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