First Edition

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Best Narrative Feature:​

Kaali Maati

Director: Hemantkumar Mahale

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Best Director:​

Kaali Maati

Director: Hemantkumar Mahale

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Best Narrative Short:​

Servus Karl

Director: Thomas Bischof

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Best Documentary Feature:

AULCIE

Director: DANI MENKIN

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Best Documentary short:

The Child Murderess of Vesene

Director: Carl Eneroth

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Best Experimental:

To A God Unknown

Director: Samantha Cassella 

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Best Cinematography:

Servus Karl

Cinematographer: Judith Stehlik

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Best Editor:

AULCIE

Editor: Drew Lahat

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Best Actress:

Angel Katherine Taormina

 

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Best Actor:

Shifting Sands

Pat Nolan

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Best Unproduced script:

 

Holiday Help

Writer: Karl Ryan Erikson

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Best TV Series/Pilot/Web:​

PT: Pain & Torture

Director: Ashley Winters

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Best Student Film:

Everything's Fine

Director: Audre Smikle

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Best Music Video:

Straight Into The Ocean

Director: Carolyn Laws

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Best Trailer:​

My Sister Hali

Director Paul Sheriff

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Best Horror:​

Tom and his Zombie Wife

Director kevin short

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Best Thriller:​

Symphoria
Director Catherine Dao

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Best Trailer & Best First Time Filmmaker:​

Climb

Director: Neil Myers

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Best Female Filmmaker:

 

The Saints of the Rue Scribe

Director: Angel Katherine Taorm

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Best Independent Film:

The Saints of the Rue Scribe

Director: Angel Katherine Taorm

 

Second Edition
 

Best Narrative Feature & Director & Producer & Best Thriller:
The Dunes
Director: Martin Copping

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Best Narrative Short:
Abeba
Director: Zelalem Woldemariam

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Best Documentary Feature:
Global Warning
Director: Mathew Embry

Best Documentary short:
Kalliope’s From Fear to Freedom
Director: Kalliope Barlis

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Best Experimental:
...l'admirable profondeur, du jour à la folie;
Director: JEAN-BAPTISTE Jean-Baptiste DECAVELE

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Best Cinematography:
The Dunes
DOP: Chris Ekstein, Shaun Hart, Ben Nicholas

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Best Editor:
The Dunes
Editor: Freddy Noriega

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Best Actress:
Lori Carr
for: The Missing Dildo

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Best Actor:
Martin Copping
For: The Dunes

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Best Comedy:
The Missing Dildo
Directors: Vseant Nath, Robert Pralgo

Best Unproduced script:
Delta
Written by Daniel Corey

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web:
BEDLAM (1:05)
Directors: Eric Tucker

Best Student Film:
Growing Peace in the Middle East
Directors: Steven Hoffen

Best Animation
Coming Back
Directors:  Yuxin Zhao

Best Music Video:
When I see you

Best Composer
O Sweet Woods

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Best First Time Filmmaker:
Kalliope’s From Fear to Freedom
Director: Kalliope Barlis

Best Female Filmmaker:
The Pasha
Director:  Josie Maynard

Best Independent Film:
Amazon Queen
Director: Marlin Darrah

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​Third Edition
 

Best Narrative Feature

Best Comedy

Brighton

Dir: Stephen Cookson

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Best Narrative Short

Preservation

Dir: Benjamin L. Connell

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Best Documentary short

Women Take on Nepal

Dir: Tania Verbeeck

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Best Director

Tale of Tarot

Dirs: Alexander Hammett, Angel Taylor-Carr

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Best Actress

Shalom Omo-Osagie

For: Tale of Tarot

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Best Actor

John Henry Richardson

For: GRANDPA: The Horror

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Best Unproduced script

Voices

Writer:  Susan Klos

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Best Experimental

Dinner in the Round

Dir: Howell Cole Kickliter

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Best Animation

Ozzie helps his parents

Dir: Marie Leiner

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Best Female Filmmaker

Best Horror

Best Script

GRANDPA: The Horror

Writer & Director: Bethany Dwyer

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Best Cinematography

GRANDPA: The Horror

DOP: Dean Fisher

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Best Composer

Brighton

Music: Gary Yershon

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Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

My Life as a Doormat (Pilot)

Dir: Anthony Robert Grasso

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Best Student Film

Go For Glory

Dir: Wang Shengnan

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Best Music Video

Deeper

Dir: Levi Wise Catoe Jr.

