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Annual film festival in Harlem, New York, US
The Harlem International Film Festival (Hi ) is an annual five-day film festival in Harlem , New York .[ 1] [ 2] Michael Franti 's I Know I'm Not Alone was named Best International Documentary at the festival that year.[ 3] short film Eme Nakia [ 4] The Hip Hop Project produced by Queen Latifah and Bruce Willis was named Best Documentary Film.[ 5] Nigerian film Anchor Baby [ 6] Omoni Oboli was named Best Actress that year.[ 7] The Projectionist premiered at the 2013 festival.[ 8] Vanessa L. Williams Best Actress one year.[ 9] In The Field , directed by Matthew Hope, was screened at the festival one year.[ 10]
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Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Valley of Exile
Best World Film
When Morning Comes
Best Documentary
Return to Your Corner
Best World Documentary
Three (Extra)Ordinary Women
Audience Award
One Person, One Vote?
Best Director
Stakes is High
Jean-Pierre Caner
Best Documentary Director
FIREFLY: The Tay Fisher Story
Christopher Nostrand
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
Playing Through
Balbinka Korzeniowska
Best Actress
As if it’s True
Ashley Ortega
Best Actor
My Last Best Friend
Eric Roberts
New York Vision Award
Skate Night
Best Short Narrative
I Promise You Paradise
Best Short Short
Pen, Again
Best Short Documentary
How to Sue The Klan
Harlem Spotlight (Feature Narrative)
What Somalia Wants
Harlem Spotlight (Feature Documentary)
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From Leroi To Amiri
Harlem Spotlight (Short Narrative)
Speak Up Brotha!
Harlem Spotlight (Short Documentary)
Interception: Jayne Kennedy • American Sportscaster
Uptown Award (Narrative)
Bronx Park Thunder
Uptown Award (Documentary)
The Book of Days
Best Youth Short (Narrative)
Project: KLB2
Andrew Baker Taylor & Andrew Yuen
Best Youth Short (Doc)
Little Sahara
Best Animation
A Cow In The Sky
Best Experimental Film
For Those That Lived There
Best Music Video
Null Island – Cyano Sun Suite
Winning Webisode
Vibrations: Offerings
Best Virtual Reality
Nirwana Gold
Winning Feature Screenplay
Black Mountain
Joe Villanti
Winning Short Script
Ryan Fenson-Hood
No Rules Radio
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Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Blow Up My Life
Best World Film
Illyricvm
Best Documentary
Ricochet
Best World Documentary
King of Kings
Audience Award
The Right to Read
Best Director
Honor Student
Tamika Miller
Best Documentary Director
Blind Eye Artist
Ashwin Chaudhary
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
Stronghold
Julia Camara
Best Actress
Our Father, the Devil
Babetida Sadjo
Best Actor
Our Father, the Devil
Souleymane Sy Savané
Best Production
The Way to Happiness
New York Vision Award
Orange and the Blues
Best Short
A Mukbang to Remember
Best Short Short
Visiting Day
Best Short Documentary
John Leguizamo Live at Rikers
Harlem Spotlight
In Search of Bengali Harlem
Uptown Award (Feature Film)
In the Weeds
Uptown Award (Short Film)
The Obituary of Jasper James
Best Youth Film
The Lake Merritt Monster
Best Animation
There is Exactly Enough Time
Best Experimental Film
Harlem is Nowhere
Best Music Video
Winter in Pluto
Winning Webisode
Closet B!tch
Best Virtual Reality
Thank You for Sharing Your World
Winning Feature Screenplay
A Man Called White
Randy Hines
Winning Short Script
1918
Jenna Brister
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Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Never Better
Best World Film
The Ugly Truth
Best Documentary
Stateless
Best World Documentary
Girls for Future
Audience Award
Love is in the Legend
Best Director
Maya and Her Lover
Nicole Sylvester
Best Documentary Director
Ushiku
Thomas Ash
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
Blurring the Color Line
Crystal Kwok
Best Actress
Never Better
Sofia Bryant
