The Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by Film Independent presented its winners. Along with the winners, the festival also presented its Spirit of Independence Award to helmer Miguel Arteta. Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powers’ Becks,took home the U.S. Fiction Award, and Amanda Kopp and Aaron Kopp’s Liyana claimed the Documentary Award.
Here is The complete list of winners:
U.S. Fiction Award
Becks, directed by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell
U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award
Everything Beautiful Is Far Away, cinematography by Christian Sorensen Hansen and Pete Ohs
Special Mention for Breakout Performance
Auden Thornton, Beauty Mark
Special Mention for Directing
Bruce Thierry Cheung, Don’t Come Back From the Moon
World Fiction Award
The Night Guard, directed by Diego Ros
Special Mention for Excellence in Storytelling
On the Beach at Night Alone, directed by Hong Sangsoo
Documentary Award
Liyana directed by Amanda Kopp and Aaron Kopp
LA Muse Fiction Award
And Then There Was Eve directed by Savannah Bloch
LA Muse Documentary Award
Skid Row Marathon directed by Mark Hayes
Special Mention for Acting
John Carroll Lynch, Anything
Special Mention for Excellence in Storytelling
The Classic directed by Billy McMillin
Nightfall Award
Serpent directed by Amanda Evans
Special Mention for Acting
Kate Nhung, The Housemaid
Award for Short Film
A Funeral for Lightning directed by Emily Kai Bock
Special Mention for Excellence in Storytelling
Balloonfest directed by Nathan Truesdell
Award for Documentary Short
Black America Again directed by Bradford Young
Audience Award for Fiction Feature Film
The Keeping Hours directed by Karen Moncrieff
Audience Award for Documentary Feature Film
Skid Row Marathon directed by Mark Hayes
Audience Award for Short Film
Swim directed by Mari Walker
Audience Award for Web-Series
High & Mighty directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada
