Best Film Winners and Additional Honorees announced for the California Music Video Awards
The CALIFORNIA MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS Committee is pleased to announce the Winners and Honorees in final category groups for this 6th annual awards season for music videos, films, documentaries, and podcasts.
The Film and Documentary award winners were announced on February 13th at an intimate awards dinner in San Francisco.
The CALIFORNIA MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS celebrate some of the most exciting and creative California-influenced music, musicians and artists from around the World. They honor great work and that California connection!
FILM AWARDS WINNERS
Best Short Music Film or Documentary (10-40 Minutes)
- Out of this World – Dominic Anthony Stewart ,
- Summa Bumma – Chris Spaces , Brandon NewLove
- Things Are Gonna Be Alright – Rahul Chakraborty , Ryan Magnani
- Unstoppable: Tiara Thomas – Betsy Pike , Betsy Pike
- Adequately – Leo Gorenstein , Dasha Ely, Nune Arakelyan
- Breakthrough | The Story of Tina Guo – Auctus Productions ,
- Fifty Days – Holly May Morrison, Marie Naffah , Holly May Morrison, Marie Naffah
- It’s a Beautiful Day – Andrew Brier , SF BioFlix
- Let the wind sing – Igor Sukachev , Victor Mayorov, Victoria Novoselskaya, Inessa Kudryashova
- Live Out West – Nathan Jacques , Nathan Jacques, Ed Donnelly
- Rotten Hill Gang – WhittyGordon Projects
- Beirut Dreams in Color – Michael Collins , Marty Syjuco, Michael Collins, Sarah Kaskas, James Costa – WINNER
Best Feature Music Film or Documentary
- This is My Black – Stephen Adetumbi, Jarrett Roseborough , Jarrett Roseborough, Stephen Adetumbi
- The Drive to Sing – Bryce B. Denney , Kathryn W. Denney, Justin Lahue
- The Jook’s On You – Ashley Kimmet – WINNER
- It Came from Aquarius Records – Kenneth Thomas , Kenneth Thomas
- Islanders – Craig Harmer, Joe Zook , Craig Harmer, Joe Zook, Anna Gustafson
- Green Is The New Black – Jake Taylor, Caleb Graham , Jake Taylor
- Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection – Randy Martin , Randy Schmidt, Katie Chase, Allison Willoughy – WINNER
Best Non-English Language Film
- Melody Monologue: And Then – Shadtoto Prasetio , Irfan Wahyudi
- Chameleons – Fritz Aigner , Stefan Schmid
- Perceived Reality – Gijs Besseling , Gijs Besseling, Frédérique-Daniëlle Meijers
- Taiyuan Musical Notes – Qing Li , Yao Li
- CICERO – Two Lives, One stage – Kai Wessel, Tina Freitag , Katharina Rinderle – WINNER
Best Dance Program, Film or Documentary
- Current(s) Home – Daniel Cosentino , Daniel Cosentino
- Towards the Mystery – Elina Akselrud, Denis Zhdanov , Elina Akselrud
- A Feast That Never Comes – Maria Juranic , Rachel Morgan, Sven Britt, Maria Juranic – WINNER
- Morgane – Delphine Veronneau, Nicolas Gouin , Tuque et Capuche – WINNER
- Silhouette – Alex Sjobeck, Rulon Wood, Marla Hansen , Alex Sjobeck, Rulon Wood, Marla Hansen
- The Road To Butoh – Shai Alexandroni , Shai Alexandroni
SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS
Lyrics and Verse
- Behind Your Walls – The Offspring, Jeb Hardwick – WINNER
- Out of this World – Dominic Anthony Stewart
- Abandon – Jeff Hilliard , Jeff Hilliard
- We Are The Wild Horses – Ginalina Music
- Light Up – Anna Maria, Maxim Balter, Vlad Sakin, Anna Bondarenko
- Like the rain – Hilla Peer – WINNER
- Hateless – Flo, Mike Sanders
- Thank You – Anthony Vazquez , Ben Weinswig, B Armstrong
- Locks and Guns – Jefferson Berry, Ciro Ayala, Brian Flanagan , Jefferson Berry
ADDITIONAL HONOREES FOR SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT
The Word Award
- Unstoppable: Tiara Thomas – Betsy Pike
Breakout Storyteller Award
- It Came from Aquarius Records – Kenneth Thomas
- Rotten Hill Gang – WhittyGordon Projects
- Breakthrough | The Story of Tina Guo – Auctus Productions
Spotlight Award Winners
- Live Out West – Nathan Jacques, Ed Donnelly
- Sticks and Stones – Sarah Shafey