Best Feature Documentary
Mele Murals
– Directed by Tadashi Nakamura
Best Short Documentary
Massive Monkees: The Beacon
– Directed by Shannon Gee
Best Short Narrative
The Bird Who Could Fly
– Directed by Raphael Sbarge
Jason D. Mak Award for Social Justice
– WE HAVE A TIE!!!–
Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice
– Directed by Holly Yasui and Will Doolittle
Resistance at Tule Lake
– Directed by Konrad Aderer
2017 Nominated Films
Feature Narrative
- Blasian Narratives, directed by Jivan Atman
- Never Forget, directed by Jon Bling
- Tatara Samurai, directed by Yoshinari Nishikori
Feature Documentary
- All Our Father’s Relations, directed by Alejandro Yoshizawa
- Mele Murals, directed by Tadashi Nakamura
- Mixed Match, directed by Jeff Chiba Stearns
- Resistance At Tule Lake, directed by Konrad Aderer
Short Documentary
- Massive Monkees: The Beacon, directed by Shannon Gee
- Coming Full Circle: The Journey of a Transgendered Korean Adoptee, directed by Larry Tung
Short Narrative
- Beta
- Fractured
- Seppuku
- The Bird Who Could Fly, directed by Raphael Sbarge
- Picture Taipei
Jason D. Mak Award for Social Justice
- All Our Father’s Relations, directed by Alejandro Yoshizawa
- Blasian Narratives, directed by Jivan Atman
- I Am Chamorro, directed by Pale Eric
- Light, directed by Tatsu Aoki
- Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice, directed by Holly Yasui and Will Doolittle
- Resistance at Tule Lake, directed by Konrad Aderer
Special Mentions
- Cultural Legacy – I Am Chamorro, directed by Pale Eric
- Acting: Eric Martig – Miki, directed by Weiko Lin
- Special Effects – Vampariah, directed by Matthew Abaya