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Cannes AWARDS

First Edition

Best Narrative Feature:
TRAPPED / Y SI FUERAS TÚ
Director: HUGO CARRILLO BRUMBAUGH


Best Director:
All blood runs red
Director: Paul Mignot


Best Narrative Short:
Deathmate 
Director: Luca Di Paolo


Best Script
Deathmate 
Writer: Luca Di Paolo


Best Documentary Feature:
AULCIE
Director: DANI MENKIN


Best Documentary short:
Madan Sara Documentary
Director: Etant Dupain


Best Animation:
The Cat
Director: Mary Apick


Best Experimental:
Pause
Director: Narelle benjamin


Best Cinematography:
All blood runs red
Cinematographer:  Eric Dumont


Best Editor:
All blood runs red
editor: Tao Delport


Best Actress:
Blu Yoshimi
(Deathmate)

Best Actor:
Rocco Fasano
(Deathmate)


Best Unproduced script:
Ghostapus
Writer: Lisa Hammer


Best TV Series/Pilot/Web:
doin' great Web Series
Director: Jake Diamond


Best Student Film:
Tribute to Arthur
Director: Usha Sharma


Best Horror:
Dreamer's Journey
Director: Mitchell Branget


Best trailer
Dreamer's Journey


Best Music Video:
Super Futur / Message
Director: Peregrine Mccaffert


Best First Time Filmmaker:
Climb
Director: Neil Myers


Best Female Filmmaker:
Mary Apick
(The Cat)


Best Thriller
Honorable Sins
Director: Susan Thomas


Best Producer
You can't (Kan't) always get what you want
Producers: Eduardo Arroyuelo.
Mate Zuniga.


Best Independent Film
Zu den Sternen
Director: Nicolai Tegeler

Second Edition

Best Narrative Feature
Best Producer
The Ravine
Director: Keoni Waxman


Best Director
On a white horse
Director:  Cezary Hładki


Best Narrative Short
On a white horse
Director:  Cezary Hładki


Best Script
Unforgettable
Writer: Junki Tachibana


Best Documentary Feature
Postcard
Director: Asmae ELMOUDIR


Best Documentary short
They Call Me Dax
Director: Patrick Alcedo


Best Animation
SHIFT
Director: Zach Fenlon


Best Experimental
The Death of An Artist
Director: Songhuan Li


Best Cinematography
Pat Walsh The Life And Legacy Of An Irish Revolutionary
DOP: Michael Benson, Michael Duggan


Best Editor
The Ravine
editor: Trevor Mirosh


Best Actress
Anouck Stephan
(Tom's marbles)


Best Actor
Axel Bianchi
(Tom's marbles)


Best Unproduced script
Blue Daisy
Writer: Linda Wong


Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
The Madams
Director: Meredith Yinger


Best Student Film
As if underwater
Director: ANTHI DAOUTAKI


Best Horror
The One
Director: Yu Liu


Best trailer
The Ravine


Best Music Video
Holler Down To Your Girl


Best First Time Filmmaker
Fib the truth
Director: OLGA AKATYEVA


Best Female Filmmaker
OLGA AKATYEVA
For: Fib the truth


Best Science Fiction
Just Another Dream
Director: Paul Schneider


Best Thriller
Chapter Two
Director: Claudia Bento
Glenn Smith

Best Comedy
Do It Yerself Dewey/Sweet on Dewey S1 E9
Directors: Bobby Adams, Bryan Ashford


Best Independent Film
The Ditch
Director:  Kim Saarinen, P.J. Piippo


Best Composer
Evanthia Reboutsika
for: The Unlost Homeland

Third Edition

Best Documentary Feature

THE DAKINI CODE-"Lotus-Born Master and the Event Horizon"

Dir: Laurence Brahm

 

Best Documentary short

THE PEACERUNNER - Keep Clean and Run for Peace

Dir: Diego Zicchetti

 

Best Narrative Short

Beautiful Moment

Dir: Berkan Dörtkardeş

 

