Boston Winners
First Edition
Best Narrative Short:
Ernie
Director: Ray Panthaki
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web:
COVID Ditty
Director: Steve Greenstein
Best Student Film:
Growing Peace in the Middle East
Director: Steven Hoffen
Best Comedy:
Has Been / Never Was
Director: M.S. Kerr
Best Unproduced script:
Two Nights at the Pine Street Inn
Writer: L J Christopher Haslip
Second Edition
Oct 1st, 2021
Best Narrative Feature
Best Director
Hillwalkers
Director: Tom Cosgrove
Best Documentary Feature
86ED
Director: J.J. Hendricks
Best Narrative Short
UnSpoken
Director: Todd Sandler
Best Documentary short
Natasha Mayers: an Un-Still Life
Directors: Geoffrey Leighton, Anita Clearfield
Honorable Mention Documentary short
Anthropocene
Director: Michelle Kossler
Best Producer
CHEYENNE
Producer: les Productions de la source
Best Comedy
#MyCorona
Director: Phil Gorn
Best Science Fiction
Just Another Dream
Director: Paul Schneider
Best Horror
The Eve
Director: Luca Machnich
Best Experimental
rEvolve
Director: Nancy Black
Best First Time Filmmaker
The Blinding Sea
Director: George Tombs
Honorable Mention Experimental
IF ONLY
Director: John Behring
Best Cinematography:
Go For Glory
Cinematographer: Charles Deng
Best Student Film
Go For Glory
Director: Wang Shengnan
Best Female Filmmaker
By the River
Director: Agata Korycka
Best Independent Film
MEDUSA
Director: SOPHIE LEVY
Best Thriller
FRAGOR
Director: Jorge Alejandro González Ley
Best Music Video
Reborn
Director: Dasha Si
Best Composer
IF ONLY
Music: Jeremy SH Griffith
Best Actor
Zhipeng Wang
For: Go For Glory
Best Actress
Anna Gorajska
For: By the River
Honorable Mention Actress
Aleksandra Pisula
For: By the River
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
On Tap
Directors: Joshua Manning, Damien Chinappi
Best Unproduced script
Cove
Writer: Thomas O'Malley
Best Script
Project Valentina Feature
Written by: Danielle Kiernan, Bethany Laquerre, Diana Riegel, Jon Richardson, JW Richardson
Third Edition
November, 2021
Best Narrative Feature
Best Horror
Best Director
Girl Next
Dir: Larry Carrell
Best Documentary Feature
The Price of Cheap
Dir: Barry Stevens
Best Documentary short
Life Transformed: Aftermath of a Traumatic Injury
Dir: bill chayes
Best Narrative Short
Straight and Narrow
Dir: Jesse Hutchins
Best Actress
Lacey Cofran
For: Girl Next
Best Actor
Timothy Paul McCarthy
For: The Taste of Blood
Best First Time Filmmaker
Best Comedy
JACK
Dir: Pelayo de Lario
Best Independent Film
The Taste of Blood
Dir: Allen Kool
Best Composer
The Taste of Blood
Music: Flora Cheng
Best Animation
Novalis
Dir: Chris Powell
Best Student Film
The Royal Twenty Centers
Dirs: Stéphane Auguste, Adrian Duvernois
Best Experimental
Brèves histoires de pierres muettes (Brief Stories of Silent Stones)
Dir: Mario Côté
Best Script
Up All Day
Writer: Aaron Sprecher
Best Unproduced script
Perry
Writer: RJ Watson
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
The Heathen Shane Stevens
Dir: Benjamin Mulhern
Best Female Filmmaker
Rural Revival
Dir: Katie Bell
Best Editor
Girl Next
Editor: Larry Wade Carrell
Best Music Video
AARO
Dir: Rajesh B Menon
Best Trailer
Girl Next
Fourth Edition
Feb, 2022
Best Narrative Feature
Second Chances
Director: Rick Walker
Best Documentary Feature & Best Producer
The Desire To Live
Director: Mariam Avetisyan
Producer: Peter Bahlawanian
Best Narrative Short & Best Director
Passage
Director: Douglas Phillip Gordon
Best Documentary short
Nsenene
Director: Michelle Coomber
Best First Time Filmmaker & Best Independent Film
Wild Boar
Director: Derek Tan
Best Experimental
Deoch Dance
Director: Orlagh Heverin
Best Animation & Best Music Video
Farishton
Director: A R Rahman
