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Phil Capobres & Don Farias
SENE Film Festival
SENE October 2021 Film Jury Awards

Best Narrative Film: Sorry For Your Loss
Honorable Mention: Sitting
Honorable Mention: Feeling Through
 
Best Romance Film: Faith
Honorable Mention: How Can I Forget  
 
Best Thriller Film: Cricket
Honorable Mention: Into the Honeycomb      
 
Best Director: Miida Chu, Eureka
​
SENE Limelight Award-Women in Film: Dale Griffiths Stamos                           
 
Best Cinematography: Our Old Den                     
 
Best Screenplay: Last Strike        
Honorable Mention: Christmas Eve Eve
Honorable Mention: Brothers
 
Best Editing
: Buffalo & Trout                    
 
Best International Film
:  Forbidden to See Us Scream in Tehran
Honorable Mention: Our Old Den      
 
Best New England Film: The Mushroom Huntress
Honorable Mention: Maurice    
 
Best New England Narrative Feature: Seeds
 
Best Student Film: Last Strike
Honorable Mention: Undercut  
 
Best Short Short: I Am Here
Honorable Mention: "Love"       
 
Best Documentary Film: The Khe Sanh Peace Garden
Honorable Mention: I'm Gonna Sing Granada for You
             
Best Student Documentary Film: The Scarecrows
                            
Best New England Documentary Film: Restart 2020
 
Best New England Documentary Feature: Bound by Blue 

​SENE Limelight Award-New England Actor: David Graziano                 
 
Best Acting – Drama: Tovah Feldshuh - The Book of Ruth
Best Acting – Drama: Steven Prescod - Feeling Through          
Honorable Mention: Gayle Rankin - Jane
 
Best Acting – Comedy: Linda Lavin - Call Me Back:
                                                     The Uncommon Wisdom of Yvette Slosch

Best Acting – Comedy: Joseph Carlson - Last Strike                      
 
Best Ensemble Acting: Frankie               
 
Best Animated Film: Lines
Honorable Mention: E=MC3
Honorable Mention: Once There Was a Girl
 
Best New England Animated Film: Nonna
                            
Best Student Animated Film: May the World Not Carry You
                            
Best Comedy Film: White Guys Solve Sexism
Honorable Mention: M*therf*cker   
 
Best Short Short Comedy: Signal Problems
                            
Best Experimental Film: Quartz 
Honorable Mention: Soaked Earth
             
Best Horror Film: Audionomie
Best Horror Film: Lake Forest Road
Honorable Mention: Cutter
             
Best International Horror Film: The Gloom
                            
Best LGBTQ Film: Frankie
Honorable Mention: The Acceptance of Suffering
Honorable Mention: DUET

 
Best Music Film/Video: enough.                       
 
Best Sci-Fi Film: Honor Among Thieves
Honorable Mention: The Following Year           
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SENE October 2021 Audience Awards

Animated Short: Nonna
 
Comedy Short: White Guys Solve Sexism
Comedy Short: The Tale of the Daughter
Comedy Short Short: Plan Beautiful
 
Documentary Short: I'm Gonna Sing Granada for You
Documentary Short: Strawberry Forever
 
Drama Short: Feeling Through
Drama Short: The Book of Ruth
 
Experimental Short: Quartz
 
Horror Short: Cutter
 
International Short: Soy Hombre
International Short: Growing Pains
 
LGBT Short: Frankie
 
Music Film/Video: enough.
 
New England Feature: Bound by Blue
New England Short: Sucking Wind
New England Documentary Short: Restart 2020
 
Sci-Fi Short: The Following Year
 
Short Short: Come on, Shake Your Body Baby, Do the Conga!
 
Suspense/Thriller Short: Concrete

 
SENE 2021 Screenplay Competition

​Best Feature Screenplay: The Imbalance by Naomi Lisner
2nd Place: Heaven Schmevin by Jim Norman
3rd Place: Halfway Home by David J Schroeder
 
Best Short Screenplay: Hide Your Crazy by Austin Kase           
2nd Place: All Are Welcome by Ross Morin        
3rd Place: Becoming Lana Liu by David J Schroeder
SENE June 2021 Film Jury Awards

Best US Feature: Dramarama 
Honorable Mention: 12 Days of Christmas 
​
Best International Feature (tie): Don't Read This on a Plane
Best International Feature (tie): Zoro's Solo

