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Anthem Film Festival: List of Nominees & Award Winners

The Anthem Film Festival is an annual screening of the latest libertarian films and documentaries. It is part of the larger FreedomFest event. Below is a list of Anthem Film Festival winners for the years 2011-2020.


2020 Anthem Film Festival Winners

For more details on these films, see the Anthem Film Festival homepage.

Anthem/FreedomFest Grand Prize
–Man in the Arena  [Director: Michael Barnes]
Narrative Feature

Best Narrative Feature: Speed of Life  [Director: Liz Manashil]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Mondo Hollywoodland  [Director: Janek Ambros]

Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Feature: They Say It Can’t Be Done  [Director: Michael “Oz” Ozias]
Best International Feature Narrative: Bassil’ora [Director: Rebecca Basso]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Money Machine  [Director: Ramsey Denison]
Libertarian Ideals: How to Love Your Enemy: A Restorative Justice Story [Director: Sam Martin & Matt Battaglia]

Special Awards

Audience Choice Award (tie): Man in the Arena  [Director: Michael Barnes] & They Say It Can’t Be Done [Michael “Oz” Ozias]
Anthemvault Prize for Best Original Score: The Common Ground Sound  [Composer: Jill Riley]

Short Narrative

Best Short Narrative: The Teleios Act   [Directors: Evan Matthews]
Best Comedy: Seize This House  [Directors: Keith Wahrer]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Metrics  [Director: Grant Bergland]
Excellence in Filmmaking International: Inner Self  [Director: Mohammad Hormozi]
Libertarian Ideals: What’s Your Number?  [Director: Sigal Erez]
Libertarian Ideals International: Get Off  [Director: Teymour Ghaderi]
FreedomFest Prize for Best Economic Principles: The March of History: Mises vs Marx [John Papola]
Honorable Mention: Cleats [Abdullah Sahin]
Honorable Mention: Crystal City [Geoff Mark]
Honorable Mention: Elevator [Adel Masoumian]

Short Documentary

Best Short Documentary: The Big Skim [Director: Molly Dedham]
Best International Documentary: Where the Directives Grow [Tomasz Agencki]
Excellence in Filmmaking: The Falconer [Director: Ian Reid]
Libertarian Ideals: Korematsu Versus US [Director: Matt Wood]
Best Libertarian Series: Architects of Woke: Howard Zinn, Hollywood, and the Fairy Tale of American Evil [Rob Montz]
Honorable Mention: IRIC [Sandra Tamkin]
Honorable Mention: My Name is Chip Wilson [Patrick Reasonover]
Honorable Mention: My Name is Hong Kong [Patrick Reasonover]
Honorable Mention: The Politically Incorrect Guides to Communism and Journalism [Patrick Reasonover]
Honorable Mention: Quota [Josh Oldham]


2019 Anthem Film Festival Winners

For more details on these films, see the Anthem Film Festival homepage.

Anthem/FreedomFest Grand Prizes
No Safe Spaces  [Director: Justin Fok]
Tangle  [Director: Malihe Ghloamzadeh]
Narrative Feature

Best Narrative Feature: Miracle in East Texas  [Director: Kevin Sorbo]
Official Selection: Love Immortal  [Director: Robert Joseph Butler]

Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Feature: Invalidated  [Director: Luke Livingston]
Excellence in Filmmaking: The Creepy Line  [Director: M.A. Taylor]
Libertarian Ideals: The Fight of Our Lives: Defeating the Ideological War Against the West  [Director: Gloria Z. Greenfield]

Special Awards

Audience Choice Award: Tank Man  [Director: Robert Peters]
Anthemvault Prize for Best Original Score: Regulation  [Composer: Sam Estes]
Special Jury Prize Award: In Money We Trust?  [Director: Paul Sanderson]

Foreign Narrative

Best International Feature Narrative: aKasha  [Director: Hajooj Kuka]
Best Foreign Short Narrative: Raheel   [Director: Ayat Asadi Rahbar]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Bailaora [Director: Rubin Stein]
Libertarian Ideals: The Stain  [Director: Shoresh Vakili]

