie (a Dream) - Peter Perenyi

Best Film Noir

Starry Eyed - Jessica Orcsik

Best Crime Film

Look Around - Ulisses Malta Junior, Gustavo Azevedo Santos

Best Web/TV Pilot

Hand Me Downs - Blaise Beyhan, Luis Galilei

Best TV Series

The Nordic - Clay E Croft

Best Web Series

Kombucha Cure - Cecilia Choi

Best Documentary Feature

Patria y Vida: The Power of Music - Beatriz Luengo

Best Documentary Short

A Forgotten Life - Matt Komo

Honorable Mention: Documentary

Breaking the Walls - Pavel Buryak

Best Music Video

Today and Tomorrow - Theresa Kowall-Shipp

Best Student Film

Deviance - Zou Yang

Best Director

Look Around - Ulisses Malta Junior, Gustavo Azevedo Santos

Honorable Mention: Director

The Breakthrough - LaShaunte Wade

Best First Time Director (Feature)

The Dark Girl - Enrico Saller

Best First Time Director (Short)

Kombucha Cure - Cecilia Choi

Best Indie Filmmaker

The Market - Victor Atkins

Best Young Filmmaker

White Fragment - Zihan Ren

Best Actor

Look Around - André Ramiro

Best Actress

The Breakthrough - Emily Topper

Best Supporting Actor

Kombucha Cure - Ali Zahiri

Best Supporting Actress

Kombucha Cure - Denise Boutte

Best Young Actress

MUJHE SCHOOL NAHI JAANA - Kathryn Dholua

Best Cinematography

The Breakthrough - Justin Cipriani

Best Editing

A Forgotten Life - Matt Komo

Best Score

Buried - Julian Scherle

Best Song

MUJHE SCHOOL NAHI JAANA - "TERE HONE SE" - Dishan Dholua

Inspiring Woman in a Film

Kombucha Cure - Tamara Braun

Best Virtual Reality

Wonder of Life - Wen-Chieh Chang

Best Trailer

The Nordic - Clay E Croft

Best Commercial

Kombucha Cure - Cecilia Choi

Best Original Story

Kombucha Cure - Cecilia Choi, Michael Snell

Screenplay of the Month

The Poet of Sugar Creek - Karen Conley

Best Feature Screenplay

The Poet of Sugar Creek - Karen Conley

Honorable Mention: Feature Screenplay

MOKSHA - Saurin Lakhia

Best Short Screenplay

The Girls Next Door - Nelson Alexander Isava

Honorable Mention: Short Screenplay

Dance With Me - Erwin X. Davis

Best Drama Screenplay

The Lost Lion - Laura Koons

Best Comedy Screenplay

I'll Be Doggone - Robert Cole

Best Horror Screenplay

SVEN - Jesse Dorian

Best Thriller Screenplay

The Girl in the Glacier - Catherine Schandl

Best Sci-Fi Screenplay

MOKSHA - Saurin Lakhia

Best Fantasy Screenplay

End of Scene - Jen Butler

Best First Time Screenwriter (Feature)

Hella Cracked - Myles Devin Bergman

Best Television Script

Off The Path - Richard Redlo

Special Jury Award

OVERWORKD - Victoria Hirakawa-Lee Castro

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