Below are the finalist and honorable mention list for the 2016 International Film Festival. 

While all films selected to our festival were wonderful in their own ways, our mission is always to find the ones that best uses filmmaking to portray true heroism: compassion, courage, progress, and understanding.

Our special award categories are still pending. You can search for your film's title by using Control+F or Command+F

ANIMATION FINALISTS

The Hero's Journey

Unsung hero

Love Ain't Enough

HONORABLE MENTION

The Night Witch

Tea Time

ARTS HERO FINALISTS

SING FOR HOPE

The Letter

The Hope Project

Consumed

COLLEGE ANIMATION FINALISTS

Hedge Hero

Trashonauts

Eloise, little dreamer

The Present

HONORABLE MENTION

Invisible

Who Rules the Earth?

COLLEGE DOCUMENTARY FINALISTS

Dreams Come True

How Far I Want to Go

Gotong-Royong

People Like Us

HONORABLE MENTION

Color Blind?

The President, the Peanut and the Pulpit

COLLEGE NARRATIVE FINALISTS

Shark Attack

Sparks

The Waste Picker

The Dragon's Scale

HONORABLE MENTION

Broken

My Own Worst Hero

DOCUMENTARY FINALISTS

Endurance: Ultra Marathon

Welcome to The Last Bookstore

Beneath Paradise

We Are Ngarrindjeri

Post-war Machismo: Be a Man

HONORABLE MENTION

A Sakada Story

Home at Dawn

EDUCATIONAL FINALISTS

Lincoln Brower on Monarchs: Migration at Risk

Lincoln Brower on What Good is a Butterfly

Water for Gold

The Story of Ebola

ENVIRONMENTAL FINALISTS

One Voice

Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit Documentary

Looking After Our Past, Present and Future

Plastic Bottle Village

HONORABLE MENTION

Looking After Our Greatest Blessing

Dolphin Rescue Hawaii

EXPERIMENTAL FINALISTS

The Adaptable Mind

The Function of Music with Jad Abumrad

I Am Morgan Stolen Freedom

HONORABLE MENTION

Piero

Lost in Transit

HIGH SCHOOL DOCUMENTARY FINALISTS

Livin the Lies

Peace by Piece: The Story of Harry Davids

Us and Us

Dreams of Nthulu

Priced Out of Education

Superheroes of a New origin

HONORABLE MENTION

Missing Question Mark

Rethink

HIGH SCHOOL NARRATIVE FINALISTS

Climate Change

Fault Lines

Reflections

The Bench

Fairytale

HONORABLE MENTION

Law & Disorder

Chasing Jamie

Fitting In

Meaning of Life

HIGH SCHOOL PSA FINALISTS

Rebirth of Earth

An American Girl

SARA PSA

The Test

Period.

HONORABLE MENTION

WASH YOUR HANDS

Zoe's PSA: Spread of Disease in Growing Population

HUMAN RIGHTS FINALISTS

My Brother

Touching the Untouchable

The Equal Justice Initiative

#AnywhereIsSafer

HUMANITARIAN FINALISTS

FREE THE CHILDREN

The Toyota Effect - Coming Home

Blessing's Story

Waves for Water - Nepal Earthquake

NOW I AM A REFUGEE

HONORABLE MENTION

La Liberacion de AlEXIS Trailer

My Hero Pomozi.ba

INDIVIDUALITY FINALISTS

Beatrix

The King Within

Lena Nozizwe presents Alice Princess is Fresh!

The Way of the Dodo

INDY FEATURE IN DEVELOPMENT FINALISTS

The Pamoja Project - Astridah

Wild Souls - Featurette

Phoolan [Trailer]

New Town Utopia [Teaser]

HONORABLE MENTION

Guns and Guitars - Teaser

MUSIC VIDEO FINALISTS

Yacouba - The Village Fool

Hope in My Veins

Beyond Belief

NARRATIVE FINALISTS

Touch of the Rain

Butterflies

My Heart

HONORABLE MENTION

The Lonely Whale

1985

Zawadi

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES FINALISTS

I Am Able

Anna's Story

Step by Step

Mutual Rescue: Eric & Peety

HONORABLE MENTION

Source of Hope

Sergeich 10

POETIC FINALISTS

Dayvon's Dream

In Between

Reflections of an underwater cameraman

The Spectrum

HONORABLE MENTION

His First Day

PROFESSIONAL PORTRAITS OF INDIVIDUALS FINALISTS

Water Song

The San Diego Highwayman

The Last Resort

FIELDWORKS: Jody Wood, Beauty in Transition

HONORABLE MENTION

Born To: Freediving

Freedom

PROFESSIONAL PORTRAITS OF ORGANIZATIONS FINALISTS

THE SPEED SCHOOL FUND

Maybelle's Story

Ebenezer

ASTER & TSEGAYE

HONORABLE MENTION

ABREHAM

Tibebu

PSA FINALISTS

Nature Is Speaking - Julia Roberts is Mother Nature

The allegory of the spoons

To Be a Parent

It's About Time

HONORABLE MENTION

Bob Pacelli's Butterfly Assist

I Want

SERIES FINALISTS

The Toyota Effect - Saving Sight

Orange Slices TV Show Features Ocean Defenders Alliance

Talk It Up TV - Dwayne Wynne

Talk It Up TV - Hannah's Dream

HONORABLE MENTION

The Toyota Effect - 116 Innovators

STRIDES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FINALISTS

Loki Lego Launcher

The $1 Microscope

Madeline the Robot Tamer

Whale Aware

STUDENT/MENTOR FINALISTS

Amai's Paintings of Peace

My Hero - Call to Action

Dear People of the Future

My Students - My Little Heroes

STUDENT/MENTOR MUSIC VIDEO FINALISTS

Stand Up

The Healthy Wrap

Hard Times

TEACHER HERO FINALISTS

I Am Fundi

Azalaeche

NOTES on a VIOLIN

TOLERANCE FINALISTS

The Talk

Me + You

Upstanders: The Mosque Across the Street

PASAPALABRA (WHISPERER)

TRAILER FINALISTS

A Classy Broad Trailer

Daddy Don't Go

I Want to Be an Astronaut [Trailer]

Fragile Legacy trailer

JOHN Trailer

HONORABLE MENTION

Reinforcements [Trailer]

Butterfly Town USA - Film Trailer

Inheriting War Trailer

The Apology [Trailer]

WOMEN'S RIGHTS FINALISTS

Antigone of Syria: Meet the Inspiring Fedwa from Damascus

Besh Machio

The Barefoot Lawyers of Uganda

Approaches towards ending Female Genital Mutilation

HONORABLE MENTION

Anti-Street Harassment PSA

YOUTH ACTIVISM FINALISTS

Upstanders: The Kids Who Killed an Incinerator

Kids vs. Global Warming

Save Tomorrow

Longing for a Local Lunch

HONORABLE MENTION

Destiny's Bay