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Festival Prize

Audience Choice

Winner
Daytrip Massacre
Artie Brennan(Writer/Director/Producer)
Anthony Giordano(Writer/Director/Producer)
Jason A. Messina(Writer)
Jeff Enkler(Producer)
Super Crazy Funtime

Best Cast

Winner
Daytrip Massacre
Artie Brennan
Anthony Giordano
Gabby Cocco
Jessica Ritacco
Nathaniel Mason
Super Crazy Funtime
Winner
Ashes to ashes
George Zouvelos
Deanna Doyle
Fiat Lux Studios NYC Genetheto Phos
Fiat Lux Studios

Best Cinematography

Winner
Presque
Olivier Tresson
Winner
Burn: A Ski Film
Kellen MacDonald(director)
Above Productions
Wild Is the North
Barry Gunning(cinematographer)

Best Editing of the Festival

Winner
1848
5.5 (6)
Alfonso Otero Mireles

Best International Feature Film

Winner
The Chalice of Blood
4.8 (527)
Jarno Elonen
Autere Films

Best Actor

Bobby Robertson(Actor)
Wild Is the North

Best Comedy

Critch Audition Slate Tape 2022
Jake Delaney(director)
Neil King(director)
Robert Gains Productions
Dark Bay Films

Best Film of The Festival

Matches
Blake Vaz
Valagardo Productions
Dos Hermanos Productions

Best Poster

Soapte
5.2 (26)
Matei Popovici(Photographer)

Best Short Film

Kitérö
Péter Bence Ocsenás
Jenõ Hódi
CinePartners Entertainment

Best Student Film

Otthon
9.8 (7)
Jenõ Hódi
Laura Strausz
CinePartners Entertainment

Best Writer

The Ones Who Didn't Fly Away
9.7 (14)
Enriko Hamzaj(writer)
Filmsscope

Spring Award

Best Actress

Winner
Mélyssa Lorrain(actress)
Oreilles Absolues
Les Productions Michel & Michel
Sabrina Knappett
From Where It Came
Hannah Eakin
Eventide
Rushlight Films

Best Animation

Winner
Voices of Normandy
Jamison M. LoCascio
Adam Ambrosio
Louis J. Ambrosio
The Key
Cristian Omar Jimenez
Genius Cinema

Best Animation - Ultra Short Category

Winner
Ask the Super 8 Magic Ball
Jonathan Riles(director)
Shelluster Studios

Best Art Film - Short Category

Winner
Aphorisms for a Wounded World
Robert David Duncan
Fat Punk Productions

Best Cast

Winner
Unsolicited
Michel Winterburn
Stephanie Christiaens
Grant Squazzin
Scotty Veiga
Winner
Violeta de cobalto
Ricardo Serna
Claudia Garza
Olga Patlán
Raúl Oviedo
Augusto Sonoja
Alejandra Alanis Ortiz
Blood! Sugar! Sid! Ace!
5.5 (7)
Lawrence O'Leary(actor)
Adam Buxbaum(actor)
Stacey Forbes(actor)
Jami Tennille(actor)
Ogygia
Dimitris Giouzepas
Grandpa's Workshop
Ermir M. B.(Director)
Danielle Fountaine(Producer)
Elena Fountaine(Actress)
Orange Cat Films

Best Cast (Short Category)

Winner
5 Days
Milla Ross
Kalina Davis
Georgie Saunders
Kirra Hampson
Ashleigh Chandler
Studio 138

Best Cinematography

Winner
Inexistentia
5.9 (9)
Salvatore Vitiello(director of photography)
SNCI production
Winner
Soul Virginity
6.6 (55)
Yousef Ikhreis(cinematographer)
PPH3 Picture
En-Snare
Kevin Lucero Less
Halo One Productions
DystopiaScope Films
TAC Productions
Ultra Short Category
Ogygia
Dimitris Giouzepas

Best Cinematography, Ultra Short

Winner
October Eleventh
Luis Adam Garcia

Best Comedy

Winner
Coarse Victim
Loken Charon
Gareth Rees
Stetson Tenz: Remote Therapist
Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas
Bradley True
TSF Productions.