Best Director

Roses are Blind

Dir: Gui Agustini

 

Best Female Filmmaker

AMERICAN CHERRY

Dir: MARCELLA CYTRYNOWICZ

 

Best Experimental

Switch

Dirs: Desiree Faust, Stefana D. Brancastle

 

Best Science Fiction

Voices

Dir: Jake Hart

 

Best Horror

BINDER

Dir: Rick Clifton

 

 

Best Producer

Second Story

Dir: Michael W. Dodge

 

Best Actress

Christina Julie Breza

For: Roses are Blind

 

Best Actor 

Andy Barreca

for: TRIANGLE

 

Best Cinematography:

THE DAKINI CODE-"Lotus-Born Master and the Event Horizon"

Cinematographer: Dou Yan

 

Best Editor:

THE DAKINI CODE-"Lotus-Born Master and the Event Horizon"

Editor: Zhang Jian

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Stephie With A Why

Dir: Mirra Kardonne

 

Best Comedy

Pic(k) me

Dir: Simone Edelmann

 

 

Best Student Film

The Netherworld

Dir: Yulin Dai

 

Best Music Video

Pray for our planet

Dir: Robert Reed Altman

 

Best Thriller

Roses are Blind

Dir: Gui Agustini

 

Best script and Unproduced script

Little Things Mean a Lot

Writer: Michael Monteith

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

Come Outside

Dir: Sheldon Woodson

 

Best Independent Film

TRIANGLE

Dir: Cataldo De Palma

Fourth Edition

Best Documentary Feature

Bringing Assad To Justice

Dir: RONAN TYNAN

 

Honorable Mention Documentary Feature

Angels on Call

Dir: Roberta Anne Staley

Best Narrative Short

Shut Up

Dir: Leonard Grobien

Best Documentary short

Abel Cuerda - The Colour Painter

Dir: Juan Antonio Moreno

Best Director

Best Student Film

Best Female Filmmaker

By the River

Dir: Agata Korycka

Best Comedy

My Wacko Parents

Dir: Tina Adams

Best Experimental

YELLOW

Dirs: Magali GAUDOU, José SALAZAR

Best Animation

Ruby & Roach

Dir: Erentia Bedeker

Best Science Fiction

Elemental

Dir: Bobby Brodney

Best Cinematography

Shut Up

DOP: David Haas

Best Editor

My Wacko Parents

Editor: Malcolm St-Pierre

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Look In My Eyes Feature

Dirs: Eddie Baca, Perry Dell'Aquila

Best Independent Film

The tie that binds us

Dir:  Pélagie Serge POYOTTE

Best Actress 

Anna Gorajska

For: By the River

Honorable Mention Actress 

Aleksandra Pisula

For: By the River

Best Actor

Mark Field

For: On-Off Licence

Best Music Video

Juliet

Dir: Rik Zak

Best First Time Filmmaker

TRAPP/E.D

Dir: Therese Gotlib

Best Thriller

Project Gemini

Dir: Isaiah Andrés Galarza

Best Composer

Przemyslaw Ksiazek

For: By the River

Best Trailer

The Brazilian Templars Mystery

Dirs: Next Anyextee, Neil Cabana

Best Unproduced script

Perry

Writer: RJ Watson

 

Fifth Edition
Announced on November 7th, 2021

Best Narrative Feature

8:37 REBIRTH

Director: Juanita Peters

 

 

Best Documentary Feature

Confiné

Director: Jérôme Binette

 

Best Narrative Short & Best Director & Best Script

Man Of The Harvest

Directors: Luther Clayton, Orion Eshel

 

Best Documentary short

I'm Not an Indian

Director: RJ Maloney

 

Best Experimental

Laterlands

Director: Benedikte Esperi

 

 

Best Horror

Death Link

Director: David Lipper

 

Best Independent Film

LXI (61)

Director: Rodrigo Moreno del Valle

 

Best Female Filmmaker

When will it happen

Director: Olga Amol

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

You Can Kiss Me

Director: Jan Jalenak

 

