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

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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 

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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

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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

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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