2006
Mendocino Film Festival 2006
Jury Awards
Best Narrative Short: RumbleBest Documentary Short: Recycled LifeBest Narrative Feature: The Gold BraceletBest Documentary Feature: Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton SeaDocumentary Award for Film on the Arts: Purvis of OvertownDocumentary Special Jury Award: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
2007
Mendocino Film Festival 2007
Audience Choice Award:
Jury Awards
Best Narrative Feature – Stalking Santa
Best Documentary Feature –Last Best Hope
Best Mid-Length Documentary – Today’s Man
Best Short Documentary – The Days and the Hours
Best Film on Art – Outsider: The Life and Art of Judith Scott
Documentary Short Film Special Jury Award: Ripe for Change
Documentary Short Special Jury Award – Granny D Goes to Washington
Narrative Short Film Special Jury Award – I Hate Musicals
Documentary Feature Special Jury Award – Letter From the Other Side
Film on Art Special Jury Award – Richard Serra- Thinking on Your Feet
Film on Art Special Jury Award – Who the @#!! Is Jackson Pollock
2010
Mendocino Film Festival 2010
Audience Choice Award – Three-Way Tie
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Between the Folds
65 Red Roses
2011
Mendocino Film Festival 2011
Audience Choice Award:
Jury Awards
Best Narrative Short – Touch
Best Documentary Short – Crooked Beauty
Best Narrative Feature – The Athlete
Best Documentary Feature – Pianomania
Documentary Jury Award for Films for Our Future – Happy
Documentary Jury Award for Film on the Arts – Marwencol
Documentary Feature Special Jury Award – Guilty Pleasures
Documentary Feature Special Jury Award – Desert of Forbidden Art
Global Issues Award – My Perestroika
Best Emerging Filmmaker – Fu-de
2017
Mendocino Film Festival 2017
Audience Choice Award:
Jury Awards
Best Short Film – Piper
Best Narrative Feature – Menashe
Narrative Feature Special Jury Award – Clash
Narrative Jury Award for Acting – Alex Shaffer, Delinquent
Best Documentary Feature – Dolores
Documentary Feature Special Jury Award – House on Coco Road
Documentary Feature Special Jury Award – Latest News from the Cosmos
2018
Mendocino Film Festival 2018
Audience Choice Award: Two-Way Tie
Jury Awards
Best Short Film – Welcome to Country
Short Film Jury Award for Directing – Dave Mullins, Lou
Best Narrative Feature – Night Comes On
Narrative Jury Award for Best Directorial Debut – Summer 1993
Best Documentary Feature – Dark Money
Documentary Jury Award for Films for Our Future – Rodents of Unusual Size
2019
Mendocino Film Festival 2019
Audience Choice Award: Three-Way Tie
Gay Chorus Deep SouthMaidenPavarotti
Jury Awards
Best Short Film – Age of Sail
Short Film Jury Award for Directing – Justin O’Neal Miller, Peggy
Best Narrative Feature – The Farewell
Narrative Jury Award for Acting – Regina Williams, Life & Nothing More
Best Documentary Feature – Midnight Traveler
Documentary Jury Award for Cinematography – David Hambridge, Kifaru
2025
Mendocino Film Festival 2025
Audience Choice Award:
Rebel with a Cause
Baltimorons
Jury Awards
Best Short Film: The Last Ranger
Best Documentary: I’m Your Venus
Best Narrative: A Missing Part
Social Justice: From Here/From There
Environmental Justice: Out of Plain Sight
Excellence in Directing/Screen Adaptation: Shepherds
2023
Mendocino Film Festival 2023
Audience Choice Award:
Wild Life
Audience Choice Runner-Up:
Town Destroyer
Jury Awards
Best Narrative: Hold Me Tight
Best Documentary: A Bunch of Amateurs
Best Short Film: Photo Op
Special Jury Award for Direction: Close
Special Jury Award for Social Impact: Town Destroyer
2022
Mendocino Film Festival 2022
Audience Choice Award:
The Automat
Jury Awards
Best Narrative Feature: The Last Film Show
Narrative Special Jury Award for Acting: Andrea Reisborough, To Leslie
Fandor Independent Vision Award: Crabs!
Best Documentary Feature: Blind Ambition
Best Short Film: Plant Heist