Best Comedy International

Winner
Bite of a Mango
8.8 (102)
Ron Dias(director)
Joanne Jansen(producer)
Alicia Insanally(producer)

Best Director

Winner
Kris Langford
Unsolicited
Shihyun Wang
Future in prophecies

Best Director - Long Short Film

Winner
Sadie Duarte
Between Here and Gone

Best Drama Canada, Short Category

Winner
That's Life
Dan Nicholls(director)
Trevor Lawless(producer)
Shea Norman(producer)
David Harris(producer)

Best Film

Winner
Cognition
6.5 (2.6K)
Ravi Ajit Chopra
A Talash Video Centre Production
Digital Boulevard

Best Poster

Winner
Enipheres
6.1 (12)
Lynne Newton(production designer)
Emily Shuttleworth(graphic designer)
Robert Waldman(photographer)
Jessica Rian(photographer)
Norris Smith(photographer)
Eye in the Sky Pictures
Winner
Misteria
Eva Tavares
Pangman Moving Pictures
Don't Text Your Ex
7.8 (8)
Judith Ekedi Jangwa(Graphic designer)
Arvin Yanwen Zhang(Photographer)
Jasmine Calcitas(Colorist)
Dearnge Society
Model: Jaslyn Marshall
Just Like Water
8.5 (22)
Manos Triantafillakis
Desperado - Beauty and Beast
Shihyun Wang
The restless soul
Shihyun Wang
Under Covid shadow
Shihyun Wang
War 2022 according to Nostradamus
Shihyun Wang

Best Short Film

Winner
For Bobby
8.8 (51)
Joe Hawk
McGee Productions
947 What a Coincidence
Adrian Baluta
Paranormal People
Edmundo Barraza
Mundo Films

Best Thriller Long Short Film

Winner
Happy Anniversary
9.0 (9)
Chris Borgo
Bernie Wolski
Jennifer Swistun
Revulsion Pictures

Best Writer

Winner
The Red Knows
9.4 (7)
Loken Charon
Winner
The Lottery Ticket (bick/antzis)
Drew Antzis(director)
Tamara Bick(writer)
Quarintineed
Randy Memoli
Nappi Films
Oreilles Absolues
Pascal Phaneuf(writer)
Rémi Damecour(writer)
Les Productions Michel & Michel

Short Category - Best Documentary

Winner
The crop circle from inside
Shihyun Wang
Peter Hawping Hsui
United States
Spring festival in the year of Tiger
Shihyun Wang
Zen Won
United States
Under Covid shadow
Shihyun Wang
Ukraine Crisis according to Nostradamus
Shihyun Wang
Fulfilled prophecy on Quake, Covid, Variant and War 2022
Shihyun Wang
Future in prophecy - The wrong direction
Shihyun Wang
Future in prophecy - The wrong direction
Shihyun Wang

BEST DRAMA FILM

Blood! Sugar! Sid! Ace!
5.5 (7)
Mike Messier(director)
Tim Labonte(cinematographer)

Best Actor

Trevor Lawless
That's Life

Best Cast, Ultra Short

October Eleventh
John R. Colley

Best Comedy (Short Category)

The Summoning

Best Director Short Film

Suzanne Miller(director)
Sundance Nagrial(director)
I Was Expecting
The Boys Club Productions
Suzanne Miller and Sundance Nagrial

Best Documentary

Prince Accused according to Nostradamus
Shihyun Wang
War 2022 according to Nostradamus
Shihyun Wang
Love Rules
Shihyun Wang
Nostradamus, pandemic and our future
Shihyun Wang
The Secret Cup
8.3 (17)
Jeremy Norrie
J. Horton
Sky Island Storytelling
ZapruderFlix
Engage Earth
Yijun Wang(Diector)

Best Drama

The Settler
Zara Mirzaei
Red and Blue make Purple
Olivia Medrano(director)
Micah Max Polaha(Producer)
Brooklyn Stearns(Producer)
The Bostonians
Amir Kiani(producer/director)
Cinemote

Best Drama - Long Short Film

Between Here and Gone
Sadie Duarte(director)

Best Drama Feature

Locked Room 2020
Paint Vk
Dark Static Productions

Best Experimental International

Out of mind
9.5 (13)
Bare Foot
Diganta Dey

Best First-Time Filmmaker

Skandalouz
Omar Cook
247LC Films

Best Horror

From Where It Came
David Nguyen

Best International Drama

Bedtime Story # 14
Kristine De Leon
Bedtime Story # 14

Best Music Video

Vasiliki Kappa: My Friends
Christos N. Karakasis
Koyinta Productions
Silent Love
7.4 (129)
Shihyun Wang
Xiaohui Dai
United States

