Best Film: The Contradictions of Fair Hope
Best Drama: Lesson Before Love
Best Director: S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell C. Metcalf; Contradictions of Fair Hope
Best Diaspora: Ties That Bind
Best Religious Film: The Custom Mary
Best Documentary: The Contradictions of Fair Hope
Best GLBT: Glitterboys & Ganglands
Best Short: Brotherly Love
Best Comedy: Camp Kickitoo
Best Actor: Choice Skinner; Brotherly Love 
Best Cutting Edge Film: The Custom Mary
Filmmaker’s Choice Award: The Contradictions of Fair Hope
Best Music Video: Whip my Mane

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Complete 2012 San Diego Black Film Festival Nominees List

Best Film Nominees
The Contradictions of Fair Hope
The Custom Mary
Lesson Before Love
The Therapist
The Scam
Ties That Bind

Best Drama Nominees
Lesson Before Love
The Custom Mary The Scam
The Therapist
A Swingin’ Trio
Unspoken Word

Best Director Nominees
S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell C. Metcalf: Contradictions of Fair Hope
Dir. Leila Djansi: Ties That Bind
Henderson Maddox: Unspoken Word
Ali Kamanda: Salay
Matt Dunnerstick: The Custom Mary
Dui Jarrod: Lesson Before Love
Perdell Richardson: The Scam 

Best Diaspora Nominees
Ties That Bind
Julia & Joyce
Cultures of Resistance
Fambol Tok
Nuttin Bafflin
Salay

Best Religious Film Nominees
The Custom Mary
Church Business
Genesis Adam & Eve

Best Documentary Nominees
The Contradictions of Fair Hope
Mama & Me
300 Miles to Freedom
Julia & Joyce
Keeper of the Flame
Reason to Hope
Best GLBT Nominees
Glitterboys & Ganglands
Excuses for Jeff
Where the Truth Lies
Slate

Best Short Nominees
Brotherly Love
Burned
Hearts Gamble
Chrysalis
Bathroom Vanities
Flat Tire
Duty
A Part of Our Relationship
CIGAR
5ive Thirty One

Best Comedy Nominees
Camp Kickitoo
Operation: Get Rid of Pinky
Welcome to Harlem

Best Actor Nominees
Choice Skinner: Brotherly Love 
Yahya McClain: GIGAR
Rolanda Watts: A Mother’s Love

Best Cutting Edge Film Nominees
The Custom Mary
From the Outside Looking In
The Scam
CIGAR

Filmmaker’s Choice Award Nominees
The Contradictions of Fair Hope
Lesson Before Love

Best Music Video Nominees
Whip My Mane
Can't Do It Alone
Feel This