Best Producer

Nata Samrat

Producers: Sukumar Boreddy, Sindhu Reddy

 

Best Cinematography

8:37 REBIRTH

DOP: Jeff Wheaton

 

Best Actress

Brandi Nicole Wilson

For: You Can Kiss Me

 

Best Actor

Donghyuk Sun

For: A Song For My Dear

 

Best Student Film

Everything I Never Said

Director: Nahyr Galaz Ruiz

 

Best Comedy

Frozen Stupid2:Open Water

Director: Rich Brauer

 

Best Music Video

Vajra "Maya"

Directors: Annamaria Pinna, Dave Sussman

 

Best Trailer

Man Of The Harvest

 

Best Composer

Man Of The Harvest

Music: Maya Belsitzman, Matan Ephrat

 

Best Unproduced script

Khalid - A Champion For All

Writer: Bo Svenson

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Lipstick Traces

Director: Mick Lexington

Sixth Edition
 

Best Narrative Feature

Paragon

Director: Michael Kumar

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short

Best Director

Best Script

10-56

Director: Jason Winn

Writer : Philip Tan

 

 

Best Documentary short

Overweight

Director: Alan J Chriest

 

 

 

Best Experimental

Avian Omens

Director: Susan June Felter

 

 

 

Best Independent Film

TRIP TO THE TAX PARADISE - RUMBO AL PARAISO FISCAL

Director: Antonio Bellido Marín

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

DAHLIA WHITE

Director: Alison Moir

 

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

Maid

Director: Melanie V. Mendez Munden

 

 

 

 

Best Music Video

Erin Hill: Eleanor Rigby

Director: Erin Hill

 

 

 

 

Best Trailer

DAHLIA WHITE

 

 

 

 

 

Best Science Fiction

No Escape

Director: Randy Sage

 

 

 

 

Best Animation

Gaslight

Directors: Kristen Yuan, Mild Kamolluck Niamkongkit

 

 

 

 

Best Horror

Just a Prick

Directors: Michelle Nessk, Tonjia Atomic

 

 

 

 

 

Best Comedy

A Killer Secret

Director: Bettina Bresnan

 

 

 

 

Best Cinematography

10-56

DOP: Bradley Hayes

 

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

SLA

Director: William Korb

 

 

 

Best Actor

Trent Buxton

For: Paragon

 

 

 

Best Actress

Vickie Eng

For: 10-56

 

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

Cold War Charlie 

Writer: Cheryl Gallegos

Seventh Edition
Feb, 2022
 

Best Narrative Feature & Best Script

Connecting Flights

Directed by Gilbert Allan

Written by Jesse Ardern

Best Documentary Feature

Still Suffering

Directed by Diana Puzikova

Best Narrative Short & Best Director

Almond Wood

Directed by James Frost

Best Documentary short

Send Nudes

Directed by Jonny Kapps

Best Experimental

rEvolve

Directed by Nancy Black

Best Animation

I am the Warrior

Directed by Tara Audibert

Best Cinematography

An Eye for An Eye

Director of Photography: Kun Wang

Best Student Film

An Eye for An Eye

Directed by Phoenix Shi

Best Actor

Deimon Slagg

For: Connecting Flights

Best Actress

Shanti Harris

For: The First Dance

Best Thriller

CAWDOR STREET THANES

Directed by Jermaine Foster

Best First Time Filmmaker

Our Hearts Aren't Disabled

Directed by Josh Dunn, Orit Shimoni

Best Independent Film

Open Ticket

Directed by Vivek Beergunnot

Best Trailer

After Masks

 

Best Comedy

Love Affair in the Afternoon

Directed by Katsuhide Yamago

Best Composer

Connecting Flights

Music: Jared Evans

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Cray

Directed by Sonia Sawkar

Best Music Video

Maybe in a Thousand Years

Best Unproduced script

A SHOT FOR FREEDOM

Writer: GIUSEPPE DE VUONO

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Margins

Directed by  Emanuela Boisbouvier

8th Edition
March, 2022
 

Best Narrative Feature

Second Chances

Director: Rick Walker

 

