WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL GUTSY GAL FILM AWARD

TO BE PRESENTED AT THE DANIEL ARTS THEATER, SIMON'S ROCK/BARD COLLEGE

MARCH 21-22, 2015

Grand Prize Winner 

Best Feature Film/Comedy - Muffin Top: A Love Story - Cathryn Michon, writer and director

Best Feature Length

Best Feature Length/Drama - Imagine I'm Beautiful - Naomi McDougall Jones, writer and Meredith Edwards, director

Best Feature Length/Historical Documentary - Breaking through the Clouds - Heather Taylor, writer and director

Best Feature Length/Documentary of the Americas - Rebel - Maria Agui Carter, writer and director

Best Shorts

Best Short/Historical Documentary - Ida Lewis - Marian Gagnon, writer and director

Best Short/Narrative - Ghost Bike - Judith Finneren, writer and director

Best Short/Student Emerging Talent - Seizing the Unrecorded - Ingrid Pfau, writer and director

Special Category

Outstanding films that provide insight into an important issue of our times

Special Category/Women's Empowerment - The Empowerment Project - Sarah Moshman, writer and director

Special Category/Peace Award - Children of the Light - Dawn Engle, director

Special Category/Social Justice - Young Lakota - Marion Lipschutz, writer and co-director, Rose Rosenblatt, co-director

Special Category/Contemporary Spirituality - Death Makes Life Possible - Marilyn Schlitz, writer and director