SENE 2023 Screenplay Competition          
 
Best Feature Screenplay: “Winnie & Clyde” by Matthew Rafferty
Second Place: “Greetings From Jamaica” by Mari SanGiovanni
Third Place:     “The Pickleball Killer” by Jim Carroll
 
Best Short Screenplay (tie): “The Ghost” by Allyson Morgan        
                                                               “The Sibling Rule” by Mari SanGiovanni        
Third Place: “That One Friend” by Chris Esper

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SENE 2022 Film Jury Awards

Best Narrative Film: You're Now Beyond Hope, Arizona
Honorable Mention: Forgive Me, Father
 
Best Director: Georgia   
 
Best International Film: Find the Light     
Best International Film: Georgia
Honorable Mention: An Encounter
 
Best New England Narrative Film: The Candy Tin       
Honorable Mention: Private
Honorable Mention: Ye Wayward Knight
 
Best Feature: Stay With Me       
 
Best Student Film: The Tale of Captain Fortyhands
Honorable Mention: You Are, I Am
 
Best Screenplay: Forgive Me, Father
Honorable Mention: Dotting the "I"
 
Best Cinematography: S1NGULAR
Honorable Mention: JUNE
 
Best Editing: Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox
Honorable Mention: Stratosphere
 
Best Short Short Film: UPYA
Honorable Mention: Struck
 
SENE Limelight Award-Women in Film: Caroline
SENE Limelight Award-Women in Film: Survival Job       
 
SENE Limelight Award-New England Actor: Sissy O'Hara        
 
Best Ensemble Acting: Rue         
 
Best Acting – Comedy: Elliott Branch Jr. - Pulp Friction             
Best Acting – Comedy: Eddie Grey - Weather or Not  
 
Best Acting – Drama: Isabelle Muthiah - Caroline         
Best Acting – Drama: Shelly Kurtz - Forgive Me, Father

Best Animated Film: Friendship
Honorable Mention: How To Lose Weight and Look Great
 
Best Student Animated Film: The Dark Frog Experiment
         
Best Comedy Film: Dick Heist
Honorable Mention: Weather or Not
 
Best New England Comedy Film: Mob Ghost        
Best New England Comedy Film: Or, the Whale   
 
Best Documentary Film: Mr. Ashley Lived Here
Honorable Mention: Lydia Emily's Last Mural
 
Best Student Documentary Film: Last Race           
 
Best New England Documentary Film: The Essence of Essaouiria  
 
Best Experimental Film: The Farewell
 
Best Horror Film: Noche del Infierno (Hell Night)
Honorable Mention: Part Forever
 
Best International Horror Film: Visitors
 
Best LGBTQ Film: Last Call
Best LGBTQ Film: Make Me A King
 
Best Music Video: I Want To Tell You
Honorable Mention: Skeletons
 
Best Romance Film: To Be Honest
Honorable Mention: You Can Stay Here If You Want
 
Best Sci-Fi Film: Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox
Honorable Mention: Blackout
 
Best New England Sci-Fi Film: Subscribed
 
Best Thriller Film: Mr. March
Honorable Mention: The Bottom
 
Best International Thriller: Fireworks 

SENE 2022 Audience Awards

Animated Short: How To Lose Weight and Look Great
Animated Short: Strange Acts Of Love

Comedy Short: Mob Ghost
Comedy Short: Everything Is As It Should Be
 
Documentary Short: Still Plays With Trucks
Documentary Short: Lydia Emily's Last Mural
 
Drama Short: Dadu

Experimental Short: Small World: A Soliloquy
 
Horror Short: Mrs. Halloway
Horror Short: Bainne
 
International Short: Il Vespista
International Short: The Cathar
 
LGBT Short: Hear My Voice
 
Music Film/Video: Skeletons
 
New England Feature: Higher Methods
New England Short: Ye Wayward Knight
 
Sci-Fi Short: Subscribed
Sci-Fi Short: Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox

​Short Short: Amber
 
Suspense/Thriller Short: Mr. March


SENE 2022 Screenplay Competition          
 
Best Feature Screenplay: THE LAST SKYWRITER IN THE UNIVERSE by Steven Bogart       
Second Place: ARTHUR'S YEARBOOK by Jim Norman         
Third Place:     BETWEEN THE KISSES by Joseph Di Francesco   
 
Best Short Screenplay: BUT I'M A SHOE by Chen Drachman        
Second Place: EMMETT GRAY by John Pisano-Thomsen   
Third Place:     THURSDAYS AT THORAS by Guthrie Hartford​

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
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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 
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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
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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

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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