Best Actor
Broken Blooms
Jeric Gonzales
Best Production
Person Woman Man Camera TV
New York Vision Award
Leveling Lincoln
Best Short
Black Rainbow
Best Short Short
Wildcat
Best Short Documentary
When I Get Grown – Reflections of a Freedom Rider
Harlem Spotlight
Cinema and Sanctuary – Hans Richter & America’s First Documentary Film School
Uptown Award (Feature Film)
My Mother’s Son
Uptown Award (Short Film)
If My Voice Rang Louder Than My Skin
Best Youth Film
En Avant
Best Animation
Peek-a-Boom
Best Experimental Film
Black Love Manifesto
Best Music Video
Enough
Winning Webisode
Lost/Found
Best Virtual Reality
Stories of Home
Winning Feature Screenplay
A Black Tribute and a Red Scare
Winning Short Script
My Town
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Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Voodoo Macbeth
Best World Film
Reflection
Best Documentary
100 Years from Mississippi
Best World Documentary
Queens of the Revolution
Audience Award
Coogan's Way
Best Director
Sundays in July
Joseph E. Austin II
Best Documentary Director
Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me
Abby Ginzberg
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
All on a Summer's Day
Avril E. Russell
Best Actress
Voodoo Macbeth
Inger Tudor
Best Actor
Kalel, 15
Elijah Canlas
Best Production
Voodoo Macbeth
New York Vision Award
Full Circle
Best Short
Baby
Best Short Short
Before I Knew
Best Short Documentary
Anthony Crawford - The Man the South Forgot
Harlem Spotlight
The Drop Shot
Uptown Award
First Move
Best Youth Short
I'm Ready
Best Animation
Gon, the Little Fox
Best Experimental Film
Summer in Hindsight
Best Music Video
Skyrocket
Winning Webisode
Praize
Best Virtual Reality
Hominidae
Winning Feature Screenplay
Ella, Witnessing
Winning Short Script
Survival as a Ghostwriter
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Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Haingosoa
Best World Film
Omar and Us
Best Documentary
Thumbs Up for Mother Universe
Best World Documentary
Opeka
Audience Award
The Patterson
Best Director
Thin Skin
Charles Mudede
Best Documentary Director
El Susto
Karen Akins
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
The Subject
Lanie Zipoy
Best Actress
Iska
Ruby Ruiz
Best Actor
Waiting
Khalid Ahmed
Best Production
Before the Fire
New York Vision Award
#like
Best Short
Little Brother
Best Short Short
W
Best Short Documentary
Finding Elijah
Harlem Spotlight
Frederick Douglass Boulevard AKA Food & Drink Boulevard AKA F.D.B.
Uptown Award
Sundays at the Triple Nickel
Best Youth Short
Shine & Shade
Best Animation
Malakout
Best Experimental Film
Bubble
Best Music Video
On My Mind
Winning Webisode
Before We Wrap
Best Virtual Reality
Reconstruct: Five Confederates and a Tennis Player
Winning Feature Screenplay
The Ambassador of Love
Winning Short Script
Channel Bibi
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Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Wheels
Best World Film
Doing Money
Best Documentary
The Last American Colony: One Man’s Revolution
Best World Documentary
Eliades Ochoa: From Cuba to the World
Audience Award
Strive
Best Director
Katrina’s Dream
Mirko & Dario Bischofberger
Best Documentary Director
Madagasikara
Cam Cowan
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
Boy Genius
Bridget Stokes
Best Actress
Strive
Joi Starr
Best Actor
Goliath
Sven Schelker
Best Cinematography
No Way Out
New York Showcase Award
Decade of Fire
Best Short
83 Days
Best Short Short
The Highbridge
Best Short Documentary
The Man of the Trees
Harlem Spotlight (Feature)
When Harlem Saved a King
Uptown Award (Feature)
Seaman and 207
Uptown Award (Short)
Chevere con Salsa
Best Youth Short
We the Children
Best Animation
Substance
Best Experimental Film
Salt Water
Best Music Video
Ice Moon
Winning Webisode
Gray Ground
Best Virtual Reality
The Negro Building VR Experience
Winning Feature Screenplay
Harlem Fever
Winning Short Script
Woke?