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Charlie the lonely
Shihyun Wang

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supernatural

The World Cruzer
8.7 (7)
Ludger Kreilos-Erichsen
Yorick Niess
Reecode
lab rec, L. Kreilos-Erichsen
Yorick Niess, Film & TV Productions
The Red Knows
9.4 (7)
Loken Charon

Best Student Film

The Key
Cristian Omar Jimenez
Genius Cinema
What's Left Unpacked
Desirée Tolchin
Abby Hauptman
Alexiz Dennis
Tanner George
Missing You
George Leontakianakos

Best Student Short

Milk
Adam Ferenczy
FocusFox Studio

Best Thriller

En-Snare
Kevin Lucero Less
Halo One Productions
DystopiaScope Films
TAC Productions
Ultra Short Category

Best writer

Nostradamus, pandemic and our future
Shihyun Wang

Long short Documentary

Chaos According to Nostradamus - Is Putin in Book of Prophecy?
Shihyun Wang

Semifinalist

No Shark
6.8 (149)
Cody Clarke
Kill The Lion Films

Short Category - Best Animation

Voices of Normandy
Jamison M. LoCascio
Adam Ambrosio
Louis J. Ambrosio

Short Category - Best Student Film

Hidden Hysteria
Kimberly Malhoit

Super Short Documentary

Chinese new year in Taiwan
Shihyun Wang
Zen Won
United States

Ultra Short Film

Grandpa's Workshop
Ermir M. B.(Director)
Danielle Fountaine(Producer)
Elena Fountaine(Actress)
Orange Cat Films
Tree with White Blossoms
Roy Maltby(director)

Super Short

Best Actress

Winner
Patricia Hegedus
Intertwined
Ofis Creative
Winner
Angela Martin(actor)
Happy Birthday, Claudia

Best Comedy

Winner
Doing Swell
Kendall Veasey
Kendall Veasey Productions
Winner
Say Again?
Baking a Friendship
Isaias Zai Gallardo
Miguel Lucero
Virgowave
The Carol Heard 'Round the World
Isaias Zai Gallardo(writer/director)
Robert Davis
Miguel Lucero
Taylor Gibbons
Virgowave

Best Director

Winner
Delphine Berger(Director)
Origami
Winner
Carlo Fortin
Almost
Fortin Films
Serhat Dogantekin
Intertwined
Ofis Creative
Dana Pierre
Circus Girl

Best Drama

Winner
The Morning After
Liam Hoban Thrush
Destined Pictures
Aspects
Connor Kujawinski(director)

Best Horror

Winner
Misteria
Eva Tavares
Pangman Moving Pictures
The final Blink
Ronny Strehmann
Strehmann Heerdink

Best Sci-Fi/ Fantasy / supernatural

Winner
Circus Girl
Dana Pierre

Best Student Film

Winner
Frame Fumble
Alexander Griffin
Dream Corridor Productions

Best Thriller

Winner
Intertwined
Serhat Dogantekin
Ofis Creative
Happy Birthday, Claudia
Alfonso Navarro(director)

Best Writer

Winner
Last Call, Midnight
Larry Rosen

Best Actor

Richard Kovacs
Holy Skit!

Best Art Film

The Art of Wushu: Darren Deng

Best Cast

Misteria
Eva Tavares
Pangman Moving Pictures
Intertwined
Serhat Dogantekin
Ofis Creative

Best Cinematography

Aspects
Xinyu Li(director of photography)

Best Experimental International

Penumbra
Bruno Garza(director)
Work from home

Best Experimental North America

To Dust I Shall Return
Daniel Michael Tomcik
Cell Media

Super Short Films

Erotropine (Carousel of Quills)
Edi Mils
+380 Kyev, Ukraine
8.8 (41)
Troy Bronson
Andrew Opryshko
Independent Production

Super Short Films (1 to 5 minutes)

Dissós

Summer Award

Best Actor

Winner
Alessandro Vantini
Nothing Beyond Measure
Winner
Marco Quaglia(actor)
When Buying a Fine Murder
Galaxia Prime Production
Fabian Siebecke(actor)
Succeed to Escape
Plasmid Studios
Evan Crommett
The 2nd Act

Best Actor of the Festival

Winner
Nigel Mercier
The Cathedral
Dolmen Films

Best Actress

Winner
Rosa Daquilema(actress)
Silence of a House on Fire
Winner
Stephanie Garcia
Por Tu Propio Bien
Kathi Hofer(actress)
Succeed to Escape
Plasmid Studios
Noy Emilia Efrati
And They Lived Happily Ever After
Anna Storm
Love Lost and Found

