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 Las Vegas Black Film Festival 2023 FILMs

2023 
AWARD NOMINATIONS

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Feature, Short, Documentary,
Music Video, Web Series
 

FEATURE FILM

Autumn Beat

The Long Hollywood Night

Mahogany

Heart 'N' Soul

A Christmas Karen

Congress & Cali

Mickey Hardaway

 SHORT FILM

Double Down

The Dragonfly Tale

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TIDE

Mixed Girl

The Struggle

Sweet Yellow Heart

Night of the Neptune

Hermanita

The Sofa Bed

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Prevailing Love

Invidia's Lens

Sick Puppy

Good Day

With Salt

18 Eve

Paralysis

Fun The Emachee Way

For the Love of Tanya

Not Enough

More than Hair

The British are Coming

Green Trip

The Pulpit - Prelude

Checkmate For Life

The Marked

The UnAmerican: A Soldier's Story

A Better Love

Sneaker Therapy

Samsara

Hilltop

DOCUMENTARY

Raised / Razed 

The Sun Rises in the East

Three Weeks ...

(The 1960 Winter Olympics and Civil Rights Movement Reno, NV)

Reclaim Your Water: TheBrosFresh

United Front People's Convention Memphis 1991

The Critics

Golden Hearted

WEB SERIES

Gangsta Island

 WRITTEN SCREENPLAY

Street Code

Power to the People

Dr. Die and the Maiden of Deathly Sorrows

That's So Gay

Zipporah's Destiny

A Sheriff's War

Ghettocyrano

False Profit

Failure to Comply

The Baker

Lady Seraphim

I'll Be Doggone

The Life of Cockroaches

Haunted Mines

Race and Bae

MUSIC VIDEO

I Made It

No Matter How Far

I Need You

Marck Angel ...

Justice (from Seraphim the Motion Picture)

Timeless

Let Me Live

Up Up and Away

Spotlight

TV PILOT PITCH

The Shaq Effect

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BEST FEATURE FILM

Autumn Beat

The Long Hollywood Night

Mahogany

Heart 'N' Soul

A Christmas Karen

Mickey Hardaway

BEST SHORT FILM

Hermanita

TIDE

Sick Puppy

Checkmate For Life Film

More Than Hair

Double Down

BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Critics

Reclaim Your Water: TheBrosFresh

Raised / Razed

United Front: People's Convention Memphis 1991

The Sun Rises in the East

Three Weeks:

The 1960 Winter Olympics and the Civil Rights Movement in Reno, NV

BEST SCREENPLAY

TIDE

Heart 'N' Soul

Mahogany

Autumn Beat

Mickey Hardaway 

BEST DIRECTOR OF A FEATURE

JayTee Thompson

Heart 'N' Soul

 

Jon Binkowski & Lisa Enos Smith

A Christmas Karen

Antonio Dikele Distefano

Autumn Beat

Allana De'Nai

Mahogany

Joss Refauvelet

The Long Hollywood Night

Marcellus Cox

Mickey Hardaway

BEST DIRECTOR OF A SHORT 

Reggie Austin

The Marked

Deborah L. Harris

Checkmate For Life Film

Ahmari Kareem

A Better Love

JayTee Thompson

Sick Puppy

Matthew Law

Not Enough

Hisonni Mustafa

Hermanita

Andrew Baldwin

Night of the Neptune

BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR

Kimberly DeWitt

Prevailing Love

Deborah L. Harris

Checkmate For Life Film

Major Jas Boothe

The Sofa Bed

Faith Briggs

Reclaim Your Water: TheBrosFresh

Lisa Enos Smith

A Christmas Karen

Lorey Hayes

The Dragonfly Tale

Allana De'Nai

Mahogany

BEST ACTRESS IN A FEATURE

Ariel Simone

Heart 'N' Soul

Michele Simms

A Christmas Karen

 

Devereau Chumrau

The Long Hollywood Night 

Allana De'Nai

Mahogany

La'keishia Simon

Congress & Cali

BEST ACTOR IN A FEATURE

Kendon Tillis

Heart 'N' Soul

Ryan Willer

The Long Hollywood Night

Hamed Seydou

Autumn Beat

Kalvin Kosha Fitzgerald

Mahogany

Rashad Hunter

Mickey Hardaway

BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT

Brenda Nascimento

Not Enough

Lizette Hunter

Hermanita

Shante Deloach

Triggered

Hilary Nicholson

Sweet Yellow Heart

BEST ACTOR IN A SHORT

Reggie Austin

The Marked

JayTee Thompson

Sick Puppy

Tom Alper

Sick Puppy

Leonard Thomas

Checkmate For Life Film

Zachary Zolis

Not Enough

Eduardo Robinson

Triggered

Kenyon Surney

Triggered

Lester Greene

Double Down

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Omari Washington

Checkmate For Life Film

Rolin Alexis 

A Christmas Karen

Lee Karlinsky

A Christmas Karen

Wreckless Watson

Heart 'N' Soul

Tayy' Blanson

Heart 'N' Soul

Stephen Cofield Jr. 

Mickey Hardaway

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Meghan Colleen Moroney

A Christmas Karen

Leyla Lawrence

A Christmas Karen

Rahvaunia

For The Love of Tanya

BEST CAST ENSEMBLE

Prevailing Love

The Marked

A Better Love

Green Trip

Autumn Beat

The Dragonfly Tale

The British are Coming

Good Day

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

No Matter How Far

Marck Angel

I Need You

I Made it

BEST WRITTEN WORK

Dr. Die and the Maiden of Deathly Sorrows

Raymond Harrison

Lady Seraphim

Jermaine Jones

Power to the People

Lorenzo William Dickerson

BEST FILM SCORE

A Better Love

Heart 'N' Soul

The Long Hollywood Night

Raised / Razed

RISING STAR AWARD

Bentley Lewis

The Dragonfly Tale

Emachee

Fun the Emachee Way

 

Skylar Myers

Manuel Garcia

Xander McCord

Prevailing Love

 

Izabella Dykes

Jack Jarvis

Mixed Girl

OUTSTANDING WEB SERIES

Gangsta Island

Ken Lewis

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Checkmate For Life Film

More Than Hair

Invidia's Lens

Heart 'N' Soul

Triggered

The Long Hollywood Night

TIDE

Mickey Hardaway

BEST LOVE STORY

A Better Love

Heart 'N' Soul

Prevailing Love

BEST PERIOD PIECE

A Better Love

The Long Hollywood Night

BEST DRAMA

For The Love of Tanya

Hermanita

Triggered

Double Down

Night at the Neptune

BEST NARRATIVE FILM

The Dragonfly Tale

Golden Hearted

BEST COMEDY

A Christmas Karen

The British are Coming

Good Day

BEST SOCIAL AWARENESS

Sick Puppy

The UnAmerican: A Soldier's Story

Sneaker Therapy

Not Enough

The Sofa Bed

With Salt

BEST ARTISTIC FILM

The UnAmerican: A Soldier's Story

Sneaker Therapy

Paralysis

OUTSTANDING FAN FILM

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BEST ANIMATION FILM

Gangsta Island

A Sofa Bed

BEST DEBUT FILM

The Struggle

For The Love of Tanya

BEST FILM ARTWORK

Zipporah's Destiny

Invidia's Lens

Gangsta Island

The Long Hollywood Night

Heart 'N' Soul

TIDE

B.O.M.B. Founders Pick

TBA

2023 LVBFF 

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

TBA

Official Selection Laurel
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