2008  

Winner 

The Lost Season - Julian Mendez

Runners-up 

The Decisions of Doctor Faustus - Dav Freeman

Garbo Returns - Kristof Bathory

Annabelle and Me - Bradd Hopkins

The Cell Phone – Raymond Czerwinski Disqualified

Potential Inertia – Matt Croyle

Faces Unknown - Robert B. Jacobs

Singer's Prime - Pat Rushin

Dressed in a Black Flag - Mark Winzer

Project Lucy - Scott Ludden

A Beautiful Belly - Andrew Kenneth Gay

Voices - Susan Klos

Farm Team - Megan Breen and Brendan Leigh

The Vampire Rose - Jack R. Stanley

The Legendary Charlie Lapham - Michael Scalere

For My Best Friend - Leigh Ann E. Bell

Hatemonger - Jason Cutcher 

Hank - Philip Travis 

ReFry -  Chad Jones

Streeterville: The legend of Cap Streeter -  Gretchen Potts

2007

Winner

Night Tremors - Thomas Lewis

Runners-up

The Projectionist - Corey Borenstein & Katherine Wutz

FIFTEEN MINUTES: SnoKoneOMatik 3000- Nancy Lacher

Marrying Mom - Susan Kahlich 

Dressed in a Black Flag - Mark Winzer 

The Swimmer Manuscript - Joseph Kenny

Deception - Carlos Perez

Mind Game - John Hays

Cabbie - Diana Kemp-Jones 

Even Unicorns Need to Breathe - Leah Meyerhoff

Living in Limbo - Michael Amato 

Freitags Triangle - Patrick Bates

R & R - Jean-François Chénier 

Getting In - Mara Lesemann 

Anodyne - Michael Deschamps 

William's Christening - Joshua Hume 

Trevor Waits - Richard Herstek 

Scurvy Dogs - Dan Livingston

2006

Winner

Portrait of a Klansman - Bill Wellborn

Runners-up

Jerry’s Pub - Matt Croyle

Alone in the Crowd - Alan Baxter

A Will, Lacking a Way - Shawn Bronson

Ed’s Dead (and he’s hitchhiking home) - Patrick Bates

The Red Bikini - Elizabeth Grant

The Gap - Roman Beilharz

A Taste for Blood - Victor Phan

Mister Fuzzy’s Family - Mike Sherer

Entering Out - Michael Engel

The Swing - Corrine Crane

Voices - Susan Klos

Outer Banks - Mary Carroll-Hackett

The Only Living Man With a Hole in His Head - Todd Pliss 

St Brendan’s - Sarah Geerling
 

2005

Winner

Superior - Katrina L Coombs & Suesan V Wescott

Runners-up

Smart Enough - Len Poggiali

Santa Claus Goes to Pirate Island - Patrick Bates

Geist - Nathan Ross Freeman

When you least expect it! - Marco Kujovic

The Messiah - Fernando Villalba

Mother & Me - Richard Deutsch

2004

Winner

Legs  - David D. DeBord & Kristi K. Sutton

Runners-up

Rescue Alpha - Phil Marley

Walk - Jono Rosenberg and Mike Vincenti 

Who's Beside You Now - Chuck Loch

Out of the Blue - Joseph Maxwell 

Insurrection  - Margaret L. Langendorf & Mary King

Angles of Regard - Thomas Mogle

Mackinac - Bruce Dundore 

Higher Desires - Michale A.Greif

Local Boys - Tom Lavagnino

Story of Beth - Rock Shaink JR.

Thomas Paine - Hans Petersen

No Success Like Failure - Stephanie Robey

American Dresser - Carmine Cangialosi
 

2003

Winner

Resurrection - Eric Lowe 

Runners-up

Honor Among Thieves - Bill Balas

Intolerable Circumstances - Matt Duffen

It Is & It Isn't - Michael Levin

The Perception Adventure - Kurt Campbell

The Greater Evil - Richard Herstek

Not Necessarily Non-Committal - Tom Neale & Chris Chamides
 

Heaven's Rage - Michael Alan

Untitled Girl Guide Cookie Thriller - Alana Garrop
 

Lawn Man - Todd Slamowitz

Serpent in Paradise - Leo W. Sears

Rabbit Dreams - Diane Baregas

The Leopard Moth - Christina Szombathy

Ghost of the Crossroads - Michael Spohr

Fuzzy & the Mouse - Pat Hunt

Average Guy - Shawn D. Casey

2002  

Winner

Venus 104 - Ellen Maguire

Runners-up

Gendercide - Kris Hall 

Intrepid Shadows - Robert O'Connell

Journal of an Ex-Smoker - Claresa J. Mandola

The Fields of Athenry - Mike Kelly

Unknown Soldiers - Ami Hendrickson

Chick, Salli, Mo, & Angie - Tim Camponesotti

Possessions - Melissa Mills

The Prediction - Mark E. Wright

Chameleons - Rob Moore

The Curses Fate - Saron Siritool

Auto Annette - Jennifer Carmichael

Chasing Freedom - Scott J. Thompson

Beyond the Forest Green - Jeffrey L. Stein

Sam I Am - Ryan Patrick Carmody