Winners
Announced on April, 2022

​

Best Narrative Feature & Best Director

STOYAN

Director: Roberto Ruiz Céspedes

 

 

 

 

Best Documentary Feature

AUTISM ACROSS THE GLOBE

Director: Rima Joseph Irani

 

 

 

 

Best Documentary short

La Fiera: The Piera Rodriguez Story

Director: Spencer Trinwith

 

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short

When The Dust Settles

Director: Sam Lapham

 

 

 

 

Best Experimental

Mad Mieter

Directors: M+M (Weis / De Mattia)

 

 

 

 

Best Animation

ArtMinute1 – The perfect selfie

Directors: Asta Wellejus, Teddy Kristiansen

 

 

 

 

Best Science Fiction

Drifting Shadow 

Director: Amar Ganjoy

 

 

 

Best Producer

THE UGLY TRUTH

Producers: Alexander König, Eva Habermann

 

 

 

 

Best Cinematography

STOYAN

DOP: Kenneth Oribe

 

 

 

Best Editor

STOYAN

Editor: Paul Mateos Verdejo

 

 

 

 

Best Composer

Climb

Music: Eric Colvin

 

 

 

Best Actress 

Cathryn De Prume

For: It's Probably Me

 

 

 

 

Best Actor

Máté Szabó

For: DARKING WAY

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

BLOOD TATTOO

Writer: Bruce Hickey

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

PARIS PARIS

Director: DOMINIC DESJARDINS

 

 

 

Best Comedy

Third Act

Director: Doug Montoya

 

 

 

 

Best Student Film

Secret Recipe

Director: Yuan Yang

 

 

 

 

Best Music Video

A Feast That Never Comes

Director: Maria Juranic

 

 

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

8 years

Director: Jose David Alcázar

 

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service

Director: Dorothy Dickie

​

​

 

 

 

 

Best Independent Film

The Cleaners

Directors: Philippe Demers, Olivier Ste-Marie

 

 

 

Best Trailer

BLINDSIDED BY LOVE

​

Winners
Announced on June, 2022

 

​

Best Documentary Feature

Tahi: The Human Journey

Dir: Karina J. Duffy

 

Best Narrative Feature - Best Director

Into the Box

Dir: Adam Jones

 

Best Narrative Short

Play Date

Dir: Lindsay Harbert

​

Best Documentary Short

Following the Thread

Dir: Kathy Brew

​

Best Experimental

The Island of Saints

Dir: Eric Daniel Fraad

​

Best Animation

Boy Scientist 

Dir: Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia

​

Best Science Fiction

Schrodinger 

Dir: David Baez

​

Best Horror

Malibu Horror Story

Dir: Scott Slone

​

Best Producer

American Boxed In

Dir: Casey G. Williams, Ian S. Williams

​

Best Cinematography 

Assaman

DOP: Jonathan Woods

​

Best Editor

The High Rock

Editor: Catherine Hollander

​

Best Actress

Christina Eliason

For: Lockdown

​

Best Unproduced Script

Perry

Writer: RJ Watson

​

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Lizzy's Plan: 3 Peas in a Podcast

Dir: Jeremy Mowery

​

Best Comedy

Love Potion

Dir: Stephen Wayne, Jeff Querin

​

Best Student Film

The Holy Water

Dir: Aleksandra Timan

​

Best Music Video

Skeletons

Dir: Sebastián Vargas Flor

​

Best Thriller

K2 TOG

Dir: Ari Veach

​

Best Composer

The Maestro

Composer: Somtow Sucharitkul

​

Best First Time Filmmaker

Give Me Your Home

Dir: LUIS GUILLERMO VALDERRAMA

​

Best Female Filmmaker

Cada Uma de Nos (Each of Us)

Dir: Ferrero Olivia

​

Best Independent Film

The Model

Dirs: Shira Cohen Elias and Yoni Green

​

Winners
Announced on Sept, 2022

 

​

Best Narrative Feature & Best Director

Sugar

Dir: Vic Sarin

 

 

 

Best Documentary Feature

Letters to Eloisa

Dir: Adriana Bosch

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short

Another Night Out

Dir: Jameson Connors

 

 

 

Best Producer

The Secret Weapon: Yesterday IS Today

Producers: Jay Deitzel, Karen T. Bolt, Ken Sagoes

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

NENE

Dir: Lara Genovese

 

 

 

Best Experimental

Psyche Obscura

Dir: Craig Oty

 

 

 

Best Animation

Boxes

Dir: Jamal Hakim

 

 

 

Best Horror

The Hidden doors

Dir: Tim Bazak

 

 

 

Best Cinematography

BLUE MOON

DOP: Matthew Tompkins

 

 

 

Best Actress

Sophie Lachman

For: For Lonely Nights

 

 

 

Best Actor

Roy Williams, Jr.