Best Science Fiction
J1S
Director: Jay Cunningham
Best Horror
'Night
Directors: Nick Michael, Alissa Efteland
Best Comedy
Party Favors
Director: Matt Canon
Best Actor
Keith Langsdale
For: Passage
Best Actress
Janet Etuk
For: Cold
Best Cinematography
Wild Boar
DOP: Lacalla Media
Best Editor
Jimmy's Tale
Editor: Daniel Hart Donoghue
Best Composer
Open Ticket
Music: Sebastien Margeot, Alexandre Margeot
Best Script
Little Miss Hit Girl
Writer: Emily Hannah Ventimiglia
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
The Naturals
Director: Amy DePaola
Best Trailer
After Masks
Best Student Film
CAKE
Director: Derek MacDonald
Best Female Filmmaker
Giri
Director: Petya Iossifova
Best Unproduced script
The Red Cloth
Writer: Bo Svenson
Fifth Edition
March, 2022
Best Narrative Feature & Best Director
STOYAN
Director: Roberto Ruiz Céspedes
Best Documentary Feature
SHE
Directors: Jason Greer, Vanessa Cicarelli
Best Narrative Short
LOSSES
Director: Oscar Toribio Crabayo
Best Documentary short
'VIRGIL'
Director: Paul G Roberts
Best Experimental
INSPIRATION
Director: Alberto Martín-Aragón
Best Animation
Miracle
Director: Shaofu Zhang
Best Science Fiction
Mary's Room
Director: Christopher Mitchell
Best Horror
You let him in
Director: Daniel P Williams
Best Actress
Alison Stover
For: The Four Walls of Charlotte Moreland
Best Actor
Tristán Ulloa
For: STOYAN
Best Cinematography
"THE PIXIESTICK INCIDENT"
DOP: Patrick Ruth
Best Editor
Mary's Room
Editor: Chris H.F. Mitchell, David Blackburn
Best Script
Waking up
Writer: Dion Costelloe
Best Unproduced script
Asylum
Writer: Kathryn Orzech
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
"THE PIXIESTICK INCIDENT"
Director: Michael Henry
Best Comedy
Scotch, Please
Director: Evan Schneider
Best Student Film
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Director: Lachlan Pendragon
Best Music Video
All Your Words
Director: James de Vries
Best Thriller
Power In The Blood!
Director: ranjit singh
Best Trailer
MAYA the Sacrifice (Trailer)
Best Composer
Mountain
Music: Pancho Burgos-Goizueta
Best First Time Filmmaker
ArtMinute1 – The perfect selfie
Directors: Asta Wellejus, Teddy Kristiansen
Best Female Filmmaker
Secret Recipe
Director: Yuan Yang
Best Producer and Best Independent Film
Sibel's silence
Director & Producer: Aly Yeganeh
Sixth Edition
June, 2022
Best Narrative Feature and Best Thriller
LIBERTY
Director: Phil De Witte
Best Documentary Feature
AUTISM ACROSS THE GLOBE
Director: Rima Joseph Irani
Best Narrative Short
RAINE
Director: FREY dagne
Best Documentary short
CASA CHROMATIC, the house of charasmatic colours
Director: Anna Bowman
Best Director
Footnote
Director: Tommy Petroskey
Best First Time Filmmaker
Dangerous Creation
Director: Andrew Alden
Best Student Film
Time Again
Director: Darren Michael Cohn
Best Independent Film
Forty Winks
Director: Will Parker
Best Experimental
The Mask Of Love
Director: Sebastiano Rizzo
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
Best Comedy
Grey Nomads 2
Director: Felix Williamson
Best Animation
Dog Mask
Director: William Safine
Best Science Fiction
Intelligent Mind
Director: Effy Ivy
Best Horror
Malibu Horror Story
Director: Scott Slone
Best Cinematography
LIBERTY
DOP: Kassim Oliver Ahmed
Best Editor
LIBERTY
Editor: Malcom Crowe
Best Actress
Sofia Novakova
For: The Daughter
Best Actor
Robert McKeon
For: Footnote
Best Script
MANO NERA (BLACK HAND)
Writers: Samantha Caprio-Negret, Richard Price Sorin
Best Unproduced script
Old Wounds
Writer: Giacomo Giammatteo
Best Music Video
A Feast That Never Comes
Director: Maria Juranic
Best Trailer
Sunset BLV
Best Composer
A Train to Hell
Music: Karen Rouso
Best Female Filmmaker
What Do We Know About Refugees?
