DONOR’S CHOICE AUDIENCE AWARDS
All films shown in both the Phoenix Film Festival and the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival
compete for the Donor’s Choice Awards.
Donor’s Choice AUDIENCE AWARD - Competition Feature Film
2025: Anne Everlasting
2024: Guacamole Yesterdays
2023: Spellers
2022: Take the Night
2021: A Sexplanation
2020: Max Winslow and the House of Secrets (IHSFF Sci-Fi Competition Feature)
Donor’s Choice AUDIENCE AWARD - Showcase Feature Film
2025: Champion
2024: No One Asked You
2023: Spinning Gold
2022: The Duke
2021: In A Different Key
2020: Planet George
Donor’s Choice AUDIENCE AWARD - COMPETITION Short Film
2025: Saverio
2024: The Pencil
2023: Ingolstadt
2022: Delivery
2021: How to End a Conversation
2020: Nice Shirt (Native American Directed Shorts)
AUDIENCE AWARDS
In 2020, the Phoenix Film Festival began the Donors’ Choice Awards in place of the Audience Award
Phoenix Film Festival Audience Award
2019: Hudson
2018: Up To Snuff
2017: Fallen
2016: No Greater Love
2015: Far From Home
2014: Life Inside Out
2013: Retrieval
2012: How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song
2011: Wild Horse, Wild Ride
2010: 9000 Needles
2009: Shooting Beauty
2008: On Broadway
2007: a Lobster Tale
2006: Self Medicated
2005: Novem
2004: Black Cloud
2003: The Gatekeeper
2002: Lady Warriors
2001: Chump Change
World Cinema Audience Award
2019: Finding Alice
2018: All the Wild Horses
2017: Fairy Tales for Emma
2016: Freedom or Death
2015: Glories of Tango
2014: The Aryans
2013: Ninah’s Dowry
2012: Lidice
2011: One Long Wall For Cecilia
2010: Milking The Rhino
2009: Garbage Dreams
2008: The Orange Chronicles
2007: A Sunday in Kigali
2006: Gaz Bar Blues
2005: King of Thieves
