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San Diego Winners

Winners

March 2022

1st edition

 

Best Narrative Feature

Cold

Directors: Claire Coaché, Lisle Turner

 

Best Narrative Short

TROUBADOURS CELESTES

Director: Hervine De Boodt

 

Best Independent feature Film

Second Chances

Director: Rick Walker

 

Best feature Film Director

HONOUR (Metoometoo)

Director: Tamás Bori

 

Best Documentary Feature & Best Female Filmmaker

Destiny on the Main Stage

Director: Poppy de Villeneuve

 

Best Documentary short

TATTOOED TRUCKS OF NEPAL- Horn Please

Director: Ron Ranson

 

Best Experimental

Man with Shadow

Director: Ema Kugler

 

Best Animation

Ode to an Inanimate Companion

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

 

Best Horror

Blond Poison

Director: Fabio Giovinazzo

 

Best Cinematography

Destiny on the Main Stage

DOP: Chad Windham

 

Best Editor

Destiny on the Main Stage

Editor: Alexandra Wood

 

Best Independent feature Film

DARKING WAY

Director: Zsolt Pozsgai

 

Best Actress

Maria Maegdefrau

For: Marie-Luise

 

Best Actor 

Máté Szabó

For: DARKING WAY

 

Best Unproduced script

The Door

Writer: Robert Leo Cox

 

Best Script

YESTERDAY NEVER ENDED

Writer: BRYAN HUYNH

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

There's an App for That

Director: Ed Toolis

 

Best Student Film

Venice Drifting

Director: Liam Peter Mills

 

Best First Time short Filmmaker

Upwell

Director: J'aime Morrison

 

Best Music Video

A Feast That Never Comes

Director: Maria Juranic

 

Best Composer

TATTOOED TRUCKS OF NEPAL- Horn Please

Music : Shyam Nepali

 

Best First Time feature Filmmaker

Sugar Beach

Director: Noely Mendoza

 

Best short Film Director

TARANTULA teaser: a Time for Love

Director: Thomas Oliver Hand

Winners

First Edition

May 27th, 2022

 

Best Documentary Feature

Liveaboard: an American Odyssey

Director: Christopher J. Brownfield

 

Best Narrative Short

Best Script

Under Tension

Writer & Director: Mireille Fiévet

 

Best Documentary short

Following the Thread

Director: Kathy Brew

 

Best Independent feature Film

Never Alone

Directors: paul francis bunch, albert Soratorio

 

Best Independent short Film

Adonai

Director: Gil Green

 

Best Experimental

Mermaids

Director: Pierre BESSETTE

 

Best Animation

The Sea of Hope

Director: Walid Salhab

 

Best Science Fiction

Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate

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

Best Horror

Malibu Horror Story

Director: Scott Slone

 

Best Cinematography

FLUX

DOP: Ciaran Carty

 

Best Actress

Jessica Ledon

For: Adonai

 

Best Actor

Al Nazemian

For: For I Am Dead

 

Best Unproduced script

HELLBENT GLORY RUN

Writers: Joseph L Harrison, Barry Kohl

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Don't care to share

Director: Dekel Aizen

 

Best Comedy

The Gunslinger

Director: Rachel Fitzgerald

 

Best Student Film

Apnoia

Director: Vanessa Payri

 

Best Music Video

"You Don't Need a Reason"

Director: Angel Estrada Fuentes

 

Best Trailer

Parkway

 

Best Composer

Never Alone

Music: Malik Willcot

 

 

Best First Time short - Best Editor

Waking up

Director: Dion Costelloe

Editors: Brendan Babinski, Edmund Carson

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Through your eyes

Director: Sonia Guggisberg

Winners

Third Edition

2022

 

 

Best Documentary Feature & Best Director

The Captain's Heart

Director: Simon Bang

 

 

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short

The Bulls

Director: James Cawood

 

 

 

Best Documentary short

The 24

Director: Clay Pruitt

 

