Film Festival Awards Past Winners
The RONZOS (renamed from The Hokas)
Awards to be updated after April 30, 2021
MISSISSIPPI FILM
2021 = Bastard’s Crossing
2020 = Far East Deep South
2019 = Door Ajar: The M.B. Mayfield Story
Pat Rasberry Emerging Mississippi Filmmaker Award: Roots and Wings
2018 = The Process: The Way of Pablo Sierra
Pat Rasberry Emerging Mississippi Filmmaker Award: Truth Rises
2017: Don't Come Around Here
Pat Rasberry Emerging Mississippi Filmmaker Award: A Little Love Goes A Long Clay
Short: Otha Turner
2016 = Finding Cleveland
Short: The Gift
2015 = A Mississippi Love Story
Short: Garage Sale
2014 = Landscapes of the Heart
Short: Evergreen
2013 = April's Way
Short: Tube
2012 = Showtime
Short: Old Oak
2011 = The South Will Rise Again
Short: Murderabilia
2010 = Now or Never
2009 = Neshoba
2008 = Sorry We're Open
2007 = Whole Hog
LGBTQ
2021 = Dramarama
Short: Kiko’s Saints
2020 = From Baghdad to the Bay
Short: Unspoken
2019 = The Gospel of Eureka
Short: All We Are/ The One You Never Forget (tie)
2018 = Boys for Sale
2017 = Woman on Fire
NARRATIVE FEATURE
2021 = Women is Losers
2019 = This World Alone
2018 = The Drawer Boy
2017 = Some Freaks
2016 = Embers
2015 = Burnout
2014 = Teddy Bears
2013 = The Discoverers
2012 = Perfection
2011 = Prairie Love
2010 = Carried Away
2009 = Make Out with Violence
2008 = Kabluey
2007 = Wristcutters: A Love Story
2005 = The Milk Can
NARRATIVE SHORT
2021 = The Recess
2020 = My Time
2019 = Debris
2018 = Home
2017 - Goodbye Neenaw
2016 = Blazing Sun
2015 = Day One
2014 = Safety
2013 = Deafblind
2012 = Fresh Skweezed
2011 = Pillow
2010 = Birthday
2009 = The Wednesdays
2008 = Aquarium
2007 = Mother
2005 = Lift
2004 = The Anniversary (Ngay Gio)
MUSIC
VIDEO
2021 = Touch Tone Telephone
Best Mississippi Music Video = The Vacant (American Automatic)
2020 = Pain
2019 = Wash My Hands
2018 = Manna
2017 - Broken Paths
2016 = Fallen Star
2015 = A Long Journey
2014 = Poor Lost Souls
2013 = Growing Pains
2012 = Positions in Space
2011 = Cold Red Clay
2009 = Crystal
2008 = Temporary Virgin
2007 = Seabeast
2005 = Moving Along
MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
2021 = Bleeding Audio
2020 = Rockabul
Short: All I have to Offer You Is Me
2019 =Negro Terror
Short: It’s Now or Never
2018 = Word is Bond
2017 - Shake Em on Down
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
2021 = In A Different Key
2020 = Hope Frozen
2019 = Wrestle
2018 = The Organizer
2017 = First Lady of the Revolution
2016 = Children of the Arctic
2014 = Bending Steel
2013 = An Ordinary Hero
2012 = Rhino Resurrected
2010 = The Last Survivor
2009 = Crude Independence
2008 = The Listening Project
2005 = You See Me Laughin: The Last of the Hill Country Bluesmen
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
2021 = Snowy
2020 = The Loop
2019 = The Conquerer
2017= Refuge
2016= The House is Innocent
2015= The Grand Disillusion
2014=
2013= Reborning
2012= Saint
2011= Sand
2010= Dive!
2008= Gimme Green
2007= Bodies & Souls
The Hoka Award for Achievement in Film
2015 = Tim Blake Nelson
2014 = Jason Ritter (actor)
2010 = Ray McKinnon (writer, director, actor)
FEST FORWARD
2021
Experimental: Haiku
Animation: A Head Shorter
2020
Experimental: Joints
Animation: Umbilical
2019
2018
Animation: Two Balloons
2017
Experimental: The Trader
Animation: The Fox and The Whale
New Media: Paco
Virtual Reality: I, Phillip
2016
Experimental: cybergenesis
Animation:
2015
Experimental: A Perfect Day
Animation:
2014
Experimental: Virtuos Virtuel
Animation:
2013
Experimental: Don't Break Down
Animation:
2012
Experimental: Only in Dreams
Animation:
2011
Experimental: Inside Out/Side One
Animation:
2010
Experimental: Utsav Mela
Animation:
2009
Experimental: Grand Wheel
Animation:
2008
Experimental:
Animation:
2007
Experimental: What the Water Saw
Animation:
2005
Experimental: Hallaig
Animation:
Mississippi Short
2021 = Genderf*ck Drag
Reel South Award
2021 = Road to Step
Best Student Film
2021 = Millennium Hour
2020 = Elephant in the Room
Angie Thomas Zeitgeist
2021 = The Meaning of Daisey
2020 = Coffee Shop Names
Best Foreign Language Film
2021 = Sublet
2020 = I Am Not Alone
Ron Tibbett Audience Award
2021 = None
2020 = None
2019 = Ghost Light
2017 = I Am Not Your Negro & Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey (a tie)
2016 = Yalo
2015 = The Gunfighter
2014 = Being Awesome
2013 = An Ordinary Hero
2012 = Showtime
2011 = Mississippi Innocence
2010 = The Last Survivor
2009 = Prom Night in Mississippi
2008 = The Elephant King
2005 = Glorious Mail
ARTIST VODKA CONTEST
2020 = WONDER
2019= Petit Four
2018= Nation Down
Best Editing Award
2018 = Cop Chronicles: Loose Cannons: Legend of the Haj-Mirage
2017 = Breakfast
2016 = Viola: A Mother's Story of Juvenile Justice
Audience Awards Online Alumni Contest
2016 = West of Elvis
The Lisa Blount Memorial Award for Acting
2021 = Alexandra Grey, Gossamer Folds
2020= Danielle Deadwyler, RECKONING
2019 = Roger Bart, Ghost Light
2018 =Catherine Eaton, The Sounding
2017 = Victoria Negri, Gold Star
2016 = Robert Longstreet, The Missing Girl
2015 = David Strathairn and Brian Lee Franklin, Repeater
2014 = Barry Nash, Bob Birdnow's Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and the Transcendence of Self
2013 = Rebecca Jernigan, Tube
2012 = Christina Beck, Perfection
Alice Guy-Blaché Filmmaker Award
SPONSORED BY THE LOUIS M RABINOWITZ FOUNDATION
2021 = Khadifa Wong, Uprooted - The Journey of Jazz Dance
2020 = Haroula Rose, Once Upon A River
2019 = Wrestle
2018 = Liyana
2017 = Girl Unbound
2016 = Claire Carre, Embers