Best Director - Feature: Stuart McBratney, Don't Read This on a Plane

Best Cinematography - Feature: Don't Read This on a Plane 

Best Narrative Short: Carry My Heart to the Yellow River 
Honorable Mention: Through the Wall 

SENE Limelight Award-Women in Film: Dragonfly 

Best Director - Short: Larissa Corriveau, Through the Wall 

Best Romance Short: Attorneys at Love
Honorable Mention: The Baker

Best Thriller Short: netuser
Honorable Mention: Alina

Best Cinematography - Short: Casiopea
Honorable Mention: Carry My Heart to the Yellow River

Best Screenplay - Short: Alina 

Best Editing - Short: US MX 

Best Student Short: Balloon
Honorable Mention: Stickup Kid

Best Short Short: Thoughts and Prayers
Honorable Mention: Big Touch

​Best Sci-Fi Short: Ava in the End
Honorable Mention: Red Ball

Best Student Sci-Fi Short: All Boys Die 

Best Music Film/Video: Colors by Black Pumas 
Honorable Mention: TarGay 

Best LGBT Short: Plunge
Honorable Mention: Kama'Aina (Child of the Land)
 
Best Student LGBT Short: Friends Like That 

Best Horror Short: Play Along
Honorable Mention: Smiles

Best Experimental Short: Casiopea
Honorable Mention: Seasons

Best Documentary Short: John Van Hamersveld CRAZY WORLD AIN’T IT 
Honorable Mention: Xylem, the Heart of the Tree
Honorable Mention: Eworth

Best New England Documentary: Worcester 6: Heroes Remembered 

Best Comedy Short: Talk Radio
Honorable Mention: A Slight Inconvenience
Honorable Mention: My Dinner With Werner

Best Short Short Comedy: Nailed
Honorable Mention: Side Effects May Include

Best Animated Short: If Anything Happens I Love You 
Honorable Mention: GRAB MY HAND: A Letter To My Dad
 
Best Student Animated Short: Duino
​Honorable Mention: Stick to Manual 
Honorable Mention: The Unusual Suspects

Best New England Short: Mrs. Osbourne 
Honorable Mention: Dear Eloise 

Best New England Student Short: On The Whistle 

SENE Limelight Award-New England Actor: Chris Goodwin       
Best Actress- Feature: Sophie Desmarais, Don't Read This on a Plane
Honorable Mention: Andrea Sawatzki, Zoro's Solo
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Best Actor - Drama Short: Peter Jacobson, The Hour After Westerly

Honorable Mention: Denis O'Hare, netuser

Best Actress - Drama Short:  Evelyne Rompré, Through the Wall
Honorable Mention: Ann Mahoney, The Other Side of Night

Best Actor - Comedy Short: Patton Oswalt, The Priest 

Best Actress - Comedy Short: Nora Zehetner,  Freeze 
Honorable Mention: Aubrey Reynolds, The Baker 

Best Ensemble Acting - Drama Short (tie): Alina
Best Ensemble Acting - Drama Short (tie): Waiting Game

Best Ensemble Acting - Comedy Short: Attorneys at Love 

  
SENE June 2021 Audience Awards

Animated Short (tie): If Anything Happens I Love You
Animated Short (tie): Dragonfly
 
Comedy Short (tie): Alternative Therapy
Comedy Short (tie): Coffee Shop Names
 
Documentary Short (tie): Tommy: The Portrait of A Sculptor
Documentary Short (tie): For Ismet
 
Drama Short (tie): Leave 'em Laughing
Drama Short (tie): Butterfly
 
Horror Short: Smiles
 
LGBT Short (tie): Doesn't Fall Far
LGBT Short (tie): Kama'āina (Child of the Land)
 
Music Film/Video (tie): Colors - Black Pumas
Music Film/Video (tie): TarGay
 
Narrative Feature: 12 Days of Christmas
 
New England Comedy Short: Rope-A-Dope
 
New England Drama Short: On The Whistle
 
Sci-Fi Short: M1das
 
Suspense/Thriller Short (tie): Tough
Suspense/Thriller Short (tie): US MX
​


SENE 2020 Screenplay Competition
​

Best Feature
Screenplay
: Bloodletters by Greg Derasmo & Tom Sime 

2nd Place: Paddy's Tonsorial Emporium by Ronald MIlburn 
3rd Place: Cellular Memory by Brian Erwin & Christine Hunsicker 