Short Narrative

Best Short Narrative: Demand Curve   [Directors: Austin and Meredith Bragg]
Best Comedy: The Surge  [Directors: Jared Sichel and Gabriel Yaffe]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Regulation  [Director: Ryan Patch]
Libertarian Ideals: My Name is Victimhood  [Director: Jennifer Grossman]
Official Selection: The Last Straw  [Katie Christofferson]
Official Selection: Love Gov2  [John Papola]

Short Documentary

Best Short Documentary: Made in Mehke  [Director: Valerie Hinkle-Marshall]
Excellence in Filmmaking: The Right to Bear 3D Printers   [Director: Logan Albright]
Libertarian Ideals: American Consequences 2020   [Director: Fred Gundry]
Official Selection: American Craft: What Beer Can Teach Us About Well-Crafted Laws  [Director: Matt Wood]
Official Selection: Architects of Woke: Judith Butler’s War on Science  [Rob Montz]
Official Selection: Big Lies: The Forgotten Russian Holocaust  [Igor Runov]
Official Selection: One Laptop Is a Passport to the World  [Melissa Mann]
Official Selection: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution  [Jake Klein]
Official Selection: State of War [Matt Battaglia]


2018 Anthem Film Festival Winners

Anthem/FreedomFest Grand Prize
Skid Row Marathon  [Director: Mark Hayes]

…also Best Feature Documentary
…also Best Original Score

Documentary Feature

Audience Choice Award: The Housing Bubble  [Director: Jimmy Morrison]
International Feature Documentary: Cyborgs Among Us  [Director: Rafel Duran Torrent]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Sweden: Lessons for America?  [Directors: James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty]
Best Libertarian Values: From the Ground Up  [Director: David Lasdon]

Short Narrative

Best Overall: Gringa   [Directors: Lana Link and Claudia Murray]
Best International Short Narrative: The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler  [Director: Paul Philipp]
Best Comedy: The Inconsiderate Houseguest  [Director: Letitia Capili]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Are You Volleyball?  [Director: Mohammad Bakhshi]
Best Libertarian Values: Gandhi vs. Justice  [Director: Pratik Khandhadiya]

Short Documentary

Best Overall: Saber Rock  [Directors: Tom and Matt Locastro]
Audience Choice Award: Off The Grid With Thomas Massie   [Director: Matt Battaglia]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Wanda Wos Lorenc: The Witness Project   [Director: Hawk Jensen]
Best Libertarian Values: Off The Grid With Thomas Massie   [Director: Matt Battaglia]
Special Jury Award for Heroism: Saber Rock  [Directors: Tom and Matt Locastro]


2017 Anthem Film Festival Winners

Anthem/FreedomFest Grand Prize
Little Pink House  [Director: Courtney Balaker]

…also Best Narrative Feature
…also Best Original Score

Anthem/FreedomFest Grand Prize
What Happened in Vegas  [Director: Ramsey Denison]

…also Best Documentary Feature

Narrative Feature

Best Libertarian Ideals: Re-Evolution [Director: David Sousa Moreau]

Documentary Feature

Best Overall: Incarcerating Us [Director: Regan Hines]
Audience Choice Award: I Am, Or How Jack Became Black [Director: Eli Steele]
Best Intl. Documentary: Secrets of the Magna Carta [Director: Martin Durkin]
Excellence in Filmmaking: School, Inc. [Director: Andrew Coulson]
Excellence in Filmmaking, Intl. Documentary: Born Blue: The Guyana Project [Director: Geordie Day]
Best Libertarian Ideals: I Am, Or How Jack Became Black [Director: Eli Steele]

Short Narrative

Best Overall: Temporary [Director: Milena Govich]
Excellence in Filmmaking: A Lifetime Later [Director: Adrienne Levy]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Freedom On Trial [Director: John Papola]

Short Documentary

Best Overall: Mama Rwanda [Directors: Laura Waters Hinson]
Audience Choice Award: And My Prison Bars Bloom: The True Story of Armando Valladares [Director: Jeff Gasser]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Anastasia Lin: The Witness Project [Director: Hawk Jensen]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Silence U [Director: Rob Montz]
Special Jury Prize: Go to Where the Light Is: Escaping North Korea (The Yeonmi Park Story) [Director: Josh Oldham]
Excellence in Commercial Filmmaking: I, Whiskey: The Human Spirit [Director: Pip Gilmour]