For: The Secret Weapon: Yesterday IS Today

 

 

 

Best Editor

The Chieftain Of The Pudding Race

Editor: Shane Crosland

 

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

Ancient of Days

Writer: Craig Stewart

 

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

13TH STEPPING

Dir: Emily Ruhl

 

 

 

Best Comedy

MAJOR FARTUNESCU AND THE MISADVENTURES OF DEPARTMENT 13

Dir: Yuri Stytskovsky

 

 

 

Best Student Film

Romantique

Dir: Hatuey Rodriguez

 

 

 

Best Music Video

Reverse 

Director: Tony Owen

 

 

 

Best Composer

Our Triumphant Holy Day

Music: Amato Peace

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

Alex Jones for Terrible 

​

Winners
4th edition
2022

 

​

Best Documentary Feature

Sustainability of Food

Dir: Tony Hongtai

 

 

 

Best Documentary short

Uncanny Valley: Belly

Dir: Anthony A. DiMaria

 

 

Best Narrative Short

The Return

Dir: Shelagh McLeod 

 

 

 

Best Experimental

Liminality

Dir: Pálína Jónsdóttir

 

 

 

Best Animation

Adventures With The Caretaker

Dir: Peter Gardner

 

 

 

Best Music Video

Only Eden

Dir: Andrea Jean Plamondon

 

 

 

Best Editor

The Gift

Editor: Ray Shaw

 

 

 

Best cinematography

Embers

DOP: David Burns

 

 

 

Best Actor

Jack Vincenty

For: When You Became Us

 

 

 

 

 

Best Actress 

Mimi Kyuzk

For: The Return

 

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

APOLLO'S CURSE: A Feature Screenplay

Writer: David E. Tolchinsky

 

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Raul Playing Game

Dir: William D. Caballero

 

 

 

 

Best Student Film

BlackBeast

Dir: Hamin Hwang

 

 

 

Best Composer

SEVEN LOST

Music: Mariano Saulino

 

 

 

 

Best First Time Filmmaker

See The Light

Dir: Daniya London

 

 

 

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Promises

Dir: Faye Ann Brenner

​

​

Winners
5th edition

Jan-2023

 

​

Best Narrative Feature & Best Director

Sugar

Director:  Vic Sarin

 

​

 

Best Documentary Feature

A Rally for Rangers

Director: Eric Daft

 

 

​

Best Producer

Case for Kindness

Producers: Steven Sawalich, Teri Weinberg, 

Melinda Cea, Randall Ward, Isabelle Thomas, Victoria Smith

 

 

​

Best Narrative Short

Interpretive Dance

Director: Anne Brashier

 

 

​

Best Documentary short & Best Female Filmmaker

Ocean Guardians

Director: Selket A Kaufman

 

 

​

Best Cinematography

Migrant Birds Fly

Aslan Bara

 

 

​

Best Editor

Sugar

Editors: Mark Shearer 

 

 

​

Best Actress

Katherine McNamara

For: Sugar

 

 

​

Best Actor

Mike Feldman

For: The sky

 

​

Best Science Fiction

Triggered, a Cinematic Superhero Fan Film

Directors: Mario Ricardo Rodriguez, Marcus Nel-Jamal Hamm

 

​

​

Best Music Video

Broken Mirror - Kayla Burch

Director: Steve Brock

 

​

​

Best First Time Filmmaker

Club Habana

Director: Jorge Herrera

 

 

​

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web

Workforce - The Pilot

Director: Phil Kwarta

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script

America the Land of the Free?

Writer: Kandis Heckler

 

 

​

Best Composer

Genesis of the song Teleportation

Music: Joi Barua

​

​

​

Winners
6th edition
Mar-2023

 

​

Best Documentary Feature 

For The Dream

Dir: Sean Davis

 

 

 

 

Best Cinematography 

Resistance - They Fought Back

Dop: Ezra Quijano Wolfinger

 

 

 

 

Best Narrative Short 

Recoba

Dir: Alvaro Guzman Bastida

 

 

 

 

Best Documentary short 

Tolerance of Sadness  

Dir: Ray Shaw

 

 

 

 

Best Animation 

Red Caravan

Dir: Vel Mungler

 

 

 

 

Best Composer 

Deep Breath

Music: Karen Homayoni

 

 

 

 

 

Best TV Series/Pilot/Web 

The Aquatics

Dir: Emmbre Perry

 

 

 

 

 

Best Comedy  & Best First Time Filmmaker 

The Second Coming

Dir: Jack Szarabajka

 

 

 

 

 

Best Science Fiction 

Alien in Cloud

Dir: Miguel Sanchez

 

 

 

 

 

Best Actor

Ali Dehghani

For: Actors of God

 

 

 

 

 

Best Experimental 

Moth

Dirs: Kate Weare, Jack Flame Sorokin

 

 

 

 

 

Best Unproduced script 

Makayla's Mission

Writer: Stephen John Stanley

 

 

 

 

 

Best Music Video  & Best Editor

Monsters

Dir: Emely Hardt

​