Winners
May, 2022
Best US Narrative Feature
Your Heart is a Dark and Rotten Place
Dir: Mike Harris
Best US Documentary
America Boxed In
Dirs: Casey G. Williams, Ian S. Williams
Best US Narrative Short
Gray Area
Dirs: Adria Dawn, David Tarleton
Best US Documentary Short
Following the Thread
Dir: Kathy Brew
Best International Narrative
Nata Samrat
Dir: Rishikeshwar Yogi
Best International Narrative Short
You Rock, Zé Perri!
Dir: Zé Dassilva
Best International Documentary Short
Finding Abraham
Dir: Malcolm Green
Best Independent Film
Through your eyes
Dir: Sonia Guggisberg
Best Director
PIT
Dir: Min Kim
Best cinematography
For I Am Dead
Dop: Dominika Podczaska
Best Actor
Nithin Prasanna
For: Nata Samrat
Best Edit
Finding Abraham
Editor: Toby Dashwood
Best producer
You Rock, Zé Perri!
Producers: Loli Menezes, Zé Dassilva, Marina Tavares, Arturo Valle Junior
Best animation
ArtMinute1 – The perfect selfie
Dirs: Asta Wellejus, Teddy Kristiansen
Best experimental
Man with Shadow
Dir: Ema Kugler
Best horror
Blond Poison
Dir: Fabio Giovinazzo
Best science fiction
Metal Brain
Dir: Omar Carmen
Best Music Video
COME OVER
Dir: Sarah Minnie
Best thriller
For the Greater Good
Dir: Michael Gavino
Best Web Series /TV Pilot
The Resentful Angel
Dirs: Shelley Daniels, Carmen Roman, Emily Railsback
Best first time filmmaker
say good bye
Dir: hyo jeong kim
Best student filmmaker
Candied Lips
Dir: Hina Effie Ogino
Best Script (Unproduced and Produced)
L Section
Writer: Matthew Forbes
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Winners
2nd edition
2022
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Best US Documentary Feature
Unearthing Ogawa
Dir: Steve Meixell
Best International Narrative Feature
Paper Man
Dir: Motae Ki
Best US Short
Rassisme
Dir: Jason Flakes
Best US Documentary Short
Louie (KR.ONE) Gasparro 5POINTZ
Dir: Eirini Alligiannis
Best International Narrative Short
The Girlfriend Project
Dir: Ayeshah Rose
Best International Documentary Short
The Story of Mama Butterfly
Dir: Yuqian Cao
Best Indépendant Film
STOYAN
Dir: Roberto Ruiz Céspedes
Best Director
13th Stepping
Dir: Emily Ruhl
Best Actress
Ema Sheikh
For: Dancing Star
Best Actor
Al Nazemian
For: I am Dead
Best Cinématography
13th Stepping
DOP: Matthew Tompkins
Best Script
Friendship, Honor, and Murder
Writer: Giacomo Giammatteo
Best Producer
The Eve
Producer: Film Aggujaro
Best Animation
Fantasy of Companionship Between Human and Inanimate
Dir: Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan
Best Experimental
HOTEP-Know Thy Self
Dir: Petri Salo
Best Composer
Darling Way
Dir: Zsolt Pozsgai
Best Horror
The Eve
Dir: Luca Machnich
Best Comedy
Taser
Writer: David M Hinds
Best Science Fiction
Planet K
Dir: Ivan Jackson
Music Video
Don’t You Know Me
Dir: James Alvin
Best Web Series/TV Pilot
Burt & Mildred Go West
Writer: Randy Zobel
Best First Time Filmmaker
The Good Skates
Dir: Chris Coffman
Best Student Filmmaker
They Called Him God
Dir: Drew Hartley
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3rd edition
2022
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Best US Documentary Feature
Beating SuperBugs: Can We Win?
Director: William Mudge
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Best International Documentary Feature
The Captain's Heart
Director: Simon Bang
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Best US Narrative Short
La Grima
Directors: Jay Evan Renteria, Austin Madrid
Best US Documentary Short
The 24
Director: Clay Pruitt
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Best International Narrative
The Chieftain Of The Pudding Race
Director: Shane Crosland
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Best Independent Film
AJASS: Pioneers of the Black is Beautiful Movement
Director: Louise Dente
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Best Script (Unproduced and Produced)
Desert Star News
Writer: Robert Alan Haus
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Best experimental
Psyche Obscura
Director: Craig Oty
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Best comedy
MAJOR FARTUNESCU AND THE MISADVENTURES OF DEPARTMENT 13
Director: Yuri Stytskovsky
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Best Music Video
Daddy's Girl
Director: Candy Kugel
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Best Web Series /TV Pilot
Black Justice
Directors: Dr Kapil Kakar, Bhavin Wadia
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Best first time filmmaker
Eyes Upon Waking
Director: Timothy Zwica
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4th edition
2022
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Best International Narrative Feature
Entanglement
Directors: Lliane Clarke, Kaye Tuckerman, Otgadahe Whitman-Fox
Best US Documentary Feature
Motherland
Director: Vic Gerami
Best US Documentary Short
I'll Find a Way or Make One - A Rosie Story
Directors: Rebecca Fasanello, Teresa Castillo
Best International Documentary Short
Iorì:wase Presents: Wáhta Óhses (maple syrup)
Directors: Kanerahtakwas Eve Deom, Brady Cross
Best producer
Into the Box
Director: Dr. Emra Ganjoye
Best Music Video
Best animation
Timeless - Orchestral version
Directors: Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
Best youth actor/actress
Orlando Walter
For: The Unexpected Expectant Father
Best actor
Koya Ishihara
For: Encouragement of Euthanasia
Best actress
Best student filmmaker
BlackBeast
Director: Hamin Hwang
Best first time filmmaker
Encouragement of Euthanasia
Director: Ikunosuke Okazaki
Best cinematography
The Actor
DOP: Kevin Cannelly
Best composer
Blue Sky
Music: Tony Chiang
Best experimental
"Covid Fire thkj"
Director: Mimi Garrard
Best Script (Unproduced and Produced)
ASIMETRICA
Writer: SHUBHANJAN DAS
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5th edition
2023
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Best US Narrative Feature
Entanglement
Directors: Lliane Clarke, Kaye Tuckerman, Otgadahe Whitman-Fox
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Best US Documentary Feature
The Baja Bug Movie
Director: Michael David Squier
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Best International Documentary Feature
The Tide Mills Project
Director: Adam Sheldon
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Best International Narrative Feature
Regional exchange center, IRISO
Director: Mitsuo Kurihara
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Best US Narrative Short
Knockout
Director: RALPH GIORDANO
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Best US Documentary Short
CHOMP
Director: Sarah Harvey
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Best International Narrative Short - Best first-time filmmaker
Lucinda´s Pandora
Director: Sylvia Piechocki Gonzalez
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Best student filmmaker - Best International Documentary Short
The HOME
Director: Haeri Jeon
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Best Independent Film
The Psychology of Beauty
Directors: Savanna Crasto, Hayden Maher
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Best director
THAT BOY IN THE DARK
Director: Adolf Borinaga Alix jr.