2016 Anthem Film Festival Winners

Anthem/FreedomFest Grand Prize
Can We Take a Joke? [Director: Ted Balaker]

…also Excellence in Filmmaking Award

Documentary Feature

Best Overall: Deep Web [Director: Alex Winter]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Of Dogs and Men [Director: Michael Ozias]

Short Narrative

Best Overall: Everything [Director: R. J. Daniel Hanna]
Excellence in Filmmaking: I’ve Just Had a Dream [Director: Javier Navarro]
Best Libertarian Ideals: The Return [Director: Matthew Szewczyk]
Best Libertarian Comedy: Love Gov: From First Date to Mandate [Directors: John Papola and Bradley Jackson]

Short Documentary

Best Overall: Seized [Directors: Matthew and Thomas Locastro]
Excellence in Filmmaking: People Like Us [Director: Tina Gharavi]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Mule: Living on the Outside [Director: John McDonald]

Audience Choice Awards

Narrative: Everything [Director: R. J. Daniel Hanna]
Documentary: Deep Web [Director: Alex Winter]

Anthem Vault Awards

Best Original Score: Of Dogs and Men [Composer: David Bateman, Director: Michael Ozias]


2015 Anthem Film Festival Winners

Anthem/FreedomFest Grand Prize
Powers War [Director: Cameron Trejo]
Documentary Feature

Best Overall: Powers War [Director: Cameron Trejo]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Captain Jack Hall [Director: Edgar Barens]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Imminent Threat [Director: Janek Ambros]
Best International Documentary: Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It [Directors: Torsten Hoffmann and Michael Watchulonis]

Short Narrative

Best Overall: Where We Go from Here  [Director: Matthew Szewczyk]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Shelter [Director: R. J. Daniel Hanna]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Helio [Director: Teddy Cecil]

Short Documentary

Best Overall: Vision: Healing the Blind in Ethiopia [Director: Eric Perlman]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Farming in Fear [Director: Sean Malone]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Police Strike Force [Director: Deron Brunson]

Audience Choice Awards

Narrative: Where We Go from Here [Director: Matthew Szewczyk]
Documentary: Farming in Fear [Director: Sean Malone]

Anthem Vault Awards

Best Original Score: Powers War [Director: Cameron Trejo]
Best Libertarian Theme: Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It [Directors: Torsten Hoffmann and Michael Watchulonis]


2014 Anthem Film Festival Winners

Anthem/FreedomFest Grand Prize
Poverty, Inc. [Director: Michael Matheson Miller; Mark Weber, Co-Producer]
Narrative Feature

Best Overall: Atlas Shrugged III: Who is John Galt?  [Director: James Manera; John Aglialoro, Executive Producer]
Excellence in Filmmaking: The Last Eagle Scout  [Director: Kels Goodman]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Collapse  [Director: Dave McCormick]

Documentary Feature

Best Overall: America: Imagine the World Without Her  [Director: Dinesh D’Souza and John Sullivan; Gerald Molen, Producer]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Poverty, Inc.  [Director: Michael Matheson Miller]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Dog Days  [Directors: Kasey Kirby and Laura Waters Hinson]

International Documentary

Best Overall: Freedom from Choice  [Director: Tim Delmastro]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Exit  [Directors: Klaus Erik Okstad, Olav Njaastad, Anders Somme]

Short Narrative

Best Overall: Cough  [Director: Jason Kempnich]

Short Documentary

Best Overall: No Vans Land  [Director: Sean Malone]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Don’t Cage my Speech! A Student Schools his College  [Director: Ted Balaker]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Before Snowden: Behind the Curtain  [Directors: Bill and Tricia Owen]

Audience Choice Awards

Feature length: Poverty, Inc.  [Director: Michael Matheson Miller]
Short: The Ticket: Stories of School Choice in Education  [Director: Bob Bowdon]

Links

Blogcritics: Anthem Filmi Festival: Mind Reboot, 7/24/14
Blogcritics: Anthem Filmi Festival: A Dark Future, But With a Few Laughs, 7/21/14


