“Two Shadows,” directed by Greg Cahill, won the audience award for feature-length narrative at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

Michael Collins’ “Give Up Tomorrow” earned the audience prize for documentary film at the fest, which wrapped May 20 and presented by Visual Communications.

“We’re very pleased to recognize these two outstanding productions from among a very stellar selection of feature-length works this year,” festival senior programmer Abraham Ferrer said. “More and more, the stories being presented at the Film Festival reflect a larger world-view and desire for engagement with audiences from all walks of life. ‘Two Shadows’ and ‘Give Up Tomorrow’ both accomplish those objectives in dramatic ways, and succeeded in connecting with festival audiences.”

“Shadows” told the story of a Long Beach hipster who received a cryptic letter from Cambodia claiming that her brother and sister, believed to have perished in civil war 20 years earlier, were still alive, causing her to return home to a threatening situation of her own.

“Give Up” exposed corrupt public officials in a backdrop to the struggle two mothers undertook over the fate of one young man.