Atlanta

UndergrounD

Film Festival

Sept. 16 - 19, 2021



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2015 Awards


​Best Feature
Driving While Black
dir. by Paul Sapiano

Best Documentary Feature
Searching for Eddie Running Wolf
dir. by Thomas Hartmann

Best Comedy Documentary Feature
Air Sex: The Movie
dir. by Brock LaBorde and Jonathan Evans

Best Comedy Feature
Winning Formula 
dir. by Tyler Farr

Best Director 
Dumbbells
dir. by Christopher Livingston

Best Drama Feature
Landmine Goes Click
dir. by Levan Bakhia

Best Short
Dennis Doesn't Live Here Anymore
dir. by Michael Nardelli

Best Comedy Short
My Life is a Dream
dir. by Brian Benson

Best Drama Short
Scrabble
dir. by Cristian Sulser

Best Documentary Short
JKTV
dir. by Elle Schneider

Best Foreign Short
Rise
dir. by Ali F. Mostafa

Best Animated Short
My Brother's Stocking 
dir. by Hannah Field

Best Horror Short
Lifeline
dir. by Jeffery Wang

Best Comedy-Horror Short
Invaders
dir. by Jason Kupfer

Best Music Video
Far Away and Long Ago
dir. by Dominic Mercurio

Best Experimental Short
Elk Mound
dir. by Chris Mars

Best Action Short
Brix and the Bitch
dir. by Nico Raineau

Best Short Short
The Break Up
dir. by Desta Reff

Best Local Short
Dream Writers
dir. by Nathan Bach

​Audience Choice
Charged
dir. by Ndosi Anyabwile






2016 Awards


Best Feature
The Head Thieves
dir. by Mike Hermosa

Best Documentary Feature
Missing Mom
dir. by Robert McCallum, Jordan Morris

Best Documentary Series
Colour meBlack
dir. by Kelvin Edwards and Dorothy Lucey​

Best Comedy Feature
The Unquenchable Thirst for Beau Nerjoose
dir. by Johnny Buell

Best Drama Feature
The Next Big Thing
dir. by Brody Gusar

Best Screenplay
The General Specific
dir by Matthew Stanasolovich

Best Editing
The Head Thieves
dir. by Mike Hermosa

Best Director
Raising Bertie
dir by Margaret Byrne

Best Short Film
A Tree in the Sea
dir. by Shahir Zag

Best Cinematography
The Story
dir. By Carolyn Pender, Cameron Dingwall

Best Comedy Short
Being Glen: A Puppeteer’s Story
dir. By Xavier Jordan

Best Drama Short
Lay in Wait
dir. by Jonathan Ade

Best Documentary Short
Effervescence
dir. by Garret Whittington

Best Foreign Short
Fatum
dir. by Radoslaw Pietruczuk

Best Animated Short
Poochini
dir. by Max Colson

Best Horror Short
The Herd
dir. by Colin Borden

Best Music Video
Mirror Lies
dir. by Adam Rosenberg

Best Experimental Short
Shell
dir. by Daniel Ahrens

Best Sci-Fi Short
Dog Bowl
dir. by Gordy Hoffman

Best Student Film
Wolf Spirit
dir. By Christopher Leary

Best Short Short
ArachNO!
dir. by Alex Mangen

Best Local Short
Game Night
dir. by Micah Hudson

​Audience Choice Award
Heartbreak & Beauty
dir. by Libby Banks, Nathan Basha, Robin Bryan, Genevieve Clay-Smith

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2014 Awards


Best Feature
Time Lapse
dir. by Bradley King

Best Documentary Feature
When My Sorrow Died: The Legend of Armen Ra & the Theremin
(85m, U S A) dir. by Robert Nazar Arjoyan

Best Comedy Feature
No Soliciting 
(93m, U S A) dir. by Will Dove

Best Animated Feature
Lovesick Fool: Love in the Age of Like
dir. by Dominic Polcino

Best Short
Stop Traffick
dir. by Wes Halula
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Best Comedy Short
Bigger 
 dir. by Chad Fisher

Best Drama Short
Stammer
(6m, U SA) dir. by G Curtis Wilson

Best Foreign Short
Drops of Smoke
dir. by Ane Siderman

Best Animated Short
Baxter
dir. by Ty Coyle

Best Horror Short
The Embalming
dir. by Matthew Grave

Best Music Video
Brave Men 
dir. by Joe Zohar

Best Experimental Short
The Meteor
dir. by Charles Griffin Gibson

Best Local Short
What If I Told You... 
dir. by Kristofer Seppala

Best Director 
​Fix You
dir. by Christian Juru

Audience Choice
The Routine
dir. by Brian Groh

2017 Awards