2004 Festival Awards

Karl Malden Award for Excellence: Ray Buffer, Rats & Bullies
Honorable Mention: Geoff Goodenough, 13:59
Honorable Mention: Peter Polanco, Mamochka - A Russian Folktale Retold
Honorable Mention: Jill Prouty, Saving Worms

Best Picture: (Judges have divided this award into 3 separate awards)
- Best Documentary: 3 Feet Under: Digging Deep for the Geoduck
- Best Short: Saving Worms
- Best Feature: Clipping Adams

Best Director: Day of Independence
Best Editor: Saving Worms
Best Director of Photography: Blackwater Elegy
Best Makeup Artist: Saving Worms
Best Set Designer/Propmaster: Day of Independence
Best Costume Designer: A Pioneer Miracle
Best Sound Designer/Composter: Little Michael
Best Use of Internet Technology (presented by ProductionHub.com): Rats & Bullies
Best Family Friendly Award: Saving Worms

Screenplay Awards:
- Best Original Screenplay: Kokopelli by Kevin Coleman
- Best Original Story: Masks and Malevolence by David B. Lukow, Robert Cesar, Bob Mecca

Category Awards:
- High School Competition: Annabelle by Jacqueline Woods
- Student Documentary, Long: In the daytime the stars will shine
- Student Drama, Short: The Conversation with an American Girl
- Student Drama, Long: The Show Must Go On
- Student Open Genre, Short: Cosmopolis
- Master Thesis Drama, Short: Saving Worms
- First Film Comedy, Short: Adventures in Homeschooling
- First Film Comedy, Long: Loaves
- First Film Documentary, Short: Q. & A.
- First Film Documentary, Long: 3 Feet Under, Digging Deep for the Geoduck
- First Film Drama, Short: Blackwater Elegy
- First Film Drama, Long: I Love You Came Too Late
- First Film Open Genre, Short: Leatherwing Bat
- Professional Documentary, Long: Haley & Madonna
- Professional Drama, Short: Day of Independence
- Professional Drama, Long: Clipping Adam
- Professional Open Genre, Short: A Pioneer Miracle