Best Short Screenplay: Critics, Inc. by Chris Esper 
2nd Place: The Sticking by Claire Maske 
3rd Place: Cleaner by Willard Pennington & Thomas Metcalf
SENE 2019 Film Jury Awards

Best Feature: Guest Artist           
Honorable Mention: The Wrong Todd
             
Best International Feature: Dark Sense
                            
Best Screenplay: Guest Artist                   
 
Best Director - Feature: Rob Schulbaum, The Wrong Todd
Honorable Mention: Timothy Busfield, Guest Artist
             
Best Cinematography: Corey Parsons, Oildale               
                            
Best Short Film: Radio
Honorable Mention: Prodigy
 
Best Director - Short Film: Jérémie Seguin, Sweetheart        
             
Best International Short: Take Me to the Waves
Honorable Mention: Deep Storage
             
Best Student Short: Esta Es Tu Cuba | This is Your Cuba
Honorable Mention: ASIA A
             
Best New England Short: Meet the Author
Honorable Mention: Imposter   
 
Best Short Short: Sorceress
Honorable Mention: Burnt Oranges             
             
Best Documentary Feature: Boom
Honorable Mention: Coalesce: A City Composed
             
Best Documentary Short: I Can. I Do.
Honorable Mention: B/REAL: Second to None
 
Best Student Documentary: OUT on the Streets
                            
Best New England Documentary: The Race                   
 
SENE Limelight Award-Women in Film: Besties Make Movies 

Best Ensemble Acting: The Wrong Todd                            
 
SENE Limelight Award-New England Actor: Sean Carmichael​           
 
Best Actor - Feature: Jeff Daniels, Guest Artist                     
 
Best Actress- Feature: Jessica Castello, Oildale  

Best Actor - Drama Short: Simon Wright, Radio                  
 
Best Actress - Drama Short: Angela Rambourg, Helen 
                         
Best Actor - Comedy Short: Ryan Watkinson, Torn                           
 
Best Actress - Comedy Short: Arielle Haller-Silverstone, Sac de Merde    ​

Best Animated Short: The Elephant's Song
Honorable Mention: For a Better Life
Honorable Mention: Two Balloons
 
Best New England Animated Short: Class of 84
             
Best Student Animated Short: The Lineman                           
 
Best Comedy Short: Under Mom's Skirt
Honorable Mention: P.T.A.-Holes
Honorable Mention: Marta
 
Best New England Comedy Short: Passive Aggressive Dads              
 
Best Short Short Comedy: The Suicide                            
 
Best Experimental Film: Nashedonia                            
 
Best Horror Short: The Invaders
Honorable Mention: Here There Be Monsters
             
Best New England Horror Short: Frankenstein: Savior of the Zombie Apocalypse                      
 
Best LGBT Short: Ni De Aqui, Ni De Alla
Honorable Mention: Zero One
Honorable Mention: Headspace
 
Best Student LGBT Short: Misdirection                            
             
Best Sci-Fi Short: Andromeda
Honorable Mention: Juniper      
 
Best Student Sci-Fi Short: Transmission
SENE 2019 Audience Awards

Best of Fest: Class of 84
 
Narrative Feature: The Wrong Todd

Documentary Feature: Boom

Drama Short: Baby Won't You Please Come Home

Comedy Short (tie): Boccamazzo Construction - We Build "Walls"!
Comedy Short (tie): Peggy
 
Animated Short (tie): Two Balloons
Animated Short (tie): Don’t Feed These Animals
 
Suspense/Thriller Short: You and Yours

Documentary Short (tie): I Can. I Do.
Documentary Short (tie): A Song Can't Burn

Horror Short (tie): Here There Be Monsters
Horror Short (tie): Communication is Key

International Short (tie): Deep Storage
International Short (tie): A Wreck in Paradise

LGBT Short: Misdirection

Sci-Fi Short:  Faulty Father

Short Short Film: Passive Aggressive Dads

New England Short (tie): Canceled
New England Short (tie): Character!