Best Documentary Feature

Cinema Beyond Borders

Director: Tania Raouf

 

Best Narrative Short

Terms Of Engagement

Director: Phina Brooks

 

Best Documentary short

High Flying Jade

Director: Katherine Sweetman

 

Best Director

The Last Altruist

Director: Vance Crofoot

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Left of Chopin

Director: Yoshino Takemoto

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

Giri

Director: Petya Iossifova

 

Best Independent Film

Third Act

Director: Doug Montoya

 

Best Science Fiction

Las Parcas

Director: Ivan Mulero

 

Best Comedy

Fowl Play

Director: Vance Allen Crofoot

 

Best Script

Several of myself

Writers: Joaquim Haickel, Coi Belluzzo

 

Best Experimental

Scenes, Overheard

Director: Parlour Collective

 

Best Animation

ArtMinute1 – The perfect selfie

Directors: Asta Wellejus, Teddy Kristiansen

 

Best Composer

Third Act

Music: Chris Walsh

 

Best Cinematography

Second Chances

DOP: Justan Floyd

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Don't care to share

Director: Dekel Aizen

 

Best Producer

Legends of Uzbek Dance

Producer: Sherzod Umarov

 

Best Editor

OKAY! (The ASD Band Film)

Editor: Eva Dubovoy

 

Best Actor

Basil Hoffmann

For: Third Act

 

Best Actress

Allyson Cristofaro

For: Second Chances

 

Best Unproduced script

WED THE DARK

Writer: Ken White

 

Best Music Video

Dimitri & The Scarecrow x DJ Vadim - Posers

Directors: Dimitri D. Kwenda, Daniel Semulema

9th Edition
May, 2022
 

Best Narrative Feature - Best Director

The Psychology of Beauty

Directors: Savanna Crasto, Hayden Maher

 

 

Best Narrative Short

The Shift

Director: Jade Tailor

 

 

Best Documentary Feature

Brimming With Life

Director: Anthony Heffernan

 

 

 

Best Documentary short

Kinship

Director: Alvin Mankuro

 

 

 

Best Independent Film

I'LL GO TO HELL

Director: ISMAHANE LAHMAR

 

 

 

Best Experimental

Hearts Survive

Director: Shawn Button

 

 

 

 

Best Animation

Teleportation

Director: susan Mey Lee Lim

 

 

 

Best Science Fiction

69 houses

Director: Sam Herrai

 

 

 

 

Best Horror

Free Range

Director: Lindsei Barros

 

 

 

Best Producer

STOYAN

Producers: Miguel Ángel Poveda Criado, Carlos Mestanza, Susana Hornos

 

 

 

 

Best Cinematography

Alder

DOP: NEIL OSEMAN

 

 

 

Best Editor

Brimming With Life

Editor: Sasiporn Hunwong

 

 

 

 

Best Actress

Monique Rosario

For: Aamal

 

 

 

Best Actor

John Savage

For: Eye for Eye

 

 

 

 

Best Script

Persuasion

Writer: Ruth Finnegan

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

JESSY

Writer: Sally Champlin

 

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Dog Moms

Director: Alyssa Poteet

 

 

 

Best Comedy

F**K

Director: Joseph Rossi

 

 

 

 

Best Music Video

Chicago

Director: João Pombeiro

 

 

 

Best Thriller

Bloody Romeo

Director: Mukesh Asopa

 

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

Dangerous Creation

Director: Andrew Alden

 

 

 

Best Composer

Aamal

Music: Etienne Bellon

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

The Daughter

Director: Sofia Novakova

10th Edition
2022
 

Best Narrative Feature  & Best Director

Harper

Director:  Kate Bohan

 

 

Best Documentary Feature & Best Cinematography

Precipice Herdsman

Director: Chen Xingchi

DOP: Chen Xingchi

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short

Club faust

Director: yoon-gi im

 

 

 

Best Documentary short

10 ROUNDS

Director: Jean-Christophe Gonon

 