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Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
The Best of All Worlds
Best World Film
Elvis Walks Home
Best Documentary
My Tourette’s
Best World Documentary
Retracing Jeneba
Audience Award
The Rainbow Experiment
Best Director
Mandela’s Gun
John Irvin
Best Documentary Director
The Jazz Ambassadors
Hugo Berkeley
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
Incarcerated Rhythm
Indrani Kopal
Best Experimental Film
The Silent Eye
Best Actress
The Best of All Worlds
Verena Altenberger
Best Actor
Mandela’s Gun
Tumisho Masha
Best Cinematography
Sayakbay
New York Showcase Award
Write When You Get Work
Harlem Spotlight (Feature)
The Breeding
Harlem Spotlight (Short)
Congo Cabaret
Best Short
Hold Me Down
Best Short Documentary
Home Street Home
Best Youth Short
Blacked Out
Best Animation
Two Balloons
Best Music Video
Stand Down
Winning Webisode
A Whole New Irving
Winning Feature Screenplay
The Other Side
Alexandra Farias
Winning Short Script
Crushing
Simbi Kali
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Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Krotoa
Best World Film
Groom’s Block
Best Documentary
Garden of the Peaceful Dragon
Best World Documentary
Servant or Slave
Audience Award
Curtsy, Mister
Best Director
Moscow Never Sleeps
Johnny O’Reilly
Best Documentary Director
The Land Beneath Our Feet
Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
NANA
Serena Dykman
Best Actress
Ordinary People
Hasmine Killip
Best Actor
Ordinary People
Ronwaldo Martin
New York Showcase Award
Day After Day
Harlem Spotlight (Documentary)
The Speech
Harlem Spotlight (Short Narrative)
Search Party
Harlem Spotlight (Short Documentary)
A Girl Can Dream… Bre Scullark
Best Experimental Film
White Face
Best Short
Dem Dem!
Best Short Short
Hello, Malcolm
Best Short Documentary
The Sara Spencer Washington Story
Best Youth Short Documentary
Statement of Truth
Best Youth Short
Cocoa Butter Short
Best Animation
Trip to the Stars
Best Music Video
Iridescence
Winning Webisode
The New Adventures of Brobot Johnson
Winning Feature Screenplay
Ghost Patriot
Todd Wise
Winning Short Script
Eleventh Earl of Getzford
Jess Grant
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Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Children of the Mountain
Best World Film
Hear the Silence / Höre Die Stille
Best Documentary
I Go Back Home – Jimmy Scott
Best World Documentary
Nuclear Neighbour
Audience Award
Thirsty
Best Director
Good Grief
Brandon Ford Green
Best Documentary Director
Rigoberta Menchú Tum – Daughter of the Maya
Dawn Engle
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
For Kibera!
Kati Juurus
Best Cinematography
The Sister
Best Editing
West Coast
Best Actress
Children of the Mountain
Rukiyat Masud
Best Actor
Rain the Color Blue with a Little Red in It
Mdou Moctar
Best Ensemble Cast
42 Seconds of Happiness
Most Remarkable Young Person on Screen
Two Worlds
Laura Gontarczyk
Jonas and the Backyard Circus
Jonas Laborda
Kojo
Kojo Roney
Good Funk
Leonay Shepherd
Thrive
Matthew Whitaker
New York Showcase Award
H.O.M.E.
Harlem Spotlight (Short Documentary)
By Jamal Joseph
Harlem Spotlight (Short Narrative)
World’s Not For Me
Harlem Spotlight (Feature)
Good Funk
Harlem Spotlight (Documentary)
Daddy Don’t Go
Best Experimental Film
The Sky Over Berlin of My Childhood
Best Youth Feature
The Remnant
Best Youth Short Documentary
Out of the Ashes
Best Youth Short
Let’s Stay Together
Top Ten Best Shorts
A Beautiful Day
Any Day Now
Boat People
MBFF
Neurophreak
Princess Eun Hwa
Shen
The Frozen Eye
The Telegram Man
Ugly
Best Short Documentaries
Do You Hear What I Hear?