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

Visa Issues

Dir: Sujil Jakhwal


Fourth Edition
 

Best Narrative Feature

Best Female Filmmaker

MEDUSA

Dir: SOPHIE LEVY

 

 

 

Best Documentary Feature

Ian Cognito: A Life And A Death Onstage

Dirs: Joe Bor, Danny Ward 

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short

Best Director

Cocaine

Dir: Samuel Leburu

 

 

 

Best Documentary short

DC Shoes: Cuba Skate

Dirs: Clayton Gabor, Martin Fobes

 

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

To Be MELO

Dir: June Mock

 

 

Best Experimental

Maenad Fever

Dir: Tamara Cook

 

 

 

Best Animation

Run Little Boy

Dir: Dominick A.D. Bedasse

 

 

 

Best Science Fiction

Hedy

Dir: Andy B Clarke

 

 

 

Best Producer

To Be MELO

Dir: June Mock

 

 

 

Best Cinematography

The Vow

DOP: Xiaolei Gong

 

 

 

Best Editor

MEDUSA

Editors: SOPHIE LEVY, Sanabel Cherqaoui

 

 

 

Best Composer

Cocaine

Music: Kagiso Moreki

 

 

 

Best Actress

Nomazizi Nonqane

For: Cocaine

 

 

Best Actor

ARNAUD VALOIS

For: MEDUSA

 

 

 

Best Script

The Six Sides of Truth

Writer: Janet Walker

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

Dirty Girl From Hell

Writer: Jordan Rockwell

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Dentists

Dir: Paradox Delilah

 

 

 

 

Best Comedy

Mr. Right?

Dir: Tari Kristine Robinson

 

 

 

Best Music Video

CHANGE CAN START WITH ME

Dir: Cherish Alexander

 

 

 

Best Thriller

FRAGOR

Dir: Jorge Alejandro González Ley

 

 

 

Best Trailer

To Be MELO

 

 

 

Best Indie Film

#MyCorona

Dir: Phil Gorn


Fifth Edition
 

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Best Narrative Feature

13 Miles

Directors: Helena Thom, Anthony Epp

 

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Best Documentary Feature

ELLES DANSENT

Director: ALEXANDRE MESSINA

 

 

Best Narrative Short

Faded

Director: Zung La

 

 

 

Best Documentary short

Surviving torture - Syria's Imprisoned women

Director: Alexandra Pauliat

 

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Best Experimental

La Transazione (The Transaction)

Director: Lora Lee Ecobelli

 

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Best Animation

Snack Attacks

Director:  Christian Gallardo

 

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Best Science Fiction

Best Script

The Station Caretaker

Writer and Director: Vladislav Emelin

 

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Best Director

The Wind Phone

Director: Kristen Gerweck

 

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Best Cinematography

The Wind Phone

DOP: Jon Keng

 

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Best Actress

Jovanna Burke

For: 13 Miles

and

Thuc Anh Le

For: Faded

 

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Best Actor

Gleb Kopysov

For: The Station Caretaker

 

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Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

PARADOX

Director: vasileios billy blioumis

 

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Best Comedy

Love Affair in the Afternoon

Director: Katsuhide Yamago

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Best Student Film

Cordelia

Director: Shelby Zhang

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Best Music Video

ELEVATOR

Director: Joe Chilcott

 

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Best Thriller

Gus and Chloe

Director: Christopher Bates

 

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Best Composer

Man with Shadow

Music: Robert Jisa

 

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Best First Time Filmmaker

Embers

Director: Tom Ganley

 

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Best Female Filmmaker

Next Generation

Directors: Niya Aleksandrova, Ayelet Heller

 

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Best Indie Film

Mirage

Director: beaucourt christophe

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Best Unproduced script

Killing the Second Dog

Writer: JERZY KOWYNIA

 

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6th Edition/March, 2022

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Best Documentary Feature & Best Female Filmmaker

AUTISM ACROSS THE GLOBE

Director: Rima Joseph Irani

 

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Best Documentary short

Music and Mental Health Episode 9 of 9

Director: Tina Rix

 

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Best Science Fiction & Best Narrative Feature

DESTINATION MARFA

Director: Andy Stapp

 

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Best Narrative Short

90 miles

Director: Leslie Lluvet

 

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Best Director

Permission

Director:  Abhishek Satham

 

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Best Editor

Beat Lingo

Editor: Jose Navas

 

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Best Cinematography

I Wish for You

DOP: Dan Holland

 

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Best Experimental

Deoch Dance

Director: Orlagh Heverin

 

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Best Animation

Nightlink

Director: Aidan O'Sullivan

 

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Best Producer

Mountain

Producers: SHENSHUAI TANG, JIARUI GUO, FENG CAO

 

