The following films and screenplays were each a finalist or winner for FMA Festival of April 2019
- Best Professional Film Finalists – Andre Van Damme & The Story of the Charleston Ballet, The Derby, Panic Attack!
- Best High School Film Finalists – How to Make a Movie, Double Cross, Worn
- Best UPIKE Film Finalists – Let it Roll, Taking the Stage, Jeff Chapman-Crane
- Spirit of the Mountains Award Finalists – The Mountain Minor, The Spirit Seam, Fiddlin’
- Best Short Script – Trinket
- Best Feature Script – Lexington Blue
- Best UPIKE Script – The Box
The 2020 finalist and winners for the 6th Annual UPIKE Film and Media Arts Festival are:
Best UPIKE Screenplay
– East Lake Campground – WINNER
– Summer Daze
– The Cremation Process
Best Short Screenplay Finalists
– Weekend Warriors – WINNER
– Downballot
– Kill Me
Best Feature Screenplay Finalists
– Rapture Me Now – WINNER
– The Fourth Psalm
– Troublesome creek
Best UPIKE Film Finalists
– New to the Neighborhood
– Brew Crew – WINNER – BEST UPIKE NARRATIVE
– Terminal Love
– Tilted – WINNER – BEST UPIKE DOCUMENTARY
Best Animated Film Finalists
– The Quiet – WINNER
– Perpetuate
– Dispatches from the Vietnam War
Best Experimental Film Finalists
– Fever Queen – WINNER
– Cowboy Poetry
– The Quiet
Young Filmmaker Award Finalists
– Deep Return – WINNER
– Hourglass
– Heroic
Best Narrative Short Finalists
– Beyond the Song – WINNER
– Applebaum
– Brother’s Keeper
Best Narrative Feature Finalists
– One Summer Night – WINNER
– Roses Are Just Roses
– Bullet Trip
Best Documentary Short Finalists
– Hebo – WINNER
– Gone Tomorrow: Kentucky Ice Climbers
– The Sang’s the Thing
Best Documentary Feature Finalists
– The Ballad of John Henry – WINNER
– Painted in Stone
– Hollywood in the High Country
Spirit of the Mountains Award Finalists
– Gone Tomorrow: Kentucky Ice Climbers – WINNER
– The Ballad of John Henry
– The Sang’s the Thing
Best of Show
– Beyond the Song – WINNER
– Hebo
– The Quiet