Audience Choice Award Winning Films
Since 2013, audience members have been invited to vote for their favorite film via text message, and the Audience Choice Award is presented to the winning filmmaker(s) following the final screening.
2024 Audience Choice Award Winner | ConFISHion
Directed by Alexx Simone Johnson & Thomas Larson
A fish story of biblical proportions...sort of.
(ConFISHion will be available for viewing at a later date.)
2023 Audience Choice Award Winner | Lily
Directed by Suneina Badoni & Chloe Stafford
Desperate for a cure for their daughter's illness, a California couple finds hope from an unexpected source.
2022 Audience Choice Award Winner | The Ismailzais
Directed by Peter Nichols & Nate Robards
A family of Afghan refugees starts a new life in Austin, Texas.
2021 Audience Choice Award Winner | Scott - no relation
Directed by Scott Kiley
It's hard to be funny during a pandemic.
2020 Audience Choice Award Winner | Don't Be Afraid to F*** Up
Directed by Gretchen Hopkirk
Finding your place in college is a funny thing for a close-knit group of Notre Dame students who just make it up as they go.
2019 Audience Choice Award Winner | Shelter Me
Directed by Zach Lawson
The only hope for a million stray cats and dogs in Texas may be one woman...and her camera.
2018 Audience Choice Award Winner | Sam
Directed by Audrey Grewe
You've never met anyone quite like Same Grewe, but he's no big deal to his sister.
2017 Audience Choice Award Winner | Debajo de los arboles (Beneath the Trees)
Directed by Crystal Avila
With the help of his granddaughter and an old still camera, a Mexican immigrant retraces his path across the Arizona border decades ago.
2016 Audience Choice Award Winner | patrolling sandy hook
Directed by Caroline Clark & Kelly Quinn
The mass murder of twenty children and six adults inside an elementary school is still hard for many to believe...and some choose not to.
2015 Audience Choice Award Winner | Much Ado After School
Directed by Brian Lach & Nicole Sganga
An ambitious afterschool program brings out the inner Bard in a group of South Bend students.
2014 Audience Choice Award Winner | The Suicide Disease
Directed by Katie Mattie, Vincent Moore, and Will Neal
Frances Shavers had a wonderful life as a top administrator at the University of Notre Dame. Then, a rare nerve disorder changed everything.
2013 Audience Choice Award Winner | The Lost Pastime
Directed by Grace Carini, Marty Flavin, and Andrew Cheng
Baseball purists resurrect a version of America's pastime not seen since the 1800s.