 
SENE 2019 Screenplay Competition
 
Best Feature Screenplay: The Dancing Bear-Robert Cox
2nd Place: Gravel Road-Arden Teresa Lewis
3rd Place:  Always Something There to Remind Me-Terry Menefee Gau
 
Best Short Screenplay: Follycle-Tom McIntyre
2nd Place: Homunculus-Will Berry
3rd Place: Hickory(&Me)-Jeffrey Morin
SENE 2018 Film Jury Awards

Best Feature Film: Beauty Mark

Best International Feature: ​My Name Is Batlir, not Butler

Best Actress in a Feature: Auden Thornton-Beauty Mark

Best Actor in a Feature: Jake Borelli - In Searching

Best Screenplay: In Searching

Best Short Film: The Lightkeeper
Honorable Mention: A Lucky Man
Honorable Mention: Fifty Minutes

Best Ensemble Acting: Laboratory Conditions

Best Actress in a Short Film: Marlyne Barrett - Night Call

Best Actor in a Short Film: Bruce Davison - The Lightkeeper​

Best New England Actor: Jose Guns Alves

Best Editing: A Lucky Man

Best New England Short Film: Snowflake

Best Student Short: 93 Miles
Honorable Mention: Night Call

Best Short Short Film: The Smell of Oak

Best Documentary Feature: A Shot in the Dark

Best Documentary Short: Abby the Spoon Lady
Honorable Mention: Painted City
Honorable Mention: Big Party on the Other Side

Best New England Documentary Feature: Four Games in Fall

Best New England Documentary Short: Trap Fishing

Best Student Documentary: The LIttle Stage
Honorable Mention: Daddy

Best Animated Short: Saturn Return
Honorable Mention: Revelation - City of Haze

Best New England Animated Short: Kevin the Very Old Rabbit
Honorable Mention: Motion Pictures

Best Student Animated Short: Eddie
Honorable Mention: Muscle Memory

Best Comedy Short: Shy Guys
Honorable Mention: Gloria Talks Funny

Best Short Short Comedy: The Wedding
Honorable Mention: Sans Response

Best New England Comedy: Paid For By

Best Music Video/Film: 140 Characters
Honorable Mention: Mission to Mars
Honorable Mention: Mountains

Best Sci-Fi Short:  Laboratory Conditions
Honorable Mention: Shift

Best Horror Short: Father
Honorable Mention: The Blue Door
Honorable Mention: Dead Cool

Best New England Horror Short: Dark Roast

Best LGBT Short: Cupid Prefers a Sniper's Rifle
Honorable Mention: Naughty Amelia Jane

Student LGBT Short: Time is the Longest Distance

Best Art or Experimental Short: Color of the Chameleon

Best International Short: Prodigal
Honorable Mention: The Incident
Honorable Mention: Das Leben in Mir
SENE 2018 Limelight Awards

The Arctic Playhouse

Jamestown Art Center

Warwick Center for the Arts


Limelight Award for Acting: Reed Birney
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SENE 2018 Audience Awards

Narrative Feature: In Searching

Documentary Feature: A Shot in the Dark

Narrative Short (tie):  Game
Narrative Short (tie):  It's Just a Gun

Animated Short: Eddie

Comedy Short: Shy Guys

Documentary Short: The Little Stage

Experimental Short: Pear

Horror Short: The Blue Door

International Short: 17 years together

LGBT Short: Naughty Amelia Jane

Music Video:  140 Characters

Sci-Fi Short:  Laboratory Conditions

Short Short Film: Gentle Mentals​

New England Comedy Short: Unwilling

New England Animated  Short: When You Touch Me
  
New England Documentary Short: Trap Fishing

New England Drama Short: Snowflake

New England Horror Short: Dark Roast
SENE 2017 Film Jury Awards

Best Feature Film: On the 7th Date
Honorable Mention: Tercer Grado (Day Release)

Best Regional Feature: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Best Screenplay: On the 7th Date

Best Director: Richard Griffin, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Best Cinematography: Tercer Grado (Day Release)
Honorable Mention: Addictions

Limelight Award for Acting: Anna Rizzo

Best Short Film: Shoot Me Nicely
Honorable Mention: The Other End
Honorable Mention:  Twitch

Best Regional Short Film: A Room in Cairo
Honorable Mention: Penitence

Best Student Short: The Happiest Place on Earth

Best Short Short Film: We Call This Home
Honorable Mention: A Magician
Honorable Mention: Kaddish!