 

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

REED

Director: Harrison Schaaf

 

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

For You

Director: Samantha Burton

 

 

 

 

 

Best Experimental

Ancestral Land

Director: Gabriel Bissonnette

 

 

 

Best Animation

Me and My Winter Games-Perfect Holiday

Directors: Haoling Lee, Ming Zhong, Zhe Zhang, Liwen Wang

 

 

 

 

Best Horror

ALL

Director: Tony Wong

 

 

 

 

 

Best Science Fiction

SYSTEM

Director: Andre Whaley

 

 

 

Best Music Video

Dear Monster

Director: Karyn Lynn Bailey

 

 

 

 

Best Editor

For You

Editor: Josiah Sampson

 

 

 

 

Best Producer

Bully High

Producers: Therese Moncrief, Caroline Stella, Paul Hart-Wilden

 

 

 

 

 

Best Actress

Kayla Bohan

For: Harper

 

 

 

Best Actor

KC Deane

For: REED

 

 

 

 

Best Script

Duty

Writer: Anthony Ford

 

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

THE SKIN OF A DOG

Writers: Linda Fejzaj Jaupaj, Spartak Pecani

 

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Angel Dust

Directors: Mark Hemstock, Chrystal Snow

 

 

 

 

Best Comedy

Indiana Baby

Director: Jennifer Martin Eliason

 

 

 

 

Best Composer

The Maestro

Director: Paul Spurrier

 

 

 

 

Best Independent Film

LUCA

Director: Gianluca Zoppa

11th Edition
2022
 

Best Documentary Feature

Ice World

Director: Binying Qi

 

 

Best Narrative Short

IL SABATO DEL VILLAGGIO

Director: GIUSEPPE CELESIA

 

Best Director - Best Female Filmmaker

Candy Wrap

Director: Anastasia Mischenko

 

 

Best Documentary short

Following the Thread

Director: Kathy Brew

 

 

Best Animation

Ninety-five Senses

Directors: Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess

 

 

Honorable Mention Animation

My Tiny Friends

Director: Jiyoung Park

 

 

Best Producer

THE MANSION

Producer: Eric Ayala

 

 

Best Cinematography

Candy Wrap

DOP: Alexey Morozov

 

Best Composer

Ice World

Music: Tao Liu

 

 

Best Script

MANO NERA (BLACK HAND)

Writers: Samantha Caprio-Negret, Richard Price Sorin

 

 

Best Unproduced script

Dancing In The Rain

Writers: Ben Peters, Magalie Langrais

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Detangling The South Episode 1: New Orleans

Director: Damien D Smith

 

 

Best Comedy

MAJOR FARTUNESCU AND THE MISADVENTURES OF DEPARTMENT 13

Director: Yuri Stytskovsky

 

 

Best Student Film

Disgruntled

Director: Bryanna Vachon

 

 

 

Best Music Video

Fantasise

Director: susan mey lee Lim

 

 

Best Independent Film

Portraits of Youth

Directors: Niya Aleksandrova, Dimitar Gochev

12th Edition
2022
 

Best Producer & Best Documentary Feature

Our Triumphant Holy Day

Dir: Greg Di Roma

 

 

Best Narrative Short

Chrysalis

Dir: Kate Donnelly

 

 

Best Documentary short

Water Celery

Dir: Yu So-young

 

 

Best Experimental

LOTUS BORN MASTER: The Algorithm of Karma

Dir: Laurence Brahm

 

 

Best Music Video

In Love We Trust

Dir: Bruno Taniguchi

 

 

Best Animation

Brave Boys

Dir: Tony Hongtai

 

 

Best Composer

All 

Music: Karen Homayoni

 

 

 

Best Director

Schrödinger's Box

Dir: Emir Gaunjie

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

11:11

Dir: Lisa Singletary

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

The Gift

Dir: Zara Faraji

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

My neighbour

Dir: Alan Tanz

 

 

 

 Best Script / Unproduced script

Unspeakable

Writers: Wayne Egon Christensen, Leroy Stringer, Jr.

