50th Crown Award Winners

Best Picture

Gold Crown Award Winner: Sight: David Fischer, Producer and Andrew Hyatt, Director

Best Comedy

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  For Prophet: Mark Stewart Iverson Producer, Director, Writer
                                                                                                                                                                                               

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Stealing the Show: Nathan Blair Director
                                                                                                                                                                                           

Gold Crown Award Winner:  Game Changer: Joel DeVisser Writer, Producer

 
Best Music/Worship

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  I Believe: Jurgen Peretzki & Stacey Peretzki Producers
                                                                                                                                                                                       

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Break Every Chain: Steph Carse Performer, Producer
                                                                                                                                                                                          

Gold Crown Award Winner:  It is Well With My Soul: Grooters Productions, John Grooters Director,  Judy Grooters Producer

 
Best Children’s Program

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  Dot Conner: Webtective: Huff Media Productions, Andrew Huff Director, Marc Matthews Producer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Torchlighters: The Richard Allen Story: Vision Video, Bill Curtis Producer, Robert Fernandez Director
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Gold Crown Award Winner:  Beyond the Bayou: Wild Brothers Productions, Morgan, Kian, Asher & Hudson Wild Producers

 
Best Documentary Under $50,000

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  Greening Israel: The Battle for Israel’s Trees: Benjamin Hilton Director, Luke Hilton Producer
                                                                                                                                                                                       

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Station Identification; The Story of WTLW-TV: John Ondo Producer, Director
                                                                                                                                                                                           

Gold Crown Award Winner:  The Wild Brothers: Islands of the Four Kings: Wild Brothers Productions, Morgan Wild Producer

 
Best Documentary Over $50,000

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  Morningstar:  Murdo Macleod, Director/Producer                                                                    

Silver Crown Award Winner:  7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story: Katie Norris Producer, Jonathon Link Director                       

Gold Crown Award Winners:  Return to Palau: Michelle Hamel Director/Producer
                                                  The Listening Road:  Neil Tomba, Writer/Actor, Jonathon Link, Director



 
Best Foreign Film

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  Christmas is a Person: Celebrate Christmas in Singapore LTD, Nora Fong Producer
                                                                                                                                                                                         

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Rebecca: Nigeria: Grooters Productions, John Grooters Director, Judy Grooters Producer
                                                                                                                                                                                         

Gold Crown Award Winner:  Empty Church: Maxim Maximov  & Andrey Lipov Producers, BELARUS



Best Short Film

Bronze Crown Award Winners:  The Peace of Christmas: Huff Media Productions, Andrew Huff Director, Joshua Kimmis ,Jae Huff, Cadeau Juraschek Producers
Candlelight: GemStone Media- James Meyer Director, Sara Meyer Producer

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Rebecca: Nigeria: Grooters Productions, John Grooters Director, Judy Grooters Producer

Gold Crown Award Winner:  Uncommon Negotiator: Brian Glassford Director/Producer

 
Best Series

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  Cyprian: International Media Ministries, Denise Godwin Director, Matt Nelson & Mikaela Bruce Producers
                                                                                                                                                                                       

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Learning the 5 Love Languages: Grooters Productions John Grooters Director, Judy Grooters Producer

Gold Crown Award Winner:  The Chosen Season 2: Dallas Jenkins Director/Writer, Chad Gundersen & Chris Juen Co-Producers



 
Best Television Production

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  Beyond the Bayou: Wild Brothers Productions, Morgan, Kian, Asher & Hudson Wild Producers

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Cross View: Sehyun Park / Director, Haeun Lee / Producer, Hyokyeong Kim / Reporter, Joohyung Jung / Co-Producer, Halim Park/Co-Producer

Gold Crown Award Winner:  The Chosen Season 2: Dallas Jenkins Director/Writer, Chad Gundersen & Chris Juen Co-Producers



 
Best Non-Theatrical Release

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  Empty Church: - Maxim Maximov, Director/Producer, Andrey Lipov, Producer, BELARUS

Silver Crown Award Winners:  An Unlikely Angel: Durrell Nelson Director, Rebecca Rogers Nelson, Screenwriter
                                                     Let me Have My Son:  Messenger Films, Cristobal Krusen Director, Greg Silker Producer

Gold Crown Award Winner:  Testament: The Parables Retold: roarlight, Paul Syrstad, Director

 
Best Theatrical Release

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  Running the Bases: UP2U Films, Marty Roberts & Jimmy Womble Directors, Johnnie Scroggins Producer

Silver Crown Award Winner:  The Mulligan: Rick Eldridge Producer

Gold Crown Award Winner:  Sight: David Fischer Producer, Andrew Hyatt Director

 
Best Evangelistic Film

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  An Unlikely Angel: Durrell Nelson , Director, Rebecca Rogers Nelson, Screenwriter
                                                                                                                                                                                   

Silver Crown Award Winner:  The Chosen Season 2: Dallas Jenkins Director/Writer, Chad Gundersen & Chris Juen Co-Producers


Gold Crown Award Winner:  Running the Bases: UP2U Films, Marty Roberts & Jimmy Womble Directors, Johnnie Scroggins Producer



 
Best Male Actor in a Leading Role

Bronze Crown Award Winners:  Brett Varvel as Luke Brooks in” Running the Bases “
                                                         Chris Norton as Himself in” 7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story”
                                                         Terry Chen as Dr. Ming Wang in” Sight”

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Pat Boone as Will Dunn “The Old Pro” in The Mulligan

Gold Crown Award Winner:  Cristóbal Krusen as Ben Whitmore Sr. in “Let me Have My Son”

 
Best Female Actor in a Leading Role

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  Christine Jones as Ingrid Amblin in “Healing River”

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Valentina Garcia as Archangel Raphael in “For Prophet”

Gold Crown Award Winner:  Karen Abercrombie as Eden in “Angels Unaware”

 
Best Student Film

Bronze Crown Award Winners:  A Drop of Water: TheVit Media, Dong-hee Ahn Director, Jennice  Producer
                                                         Tango Para Vida: Taylor University, Heidi Dalton Director, Kim Ferrell Producer

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Beyond the Bayou: Wild Brothers Productions, Morgan, Kian, Hudson, Asher Wild Producers

Gold Crown Award Winner:  The Wild Brothers: Islands of the Four Kings: Wild Brothers Productions, Morgan Wild Producer



 
Best Soundtrack

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  The Mulligan: Rob Pottorf, Composer

Silver Crown Award Winner:  A Peep Behind the Scenes: The Academy of Arts Logos Theatre, Nicole Stratton Director

Gold Crown Award Winner:  Kathie Lee Gifford Presents The Way: - Rock Road and Rabbi Trust, Kathie Lee Gifford Director/Writer, Aaron Greene & Christine Gardner Producers
 
 
Best Cinematography

Bronze Crown Award Winner:  A Cross in the Desert: Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic, Director of Photography 

Silver Crown Award Winner:  Sight: Michael Balfry, Director of Photography

Gold Crown Award Winner:  7 Yards: The Chris Norton Story:  David White  Director of Photography