Congratulations 🎉 to all of our 2026 Award Winners and the incredible artists behind these powerful works! Here’s to another year of bold storytelling, visionary filmmaking, and boundary-pushing creativity.
🎬 Film Awards 🎬
Best Overall Feature Documentary: The River Remembers”
Directed by Jordan Riber
Best Short Documentary: “Dick’s-A-Thon”
Directed by Dylan Young
Best Cinematic Vision: “Sally!”
Directed by Deborah Craig, Jörg Fockele, & Ondine Rarey
Emerging Documentary Filmmaker: “Sincerely, Ric”
Directed by Jesse Carfield
Best Music Video: “Aléjate Más” by Phantasma
Directed by Mario López & Kalid Abdul
Audience Choice Music Video: “Fork in the Road” by Dome Dwellers
Directed by Claire Dejarnett
Best Student Documentary: “Beating People With a Stick”
Directed by John Benavides
📸 Photo Awards 📸
Hear/Here: Jed Ullrich (Pluck)
Macro/Micro: Brice Praslicka (Blue Bee Free)
Sight/Unseen: Joel Dyer (Pray Harder)
Time/Space: Matt Sims (Ebb & Flow)
Still/Life: Ashley Miller
Thank you to all of the filmmakers, photographers, audiences, jurors, artists, and programmers who made Thin Line Fest 2026 such a meaningful experience.
We can’t wait to do it again next year. ✨
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I’m still speechless… our music video “ALEJATE MAS” by @faceyourghosts won Best Music Video at @thinlinefest .
Just wanted to say thank you to the amazing actresses @adrianas.notokay@l0adedclip 🙌
We were like, “let’s just film this for fun,” and now our first music video is at a film festival. Thin Line Fest was unreal so many talented artists and directors in the same room, it felt like a dream. 😅
I’ll y’all see you next year perhaps for a short film maybe?
