The SCAD Savannah Film Festival published the audience and competition awards for its 29th edition on 6 November 2026. You Can See Everything won the Audience Award, Wildwood was runner-up, and La Bola Negra received the International Audience Award.
Different signals from audiences and juries
In the competition, The Huntress won Best Fiction Feature and The Secret Reading Club of Kabul won Best Documentary Feature. Them That's Not was named Best Live Action Short, Plant Life Best Documentary Short, and 9 Million Colors Best Animated Short.
The list should not be treated as an Oscar prediction. It shows which works stood out to the festival audience and professional juries among 95 competition titles.
162 films and more than 2,300 submissions
According to the organiser, the festival screened 162 films: 57 fiction features, 14 documentary features and 85 shorts, including seven world and six US premieres. Ninety-five films were selected for competition from more than 2,300 submissions, and 15 awards were announced.
Wil Franz, director of Nanmoku, received the Katie Spikes Legacy Award Scholarship, worth $5,000. Several main competition awards carried cash prizes of $500 or $1,000.
What to watch next
For audiences, the results identify titles that may later appear in cinemas, other festivals or streaming catalogues. For industry readers, the documentary and short-film winners form a particularly useful discovery list.
Image: SCAD Trustees Theater in Savannah in 2012. This is an archival venue photograph, not an image of the 2026 awards ceremony.
Summary
You Can See Everything won the Audience Award at the 29th SCAD Savannah Film Festival. The Huntress won Best Fiction Feature and The Secret Reading Club of Kabul won Best Documentary Feature.
Frequently asked questions
- Which film won the 2026 SCAD Savannah Audience Award?
- You Can See Everything; Wildwood was the audience runner-up.
- Which films won the main competition awards?
- The Huntress won Best Fiction Feature and The Secret Reading Club of Kabul won Best Documentary Feature.
- How many films did the festival screen?
- The organiser reported 162 films and more than 2,300 submissions.
