2010 Grand Winners

Grand Jury Award: Exodus Fall - Ankush Kohli (USA)

Special Jury Prize: The Taste of Relation - Mukesh Asopa (Canada)
Special Jury Prize: Homeless in Los Angeles - Brandon James Miller (USA)
Special Jury Prize: The Darkroom - Z. Eric Yang (USA)
Special Jury Prize: Mind Games - Daniel Deason (USA)
Special Jury Prize: Darkmoon - Alexander G. Seyum (USA)
Special Jury Prize: The Gypsy - Jon Navarro (USA)

Best Narrative Film: Mud - Karlos Alastruey (Spain)
Best Feature Film: The Story - Steve Bellamy (USA)
Best Documentary Film: The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination - Tom Jennings (USA)
Best Narrative Short: Running Away With Blackie - Lucas Garcia (USA)
Best Dramatic Short: Liminal - Stephen Keep Mills (USA)
Best Foreign Film: Little Perfect Girls - Clement Schneider (France)
Best Foreign Short: Toby's Odyssey - Steven Forrester (United Kingdom)
Best Student Film: Year of the Faun - Chloe Chevalier (France)
Best Student Short: Grandfather - Hanjin Park (USA)
Best Animated Film: Little Gobie - Tony Tang (Hong Kong)
Best Animated Short: A Noiseless Patient Spider - Nancy Rodwan (USA)
Best Director: Atroz - Francisco Alvarez (Spain)
Best First-Time Director: Awakening Arthur - Courtney Dixon (USA)
Best Screenplay: A Cigar At The Beach - Stephen Keep Mills (USA)
Best Actor: Friends and Lovers - Ron Pike (USA)
Best Actress: Anne Jennings - Lauren Montgomery (Japan)
Best Comedy: The Other Cheek - Ivonne Contreras (USA)
Best Family Film: My Little Princess - Enzo Zelocchi (USA)
Best Drama: Behind the Eight Ball - Mike Graveline  (Canada)
Best First-Time Documentary: Whats Up? - Kim Sheridan (USA)
Best California Film: The Drummond Will - Alan Butterworth (United Kingdom)
Best California Short: Two Hours In The Dark - Chip Hackler (USA)
Best Experimental Film: The Nature of Cities - Chuck Davis & Timothy Beatley (USA)
Best Music Video: Kill For You - Dawn Cobalt (USA)
Best Television Pilot: 4 Track: Sketch Comedy TV - Nicholas Morrison (USA)

Orson Welles Awards
Animated Film: Post-Nup: 'Uppers'- Katharine Woodman-Maynard
California Film: Napa - Tobey Jorré
Documentary Film: Happy World: Burma, The Dictatorship of the Absurd - Gaël Bordier
Music Video: 11:11 - Sophia Segal
Narrative Film: Unaware - Robert Cooley & Sean Bardin
Screenplay Competition: The Goddess Within written by Stavroula Kalogeras
Short Film: Rebound Girl - Joe McKernan & Mario Enriquez Jr.
Student Film: The Last to Leave - Pat Clark
Television Pilot: She Wore Silver Wings - Devin Scott

Screenplay Competition

1st Place: I'll Die Tomorrow written by John Maffucci
2nd Place: San Andreas written by Joshua Rutherford
3rd Place: Winless Winner written by Randy Hatch
4th Place: Tales of the Arranged Marriage written by Harrish Mandyam
5th Place: Death and Forgiveness written by Joe Barton

Official Finalists
Little Bighorn written by Michael Baca
Codgertown written by Robert Gately
Mission written by Jessica Ellis
Ted written by Leslie Flannery
The Manson Obsession written by Melanie Scheller
The Go Getter written by Mary Conroy
According the Surgeon General written by Benjamin Bates
Prime-7 written by Chris Renzi
Potion Man written by Mark Golik
High Sierra written by Brian Bose

Honorable Mentions
Straight-Shooter written by Stephen Settle
Bullied: The Story of the "Village Idiot" written by Donn Warr Lewis
Corporate Policy written by Robert Gately
There Are No Superheroes written by Benjamin Bates
Firewalker written by Jennifer Martin
The Bag Lady War written by Ruth Wire
Nightfreight written by John Celona
My Way written by Judah Ray Neiditch
American Feng Shui Man written by Mei Wu
Underlying Truth written by Lunda Plamann-Handford
Cosmic Roulettte written by Mick O'Brien
Army written by Lior Lederman
Cold Wake written by Guillermo Damia
The Olive Branch written by Joey Kent
Going Solo written by Robert Gately
Stations written by Michael Hemmingson
Heaven Falls written by Leslie Cook
The Voyeur written by John Bengel
Draw written by R. Dell Sanders
Jasper written by Sharon Duncan

Short Script Competition
1st Place: Happy Downloadday written by Phil Ferriere
2nd Place: Sys and Rock Star written by Jason Wallach
3rd Place: Angel Bands written by Steven Solomon

Official Finalists
…And Executioner written by Travis Opgenorth
Mom, A Pill and I written by Ye Joo Kim
Anatomy of You Saying Good-Bye written by Kevin Schwartz
Only the Heart Remembers written by Barbara Epstein
Swim Into The Unconscious written by Dexter E. Williams
Blood Trigger written by Ron Podell
Mum Goes to Mars written by J. Jeff Hillard
Tropical written by Shanti Rajini
I and the Village written by Jacob Tanenbaum
Victor Only 2 to 10 written by Barbara Epstein