DC Independent Film Festival has announced the Award winners for its 20th edition. One of the winners is Sedika Mojadidi that has received Best Film by a Woman Director Inaugural Award for her film FACING THE DRAGON.
Sedika Mojadidi, director/producer/cinematographer, is an Award winning independent filmmaker, Sedika Mojadidi has directed two feature documentaries, “Motherland Afghanistan,” (2006, PBS< Independent Lens) and “Facing the Dragon”, (PBS, 2018). Some of her television work includes: the critically acclaimed ABC News documentary series, “Boston Med” and television/documentary projects for PBS, The Discovery Channel, TLC, A&E, Guardian Multi Media and Human Rights Watch. Her writing is published in “One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature”. She is the recipient of the Human Rights Watch Courage in Filmmaking Award and the Savannah Film Festival Jury Award for Unheard Voices.
Other awards of the DC Independent Film Festival went to:
Best of Fest
WORLDS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN (USA)
DIRECTED BY ARWEN CURRY
Best Feature Film
TOUCHED (USA)
DIRECTED BY BARAK BARKAN
Best International Film
PENGUIN HIGHWAY (Japan)
DIRECTED BY HIROYASU ISHIDA
Best Documentary
WBCN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (USA)
DIRECTED BY BILL LICHTENSTEIN
Best Metro DC Film
DAKOTA (USA)
DIRECTED BY ROBERTO CARMONA
Best Short Film – Fiction
THE SCORPION’S TAIL (USA)
DIRECTED BY JHOSIMAR VASQUEZ
Best Short Film – Documentary
33: LOCAL DC (USA)
DIRECTED BY DAVID ROSS, LLOYD FOSTER, KAVON MARTEZ
Best Web Series Pilot
VOWS (USA)
DIRECTED BY GINNY LEISE
Best Animation
ALEF B’TAMUZ (Israel)
DIRECTED BY YAEL REISFELD
HIGH SCHOO FILM COMPETITION WINNERS:
1st Place
FINDING HOME (USA)
DIRECTED BY YOLANDA MORRISON
2nd Place
I AM NOT BROKEN (USA)
DIRECTED BY ABRIELLE YEN MARSDEN
3rd Place
BLAGDEN ALLEY NW (USA)
DIRECTED BY NYRENE MONTEFORTE
