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the Jury members and The AWARDS

THE VANIA EXERJIAN AWARD

Founder's Award given to a film Empowering Women & Girls

NARRATIVE FEATURES

Sebastien Sisak

Kal Naga

Claude Fischer - Herzog

Pierre Linhart

Odile Bouhier

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

Roger Hendricks Simon

Leon Descloseaux 

Nini Shvelidze 

Tom Helberg

Leslie Taubman, PhD

NARRATIVE SHORTS

Abhilash Sharma

Tomoaki Aomatsu

Yoni Benyamini 

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

Matthias Leupold 

Loulwa Khoury

Alex Bezeau

SCRIPTWRITING 

Brigitte Gauthier

Charlie Allenson

Gabrielle Denize Newsam 

THE INDIEPIX VISION AWARD by IndiePix 

Aaron at IndiePix

THE WFCC AWARD 

Ladyparts Blog

THE KIRK AWARD 

Raffi Regis Bakian

the 2026 Jury members

YONI BENYAMINI
TOMOAKI AOMATSU
LEON DESCLOZEAUX
TOM HELBERG
CLAUDE FISCHER HERZOG
ODILE BOUHIER
ROGER HENDRICK
SIMON
KAL- EL NAGA
CHARLIE ALLENSON
SEBASTIEN SISAK
LESLIE TAUBMAN
PIERRE LINHART
LOULWA KHOURY
MATTHIAS LEUPOLD
REGIS BAKIAN
BRIGITTE GAUTHIER
LADY PARTS/LIRON & MIMI
ABILASH SHARMA
AARON @ INDIEPIX
NINI SHVELIDZE

We thank our diligent International Jury members for their time and dedication
in choosing the winners. 

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The Madagascar Silk Bandana Scarf
by Lost Pattern (*)

The Awards & Prizes

Awards by SR Socially Relevant Film Festival NY
The Vanya Exerjian Award
Best Narrative Feature
Best Documentary Feature
Best Narrative Short

Best Documentary Short

The KIRK Award 

Named after Kirk Kerkorian

Raffi Regis Bakian

given to two Armenian films in the selection

The IndiePix Unlimited Vision Award
Awarded to a film of exceptional merit and commercial prospect.
It consists of a distribution offer from IndiePix Films.

The Scriptwriting Competition
Four winners (first place, second place, third place, honor), certificates of inclusion on the InkTip site respectively. 

Winners will receive a 3-month InkTip Pro Membership. As an InkTip Pro Member, thousands of filmmakers can find and read the scripts, and scriptwriters will be able to pitch directly to production companies every week. With over 3,000 options and 400 movies made, InkTip is the place for independent film.

Consultancy session with CinemaLibre Studio 
The feature film winners in the Narrative Feature and Documentary feature categories are offered an hour-long free consultation and first choice for the distribution of their film.

(*) The Award 
The award trophies this year are special LOST PATTERN scarves graciously donated by Lost Pattern to the winning filmmakers. 

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