SPOTLIGHT

FILM AWARDS

2016 Awards

The best independent short films of 2016

2 Solitudes
by Matt Eastman
Spotlight Silver Award

4D
by Laurence Rosier Staines
Spotlight Silver Award

A Selfie
by María Fernanda Suarez
Spotlight Gold Award

Agrinoui
by Alexis Chaviaras
Spotlight Gold Award

Alaskan Tapes (ft. Nori) - Never Missed
by Brent Lambert-Zaffino
Spotlight Silver Award

Almost Home
by BJ Golnick
Spotlight Gold Award

An Apprentice
by Jacob Patrick
Spotlight Gold Award

Battle Of The Brides
by Phillip Thomas
Spotlight Gold Award

Beautiful Dreamer
by David Gaddie
Spotlight Silver Award

Behind The Wall
by Bat-Sheva Guez
Spotlight Gold Award

Birthday Boy
by Andrew Saunderson
Spotlight Gold Award

Bit Tuner - Immnune
by Roland von Tessin, Alice Zurbuchen
Spotlight Gold Award

Black Cat
by Leonie Savvides
Spotlight Gold Award

Climax
by David Mahler
Spotlight Silver Award

Cuckold Picasso
by Lance Larson
Spotlight Silver Award

Dead Draw
by Charli Brissey
Spotlight Silver Award

Dreaming of Peggy Lee
by James Everett
Spotlight Gold Award

Drug Mule
by David Spaltro
Spotlight Gold Award

Endurable
by Joseph Grout
Spotlight Gold Award

Fatum
by Radoslaw Pietruczuk
Spotlight Platinum Award

Goodboy
by Jesse Scimeca
Spotlight Silver Award

Greener
by Alessia Gatti
Spotlight Silver Award

Heartbreak & Beauty
by Libby Banks, Nathan Basha, Robin Bryan,

Genevieve Clay-Smith
Spotlight Platinum Award

Helio
by Teddy Cecil
Spotlight Silver Award

Him&Her&Him
by Mélisa Breiner-Sanders, Jason Bruffy
Spotlight Silver Award

Humanitarianism
by Arunkumar Subramanian
Spotlight Silver Award

In This World
by Kelly Creedon
Spotlight Platinum Award

Jada
by Doug Roland
Spotlight Platinum Award

Jamie & Jonathan
by Kyle C. Mumford
Spotlight Gold Award

January Hymn
by Katherine Canty
Spotlight Silver Award

John The Carpenter
by Matt Braunsdorf
Spotlight Silver Award

Killer Recipe
by Chadwick Whitehead
Spotlight Gold Award

La Huida Silenciosa
by Hernán Velit , José Carlos García
Spotlight Silver Award

Labial Quintet
by Courtney Stephens
Spotlight Silver Award

Lalee
by Jugal k. Nayak

Spotlight Bronze Award

Lay In Wait
by Jonathan Ade
Spotlight Gold Award

Listeners
by Sara X. Robin
Spotlight Silver Award

Mariana's Sandwich
by Carlos Cuarón
Spotlight Silver Award

Moom
by Robert Kondo, Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsum
Spotlight Platinum Award

Mr. Egg
by Gavin Hawk
Spotlight Silver Award

Mt. Molehill
by Jesse Stewart
Spotlight Gold Award

Napoleon: The Ticket
by Matthew Berenty
Spotlight Platinum Award

Old Soul
by Lana Young
Spotlight Gold Award

Outside the Wire
by Shaun Clifford
Spotlight Gold Award

Overachiever
by James Ferguson
Spotlight Silver Award

Passports
by Jeremy Pion-Berlin
Spotlight Gold Award

Pirate Parts
by Shabnam Shams, Megan Robinson, Sara Chantland
Spotlight Platinum Award

Poochini
by Max Colson
Spotlight Platinum Award

PreFlexia
by Shawn Leister-Frazier
Spotlight Silver Award

Rabbit Blood
by Yagmur Altan
Spotlight Platinum Award

Rebirth
by Dave Rajkumar
Spotlight Silver Award

Revoltoso
by Roy Ambriz, Arturo "Vonno" Ambriz
Spotlight Silver Award

Self Esteem
dir. by Jonathan Browning & Stoney Westmoreland

Spotlight Silver Award

Shell
by Daniel Ahrens
Spotlight Platinum Award

Speech of Foxes
by Ben Phillippo
Spotlight Platinum Award

Stay Close
by Kel Haney
Spotlight Silver Award

Subliminal
by Tristan McIntosh
Spotlight Silver Award

That Day
by Stephanie Ard
Spotlight Gold Award

The Blackboard
by Marquis Bradshaw
Spotlight Silver Award

The Bus Stop
by Justin Malone
Spotlight Platinum Award

The Edge
by Simon Saulnier
Spotlight Gold Award

The Kidnapping of a Fish
by Philip A Ramos
Spotlight Silver Award

The Land of Exodus
by Skinner Myers
Spotlight Platinum Award

The Lipinski
by Nate Townsend
Spotlight Gold Award

The Servants
by Flore Joubert
Spotlight Gold Award

The Stream
by Claudia Fucigna
Spotlight Gold Award

The Tenor
by Damon Crump
Spotlight Gold Award

The Tree That Refused To Fall
by Mikael Trench
Spotlight Silver Award

The Twilight Show with Gil Finster
by Kevin Woods
Spotlight Silver Award

Till Then
by Tara Brenninkmeyer
Spotlight Gold Award

Valerie and Veronica
by Mary Rooney
Spotlight Silver Award

Wally’s Will
by Matteo Mosterts
Spotlight Platinum Award

We All Scream
by Alyssa Radmand, Griffin Devine
Spotlight Gold Award