2021 Award Winners
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
Press Release2020 Award Winners
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
Press Release2019 Award Winners
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
2018 Award Winners
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
2017 Award Winners
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
2016 Award Winners
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
2015 Award Winners
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
2014 Award Winners
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
2013 Award Winners
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