Best Documentary Feature: Arlette,  Courage is a Muscle
Honorable Mention:  Not Black Enough

Best Documentary Short: A Doll’s Eyes
Honorable Mention: Parivara (A Family)

Best Regional Documentary: The High School That Rocked!
Honorable Mention: Fueling Fierce:  The Shannon Heil Story
Honorable Mention: Joan

Best Animated Short: Unnatural Growth
Honorable Mention: Fox and the Whale
Honorable Mention: The Hindu Thread

Best Regional Animated Short: Klaus

Best Student Animated Short: From the Dizziness of Freedom: The Philosophy Vessel

Best Comedy Short: Marc Chung Protects His Address
Honorable Mention: El Audifono (The Earpiece)
Honorable Mention: Eulogilia

Best Regional Comedy: Spice

Best Music Video: Celia Johnson
Honorable Mention: Come Away With Me
Honorable Mention: What A Beautiful Morning!

Best Sci-Fi Short:  Beautiful Dreamer
Honorable Mention: Zone 2

Best Horror Short: A Peculiar Thud
Honorable Mention: Cuckhold Picasso
Honorable Mention: Strange Harvest

Best LGBT Short: Dusk
Honorable Mention: Dawn
Honorable Mention: Horseshoe Theory

Best Experimental Short: 3 Cafés
Honorable Mention: Es Rêver
Honorable Mention: Fault Lines

Best International Short: 30 minutos con Laura (30 Minutes with Laura)
Honorable Mention: Home, Sweet Home
Honorable Mention: Postales (Postcards)
SENE 2017 Audience Awards

Narrative Feature:  On the 7th Date

Documentary Feature: Not Black Enough 

Narrative Short: The Other End

Animated Short:  Fox and the Whale

Comedy Short: Eulogilia

Documentary Short: The World of Dennis Patton

Experimental Short: Fault Lines

Horror Short: The Poet

International Short: The Sons of Robert Schuman

LGBT Short: Dusk

Music Video: Come Away With Me

Regional Comedy Short: The Deja Vuers

Regional Animated  Short: Klaus
  
Regional Documentary Short: Joan

Regional Drama Short: A Room in Cairo

Regional Horror Short: A Peculiar Thud

Regional Music Video: What A Beautiful Morning!

Sci-Fi Short: Zone 2   

Short Short Film: Kaddish!


2017 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

Best Feature Screenplay: BLOOD ROUGE by Jeza Belle

2nd Place Feature Screenplay: LOVE IS NOT LOVE by Stephen Keep Mills

3rd Place Feature Screenplay: 2-12-DELTA by David Brichetto



Best Short Screenplay: SWITCHMAN by Henry Leeker

2nd Place Short Screenplay: SHE by Philip Marcoccio

3rd Place Short Screenplay: GAME BREAKERS by Daniel Alfaro


SENE 2017 Limelight Awards

Alec Asten

​Linda Dwyer


Rhode Island Songwriters Association


Limelight Award for Acting: Anna Rizzo






SENE 2016 Film Jury Awards

Best Feature Film: The David Dance

Best Director: Echo Lake

Best Screenplay: Broke

Best Short Film: This Modern Man Is Beat
Honorable Mention: Almost Home
Honorable Mention: Birthday

Best Documentary Short: For Wanda
Honorable Mention: FIRES: Ich Liebe Dich

Best Animated Short: Moom
Honorable Mention: Positioning

Best Comedy Short: Oh Crappy Day
Honorable Mention: Peace of Mind Guaranteed

Best Regional Short: Wired for Sound
Honorable Mention: Mr Ready

Best HS Student Film: The Dressing Room

Best Horror Short: Roadside Assistance

Best LGBT Short (tie): Chance
Best LGBT Short (tie): Lucky Penny
Honorable Mention: Choke Hold

Best Music Video/Film: This Side or the Other by Drunken Logic
Honorable Mention: Take My Keys by Matt Clarke (feat. Gate City Squad)
Honorable Mention: The Sometimes by Marc  with a C

Best International Short: Choose Me (Elígeme)
Honorable Mention: My Story

Best Sci-Fi Short: FlySpy
Honorable Mention: In Memory

Best Cinematography: Almost Home





SENE 2016 Audience Awards

Narrative Feature:   The David Dance

International Feature:   Tea + Cake

Dramatic Short:   Birthday

International Short:   Far Off Places

Animated Short:   Tiny Town

International Animated Short:   What Is Your Brown Number?