Best Animation - Short Category

Winner
Beacon
6.5 (64)
Andrew Stadler

Best Cast Super Short

Winner
You Did What?
Darcy Waite
Derek James Trapp
Turtle Mountain Media

Best Comedy

Winner
Culinary Tension
Brandon Richard Hobson(director)
Dictum
Karolina Kraus
Luke McKenna
Raven Castle Media

Best Documentary

Winner
Fire & Ash
Andreas John

Best Drama

Winner
A Father's Diary
6.5 (2K)
Golam Mustofa(Director)
Banzai Multimedia
Winner
Winner
The 2nd Act
Victor Fontoura
Taanakkaran
8.1 (3.5K)
S.R. Prakashbabu
S.R. Prabhu
Potential Studios
Khorfakkan
6.3 (182)
Maurice Sweeney(director)
Ben Mole(director)

Best Drama North America

Winner
Echo
Laura Denmar(Writer, Producer)
Quentin Ferrant(Director)
Canada
Echo
Laura Denmar(Producer, Writer)
Quentin Ferrant(Director)
Canada

Best Experimental International (Short)

Winner
The One Who Sees the Light Must Die
Camille Legras

Best Experimental Long Short

Winner
Jardín de Capuleto
Andrei Gromyko
Julio Urdaneta
Moisés Angola
Daniela Alejandra Benítez Ruppert
Angie Romero
Dave Neopoly
Alejandro Rondon
Valentina Zambrano
Sebastián Camilo Durán
Left Hand Pictures

Best Experimental North America (Short)

Winner
Table Manners
Sheree Clement(Music)
Mary Birnbaum(Director)
Caroline Stucky(Cinematographer)
Ariadne Greif(Actress)
Shores of Panopolis
John Peter Coronati(Director)
Jayson Sloan(Director)

Best First-Time Filmmaker

Winner
Eutopia
9.3 (13)
Odysseas Spyropoulos(director)

Best Poster

Winner
Ayni Gecenin Laciverti
6.7 (80)
Sude Eylul Yilmaz
Sefer Can Yilmaz
How to Cope with Serial Killing
Tiger Watts(Still Photographer)

Best Thriller

Winner
Heretics
9.6 (6)
Full Heart Films
Succeed to Escape
Fabian Siebecke(director)
Plasmid Studios
Eyes of God
Leah Lin(writer/director)
Free Pass
Joseph Lao
Dirty Laundry
Matison LeBlanc
Tremuloid
Samuel V. Morehouse
SVM Films

Best Writer

Winner
Dictum
Karolina Kraus
Luke McKenna
Raven Castle Media
Winner
AltFF Alternative Film Festival

Best Animation Canada

Frontier Friends
Adam Bourne(director)

Best Cast

Jardín de Capuleto
Andrei Gromyko
Moisés Angola
Daniela Alejandra Benítez Ruppert
Angie Romero
Joan Joe Torres
Yojhan Vargas
Adyane Gonzalez
Left Hand Pictures
Heretics
9.6 (6)
Chloe-Jean Vincent
Kilian Roberts
Scott Cathery
Susie Garcia
Alix Jordan
William Wallace Killen
Kiran Wilson
Jeremy Pickett
Nigel Goodwin
Ryan Marano
Greg Pereira
Full Heart Films

Best Cast (Short Category)

Lockdown Love Life
Ashna Sharan
Cindy D'Andrea
Liam Callister
Asit Vyas
Josh Greiveldinger
Cassi Schiano
Joel Van der Molen
Andy Goldberg

Best Cinematography

And They Lived Happily Ever After
Shai Ramos
The 2nd Act
Ricardo Acioli

Best Cinematography (Super Short)

Trust Me
Tanmoye Khan(cinematographer)
Rebellion Army

Best Cinematography (Ultra Short)

Teacher's Pet
Kevin Lucero Less
Halo One Productions
DystopiaScope Films
TAC Productions

Best Comedy (Long Short)

SirCooly's Groundhog Hunt
Christina Barton
Nolan Schmidt
NHS Films
20X Productions

Best Experimental

The Seventh Seal
7.0 (34)
Jacek Krawczyk(director)

Best Experimental North America

The Fate of a Bird
Sage Christian Drake(director)
Angelita Bushey(producer)
Drakebank Productions

