Top brass at the Los Angeles Film Festival unveiled the winners of jury and audience awards as the festival came to a close.

Dave Boyle earned the Narrative Award for Man From Reno, Debra Granik’s Stray Dog took documentary honours and the inaugural LA Muse Award was presented to Damian John Harper for Los Ángeles.

Each award carried an unrestricted $5,000 cash prize for the winning director.

Winners of the short film awards each received a $1,500 cash prize.

Best Narrative Short Film went to The Runaway by Jean-Bernard Marlin, while Best Documentary Short Film went to The Queen by Manuel Abramovich. The Award for Best Animated or Experimental Short Film went to Hu Wei’s Butter Lamp.

In the audience awards, best narrative feature went to Kerem Sanga’s The Young Kieslowski and Geeta V Patel and Ravi V Patel’s Meet The Patels prevailed in the documentary strand.

Someone You Love by Pernille Fischer Christensen won the Audience Award for Best International Feature.

The Audience Award for Best Short Film went to The Gunfighter by Eric Kissack, while Turn Down For What: Lil John And DJ Snake by Daniels earned Best Music Video honours.

“This year the Los Angeles Film Festival reached a new high, thanks to the audiences who packed theaters in support of the films,” said festival director Stephanie Allain. “We’re so proud of every single film and celebrate the winners.”

The Los Angeles Film Festival ran from June 11-19. For the full list of winners click here.

 

 

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