One Day at a Time
Soul City
Best Short Shorts
L’Encenedor Quàntic
The Crip Who Loves Yoga
Thrive
Best Animation
Sisters
The Night Witch
Best Music Video
Bangers
Dove
Winning Webisode (Narrative)
Everything I Did Wrong in My 20s
Winning Webisode (Documentary)
My Life Offline
Winning Feature Script
Riding on Duke’s Train
Ken Kimmelman & Mick Carlon
Winning Short Script
Run, My Dear
Marjory Kaptanoglu
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Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
America is Still the Place
Best World Film
My Life with the King
Best Documentary
Adolfo Perez Esquivel: Rivers of Hope
Best World Documentary
Zemene
Audience Award
Korla
Best Director
Wildlike
Frank Hall Green
Best Documentary Director
American Native
Steven Oritt
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
Behind Some Dark Cloud
Chelsea Kane
New York Showcase Award
Kensho at the Bedfellow
Best Youth Actress
Before the Bomb
Sterling Jerins
Best Youth Actor
Hagereseb
Joseph Smith
Best Actress
Wildlike
Ella Purnell
Best Actor
The Last Saint
Beulah Koale
Harlem Spotlight (Short Documentary)
Serenity Garden
Harlem Spotlight (Short Narrative)
King of Guangzhou
Harlem Spotlight (Feature)
Subways
Harlem Spotlight (Documentary)
The Beauty That I Saw
Best Cinematography
Eventide
Best Youth Feature
My Voice, My Life
Best Youth Short Documentary
Call Me Joe
Best Youth Short
Falling
Top Ten Best Shorts
Tom in America
The Dangle
Hagareseb
Before the Bomb
Love Always Eartha
Keeper of the Past
The Bravest, the Boldest
The Story of a Rainy Night
The Yellow Festival
Welcome
Best Short Documentaries
Code Oakland
Even The Walls
Sir Shadow
Why We Stay
Best Short Shorts
Split End
Unforgiven
Breaking in
Project Brave
I’ve Just Had a Dream
Best Animation
Golden Shot
Best Music Video
Chops
Winning Feature Script
Hell and Hallelujah!
Margaret Ford-Rogers & Shaytee Gadson
Winning Short Script
The Real Man
Cathy Reinking & Darryl Dillard
Harlem International Film Festival 2014 award winners [ edit ]
Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Kamkam
Best World Film
Depois da Chuva
Best Documentary
The Cooler Bandits
Best World Doc
Brown Bread
Best Director
Tempo Girl
Dominik Locher
Best Documentary Director
You have his Eyes
Christopher Wilson
Mira Nair Award For
Redemption Trail
Britta Sjogren
Audience Award
Children of the Light
Best Experimental Film
Duran / Circling
Best Actor
Magkakabaung
Allen Dizon
101 Chodyangal
Minon
Best Actress
Love Me
Viktoria Spesyvtseva
Best Cinematography
Si-o-se Pol
Kristian Leschner
Best Short Documentary
The Game Changer
Indrani Kopal
Best Short Shorts
18 Seconds
Berxen Kulek
La Loteria
One Question
The Devil Goes Down
The Way You Love
Best Short
0.60 MG
Battle Of Island Mound
Fleecing Led Zeppelin
Into The Silent Sea
Kasita
La Donna
The Perfect Sacrifice
Best Animation
Le Gouffre
Puggums
Best Youth Feature
Flying Paper
Best Youth Short Documentary
A Teen's Guide to Understanding and Communicating with People with Autism
Best Youth Short
Perfect Day
Best Music Video
The Lion
Harlem Spotlight (feature)
Know How
Harlem Spotlight (documentary)
Changing Face of Harlem
Winning Feature Script
The Blacktivist
Winning Short Script
Brewster Commons
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Harlem International Film Festival 2013 award winners [ edit ]
Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Clutter
Diane Crespo
Best World Film
Tu Seras Un Homme (You’ll Be A Man)
Benoit Cohen
Best Documentary
Lessons of Hayti
Edward J. Harris II and Byron Hunter
Best World Doc
Post 9-11: Fear, Anger & Politics
Nadia Zouaoui
Best Director
Four of Hearts
Eric Haywood
Best Documentary Director
16 Acres
Richard Hankin
Mira Nair Award For
Bittersweet Monday
Jaime Lee
Audience Award
Sex, Love & Salsa
Adrian Manzano
Best Experimental Film
Objects Attack!