Director: Sara Alavi
Seventh Edition
Aug, 2022
Best Narrative Feature - Best Director
Schrodinger Cat
Director: David Van Damme
Best Producer
Nata Samrat
Producers: Sukumar Boreddy, Sindhu Reddy
Best Comedy
Love Dump
Director: Jason Avezzano
Best Documentary Feature
'SUPERMODEL'
Director: Paul G Roberts
Best Narrative Short
After Work
Director: Connor Jack Curlewis
Best Documentary short
Catham County
Director: Lacey Kathleen Adair
Best Experimental
Wills
Director: Ignacio Ferreyra
Best Animation
Sleeping Beauty
Director: Sonia Gerami
Best Horror
Tall Teeda
Director: Ivy Lopez
Best First Time Filmmaker
DESTINATION MARFA
Director: Andy Stapp
Best Cinematography
Our Triumphant Holy Day
Cinematographers:Fabricio Lomanto, Matt Bona, Greg Di Roma
Best Editor
Brimming With Life
Editor: Sasiporn Hunwong
Best Actress
Emily Ruhl
For: 13TH STEPPING
Best Female Filmmaker
The Gift
Director: Zara Faraji
Best Actor
Forest Quaglia
For: Agent Stone
Best Thriller
Agent Stone
Directors: Forest Quaglia, Teddy Pryor
Best Script/Unproduced script
Girl and her Monster
Writers: Terry Newman, Orso Vesperini, Carole Starcevic
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
This Is Paradise
Directors: Kareem J Mortimer, Henrietta Cartwright, Lavado Stubbs
Best Student Film
Still Alive
Director: Jaehee Cheong
Best Music Video
Black Joy
Director: Kolton Harris
Best Trailer
Parkway
Best Composer
Immigrant
Music: Karen Jones
Best Independent Film
Walkin' on the Ritz
Director: James Velaise, Charlotte Teillard d'Eyry
8th Edition
2022
Best Narrative Feature
Into the Box
Director: Dr. Emrah Ganvoy
Best Documentary Feature
The Captain's Heart
Director: Simon Bang
Best Narrative Short
The Watcher
Director: Nathan Sellers
Best Documentary short
For Love of the Land
Director: Cynthia Matty-Huber
Best Experimental
FAMOUS
Director: Martha McGrath
Best Animation
My Tiny Friends
Director: Jiyoung Park
Best Horror
Alexa
Director: Tony Marez
Best Director
Probaho (The flow of life)
Director: Promita Bhowmik
Best Actress
Katrina Syran
For: Ellida
Best Producer
HURRICANE
Producer: Dr. Jayanti Chutia
Best Cinematography
FAMOUS
DOP: Daniel Everitti-Lock
Best Editor
The Gift
Editor: Ray Shaw
Best First Time Filmmaker
Fall
Director: Federico Bissacco
Best Female Filmmaker
Ellida
Director: Leon Mitchell
Best Script/Best Unproduced script
TRICK OF THE EYE
Writer: Dennis Haseley
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
Spring 57
Director: Mike Moyear
Best Comedy
You've Matched
Director: Justin Poage
Best Student Film
BlackBeast
Director: Hamin Hwang
Best Music Video
Timeless - Orchestral version
Directors: Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
Best Thriller
Parkway
Director: Hongtai Cho
Best Trailer
Deep Breath
Director: Bahri Tokeal
Best Composer
The Butterfly Dream
Director:Hyeong Jun Shim
Best Independent Film
PA-JILL – Harmony under Pressure
Director: Sibylle Kappes
9th Edition
2022
Best Documentary Feature
Mother of the Station
Directed by:
Kostoula Tomadaki
Best Narrative Short
In Another Life
Directed by:
Alkin Emirali
Best Documentary short
On Track
Directed by:
Yunhong Pu
Best Independent Film
The Psychology of Beauty
Directed by:
Savanna Crasto, Hayden Maher
Best Producer
Almost Lost
Producer: Jamie Jia Shen
Best Experimental