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Best actress
Freya Kreutzkam
For: Lucinda´s Pandora
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Best actor
Cass Braido
For: Knockout
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Best cinematography
Knockout
DOP: Nathaniel Shields
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Best Script (Unproduced and Produced)
Perry
Writer: RJ Watson
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Best producer
Our Triumphant Holy Day
Producer: Greg Di Roma
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Best edit
The Gift
Editor: Ray Shaw
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Best animation
Dark Room
Director: Peter Hongtai
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Best science fiction
Project Manager
Director: Effy Huen
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Best experimental
Echoes of Time
Director: Ema Kugler
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Best composer
Bicyclist
Music: Brett Tanz
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Best comedy
Happily Ever After
Director: Zara Faraji
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Best Music Video
Synthetic Me
Directors: Susan Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
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Best Web Series /TV Pilot
Office Party
Director: Tony Chang
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6th edition
2023
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Best US Documentary
We Were Going to Start a Death Metal Band
Dir: Lexi Phillips
Best International Narrative Feature
Best director
The Last Passenger
Dir: Takashi Horie
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Best Edit
Bicyclist
Editor: Ray Shaw
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Best Independent Film
ayama City, Saitama Prefecture
Dir: Mitsuo Kuribara
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Best International Documentary Feature
Corona in the Congo - A diary of uncertain times
Dir: Guyslaine Aimée Thalmann, Maria-Theres Schuler
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Best First time filmmaker
Parking Lot
Dir: josh Lopez
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Best US Narrative Short
Bella Y Cedro
Dir: Joseph Galizia
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Best US Documentary Short
Steel Magnolia
Dir: Lyuwei Chen
Best International Narrative Short
Bicyclist
Dir: Miguel Tanz
Best cinematography
Happening
DOP: Bahri Badakshan
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Best Script (Unproduced and Produced)
Unspeakable
Writers: Wayne Egon Christensen, Leroy Stringer, Jr.
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Best Horror
Pet Sitting
Dir: Jack McMillan
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Best Producer
Your Lucky Day
Producer: Rémy Robert
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Best Animation
Best Music Video
Timeless , in the Metaverse
Dirs: Susan Mey Lee Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan
Best Experimental
All in All
Dir: Cedric van Eenoo
Best Science fiction
Sapient_2.021
Dir: Amenda Tate, Bruce James Bales
Best Composer
Into the Mist
Music: Caren Homayoni
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Best Comedy
Double-bogey Player Begins
Dir: Woojin Song
Best Web Series /TV Pilot
Hot Set: Joes - Finale
Dirs: Jenny Urice, Ben Fout
Best student filmmaker
Interpretive Dance
Dir: Anne Brashier
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7th edition
May
2023
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Best US Documentary Feature
Zuri's Pride
Dir: Mark Hadley
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Best International Documentary Feature & Best Cinematography
Pat Walsh The Life And Legacy Of An Irish Revolutionary
Dir & Dop: Michael Benson
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Best International Documentary Short
The Fight For Rhinoceros Conservation
Dirs: Max Lévine, Flo Lemonnier
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Best US Narrative Short
The Perfect Day
Dirs: Virgile Beddok, Daniel Breithaupt, Jonathan Frey
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Best International Narrative Short & Best Director
Marie-Luise
Dir: Hervine De Boodt
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Best Horror
Shadow
Dir: Tony Hongtai
Best Producer
TROUBADOURS CELESTES
Producer :Marion H von Loewenstern
Best Actor
Danny Bolero
For: OBSTACLE
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Best Composer
The Fight For Rhinoceros Conservation
Music: Flo Lemonnier
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Best Script (Unproduced and Produced)
LOSING GLORIA
Writer: Madeleine Wynn
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Best Experimental
Heavenly Resentments
Dir: Carey Burtt
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Best Animation
Truck Driver
Dir: Barry Dehgaan
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Best Thriller
Parkway
Dir: Jeyran Wong