 

 

Best Experimental

GILBERT AND GEORGE DAYTRIPPING (AGAIN)

Director: Iain B MacDonald

 

 

 

Best Animation

The Nest

Director: Mason Macky

 

 

 

Best Science Fiction & Best Producer

Giant Ant

Director: Ashley John

 

 

 

Best Horror

LadykillerTV

Directors: Jeremy Spencer, Michael Su

 

 

 

 

 

Best First Time feature Filmmaker

Eyes Upon Waking

Director: Timothy Zwica

 

 

 

 

Best First Time short Filmmaker

Inside the Pointe

Directors: Mark Andrew James Halliday

 

 

 

 

Best Cinematography

Footprints

DOP: Luxmi Chad

 

 

 

Best Actress

Jennifer Scott

For: Eyes Upon Waking

 

 

 

 

Best Independent feature Film

Walkin' on the Ritz

Directors: James Velaise, Charlotte Teillard d'Eyry

 

 

 

Best Independent short Film

Best Script

The Hanging of William Cane

Director: Preston Walden

 

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

TRICK OF THE EYE

Writer: Dennis Haseley

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Dear Mama

Directors: Charlie Taylor, Devin Luther

 

 

 

Best Comedy

Lizzy's Plan: 3 Peas in a Podcast

Director: Jeremy Mowery

 

 

 

Best Student Film

River

Director: Jinghao Ma

 

 

 

Best Music Video

DEAD DREAMS FALLING

Director: Craig Murray

 

 

 

 

Best Composer

MusArt

Music: Kira Zeeman Rugen

 

 

 

 

Best Thriller

Perfectly Disturbed

Director: Pamela Matew

 

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Breaking Good: Women and the War on Drugs

Director: Dorothy Dickie

 

 

 

 

Best feature Film Director

DESTINATION MARFA

Director:  Andy Stapp

Winners

4th Edition

 

 

Best Narrative Feature

Into the Box

Dir: Karen Roh

 

 

Best Independent feature Film

Killing Diva

Dir: Keunhyun CHO

 

 

 

Best Documentary Feature

Those Who Dance in Dark

Dir: Jana Ševčíková

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Sakthi Vibrations

Dir: Zoe Sherinian

 

 

 

Best First Time feature Filmmaker

The Mahabharata Part 1: Of Vengeance & Promises

Dir: Sahasra Sambamoorthi

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short

Gisou

Dir: Zara Faraji

 

 

 

Best Documentary short

Bridging the Gap

Dir: Elif Koyutürk

 

 

Best Experimental

Psyche Obscura

Dir: Craig Oty

 

 

 

Best Student Film

Freida Bead Project

Dir: Matthew Zeiden

 

 

Best Independent short Film

Luna

Dir: Jazelle Cheong

 

 

Best Editor

A man who loves me

Editor: Julie Berranger

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

MIXED SPIRITS

Writer: Howard Barry Kaplan

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

neighborhood  

Dir: Alex Tanz

 

 

Best Music Video

Daddy's Girl

Dir: Candy Kugel

 

 

 

 

Best First Time short Filmmaker

Plagued Heart

Dir: Liam Jeanson

Winners

5th Edition

 

 

Best Narrative Short

The Ghost Of Westriver

Dir: Charlie Knott

 

Best Documentary short

This Mortal Plastik

Dir: Jess Irish

 

Best First Time feature

DARK SHADOWS AND BEYOND - THE JONATHAN FRID STORY

Dir: Mary O'Leary

 

Best Animation

The ogre, the curtain and salt

Dir: Misa Nishihara

 

Best Horror

The All

Dir: James Tanz

 

Best Experimental

Trolled

Dir: John f Uranday

 

Best Science Fiction

Flying House

Dir: Yanush Hongtai

 

Best Music Video

Genesis of the song Teleportation

Dirs: susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Matthieu Eymard

 