Comedy Short:   Good Cop, Good Cop

Documentary Short (tie):  Fred and Emile 
Documentary Short (tie):  Harry’s Gift

Experimental Short:   No Signal

Horror Short:   Calling

HS Student Short:   Screenplay by Kayln Rock

LGBT Short (tie): Ultra Bleu
LGBT Short (tie): Photo Op

Music Video:   To the Wolves

Sci-Fi Short:   First Contact

Short Short Film:   What's Up!

Regional Short::   Thanksgiving

Regional Comedy Short (tie): #LikeADouchebag 
Regional Comedy Short (tie): Bleak Moments

Regional Horror Short (tie): The Listing
Regional Horror Short (tie): Next/Door
SENE 2016 Limelight Awards

Kathleen McCarthy former SENE Board Member

Rhode Island Film Collaborative

SENE 2015 Film Jury Awards

Best Feature Film:  Bereave
Honorable Mention:  Wildlike

Best Comedy Feature: Bread & Butter

Best International Feature Film: Schimbare

Best Director: Wildlike
Honorable Mention: Bereave

Best Documentary: Bluebirds Fly, Love and Hope on the Autism Spectrum
Honorable Mention: El Greco

Best Cinematography-Feature: Wildlike
Honorable Mention: Bereave

Best Score-Feature: Wildlike

Best Short Film: The Little Violinist
Honorable Mention: Tumble Dry Low

Best Documentary Short: Skin Feels
Honorable Mention: Putting the Ribbon Back On

Best International Short Film: I've Just Had a Dream
Honorable Mention: Un jour de lucidité (A Day of Lucidity
Honorable Mention: ¿Quién es Libertad Lionetti? (Who Is Libertad Linonetti?)

Best Animated Film (tie): The Ballad of Holland Island House
Best Animated Film (tie): Mr. Plastimime
Honorable Mention: Le Couple
Honorable Mention: The Lingerie Show

Best International Animated Film: Alexandra

Best Student Animated Film: I Need My Monster
Honorable Mention: Rock Is Not an Attitude

Best Student Film: Stray Boys
Honorable Mention: Meet Mario
Honorable Mention: Sin Frontera (Without Boundary)

Best LGBT Film: Adjust-a-Dream
Honorable Mention: Abrase
Honorable Mention: Puertas adentro (Indoors)

Best Comedy Short: Tu P*** Banco
Honorable Mention: Girls Are Assholes: At Lunch
Honorable Mention: Wingboys

Best Sci-Fi Film: Alekto
Honorable Mention: Into the Dark
Honorable Mention: The Stowaway

Best Experimental Film: The Emotional Dimensions of the James River
Honorable Mention: The Disappearance of the Grackles

Best Horror Film: Girl
Honorable Mention: Ave Maria
Honorable Mention: Blind Date

Best Regional Film: Descendants of the Past, Ancestors of the Future
Honorable Mention: Meet Mario
Honorable Mention: Rest in Peace, Albert Lively

Best Regional Documentary: The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow
Honorable Mention: The Watershed

Best Short Short Film: Selfish
Honorable Mention: C.T.R.L.
Honorable Mention: Supersnackers

Best Music Film/Video: Heaven
Honorable Mention: Won’t You Come Home Bones Bailey
Honorable Mention: Hold Tight

Best Score-Short: Wrong Side Up
Honorable Mention: Arabel

Best Cinematography-Short: Wrong Side Up
Honorable Mention: If Not Now
Honorable Mention: Arabel

Best Special Effects: Hunting the Phantom
Honorable Mention: Alekto
SENE 2015 Limelight Awards

Jon & Betty Jane Berberian - Columbus Theatre

Columbus Cooperative

Anthony Demings - Brooklyn Coffee Teahouse/Rhodywood

Mike Ryan - Motif Magazine
SENE 2015 Audience Awards

Feature: Wildlike

Documentary Feature: Bluebirds Fly, Love and Hope on the Autism Spectrum

Documentary Short (tie): The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow
Documentary Short (tie): Brooklyn United

Drama Short (tie): The Little Violinist
Drama Short (tie): Sin Frontera (Without Boundary)

Animated Short (tie): Mr. Plastimime
Animated Short (tie): Le Couple

Comedy Short (tie): Girls Are Assholes: At Lunch
Comedy Short (tie): The Registry

Horror Short: Blind Date

International Short: Un jour de lucidité (A Day of Lucidity)