 

 

Best Actress

Susannah Laing

For: Chrysalis

 

 

Best Cinematography

The Gift

DOP: Jamel Bones 

 

 

 

Best Editor

Killing Poet

Editor: Ray Shaw

13th Edition
2023
 

Best Narrative Feature & Best Debut Feature 

The Lovers

Director: Adam Jones 

Best Documentary Feature

Partings And Landings

Director: Kardash Onnig

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short - Best Director

Lone Rider

Director: Robert J Morgalo

 

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Deep Tissue

Director: Manya Glassman

 

 

 

 

Best Cinematography

Lone Rider

DOP: Rhonny Tufino

 

 

 

 

Best Composer

The Long Hollywood Night

Music: Etienne Bellon

 

 

 

Best Experimental

VENICE - the things of a love

Director: mario roccato

 

 

 

 

Best Animation

Long Road

Director: Vel Mongroue

 

 

 

Best Thriller

Pros and Cons

Director: Robert Vassie

 

 

 

 

Best script/Unproduced script

Hell's End

Writer: Walter Hochbrueckner

 

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

My Crazy Neighbour

Director: Ferie Kohpayeh

 

 

 

Best Comedy

Nobody is here

Director: Miguel Lopez

 

 

 

 

Best Independent Film

The Magic City

Director:  Corna Robert

14th Edition
2023
 

Best Narrative Feature 

Bare Foot in Cave

Dir: Vel Sanches

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short 

Two Dancers One Love

Dir: Denise Blasor

 

 

Best Documentary short 

Happy

Dir: Ivan Rodin

 

 

 

Best Documentary Feature

Zuri's Pride

Dir: Mark Hadley

 

 

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker 

"Abortion" My Body -My Choice

Dir: Shubhra Basu Aich

 

 

Best Actress 

Katrina Syran

For: Ellida

 

 

 

 

Best Independent Film 

Best Thriller 

Dissociating Vulnerability

Dir: Nobuo Nakagawa

 

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web 

Cerebrum: The Tulsa Murders (Pilot)

Dir: Katherine J. Espin

 

 

 

 

Best Cinematography 

Ellida

DOP: James Ian Gray

 

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Ukraine War , the eyes of refugees

Dir: Olivia M. Pfaff

 

 

 

 

Best Experimental 

WOMAN

Dir: Lillian Carter

 

 

 

Best Animation 

Saudade

Dir: Alfredo Dias Gomes

 

 

 

 

Best Script 

Best Director

The Red Ribbon

Dir: Andy Marrari

Writer: Edda Valentini

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script 

I'm Sorry

Writer: Mark D Hadley

 

 

 

 

Best Composer 

Deep Breath

Music: Karen Kirril

15th Edition
2023
 

Best Documentary Feature

To all the man-babes out there

Directors: Edvin Nathanael Erixzon, Kim Vehmanen

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short 

Wedding Cake

Director:Larissa Loeffler

 

 

 

Best Documentary short 

Inventing The Helix

Director: Tom Dyer

 

 

 

 

Best Experimental 

Drawing in the sky

Director: Shoko Ito

 

 

 

Best Director 

Best Cinematography 

Hunt

Dop & Director: Tommy H. Jackson

 

 

 

 

Best Music Video  - Best Producer 

Drømmen

Director & Producer: Joergen Erik Assentoft

 

 

 

Best Editor 

Meaningful 

Editor: Ray Shaw

 

 

 

 

 

Best Script 

The Pickleball Killer

Writer: Jim Carroll

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script 

Winnie & Clyde

Writer: Matthew Rafferty

 

 

 

 

Best Student Film 

Forgetting Chloe

Director: Maiqi Zuo

 

 

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker 

RASHAD

Director: Dur Ahmed Jamjoom

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker 

Ramona At Midlife

Director: Brooke Berman

 

 

 

 

 

Best Independent Film 

You Should Have Killed Me

Director: Michael James Minard

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