Table Manners
Directed by:
Mary Birnbaum
Best Animation
Blue Sky
Directed by:
Checke Owen
Best Science Fiction
Metal Mind
Directed by:
Tony Zjeshko
Best Comedy
Baby in the Box
Directed by:
Jamal Mahrez
Best Student Film & Best Photography
Cadillac: A Mobster Fairy Tale
Directed by:
Robert Curreri
DOP: Jacob Panzer
Best Editor
Almost Lost
Editors: Yuxi Wang, Has Fu, Xiaowen Wang
Best Music Video
Speck on a Clover
Directed by:
Jay Miles
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
Generation Hops: The ABQ
Directed by:
David Sabbath
Best First Time Filmmaker
Pink Wings
Directed by:
Jaxon Whittington
Best Actress
Sophia Hannides
For: In Another Life
Best Actor
Maktub
Daniel Faleiros
Best Female Filmmaker & Best Director
The Gift
Directed by:
Zara Faraji
Best Composer
3 MUSES
Music: Dana Loren McCoy
Best Unproduced script
The Four Of Us Are Dying
Written by:
Jesse Dorian
Best Script
Maktub
Written by:
Joaquim Haickel, Coi Belluzzo, Angelica Coutinho, Julia Antuerpem, Ney Bello Filho
10th Edition
2023
Feb
Best Documentary Feature
The Broken Promise
Director: Kurt Norton
Best Narrative Short
One Man Band
Director: Dekang Liu
Best Director
In The Between
Director: Mark Koetsier
Best Experimental
The skinning of the eel
Director: Christine Comeau
Best Animation
Greg's House
Director: Keith Pakiz
Best Science Fiction
Homing Instinct
Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher
Best Script
Morituriosis
Writer: Jesse Dorian
Best Unproduced script
America the Land of the Free?
Writer: Kandis Heckler
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
The Dick
Director: Steven Trolinger
Best Student Film
Rendezvous
Director: Sche-Hao Wang
Best Female Filmmaker
Quiet
Director: Victoria Malinjod
Best Thriller
The Guest Bedroom
Director: Rob Campoy
Best First Time Filmmaker
SAGRES
Director: José Eduardo Zuzarte
Best Cinematography
In The Between
DOP: Carlos Montaner
Best Composer
One Man Band
Best Independent Film
MARIPOSA Y SU FLOR
Director: Elena Mozzhelina
11th Edition
2023
May
Best Narrative Feature
Unlock Life
Dir: Rajesh Gupta
Best Producer
Best Director
Half Samurai
Dir: Rashad Haughton
Best Documentary Feature
Americonned
Dir: Sean Claffey
Best Documentary short
Goalden Girls
Dir: Ahmed Alawi
Best Science Fiction
Radio Telescope
Dir: Tanner Beard
Best Experimental
Brood X
Dir: Yevgeniy K'banchik
Best Animation
The beauty
Dir: Tony Tanz
Best Narrative Short
Knockout
Dir: RALPH GIORDANO
Best Cinematography
A Zebra-Riding Boy
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
Angel Dust
Dir: Mark Hemstock, Chrystal Snow
Best Music Video
The Orchestrated Alan Song
Dirs: susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
Best Composer
Radio Telescope
Music: Jennifer Smith
Best Horror
Black Bird
Dir: Vel Moungrew
Best Editor
The poet is killed
Dir: Ray Shaw
Best Thriller
Half Samurai
Dir: Rashad Haughton
Best First Time Filmmaker - Best Female Filmmaker
Portrait of a Cowboy
Dir: Devon Wycoff
Best Student Film
Kanatenhs - When The Pine Needles Fall
Dir: Ellen Gabriel
Best Actress
Tatsuya Abe
For: Sayama City, Saitama Prefecture
Best Actor
Guo Junchen
For: A Zebra-Riding Boy
Best Unproduced script
The Santiago Inheritance
Writer: Kingsley Poole
Best Script
Into Schrödinger
Writer: Dr. Ganjian Kermani