LGBT Short (tie): Corra at Home
LGBT Short (tie): Homophonia

Music Film/Video: Won't You Come Home, Bones Bailey

Sci-Fi Short: Into the Dark

Regional Short: Slow Burn

Regional Documentary Short: The Watershed

SENE November 2015 
Screenplay Competition Awards


Best Feature Screenplay:  Carol by Susan Polk
2nd Place: Galapagos by Lukas Hassel
3rd Place: The Connect by Katherine Ann Roe Sainz
Other Finalists: 
Requiem by Guillermo J Ramon
The White House by David Gilbank


Best Short Screenplay: Polly by Eric P. Granger
2nd Place: Symposium by Tom Grady
3rd Place: The Bait by Zach Levenson
Other Finalists:
Gone Fishing by Steven Canfield Crowley
The Twice of Abraham by Henry P. Gravelle

SENE April 2015 
Screenplay Competition Awards


Best Feature Screenplay: Misfits by Kevin Maurice Butler
2nd Place: Past Old Dominion by Ryan Davenport
3rd Place: Still in the Game by George Flowers
Other Finalists: 
Dreamwalkers by Michelle Daniel 
Hell On Neptune by Robert Rogers


Best Short Screenplay: Psycho Assessment by Stephen M. Hunt
2nd Place: Bigfooter Blues by Mark Wasserman
3rd Place: When You Wish by Troy Harvey Graham
Other Finalists:
Autumn in Aroostock by Eric Borden
Goldenworld by Glen Lee

Boston Comedy Festival 2015
Audience Awards


COMEDY SHORT FILM

1st Place: #likeadouchebag
Directed by Stephanie Simon

2nd Place: One-Minute Time Machine
Directed by Devon Avery


COMEDY WEB SERIES EPISODE

1st Place: Donnie Holland E1
Directed by Evan Skladany

2nd Place: K&A S1 E1 
Directed by Katie Shannon 




SENE 2014 Film Jury Awards

Best Feature Film: Coherence
Honorable Mention: The One Who Loves You

Best Director: The One Who Loves You
Honorable Mention: House of Dust

Best Documentary Feature: Raising Matty Christian
Honorable Mention: The Bridgewater Triangle

Best Documentary Short: Eye of the Storm
Honorable Mention: Godka Cirka

Best Music Documentary: Rhythms of Resistance
Honorable Mention: Jesse and the Fountain of Youth

Best Short Film: Recursion
Honorable Mention: Frammenti (Scraps)

Best Animated Film: Virtuos Virtuell  
Honorable Mention: Singing So Sweetly

Best LGBT Film: Grind
Honorable Mention: Narcissist

Best Comedy Short: Sheltered Love
Honorable Mention: Blow Up

Best Experimental Film: Femmes 

Best Regional Film: Right There
Honorable Mention: The Actor

Best Music Video: Things that Go Around
Honorable Mention: This Dream Song

Best Song in a Music Video: Rock the World
Honorable Mention: Never Seen Runaway

Best Original Score: Her Children Mourn
Honorable Mention: Right There

Best Short Short Film: Push
Honorable Mention: SWALK

Best Cinematography: Grace
Honorable Mention: Rhythms of Resistance

Best Student Film: Sweet, Sweet Country
Honorable Mention: Culture Over Everything

Best Student Animated Film: Light Me Up
Honorable Mention: Cannonball Express

Best Young Filmmaker: Entry
Honorable Mention: Just Play
SENE 2014 Limelight Awards

Rhode Island Film & TV Office

PeaceLove Studios

John Pitocco
SENE 2014 Audience Awards

Feature Film: Coherence

Short Film: Talk to Strangers

Documentary Feature: Raising Matty Christian

Documentary Short (tie): Who Did It? The Clue VCR Game
Documentary Short (tie): Jesse and the Fountain of Youth

Animated Film: The Orphan and the Polar Bear

LGBT Film: Grind

Comedy Short Film:The Marriage Pact

International Short Film (tie): Rose, Mary and Time
International Short Film (tie): Amanece

Short Short Film: Take Out

Short Short Comedy Film: Snake Eye P.I. 

Music Video: This Dream Song

Song in a Music Video: Who Are You?  (Qui êtes vous?)