Rona Mark
Best Actor
Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till
Mike Wiley
Best Actress
Nuwebe
Barbara Miguel
Best Cinematography
The Passage
Alexander Douglas
Best Short Documentary
Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution
Matthew Vandyke
Best Short
Daughter
Assia Lakhlif
Empty Paper Bag
Majid Sarvini
Farewell Jimmy
Sanghyun Kim
Kombra
Ali Kamanda
Pillowcase
David Lombroso
Sum-ba-kok-jil (Hide ‘n Seek)
Hanuk Lee
Sweet, Sweet Country
Dehanza Rogers
The Projectionist
Najat Jellab
Best Animation
Daddy ABC
Hamad Alawar
Ed
Gabriel Garcia
Best Youth Short
Remain Still
Armaan Uplekar
Best Music Video
Sufferin’ Till You’re Straight
David Scheve
Harlem Spotlight (feature)
Fight, Dance Sing
Kamal Robinson
Harlem Spotlight (short)
Happy New Year!
Judianny Compress
Winning Feature Script
The Rose That Grew From Concrete:
Reginald Jackson
Winning Short Script
She Was Left Alone
Bela Wolf
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Harlem International Film Festival 2012 award winners [ edit ]
Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
True Bromance
Sebastian Doggart (UK, US)
Best World Film
A.L.F.
Jérôme Lescure (France)
Best Documentary
Herman's House Angad Bhalla
Best World Documentary
Not My Life Robert Bilheimer
Best Director
The Talk Man (US)
Gene Gallerano
Best Documentary Director
Mas Man (Trinidad & Tobago, US)
Dalton Narine
Mira Nair Award
A Gran Plan Sangeeta Nambiar
Audience Award
The Glamorous Lie (US)
Best Actor
Hombre y Tierra (US)
Maurice Ripke
Best Actress
A Gran Plan Farida Jalal
Best Short Documentary
Check the Rhyme (US)
Tim Smoove
Top Seven Shorts
Amos (US)
Taylor Maxwell
I Can Smoke? (US)
Tony Ducret
Playing Grown Up (Mexico)
Javier Solorzano Casarin
Shoot the Moon
Alexander Gaeta (US)
The Darkness is Close Behind (US)
Sheena Mccann
The Hole (South Korea)
Joon Seong Ahn
The Pilgrim & the Private Eye (US)
Joel Johnstone
Best Short Shorts And I on the Opposite Shore (US)
Mozell Miley-Bailey
Co Raz Zostalo Zapisane (Poland)
Martin Rath
Raise My Hands (Ireland)
Frank Kelly
The Future (Australia)
Venetia Taylor
The World Outside (US)
Zachary Kerschberg
Best Animation
The Hopper Alex Brüel Flagstad (Denmark)
Wolf Dog Tales Bernadine Santistevan (US)
Best Youth (Feature) Film
Brooklyn Bridges (Palestine, US)
Fran Tarr
Best Youth Short
Cross Court (US)
Rafael Cortina
Best Music Video
Soldier (US)
Cinque Northern
Harlem Spotlight
Stonefaced (US)
Vivian Ducat
Winning Feature Script
Eternal Spring Fist
Erik Bernard
Winning Short Script
The Tenth Door
Michael D. Lies
Screenplay Finalists
Hope is Not a Black and White Rainbow
Harold Brown
Resilience
Lena Slachmuijlder
You Dresses, Me Shoes
S. A. Green
Screenplay Semi-finalists
Fall Out
Michael Gold
In 2 Me U
Kimberly Fernandez & Jeanette Villafane
Kingpin
R. M. Chepesiuk
Undivided
Trevor and Troy Parham
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