Stay tuned for our 2024 awards to be announced on August 25th!
Festival Awards
2023
Best Feature - Sponsored by the Oregon Film Office
Innovative Sound Experience Award
- Alice in Cyberland
- A Pretty Good Movie WINNER!
- Cognitive Silver
Best Animated Feature
- Titina Silver
- Return to Kellogg
- Quantum Cowboys WINNER!
Visionary Use of Technology in a Short Film
- Shelf Life WINNER!
- Yellow Dove Aftermath
- Belonging: FAREWELL
- Dark Cell
- New Air Silver
- THE EYE: CALANTHEK
Best 3D Animated Short
- Run Totti Run Silver
- The Sprayer
- Manō
- Moirai, Thread of Life
- Regular Rabbit WINNER!
- Yellow Dove Aftermath
Best 2D Animated Short
- Operation Frankenstein
- The Adventures of Baxter & Clyde
- ON/OFF Silver
- The 7th Night: Mao Mao Revisits
- Echo WINNER!
- Saint Android
Outstanding Sci-Fi World Building
- THE EYE: CALANTHEK
- The Sprayer
- Dark Cell
- New Air
- Hibernation Silver
- Lost in the Sky WINNER!
Innovative Sound Experience Award
- The Beatles Vs. The Stones
- Yellow Dove Aftermath
- New Air Silver
- THE EYE: CALANTHEK WINNER!
- Regular Rabbit
- Moirai, Thread of Life
Best Dramatic Short
- Mespil in the Dark Silver
- Our Males and Females WINNER!
- Nativity
- The Fourth
- Le Ballon Bleu (The Blue Balloon)
- Lost in the Sky
Best Sci-Fi Short
- Fieldtrip
- Dark Cell Silver
- New Air
- Nativity
- Awake (17 minutes) WINNER!
- Lost in the Sky
Best Animated Comedic Short
- Chihuahua Drama
- Regular Rabbit Silver
- Critterz WINNER!
- Deadline
- P.F. Chang’s Signature Rice
- Chikn Nuggit: Chee & Cofi
Best Comedic Short
- Fieldtrip Silver
- Eindis Ends It All WINNER!
- Take Me to Your Influencer
- The Narrator
Best VFX in a Short
- As Seen on TV
- Fear Incarnate
- Dark Cell Silver
- Fieldtrip
- Le Ballon Bleu (The Blue Balloon) WINNER!
Best Use of Unreal Engine
- THE EYE: CALANTHEK WINNER!
- Hibernation
- Belonging: FAREWELL WINNER!
- The Lucky
Best Music Video
- The Beatles Vs. The Stones Silver
- The Moon Followed Me to Falmouth
- Lipstick of the Brave
- Austin Karimloo WINNER!
- Elvis Presley – Unchained Melody
Best Microshort
- Two Wongs WINNER!
- An Axe to Grind Silver
- Stronger than you think
- You are Not Alone
- Gamer
Best Animated Short Short
- Cool for You WINNER!
- Lonely Island
- Shelf Life
- Awake (5 minutes)
- Living a Different Life
- Little t Silver
Best Student Film - Sponsored by the Portland Film Office
- The day, at the Beach
- Lonely Island WINNER!
- Sprout Silver
- How to Survive the Heatwave
- Saint Android
- The most boring Granny in the whole world
Best Oregon Short -Sponsored by the Portland Film Office
- As Seen on TV WINNER!
- Exquisite Corpse
- Pinto the Mean Bean
- The Gorgon Cycles
- The Moon Followed Me to Falmouth WINNER!
Best Experimental Short
- Red Threads WINNER!
- The Narrator Silver
- Artifacts of you, artifacts of me
- Ghost in the Machine
- The Lucky
- Behind the Sky
Best Experimental Animation
- Of Wood WINNER!
- Revelation
- Hold Me Down
- Exquisite Corpse
- Moirai, Thread of Life Silver
- The Gorgon Cycles
Best Children’s Short
- The Right One Silver
- Le Ballon Bleu (The Blue Balloon) WINNER!
- My Dear Aunt Sally
- Take Me to Your Influencer
Best Animated Short for Children
- Operation Frankenstein Silver
- The Adventures of Baxter & Clyde WINNER!
- Cool for You
- Critterz
- Mano
- HAM
Best Object Animation in a Short Film
- Deadline
- Of Wood WINNER!
- HAM Silver
- Diomysus
Best Stop Motion Microshort
- But What
- Sleepy WINNER!
- Flower Silver
- Ruff and Buff
- Outlet
Best Episodic
- Chateau Laurier WINNER!
- Belonging: FAREWELL Silver
- The Good Advice Cupcake: Fashion, Friendship, and Growing Up
- ChiknNuggit: Chee & Cofi
Best Documentary Feature
- Utopia Silver
- Copyright Infringement WINNER!
Best Documentary Short
- The Story of Sky Song
- MUSHKILE’ Silver
- Diomysus WINNER!
- Earthling
- Idaho Babe
Best Music
- I Saw Myself Dead
- Small World
- The Widowmaker and the Soul’s Expression
- Hold On
- The Fate of Cysalion Silver
- Yellow Dove Aftermath WINNER!
Best Acting in a Short
- Mespil in the Dark – Aidan Gillen WINNER!
- Eindis Ends It All – Weslie Lechner
- New Air – Elizabeth Turner
- Dark Cell – Alain Figlarz
- Fieldtrip – Laurentiu Ciccur
- Of Males and Females – Kamel El Basha Silver