Best Experimental Short

Mr. Box & Boogy's Mass Media Review
8.6 (10)
Al Diaz(Writer/Director/Producer)
Javi Diaz(Writer/Director/Producer)
El Capitan Ink
Mr. Box & Boogy's Superman Retro Review

Best Feature Film

Nothing Beyond Measure
8.8 (8)
Alessandro Vantini

Best Film of the Festival

The Cathedral
Joseph Palmer(producer)
Turlough O'Cinnéide(director/producer)
Dolmen Films

Best Horror Short

Surface
Shane Nelson(director)
Beatrix Wilson(director)

Best International Drama

Silence of a House on Fire
Rafael Pulgar S.(director)

Best Music Video

Polski Piach - Kochankowie (Lovers)
Mikolaj Sikorski(director)
Sand powered puppet theater performing instrumental music
Doomer no more
Shihyun Wang

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Doomer - I don't want to be alone
Shihyun Wang

Best Student Film

When I Look Ahead
Zach Diotte(Director)
Irreversible Films

Best Student Film - Short Category

Dangerous Game
Finn Johnston
Humber College
Dangerous Game
Finn Johnston
Humber College

Best Thriller (Super Short)

Trust Me
Delly Allen(producer)
Nino Oz(director)
Anna Maria Mojo(writer)
Charline Garnier(writer)
Rebellion Army

Best Under 1-Minute Film (Ultra Short)

Teacher's Pet
Kevin Lucero Less
Halo One Productions
DystopiaScope Films
TAC Productions

Feature Film: Best Horror

Deadly Nightshade
3.6 (191)
Benjamin Rider

Winter Award

Best Action (Short)

Winner
Figures
Jamie Hegland(writer/director)
Jade Leo Yurich(director/producer)
Figures
Jamie Hegland(writer/director)
Black Dove
8.2 (5)
Cristian Omar Jimenez(director)
Sydney Baker(editor)
Ashlyn McCain(writer)
Genius Cinema
The Ungrateful Killers
Nolan Schmidt
Alden Dickey
NHS Films
The country house and its karma
Juan Pablo Bornio(director)

Best Actor

Winner
Timmy Walczak(actor)
One Man Picture Show or: The Modern Tragedy of Creation
Jeremy Carr
The Rush Call
Patron Saint Films
Ryan Dobbs
Funny You Should Say That
Edot Productions
Dellair Youssef
Chekhov
Reelink Media UG
Dellair Youssef
Chekhov
Reelink Media UG
Evan Carrington(actor)
Mixed Bag

Best Actor (Long Short Category)

Winner
Attila Király
Café Marylin
AuroraFilm Kecskemét

Best Actor of the Festival

Winner
Michael Boston
Blank Fugitive
BlackCat69 Prods.

Best Actress

Winner
Stefania Montesolaro(actress)
Double Rainbow
Winner
Karen Leigh Sharp(actress)
Twisted
Space Rocket Nation
Winner
Libby Wattis
The Cleverest Thief
Laura Fitzpatrick(actress)
Double Rainbow

Best Animation Super Short

Winner
Doll Factory
Junyoung Park
Wonkwang University

Best Cast

Winner
Kate Calloway's Second Annual Haunted Halloween Sleepover
7.0 (13)
Grant Fieldgrove
Savannah Gregg
Cassie Mazza
Lily Ewald
Michelle Battan
Jack Prince
Tyler Senatore
Emery Valenzuela
Julie Fieldgrove
Walter Elias Sanford
Winner
The Elusive Purpurea Vulpavis
Winny Clarke
Thea Bugay Covelli
Jill Frappier
Trudy Weiss
Trevor Covelli
Andrew McGillivray
Virginia Cowan
Troy A Campbell
Lucky Dime Films
We Did It
7.8 (6)
Jocelyn Cunliffe
Jahleel Powell
James Dairn Grant
Alexis Honey
Emily Baxter
Winston Young
Daphne Paul
Aminda Watson
John Pell
Dellano Dunkley
Joe Blake
Kamra On Productions
Business Plan
Shihyun Wang
The Roots of You
Audrey L'Ebrellec(actress)
Jacqueline Berces(actress)
Jes Gislason(actor)
Alaisiagae Productions
The Roots of You
Audrey L'Ebrellec(actress)
Jacqueline Berces(actress)
Jes Gislason(actor)
Alaisiagae Productions