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Best Actress

Alison Stover

For: The Four Walls of Charlotte Moreland

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Best Actor

Corvonte Davis

For: Beat Lingo

 

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Best Script

The Four Walls of Charlotte Moreland

Writers: Joe Benedetto, Alison Stover

 

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Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Lola Does Manhattan

Director: Rob Margolies

 

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Best Unproduced script

First Comes Death

Writer: Christopher Goodenough

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Best Comedy

Parking lot

Director: Josh Bursky

 

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Best Student Film

Wonderland

Director: Dilara Avgen

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Best Music Video

Entitled Space Sheep

Director: Gad Zigdon

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Best Thriller

Blinded

Directors: Jim Morton, Jesse James

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Best First Time Filmmaker

Traders

Director: Olivia Gropp

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7th Edition/May 2022​

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Best Narrative Feature & Best Producer

8 years

Dir: Jose David Alcázar

Producer: Miguel Ángel Poveda Criado, Carlos Mestanza

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Best Narrative Short

Best Director

Riley

Dir: Ben McHugh

 

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Best Documentary Feature

TRUE BEAUTY 2020's

Dir: Paul G Roberts

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Best Documentary short

Following the Thread

Dir: Kathy Brew

 

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Best First Time Filmmaker

Waking up

Dir: Dion Costelloe

 

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Best Experimental

The Model

Dir: Shira Cohen Elias

 

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Best Animation

The Eye

Dir: John Chang

 

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Best Student Film

Unsaid Words

Dir: Stark Zhao

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Best Actress

Eva Habermann

For: THE UGLY TRUTH

 

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Best Actor

Jeffrey Kelley

For: The Pugilist

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Best Indie Film

Best Cinematography

Never Alone

Dirs: paul francis bunch, albert Soratorio

Dop: Brian Nguyen

 

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Best Thriller

There's No Hell Like Home

Dir: Russell Southam

 

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Best Female Filmmaker

On the Road to Dallas

Dir: Mathilde Marinet

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Best Composer

Hot Bath An' A Stiff Drink

Music: Geoff Levin

 

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Best Comedy

SMASHED

Dir: Dawn Spinella

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Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Don't care to share

Dir: Dekel Aizen

 

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Best Script

THE UGLY TRUTH

Writers: Krisha Ashu Bhati, Eva Habermann

 

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Best Unproduced script

BLOOD TATTOO

Writer: Bruce Hickey

 

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Best Trailer

Idling in the Fog

 

8th Edition/July 2022​

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Best Narrative Short - Best Director

《Wall of Air》

Directed by:  于 耀

 

 

 

Best Documentary Feature - Best Female Filmmaker

Call Me Madame Maestro

Directed by: Christina Olofson

 

 

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Best Documentary short

Louie (KR.ONE) Gasparro 5POINTZ

Directed by: Eirini Alligiannis

 

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Best Experimental

THE IBERIANS

Directed by: CANDY LOPESINO

 

 

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Best Animation

The Sea of Hope

Directed by: Walid Salhab

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Best Science Fiction

Swarms of Shades

Directed by: Nasim Ganjani

 

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Best Editor

PIT

Directed by: Min Kim

 

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Best Actress

Under Tension

Actress: Mireille Fiévet

 

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Best Script / Unproduced script

Dust and Fog

Written by: Daniel Corey

 

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Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

AAAMC Speaks: Teresa Hairston: The Unstoppable Game-Changer

Directed by: Ethan Gill, Haley Semian

 

 

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Best Comedy

You've Matched

Directed by: Justin Poage

 

 

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Best Music Video

Sinner

Directed by: John Danz

 

 

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Best First Time Filmmaker

The Good Skates

Directed by: Chris Coffman

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9th Edition​

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Best Narrative Feature

Somebody to Love

Director: Christopher Frentzel

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short - Best Director

Luna

Director: Jazelle Cheong

 

 

 

 

Best Documentary Feature

Hudson, America

Directors: Zuzka Kurtz, Geoffrey Hug

 

 

 

 

Best Documentary short

Unflinching Grace

Director: Bill Frakes

 

 

 

Best Experimental

The Island of Saints

Director: Eric Daniel Fraad

 

 

 

Best Animation

HUNGER

Directors: Enrique Pilozo-Liuxander Ricardo Silva

 

 

 

 

Best Science Fiction

Beyond Above 

Director: Sally Silver

 

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

13TH STEPPING

Director: Emily Ruhl

 

 

 

 

Best Cinematography

Luna

DOP: Benjamin Lam

 

 

 

 

Best Actress

Olivia Berris

For: BLUE MOON

 

