2018 Feature Film Award Winners
by Haley Bragg
Feature Film Awards
Narrative Competition Grand Jury Prize
Romany Malco, Prison Logic
Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Bing Liu, Minding the Gap
Belmont University New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Jim Cummings, Thunder Road
Animation Competition Grand Jury Prize
Benjamin Renner & Patrick Imbert, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
Music Films/Music City Grand Jury Prize
Scott Balcerek, Satan & Adam
Episodic Awards
Short Form
The Passage
Long Form
Tammy’s Tiny Tea Time – The Full Series
VR | 360
Grand Jury Prize
I Am a Man, ceated by Derek Ham
Honorable Mention
MicroGiants, created by Yifu Zhou
Graveyard Shift Awards
Graveyard Shift Grand Jury Prize for Feature Film
Mickey Reece, Mickey Reece’s Alien
Graveyard Shift, Best Actress
Cate Jones, Mickey Reece’s Alien
Graveyard Shift, Best Actor (tie)
C.J. Jones, Door in the Woods
Graveyard Shift, Best Actor (tie)
Jacob Ryan Snovel, Mickey Reece’s Alien
Special Jury Prize for Imagination Philosophical and Scientific Rigor and Visual Inventiveness, Graveyard Shift
The LaPlace’s Demon
Tennessee Awards
Tennessee First Grand Jury Prize Feature
Brett Hanover, Rukus
Song
Best Original Song
“Talk to Me,” from Blindspotting. Written by Anthony Hamilton
Audience Awards
Narrative Competition
Prison Logic
Documentary Competition
Weed the People
New Directors Competition
Mountain Rest
Music Films/Music City Competition (tie)
If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd
Music Films/Music City Competition (tie)
Stay Human
Special Presenttions
Sammy Davis Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
Spectrum
Into the Okavango
Graveyard Shift
The Odds
Tennessee First
Other Versions of You
Non-Cash Awards
Honorable Mention, Narrative Competition
Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, When She Runs
Best Actor, Narrative Competition
Romany Malco, Prison Logic
Best Actress, Narrative Competition
Elise Van’t Laar, Craving
Best Screenplay
Vivien Qu, Angels Wear White
Best Music
Carl Thiel, Prison Logic
Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performances by a Young Actress
Meijun Zhou & Vicky Chen, Angels Wear White
Honorable Mention, Documentary Competition
Laura Nix, Inventing Tomorrow
Special Jury Prize for Openly and Honestly Expressing Love at a Critical Time
Ron Yassen, Crossroads
Honorable Mention, New Directors Competition (tie)
Bierta Zeqiri, The Marriage
Honorable Mention, New Directors Competition (tie)
Takashi Doscher, Still
Honorable Mention, Music Films/Music City Competition
Stephen Kijack, If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd
Honorable Mention, Graveyard Shift Competition
Christopher Kirkley, Zerzura
Sponsored Awards
VER Prize for Cinematography
Ashley Connor, Mountain Rest
Lipscomb University Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Nicolo Donato, Across the Waters