Best Cinematography, Short

Winner
The Nature of the Flame
Mike Messier(Director)
Chris Hunter(Cinematographer)

Best Comedy

Winner
Lily Darling
6.7 (28)
Stefanie Hubbard(director)
Pure Magic Pictures
Galaxy Visuals
A Herner Ferike faterja
6.4 (69)
Gábor Attila Kovács
The Cleverest Thief
Andrew Ball-Shaw
Assiduous Productions
Dave & Alice Want to Have Sex
Art Credit
Mitchell McCaugherty-Jansman

Best Comedy (Canada)

Winner
The Elusive Purpurea Vulpavis
Laura Tremblay
Tejasvi Bhalla
Michèle Kaye
Lucky Dime Films

Best Director

Winner
Madelaine Rose
Parent Teacher
The Boys Club Productions
Winner
Kata Oláh
My Digital Nomad
Makabor Studio
Shihyun Wang
Tiger is coming
Stefania Montesolaro(director)
Double Rainbow
Grant Fieldgrove
Kate Calloway's Second Annual Haunted Halloween Sleepover
Ana Bilic
Wenn die Heidelerche singt

Best Drama

Winner
The Cleverest Thief
Andrew Ball-Shaw
Assiduous Productions
Presque
Paul-André Robin
The Rush Call
4.6 (48)
Trey Riley
Jeremy Carr
Jennifer G. Taylor
Patron Saint Films
Tornado's tomorrow
Shihyun Wang

Best Drama - Super Short Film

Winner
Knuckle 2022
Sid Singh
Jahi Minkah Trotter
Spoiled Mindz Productions
Loss and gain in translation
Shihyun Wang

Best Drama Feature

Winner
Muza
Max Karplev
Muza
Max Karplev

Best Drama North America (Short)

Winner
Pressed
Michelle Elise Harding
Scott Knowlton
Belvedere
A.J. Ogilvie(director)
Belvedere
A.J. Ogilvie(director)
Isaac March
Jessica Davis
Patrick Medley
Jacob A. Hauser

Best Experimental

Winner
We
Iryna Sakhnenko(director)
Correspondence Yuri Obitani/Ming-Yu Lee
Yuri Obitani(director)
Ming-Yu Lee(director)
End of a fairytale
Shihyun Wang

Best Experimental International

Winner
Postcards from Mostar
Roman Stolyar
Maja Zeco
Asad Heric
Correspondence Yuri Obitani/Ming-Yu Lee
Yuri Obitani(director)
Ming-Yu Lee(director)

Best Experimental North America (Super Short)

Winner
The Chaotic Melody of Tina
9.4 (8)
David Anderson
Aaron Joshua
Walking in the Path of Nature Man
Nolan Schmidt
NHS Films

Best Film of the Festival

Winner
Sawyer
Marshall Leming(director)
Rob Tode(producer)
P.D. Gleason(producer)
Therese 'Tag' Goulet(producer)
Brendan J. Boyle(producer)
Shawn Khounphithack(producer)

Best First-Time Filmmaker

Winner
Us or Them
Traci Loper(director)
Funny You Should Say That
Rob Tode
Edot Productions

Best Horror

Winner
Mister Creep
4.5 (578)
Isaac Rodriguez
Tales from the Narrow Bridge: The Wyrmwood Devil
Sam Platizky
Isaac Platizky
William R. Farley
Joey Mosca
Jenna Kildosher
Dan Gregory
Jayleen S. Perez
Sami Saad
Maglinda Perez
Narrow Bridge Films
Brazen Giant Productions

Best Horror International

Winner
Love at Last Sight
Jade Walsh
Velton Lishke
V-Pac Productions
Winner
Exorcizamus Te

Best Horror North America

Winner
Trails End Drive
Meghan McCullin
Ana Masley
Scene 13
Unrest in Peace
Edmundo Barraza
Mundo Films
Buy Yourself for Christmas
Jeremy Carr
Patron Saint Films

Best International Drama

Winner
Lean Into the Darkness
Melanie Hayward

Best Student Film

Winner
The Gig
Xander Turian(director)
Johanna von Salmuth(producer)
Rhys Whomsley(written by)
Saul Gittens(director of photography)
Cuprite Productions
An Apocalypse
Matt O'Connell(director)
Funny You Should Say That
Rob Tode
Laura-Love Tode
Ryan Dobbs
Edot Productions
The Gig
Xander Turian(director)
Johanna von Salmuth(producer)
Rhys Whomsley(written by)
Cuprite Productions
Plummet
Naomi Russell
Shore Shot Productions

