2012 FILM AWARDS

Focus Features Best Film Award
            Sara Zandieh, Reza Hassani Goes to the Mall 

Big Beach Award for Best Director
            Mauro Mueller, Un Mundo Para Raúl

The Adrienne Shelly Foundation Award for Best Female Director 
            Natasha Johns-Messenger, Blackwood

SimonSays Entertainment Award for Innovative Filmmaking 
            Min Ding, Three Light Bulbs

Twentieth Century Fox / Farrelly Brothers Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Award
            Nathan Floody, Hunters

National Board of Review Student Grants
            Natasha Johns-Messenger, Blackwood
            Min Ding, Three Light Bulbs
            Shane Atkinson, Penny Dreadful

Entertainment Partners Producing Award
            Winner: Mayuran Tiruchelvam
Honorable Mention: Michele De Caro
Honorable Mention: Mira El Koussa

Doddle Award for Collaborative Achievement in the ASCAP/Columbia University Film Scoring Workshop
            Saro Varjabedian & Nicholas Bitell, After Water There Is Sand

Alumni Award for Best Student Film 
            Natasha Johns-Messenger, Blackwood

Student Selects Awards:
Best Film: Asternauts, Marta Masferrer
Best Directing: Reza Hassani Goes to the Mall, Sara Zandieh
Best Writing: Un Mundo Para Raúl (A World for Raúl), Mauro Mueller
Best Directing Actors: Three Light Bulbs, Min Ding
Best Producing: Forever in Hiatus, Ko-Rely Pi; Director: Andy Nguyen
Best Dialogue: Family Bum, Ben Seccombe
Original Vision: The Dark, Justin P. Lange
Daring Narrative: Ratitas (Scoundrels), David Figueroa Garcia
Authentic Storytelling: A Little Fire, Gregg Conde
Cinematic Charisma: Blackwood, Natasha Johns-Messenger

IFP Audience Choice Awards
Program A: Penny Dreadful, Shane Atkinson
Program B: Lectern, Jeffery K. Miller
Program C: Shale, Jed Cowley
Program D: Child Eater, Erlingur Thoroddsen
Program E: Lambing Season, Jeannie Donohoe & The End of the World, Willem Lee
Program F: Dear Dog, I Love You, Jed Cowley
Program G: Un Mundo Para Raúl (A World for Raúl), Mauro Mueller

The Ezra Litwak Award for Distinction in Screenwriting
            Lisa Rubin, Wallingford

Best Teleplay: Spec Script
            Joseph Clay, Centenarian

Best Teleplay: Original Pilot
            Brian McAuley, Strange Case

Arthur Krim Memorial Awards
            Brian Birch & Jacey Heldrich 

The Brick Company Producing Prize
            Perri Nemiroff

Lewis Cole Memorial Award for Excellence
            Valerie Bischoff

Jesse Thompkins III Screenwriting Award
            Joseph Clay

David Jones Memorial Award
            Laurence Vannicelli

Everest Entertainment Development Award
            Alvaro Valente, Tobacco Burn

HBO Development Award
            Ben Rubin, Melvin

James Bridges Development Award
            Lara Gallagher, American Gladiator

Doddle Development Award
            Min Ding, Rattlesnake and Butterfly

Offhollywood RED Camera Package Development Award
            Jeff Moneo, Going South

Offhollywood Digital Cinema Color Correction Development Award
            Brian Love, Devil Deal Blues

Sound Lounge Post-Production Sound & Design Award
            Ko-Rely Pi, Relics