 

 

 

 

Best Script

THE CANDY NOTES - ANTHOLOGY

Writer :Juliano Angeliano

 

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

The Fox

Writer: Marc Castaldo

 

 

 

 

Best Trailer

The Dj Documentary Story

 

 

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

Eyes Upon Waking

Director: Timothy Zwica

 

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Through your eyes

Director: Sonia Guggisberg

 

10th Edition/Nov 2022

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Best Documentary Feature
The truth about La Dolce Vita
Director: Giuseppe Pedersoli

 

Best Narrative Short & Best Director
Probaho (The flow of life)
Director: Promita Bhowmik

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Best Experimental
A Dollhouse 2041- Evangelium Vitae Moderne
Director: Melanie Ekholdt Huynh

 

Best Unproduced script
Why She Did It
Writer: L. Andrew Cooper

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Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
The Story of Art in America, S.2
Director: Christelle Bois

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Best Documentary short
Twilight of Tolerance
Director: Zara Faraji

 

Best Female Filmmaker
A man who loves me
Director: Frederique Barraja

 

Best Animation
A Polar Bear Story
Director: Vanessa Nilsson

 

Best First Time Filmmaker
The Island Ahead
Director: Xiwen Zheng

 

Best Music Video
Off to College
Directors: susan mey lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia

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Best Actor
Richard Clements
For: Affirmation

 

Best Indie Film
BlackBeast
Director: Hamin Hwang

 

Best Composer
Starlight
Composer: Igor Evard


 

11th Edition/2023

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Best Documentary Feature

The Captain's Heart

Dir: Simon Bang

 

Best Editor

The Gift

Editor: Ray Shaw

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Best Cinematography

Manhattan Moments

Photographer: Chuck Fishbein

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Best Actress

Kayden Brenna Tokarski

For: I Miss Her, Too

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Best Actor

Alireza Dehghani

For: Actors of God

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Best Unproduced script

The Grizzly

Writer: SID KRAMER

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Best Thriller

Echoes

Dir: Ash Gray

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Best composer

Bicyclist 

Music: Brett Tanz

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Best Narrative Short

Seahorse 

Dir: Zara Faraji

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Best First Time Filmmaker

Last Chance

Dir: George Jac

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Best Indie Film

Actors 

Dir: Adam Jones 


 

12th Edition/2023

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Best Narrative Short 

In The Between

Director: Mark Koetsier

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Best Actress

In The Between

Gina Vitori

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Best Animation 

Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate

Directors: Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan

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Best Documentary Feature 

The Thunder and the Wind

Director: Jorge A Solino

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Best Documentary short 

Twilight of Tolerance 

Director: Peter Hongtai

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Best Experimental 

Pangolia

Director: Kay Adshead

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Best Indie

A poet 

Director: Aslan Borhani

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Best Unproduced script 

LOSING GLORIA

Writer: Madeleine Wynn

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Heroes

Director: Roberto Sanchez

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Best Comedy 

The Namessime

Director: Xavier Bélony Mussel


13th edition
 

Best Narrative Feature  &  Best Director  &  Best Producer 

Dying to Sleep

Dir: Paris Dylan

Producer: Mike Hermosa, SarahLydia Sophia, Paris Dylan

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Best Documentary Feature 

Millstone

Dir: Nasser Aldhaheri

 

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Best Narrative Short 

Who Reported Me

Dir: Jinhuan Bai

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Best Documentary short

The Fight For Rhinoceros Conservation

Dirs: Max Lévine, Flo Lemonnier

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Best Experimental 

Libby and I

Dir: Inbar Caspi

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Best Thriller 

Half Samurai

Dir: Rashad Haughton

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Best Animation 

Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate

Dirs: Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan

 

 

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Best Actor 

Christoph Hulsen

For: The Red Ribbon

 

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Best Actress

SarahLydia Sophia

For: Dying to Sleep

 

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Best Cinematography 

Dying to Sleep

DOP: Muneeb Rehman

 

 

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Best Music Video 

I've Become

Dirs: Lynette Aleman, JoJo Dancer

 

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Best Editor 

Bicycle 

Editor: Ray Shaw

 

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Best Script/Unproduced script 

Hell's End

Writer: Walter Hochbrueckner

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Best Student Film 

Promised Land

Dir: Sidi Zhang

 

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Best Trailer 

Parkway

 

 

Best Composer 

Poison Shrimp

Music: Karen Handoon

 

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Best First Time Filmmaker 

Julia

Dir: Víctor Muñoz

 

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Best Indie Film 

LOVE ME,STUPID

Dir: BUVANA RAM