The 21st San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) announced the winners of its competition categories at the SDAFF Awards Gala held on Sunday, November 1, 2020. Winners were selected by an independent jury of filmmakers, curators, critics, academics, and other professionals.
Awards were distributed in the following feature film categories:
Grand Jury, Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker, and Special Jury Mention.
Awards were also given in the short film categories:
Narrative, Documentary, Animation, and International.
ASIAN AMERICAN COMPETITION JURY AWARDS
GRAND JURY AWARD
Katelyn Rebelo, Kira Dane's MIZUKO (Water Child)
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Bassam Tariq's MOGUL MOWGLI
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Alice Gu's THE DONUT KING
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
Nirav Bhakta's THANK YOU, COME AGAIN
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Yeon Park's I BOUGHT A TIME MACHINE
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Angeline Vu and Arlene Bongco's FELT LOVE
SPECIAL JURY MENTION (chosen from any category)
Jiayan “Jenny” Shi's FINDING YINGYING
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY AWARDS
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's RED ANINSRI; OR, TIPTOEING ON THE STILL TREMBLING BERLIN WALL
OTHER AWARDS
GEORGE C. LIN EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
Elizabeth Lo's STRAY
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
Ursula Liang's DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL
