Honolulu Film Awards

The Honolulu Film Awards (HFA) are international film awards granted to independent films in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.

2012

 * Grand Jury Award: Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy (Director: Rob Heydon)
 * Special Jury Award: Menschenliebe (Director: Alexander Tuschinski)
 * Special Jury Award: Viti (Fiji) (Director: Dustin Bancroft)
 * Special Jury Award: Strings (Director: Mark Dennis & Ben Foster)
 * Jury Price: Strings (Director: Mark Dennis & Ben Foster)
 * Jury Price: Volunteer (Director: Mariah Wilson)
 * Jury Price: Marathon Boy (Director: Gemma Atwal)
 * Jury Price: 40 West (Director: Dana Packard)
 * Best Feature Film: A Little Bit Zombie (Director: Casey Walker)
 * Best of Hawaii: Go for Broke! Memories of Hawai'ian Japanese'Niseis (Director: Hiroyuki Matsumoto)
 * Best Animation: 8 Second Dance (Director: Trey Moya / Howard Cook)
 * Best Biographiy: Randy Parsons: American Luthier (Director: David Aldrich)
 * Best Comedy: Hi Honey (Director: Peter A. M. Henderson)
 * Best Coming of Age: The Green Rush (Director: Jason Edwards)
 * Best Crime: Dot Got Shot (Director: Carlos Ramos Jr. / Honey Lauren)
 * Best Director: Wendy Elkin (Painting Bolinas)
 * Best Documentary Feature: Italy: Love It or Leave It (Director: Gustav Hofer / Luca Ragazzi)
 * Best Documentary Short: Birds of the Rainforest (Director: Jim Denny)
 * Best Educational Film: Though I'm Not Perfect (Director: Stacey Sargeant)
 * Best Environmental Film: Carbon for Water (Director: Evan Abramson / Carmen Elsa / Lopez Abramson)
 * Best Family Film: Giant Monsters Attack Hawaii! (Director: Dane Neves)
 * Best Foreign Film: Tokyo Playboy Club (Director: Yosuke Okuda)
 * Best Historical Film: 7 Years Underground: A 60's Tale (Director: Jason M. Solomon)
 * Best Independent Short: Slip Cue (Director: Robin Kupferman)
 * Best Music Video: Oh Luv (Director: MAGZ Magda Sztompka)
 * Best Sci-Fi: The Kook (Director: Nat Livingston / Johnson Gregory Mitnick)
 * Best Screenplay: Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (Director: Benjamin Nolot)
 * Best Short Film: Best Man (Director: Edward Figueroa)
 * Best Television Pilot: Actors Anonymous (Director: Bryan Stratte)
 * Best Thriller: Fractured Minds (Director: Frank Battiston)
 * Best Action Sports: Still By Numbers (Director: Bec Kingma)
 * Best Drama: Masque (Director: Robert Hatch)
 * Best Mockumentary: Roomies (Director: Christabel Savalas)
 * Best Student Film: After School (Director: John Wakayama Carey)

Feature films

 * Bedouin - Directed By: Igor Voloshin
 * Brush - Directed By: Shiyan Zheng
 * Currency - Directed By: Brad Rosier
 * Five Hours South - Directed By: Mark Bacci
 * Off Shore - Directed By: Sven J. Matten
 * Red Scare - Directed By: William Dautrick
 * Seven Eves - Directed By: Mark Nordhagen
 * Weeding Out - Directed By: Georgy Kao

Action Sports Films

 * Silent Night - Directed By: Bec Kingma

Animation Films

 * 5 Minutes Each - Directed By:Vojin Vasovic
 * The Dream of Ore Magi - Directed By: Evan Curtis

Documentary Films

 * 47 Miles: March to Destiny - Directed By: Gregg Cummins
 * Between Today and Tomorrow - Directed By: Junko Kobayashi
 * Boom Varietal - Directed By: Sky Pinnick
 * Flight To The Wall - Directed By: Bill Matson
 * Knocking on the Devil's Door - Directed By: Gary Null
 * Orchids - Directed By: Phoebe Hart
 * The World's Most Fashionable Prison - Directed By: Chun Kit Mak
 * Too Sane For This World - Directed By: William Davenport
 * Valmara - Directed By: Christoph Vieth
 * Wigge's Tauschrausch - Directed By: Michael Wigge

Hawaii Films

 * Breathe Life - Directed By: Antje Beyen

Music videos

 * Chapel Song - Directed By: Matthew Mills
 * Eye of the Storm - Directed By: Christopher Alender
 * Mutant Calculator - Directed By: Alexander Tuschinski

Screenplay Competition

 * Apparition - Written By: Roi Costa
 * Devil's Valley Justice - Written By: Harold Brown
 * Dirty Business - Written By: Haik Hakobian
 * Full-Metal Alchemist - Written By: Mathew Brengman
 * Loveband - Written By: Nicola Pedrozzi
 * Lucky Numbers - Written By: Aimee Garabics

Short films

 * 2-Star - Directed By: Jacob Halajian
 * Absent - Directed By: Richie Siegel
 * Delivered - Directed By: Charles Willis
 * Just Three Words - Directed By: Graeme Finlayson
 * Mary and Bill - Directed By: Andrew Napier
 * Men Who Don't Work - Directed By: Alexander Atkins & Andrew Franks
 * Room Service - Directed By: Tariq Nasir
 * The Audition - Directed By: Matthew Toffolo
 * The Maiden and the Princess - Directed By: Ali Scher
 * Work Hard, Play Harder - Directed By: James Newman

Student Films

 * Christmas Reeve - Directed By: Mateusz Subieta
 * Look to the Cookie - Directed By: Lindsay Lindenbaum
 * Speak Out The Documentary - Directed By: Alex Vander Vlugt
 * The Monster - Directed By: Matthew Childs
 * Why Does God Hate Me? - Directed By: Joel Ashton McCarthy

Television Pilots

 * MILF Money - Directed By: Aaron Preist