Best Director and Best Producer

The Gift

Dir: Zara Faraji

 

Best Actor

Vel Mugrou

For: Time for Hunger   

 

Best script / Unproduced script

Gimme Shelter Part Three

Writers: Kevin O’Neal

 

Best Composer

Genesis of the song Teleportation

Music: Joi Barua

 

Best Female Filmmaker

INTERLACEMENTS

Dir: MARIA BARBARA MASSIMILLA

 

Best feature Film Director and Best Independent feature Film

I AM

Dir: Amer Borhani

 

Best short Film Director

Pneumoconiosis

Dir: Isabella Ma

 

Best Thriller

Silent Birds

Dir: Karim Abohamzeh

 

Best First Time short Film

The Virtual Babysitter

Dir: Shay Mack

Winners

6th Edition

 

 

Best Narrative Feature

A Song For My Dear

Dir: Chang Yeoul Lee

 

Best Documentary Feature

Finding the Line - An Exploration of Structural Integration

Dirs: Aleš Urbanczik, Grzegorz Oleksa

 

Best Director

The Baja Bug Movie

Dir: Michael David Squier

 

Best Narrative Short

Wasted Blind

Dir: Troy Burbank

 

Best Experimental

unbelonging

Dir: Sarada Rauch

 

Best Animation

The Office 

Dir: Hongtai Tanz

 

Best Music Video

Zero Trust: "Clouds"

Dir: Jeremiah Dickey

 

Best Composer

Breath

Music: Karen Asadian

 

Best Cinematography

Parkway

DOP: Bahri Kalarie

 

Best Unproduced script

Weatherman

Writer: Brad Catherman

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Priseners 

Dir: Vel Mahdani

 

Best First Time short Filmmaker

MARIPOSA Y SU FLOR

Dir: Elena Mozzhelina

 

Best Independent feature Film

The Last Passenger

Dir: Takashi Horie

Winners

7th Edition

 

 

Best Narrative Feature & Best Director 

The Horse Tail

Dir: Justyna Luczaj

 

Best Documentary Feature

Saving Grace Animal Society: Driven By Compassion

Dir: Tyler Jon Duffy

 

Best Narrative Short 

Bella Y Cedro

Dir: Joseph Galizia

 

Best Documentary short 

Behind The Loom

Dir: Heejoo Kim

 

Best Actor 

Rich Henkels

For: Workforce - The Pilot

 

Best Experimental 

“2020: A Pandemic Odyssey” (Or, How I Got Stanley Kubrick Out of My {Solar} System Once and For All)

Dir: Roger F. Copeland

 

Best Editor 

The Horse Tail

Editor: Urszula Klimek-Piatek, Paweł Laskowski, Justyna Luczaj

 

Best First Time short Filmmaker 

Girl of Peace

Dir: Caitlyn Jordan

 

Best Animation 

Baby Girl

Dir: Hongtai Ming

 

Best Music Video 

SADOQAT (Faithfulness)

Dir: Ruslan Saliev

 

Best Science Fiction 

Homing Instinct

Dir: Lydia Dean Pilcher

 

Best Producer 

Generation Hops: The ABQ

Producer: David Sabbath, Elizabeth Sabbath

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web 

Workforce - The Pilot

Dir: Phil Kwarta

 

Best Cinematography 

SADOQAT (Faithfulness)

DOP: Sarvar Sobirov

 

Best First Time feature Filmmaker

The Aquatics

Dir: Emmbre Perry

 

Best Unproduced script 

Fertility

Writer: Elizabeth Lewis

 

Best Student Film 

Like any Other

Dir: Bradley Joe Holdaway

 

Best Composer 

The Ghost in The Machine

Music: Christina Giannone

 

Best Independent feature Film 

RED FAUST

Dir: Zsolt Pozsgai

 

Best Female Filmmaker 

Best Independent short Film 

Code 103

Dir: Romana Vujasinovic

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