2013 Anthem Film Festival Winners

Anthem/FreedomFest Grand Prize
L1ttl3 Br0th3r [Director: Cyrus Saidi]

Documentary Feature

Best Overall: Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve [Director: Jim Bruce]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Hating Breitbart [Director: Andrew Marcus]
Best Libertarian Ideals: America’s Longest War [Director: Paul Feine]
Best International Documentary Feature: Post Lebanon [Director: Lior Agur]

Short Documentary

Best Overall: I, Pencil [Director: Nick Tucker]
Excellence in Filmmaking: The Last Week: How Lawsuits Doomed an American Icon [Director: Curtis Briggs]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Act of Terror [Directors: Gemma Atkinson and Fred Grace]

Short Narrative

Best Overall: L1ttl3 Br0th3r [Director: Cyrus Saidi]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Knocked Down [Director: Reaves Washburn]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Son of Man [Directors: Janek Ambros]

Audience Choice Awards

Documentary Feature: What if Cannibas Cured Cancer [Director: Len Richmond]
Short Documentary: I, Pencil [Director: Nick Tucker]
Short Narrative: L1ttl3 Br0th3r [Director: Cyrus Saidi]

Honorable Mention

Documentary Feature, Libertarian Ideals: Rebel Evolution [Director: Anna Zetchus Smith]
Short Narrative, Audience Choice: The Pilgrim [Director: Sean Buttimer]


2012 Anthem Film Festival Winners

Anthem/FreedomFest Grand Prize
The Afghan Nightmare [Director: Klaus Erik Okstad]

Documentary Feature

Best Overall: Ayn Rand & The Prophecy of ‘Atlas Shrugged’ [Director: Chris Mortensen]
Excellence in Filmmaking: An Inconsistent Truth [Director: Shayne Edwards; written and produced by Phil Valentine]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Nullification: The Rightful Remedy [Director: Jason Rink]

Short Documentary
Excellence in Filmmaking: Everything is Incredible [Directors: Tyler Bastien, Trevor Hill, Tim Skousen]
Best Libertarian Ideals: Don’t Mess with ‘Firefly’ [Director: Ted Balaker]

Short Narrative

Best Overall: The Parachute Ball [Director: Peter Boothby]
Excellence in Filmmaking: Closing Bell [Director: Janek Ambros]
Best Libertarian Ideals: The Conversation [Director: Courtney Balaker]

Following is a video clip of the 2012 Anthem Film Festival Awards…


2011 Anthem Film Festival Winners

PRI Prize for Excellence in Filmmaking and Libertarian Ideals
The Cartel  [Director: Bob Bowdon]

Best Film

Best Narrative Feature: alleged [Director: Tom Hines]
Best Documentary Feature: The Cartel [Director: Bob Bowdon]
Best Short Drama: Bright [Director: Benjamin Busch]
Best Short Comedy: Final Census [Director: Shawn Monaghan]
Best Short Documentary: Gentle Men [Director: Jesse Gibbons]
Best International Narrative Feature: Butterfly Crush [Director: Alan Clay]
Best International Documentary: Overdose [Director: Martin Borgs]

Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Filmmaking

Narrative Feature: Marathon [Director: Biju Viswanath]
Documentary Feature: Cool It [Director: Ondi Timoner]
Short Drama: Tyttonen [Director: Fabian Giessler]
Short Comedy: Fairy Tale of London Town [Director: Louis Neethling]

Special Jury Prize for Libertarian Ideals

Narrative Feature: Lady Magdalene’s [Director: J. Neil Schulman]
Documentary Feature: Indoctrinate U [Director: Evan Coyne Maloney]
Short Drama: Threnody [Director: Sean Buttimer]
Short Comedy: Et Miaow Alors [Director: Adrian Westbrook]
Short Documentary: The Sea is a Harsh Mistress [Director: Jason Sussberg]

Grand Jury Special Presentation

Zero Percent [Director: Tim Skousen]

Audience Choice Awards

Narrative Feature: alleged [Director: Tom Hines]

Documentary Feature

Cool It [Director: Ondi Timoner]
Zero Percent [Director: Tim Skousen]

Short

Bright [Director: Benjamin Bush]

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