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2026 Award Winners
Here are the official award winners for the
2026 Sandpoint Idaho Film Fest
The Golden Turtle Award
The Way It Was
Directed By Juliette Benedetto & Maxwell Sauerbrey
Best Documentary Feature
Anne Packard: An Artist's Resolve
Directed By Arthur Egeli
Best Documentary Short
Let My People Go Skiing
Directed By Ellen Bradley
Best Narrative Feature
NALOX
Directed By Jacob Ronnow
Best Narrative Short
Esperando
Directed By Osvaldo Fregoso
Untamed Award
Let My People Go Skiing
Directed By Ellen Bradley
Made in Idaho Award
Caution:Terrain
Directed By Essex Prescott
Best Animation
Samurai Blue: Afterimage
Directed By Wyatt Hall
Love Out Loud Award
Sally!
Directed By Deborah Craig, Ondine Rarey, & Jörg Fockele
Best Experimental
Amazonicus: The Burning
Directed By Jack Wade & Scott Broder
Green Horizons/Voices For Change Award
Seeds of Peace
Directed By David-Paul B. Hedberg
Past Forward Award
The Fourth
Directed By Johnny Kirk
The Next Wave Award (Student Works)
A Kind of Hollow
Directed By Jacob Pham
Youth Works Award (Under 18)
Constellations of the Sea
Directed By Addie Knoll
Audience Choice Award
The Sled Hill
Directed By Tanner French
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