THE ULEAD AWARD: for an excellent script and overall impact, to Shawn McClelland for his film The Optimist
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD: for capturing Taipei life, to Darin Caudle and David Bott for Nineteen Seventy-four
BEST SHORT NARRATIVE: for a darkly amusing take on contemporary life and failure, to Patrick Tsai for No More Sympathy For Bastards and My Lover
HUMANITARIAN FOCUS AWARD: for raising awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Liberia, to Kenton Harmer for Boom
BOBWUNDAYE WILD AT HEART AWARD: for efforts in documenting indigenous histories, to Dean Karalekas for Rendezvous With the Moon
BEST EXPERIMENTAL: for unwrapping reality into psycho-visual layers, to Tony Wu for Noah, Noah
PUNK PHILOSOPHER AWARD: for riduculing an entire society - ours - to James Hong for Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms
HONORABLE MENTION:
Kloie Picot for Those Left Behind
Norman Szabo for Living the Life