Third Edition
Announced Feb 18th, 2021
Best Narrative Feature:
Pooling to Paradise
Director: Roxy Shih
Best Narrative Short:
Miranda's Marionettes
Director: Hortense Lingjaerde
Best Feature Documentary:
Right Now I Want to Scream
Director: Siobhán Wills and Cahal McLaughlin
Honorable Mention Feature Documentary:
Fisher Queen- Women vs. Nature
Director: Jeonghwa Shin
Best Short Documentary:
Daughters of Drought
Directors: Melissa Godin, William Martin
Honorable Mention Short Documentary:
Phenomxnal Womxn
Director: Alexxa Walker
Best Experimental:
QARDOUN [La Passation]
Director: Sarah El Hamed
Honorable Mention Experimental:
To Garbo and Lenin
Director: Jessica Laurén
Best Comedy:
Bits and Pieces
Director: Lindsay Stidham
Best Science Fiction:
TRANS
Director: NAERI DO
Best Horror:
PLAYDATE
Director: Nichelle S. Montgomery
Best Animation:
diminuendo
Director: Henrike Lendowski
Honorable Mention Animation:
Nailing It
Director: Kaprawi Norhayati
Best Web/TV/Pilot:
Motek
Director: Eva Lanska
Best Music Video:
Woman's Enlightenment
Director: Koutaro Ishida
Best Student Film:
The Summer Of Snakes
Director: Lara Panah-Izadi
Honorable Mention Student Film:
A MORNING, A MOTHER & A BOY
Director: Katrine Weber
Best Actress:
Hallways and Doors
Actress: Cooper Shaw
Best Female Cinematographer:
Sacrilege
Cinematographer: Sarah Smither
Best Female Scriptwriter:
Bolero in the elders house
Writer: Linda Fejzaj
Best Female Producer:
KEEP OUT! -Women Over 60 Only
Producer: Seungju Lee
Best Female Editor:
After the Facts
Editor: Karen Pearlman
Best Female Director:
Angel Mountain
Dir: Karen Schuback
Best Female Composer:
DESCENDED
Composer: Maria Finkelmeier
Best LGBTQ:
The Pageant
Director: Kasey O'Brien
Best Human Rights Film:
The Wind on your Skin
Director: Naomi Beukes, Birgit Stauber, Jana von Hase
Honorable Mention Human Rights Film:
The Least We Can Do
Director: Moira Simpson
Honorable Mention Documentary & Best Poster:
1974 1979. Le nostre ferite
Director: Monica Repetto
Best Film About Women:
Leaving to live
Director: David Rodrigues
Honorable Mention:
YAI NIN
Director: Champ Ensminger
Best Canadian Female Filmmaker:
FIREWOMAN
Director: Louise Leroux
Best Environmental Film:
SHABA
Director: Ami Vitale and David Allen
Honorable Mention Environmental:
'Your Water, My Water'
Director: Wendy Rogers
Best First Time Female Filmmaker:
A Heart Dies Twice
Director: Itziar Martinez
Honorable Mention First Time Filmmaker:
Mute
Director: Constance Hilton
Best Thriller:
Mediator
Director: Cas Sigers-Beedles
Best Unproduced Script:
Warpaint
Writer: Helen Taylor
Best Historical Film:
This Water Cuts Its Own Course
Director: Diane Fellows
Best Biographical Film:
The Iliterate poet
Director: Sonia Méndez Alonso
Best Sport Film:
Body and Soul
Director: Magali Chapelan