Announcing the 2017 SDAFF Award Winners

Posted November 14th, 2017 by Brian in Uncategorized

The 18th San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) announced the winners of its competition categories at the SDAFF Awards Gala held on Saturday, November 11, 2017. Top honors went to MY ENEMY, MY BROTHER  for Grand Jury Award, WEXFORD PLAZA for Best Narrative Feature, and OUT OF STATE  for Best Documentary Feature. The festival continues through November 18, 2017.

Awards were distributed in the following feature film categories: Grand Jury, Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, and George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker.

Awards were also given in the short film categories: Narrative, Documentary, Special Jury Mention, and Animation.

This year, the Digital Pioneer Award went to Phil Yu, of Angry Asian Man.

See below for the full list of winners.

2017 SDAFF Award Winners (L-R): Najah Aboud, Ann Shin (Grand Jury Award – MY ENEMY, MY BROTHER); Phil Yu (Digital Pioneer Award); Tristan Seniuk, Voleak Sip (Best Narrative Short – FLOAT); Janice Chun (Best Animated Short – CRUSHED IN SPACE); Chapin Hall (Best Documentary Feature – OUT OF STATE); Tia Carrere; Joyce Wong (Best Narrative Feature – WEXFORD PLAZA); RJ Lozada (Best Documentary Short – MOTHER’S DAY); Anahita Ghazvinizadeh (Emerging Filmmaker Award – THEY); Jeff Man (Special Jury Mention – SANTA CLAUS). Photo: Denley Wong/3PIXstudios 2017

INTERNATIONAL JURY AWARDS

GRAND JURY AWARD

Winner: Ann Shin’s MY ENEMY, MY BROTHER

For those that missed it, SDAFF presents an encore screening of MY ENEMY, MY BROTHER  at the UltraStar Mission Valley at 6:25 p.m. on November 14.

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE

Joyce Wong’s WEXFORD PLAZA

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Ciara Lacy’s OUT OF STATE

GEORGE C. LIN EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD

Anahita Ghazvinizadeh’s THEY

2017 AUDIENCE AWARD

Nathan Fitch’s ISLAND SOLDIER

SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

Tristan Seniuk & Voleak Sip’s FLOAT

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Elizabeth Lo & R.J. Lozada’s MOTHER’S DAY

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Janice Chun’s CRUSHED IN SPACE

SPECIAL JURY MENTION

Jeff Man’s SANTA CLAUS

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT

Payal Kapadia’s AFTERNOON CLOUDS

DIGITAL PIONEER AWARD

Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man