2023 Riverside International Film Festival Winners!
Audience Favorite Feature: Translations
Audience Favorite Short: Storage (Tie)
Audience Favorite Short: Abandon (Tie)
Audience Favorite Animation: Fobi
Audience Favorite Documentary: 130 Children (Tie)
Audience Favorite Documentary: The Jackie Stiles Story (Tie)
Audience Favorite Student Film: I Had a Dream
Best Actor: Sylvester Birk Pedersen, The Cry of the Sparrow
Best Actress: Kate Morgan Jones, Translations
Best Cinematography: Tibetan Hearts
Best Music: 1660 Vine
Best Screenplay: Translations
Lifetime Achievement Award: Patty McCormack
Founder's Award: Good Guy with a Gun
President's Award: Blake Rice, Little Thieves
Jury Best Feature: 1660 Vine
Jury Best Short: The Box (Tie)
Jury Best Short: Out of Water (Tie)
Jury Best Animation: Fobi
Jury Best Documentary: Earthbound - Nzambi Matee
Jury Best Student Film: Starstruck
Jury Best SoCal Student Film: Mantis Club
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast: Deadly Draw
Inland Empire Student Film Festival Award Winners!
High School Films
Best Picture: Amentia, Cecilia Bettinsoli
Best Picture: Pursuit of the Unkown, Zoe Elaine Minter
Best Documentary: Fontana Leadership Intervention Program, Kira Flores and Eduardo Lopez
Best Music Video: The Lambonators of Saturn, Seth N. Robinson
Best Director: Zoe Elaine Minter, Pursuit of the Unkown
Best Cinematography: Amentia, Jeremiah Moulton
Outstanding Actor: Cecilia Bettinsoli, Amentia
Outstanding Actor: Satori Munson, Pursuit of the Unkown
Dedicated Filmmaker: Andrea Gomez
California Baptist University Film Festival Award Winners
Director's Challenge: Wallpaper: A Mobster's Tale, Avery Warren
Best Picture: Unapparent Apparitions, Jessia Donald
Best Director: Blake Rice, Little Thieves
Best Cinematography: Little Thieves, Blake Rice
Best Actor: Eric Cheng, Unapparent Apparitions
Best Actress: Victoria Cerda, Little Thieves
Best Actress: Sabrina Haim, Sometimes I Feel Sad
Best Supporting Actor: Simon Martin, Unapparent Apparitions
Best Supporting Actress: Erika Mugglin, Unapparent Apparitions
Best Production Design: Unapparent Apparitions, Jessica Donald
Best Editing: Little Thieves, Blake Rice
Best Screenplay: Little Thieves, Blake Rice
Best Music: Ben Morey, Unapparent Apparitions
Best Music: Moena, Little Thieves
Best Short Documentary: Do What I Want, Justin Ferrer