Festival Archive
2016 Festival Archive
2016 WMIFF Winners – World Music & Independent Film Festival
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Awards & Winners
2016
Best Actor in a Feature Film
Hoyt Richards, Intersection
Best Actress in a Feature Film
Lynne Alana Delaney, Remake
Best Director in a Feature Film
Brendan Kelly, Jane and the House of Miracles
Best Screenplay in a Feature Film
Tim & Michael French, Intersection
Best Cinematographer in a Feature Film
Timothy Delaney, Remake
Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film
Timothy Carhart, Remake
Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film
Tessa Muro, Remake
Best Actor in a Short Film
Kier O’Donnell, Bound for Greatness
Best Actress in a Short Film
Margaret Belton, Hiding in Freedom
Best Supporting Actor in a Short Film
Richard Strange, Lady Luck
Best Supporting Actress in a Short Film
Heather Ann Davis, Upstairs
Best Director in a Short Film
Oldren Romero, A Tale of Christ and Jesus
Best Screenplay in a Short Film
Kristin Holt, Hiding in Freedom
Best Cinematographer in a Short Film
Brennan Maxwell, Bound for Greatness
Best Feature Documentary
Where Is She Now?
Best Feature Documentary in Music
Memoir’s of a Hip Ole Black Man
Best Cinematographer, Doc.
Raphael Beinder, Swing It Kids
Best Cinematographer, Doc.- DMV
Rudy Childs, 1984: Riding Into Hell
Best Short Documentary
Montgat, a creative threshold towards the Maresme´
Women Filmmaker
Page Brein, Pretty Fishes
Best Editor
Mark Neal Mockett, Where Is She Now?
Best Makeup
Devin Shayla Morales, Ben & Ara
Best Director in Documentary
John Henry Richardson, Where Is She Now?
Best DMV Documentary
1984: Riding Into Hell
Best DMV Music Documentary
45: A Rock N Roll Revival
Best Southeast Asia Film
Coffee at Laundromat
Best Animation
Save the Bees
Best Experimental
Echoes: Signal Transposition
Best Original Sound
Jacklyn Monroe, Pretty Fishes
Best Costume Design
45: A Rock N Roll Revival
Best Rock Music Video
Die Trying
Best Alternative Rock Music Video
Pushing Resistance
Best R & B Music Video
Beatin
Best Country Music Video
Better
Best Pop
The Place
Most Creative Music Video
Pushing Resistance
Best Student Film
Frontman
Best Director in Student Film
Matthew Gentile
Best DMV Director
Kazarr Coleman, Gehenna
Best Actress in DMV Feature Film
Tammy Barboza, Mateo’s Blood
Best Actor in DMV Feature Film
Keith Scott, Gehenna
Best Supporting Actor in DMV Feature
Doug Henderson, Admin
Best Actress in DMV Short Film
Mackie Lou Vigal, Cuckoos Nesting
Best Supporting Actress in DMV
Angel Gathers, Mateo’s Blood
Best Screenplay in Short/Feature
Eric Espejo & Korosh Karini, Admin
Best Cinematographer in DMV
Jacob Drumheller, Cuckoos Nesting
First Director
Edwin Santiago, 45: A Rock N Roll Revival
Best Short Screenplay
18%
Best Feature Screenplay
Hell in Neptune