Audience Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Machinery of Dreams
• Documentary Feature: Stay Prayed Up
• Narrative Short: Calf Rope
• Documentary Short: When We Were Bullies

Programmers’ Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: The Speech
• Documentary Feature: Socks on Fire
• Narrative Short: The Acolyte
• Documentary Short: In the Shadow of the Pines

 Reel South SHORT Award winner at the Virginia Film Festival

• There Was Nobody Here We Knew

American Perspectives Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema

• Jeremy O. Harris

Audience Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Nomadland
• Documentary Feature: They Ain’t Ready for Me
• Narrative Short: We Got This
• Documentary Short: The First

Programmers’ Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Dinner in America
• Documentary Feature: Hamtramck, USA
• Narrative Short: Moneybag Head
• Documentary Short: Call Center Blues

 Reel South SHORT Award winner at the Virginia Film Festival

• Lipstick and Leather

American Perspectives Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema

• Chloé Zhao

Audience Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Just Mercy          
  
• Narrative Short: Esta Es Tu Cuba
  
• Documentary Feature: Sing You a Brand New Song: The Words and Music of Coleman Mellett
• Documentary Short: Lost & Found

Programmer’s Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Postal
  
• Narrative Short: The Elephant’s Song 
• Documentary Feature: Always in Season
• Documentary Short: Take Me to Prom

Commonwealth Awards

• Best Virginia Feature Film: Fishing with Dynamite
• Best Virginia Short Film: Slave Cry

Audience Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Green Book            
  
• Narrative Short: Are You Volleyball?!
  
• Documentary Feature: Free Solo
• Documentary Short: Unstuck: An OCD Kids Movie

Programmer’s Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Relaxer
  
• Narrative Short: Lamb   
• Documentary Feature: América
• Documentary Short: Like Dolls, I’ll Rise

Commonwealth Awards

• Best Virginia Feature Film: Fiddlin’
• Best Virginia Short Film: Werowocomoco

Audience Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Last Flag Flying            
  
• Narrative Short: An Act of Terror
  
• Documentary Feature: Roll With Me
• Documentary Short: The Ruination of Lovell Coleman

Programmer’s Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: November
  
• Narrative Short: The Real Thing      
• Documentary Feature: Serenade for Haiti  
• Documentary Short: Edith+Eddie

Audience Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Lion
  
• Narrative Short : The Projectionist              
  
• Documentary Feature: Landfill Harmonic
• Documentary Short: Holistic Life Foundation: breathing love into a community 

Programmer’s Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Driftwood           
  
• Narrative Short: Femme Enfant  
• Documentary Feature: Farewell Ferris Wheel     
• Documentary Short: Titanic Boy

Audience Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Brooklyn
  
• Narrative Short:  The Present 
  
• Documentary Feature: Until 20 
  
• Documentary Short: Teen Press

Programmer’s Award Winners

• Narrative Feature:  Some Beasts 
  
• Narrative Short:  Usetocould 
  
• Documentary Feature: Mully 
  
• Documentary Short:  Radio Orson

Audience Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: What We Do in the Shadows
• Narrative Short: Waking Marshall Walker
• Documentary Feature: How I Got Over
• Documentary Short: 28ft Deep

Programmer’s Award Winners

• Narrative Feature:  Animals 
• Narrative Short: Sure Thing
• Documentary Feature: Big Moccasin
• Documentary Short: Field Notes

Audience Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Philomena
• Narrative Short: Awakened Eyes
• Documentary Feature: CLAW
• Documentary Short: The Creative Proposition

Programmer’s Award Winners

• Narrative Feature: Blue Ruin
• Documentary Feature: A Will for the Woods
• Narrative Short: Miracle Boy
• Documentary Short: Ring People