Regional Feature Film: Wander My Friends

Regional Short Film: Melt

Regional Music Video: Mulligan’s Island

Young Filmmaker: The Heart That Doesn't Beat

SENE 2014 Screenplay Competition Awards

Best Feature Screenplay: Machina by Tom Radovich
Honorable Mention: The Little Christmas Ornament by Sharon Contillo

Best Short Screenplay: This Modern Man is Beat by David Schroeder
Honorable Mention: From Man to Monster by Frederic Lecamus

Boston Comedy Festival 2014 
Audience Awards

Best Comedy – Superglue

Best Foreign Comedy – Mit Best Gruben
Honorable Mention – Steffi Gefällt Das

Best Web Series – Why’s Everybody Always Hitting on Me?

Best Local Comedy – Time Travel

Best Animated Comedy – Exact Change Only






SENE 2013 Film Jury Awards

Best Feature Film (tie): 15 North
Best Feature Film (tie): Everything Went Down
 
Best Documentary Feature: Fambul Tok

Best Short  Film: Brave Girl

Best Documentary Short: ScrambleVision
 
Best Animated Film: Balance and Swing

Best Comedy Short: The Guy Who's F***ing
Your Girlfriend

Best Director: Sal 

Best Cinematography: Sal 

Best LGBT Film: The Commitment
 
Best LGBT Comedy Film: Welcome to New York

Best Music  Video: Valencia

Best PSA: Stewardship PSA

Best Student Film: Mother’s Milk

Best Short Short Film: Killer

Best Short Short Comedy Film: Los Gritones (The Screamers)

Best Score: Everything Went Down

Best HS Music Video: 
Make It Out

Best HS Documentary: Beautiful

Best HS Narrative Short: Vent





 
SENE 2013 Audience Awards

Best Feature Film: 15 North

Best Short Film: Memories for Sale

Best Documentary Feature: Shut Up and Look
 
Best Documentary Short: 
ScrambleVision

Best Animated Film: Make A Wish

Best Comedy Short: The Guy Who's F***ing
Your Girlfriend

Best LGBT Film: The Commitment
  
Best Music Video (tie): Crystal Vases
Best Music Video (tie): Change Can Only Begin  With Yourself

Best Short Short Film: Atrapado (Trapped)

Best Regional Feature: Rising Star

Best Regional Short Film: Children of the Asylum
 
Best Regional Documentary: Maple Syrup in Rhode Island

Best Regional Comedy: A Date With Your Family
 
Best High School Film: Beautiful

SENE 2013 Limelight Awards

Daniel Kamil, Cable Car Cinema and Café 

Toni-Ann Laprade, former SENE board member and co-founder of Two Sisters’ Productions
   
Jim Vickers, former editor of Motif Magazine 
    
Christian de Rezendes, Breaking Branches Pictures 
   
Carrie Decker, former SENE Creative Director


SENE 2012 Film Jury Awards

Best Feature Film: City of Dreamers
 
Best Short Film: Portrait of Leonore

Best Documentary Feature: Rap Arabe
 
Best Documentary Short: After

Best Music Video: Taken Away

Best Experimental Film: The Dance of Time

Best Comedy Short Film: Bip Bip

Best Animated Film: Amaqqut Nunaat

Best LGBT Film: Rain in Summer

Best LGBT Comedy Film: Coffee & Pie
 
Best Student Documentary: MIJO

Best Student Animated Film: Live Outside the Box

Best Student Music Video: House on Normandy

Best Student Film (tie): Yes Man
Best Student Film (tie): Singing Moon 

Best Regional Animated Film: Drive Thru

Best Regional Feature Film: Cost of the Living

Best Regional Short Film: The Fence

Best Regional Comedy Film: Unchained

Best Regional Documentary: For The Love of The Music
 
Best Regional Music Video: Episode 1: Arrival

Best Regional HS Student Film: Guidance, The Perfect Daughter
 
Best Bishop Hendricken Media Arts Program Film:  Hulahoop
SENE 2012 Audience Awards

Feature Film: Cost of the Living: A Zom Rom Com

Comedy Short Film: Nijinsky's Room

Animated Film: Veggie Propaganda

Dramatic Short Film: Blackberries

Documentary Short Film: Carbon For Water

Regional Short Film: His Take on Her

LGBT Film: Coffee & Pie

Sci-Fi Film: Singularium

Horror Film: Humoresque

Music Video (tie): Just Another Goodbye
Music Video (tie): Superhero





















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