The 2019 Teens of LA Film Fest was held on August 10, 2019. The top three films in each of five categories were screened, and our panel of judges selected a winner for each category. Scroll down to view the finalists and winners, listed by category:

Short Film

The Homework Headache (winner)

Adrianna Bean

La Table du Chef (finalist)

Andrea Ramirez Romo

The Waiting Room (finalist)

McKenna Rose Lindheimer

Experimental

Happy Place Labs (winner)

Sunny Rae Keller

Different (finalist)

Molly Chen

We Wear the Mask (finalist)

Magali Ustarroz

Book Trailer

Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die! (winner)

Marcus Panahon

The Giver (finalist)

Daisy Washington

Redefining Inequality in the Status Quo (finalist)

Nabihah Chaudhry, Rachel Park, Sarah Tran

Documentary

#NeverForget (winner)

Sofie Verweyen

Now Here (finalist)

Izya Lebtahi

A Sense of Taipei (finalist)

Pierre Ngo Thibodeaux

Public Service Announcement (PSA)

Latinx Literacy (winner)

Daphna Eisen, Francisco Wilken Justin Wilken, Karen Lam, Kelley Lam

Emotional Abuse (finalist)

Noelia Rodriguez Vasquez

Juul PSA Parody (finalist)

Isabella Jewel Garfinkel

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