Best Writer

Winner
The Mine
Marco Stuppy
Ébène Production
Winner
The Shootist
Dianna Renée
Dark Park Studios
Winner
Tales from the Narrow Bridge: The Wyrmwood Devil
Sam Platizky
Isaac Platizky
Jenna Kildosher
William R. Farley
Narrow Bridge Films
Brazen Giant Productions
Winner
Us or Them
Brent Walker(writer)
Apocalypse Anytime Now
Jen Lim(writer)
Das letzte Gedicht, das Stefan Buchwald schreiben wollte
Dellair Youssef(writer)
Reelink Media UG
Das letzte Gedicht, das Stefan Buchwald schreiben wollte
Dellair Youssef(writer)
Reelink Media UG

Short Cinematography International

Winner
The Nature of the Flame
Chris Hunter
Mike Messier

Short Drama International

Winner
Ragazze sole
Double Rainbow
Stefania Montesolaro(director)
Apocalypse Anytime Now
Jen Lim(director, writer)

Ultra Short

Winner
De-scend
Kevin Lucero Less
Halo One Productions
DystopiaScope Films
TAC Productions
Upstay
7.1 (12)
Carlos Andrés Reyes
9 Bandas

BEST SHORT ACTION

The country house and its karma

Best Actress (Short)

Johanna Putnam
Pressed

Best Cast (Long Short Category)

Café Marylin
7.5 (76)
András Reszeli-Soós(director)
András Attila Farkas(producer)
AuroraFilm Kecskemét

Best Cinematography

A Herner Ferike faterja
6.4 (69)
Ajnácska Csíkszentmihályi

Best Cinematography (Long Short Category)

Café Marylin
7.5 (76)
Mátyás Mentes
AuroraFilm Kecskemét

Best Comedy (Short Category)

The Porn Radio Show
Vincenzo De Sio(producer)

Best Comedy (Super Short Category)

The Glass
Rob Tode
Laura-Love Tode
Ryan Dobbs
Edot Productions

Best Director (Short)

Jamie Hegland(writer/director)
Jade Leo Yurich(director)
Figures

Best Documentary

Mariupol Defender
9.8 (13)
Stanislav Puzdriak(director)
Rebel Monkey Production

Best Film

Kate Calloway's Second Annual Haunted Halloween Sleepover
7.0 (13)
Grant Fieldgrove(Producer)
Cassie Mazza(Producer)
Savannah Gregg(Producer)

Best First Time Director

Jean-Nicolas Bertouille-Blais
Audrey Durand
Montreal has died

Best Horror North American (Short)

Reaper Island
Nolan Schmidt
NHS Films

Best Long Short Actress

Bed NO. 12

Best North American Drama

Congratulations
Dan Gregory
Joey Mosca

Best Poster

The Last Job
Samuel Lemberger
Spoiled Mindz Productions
Wit Films
Dine with the Devil
Brian T Shirley
Drew Howard
Drew Howard Entertainment
Jackpot
Forrest Tuff
One Vision Productions
The Cockroach
Farid Barari
We Are a Motive
Roberto Eduardo Arenas Farquet(poster design)
Pertúrpure Cinema
Luminosa Films
Luminosa Canal
Mirrorty
7.8 (9)
Feyzullah Aslan(director of photography)
The Librarian
8.5 (8)
Hasan Kilic(director of photography)
The Death Ox
7.2 (6)
Serkan Aktas(director of photography)
Resurrection under the Ocean
9.1 (9)
Akin Bagcilar(director of photography)
America
Andrew J. Parker

Best Romance film

Forever a Gentleman
8.9 (12)
Courtenay Lazorka(director)
C-plus Studios

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supernatural

Doors
8.4 (13)
Abhineet Gogne(Director)
Sanjeev Sharma(Producer)
Spirits Motion Pictures

Best Short Film

The Split
Dario Vero(director)

Best Short Writer

The Nature of the Flame
Mike Messier
Chris Hunter
The Nature of the Flame
Mike Messier(Screenwriter)

Best Super Short Film

The Last Star
ValOne

Best Thriller

ID
Kiran Kondamadugula
Awake
William H. Abes
We Did It
7.8 (6)
Alec Elliot
Rolston Rye
Blind Spot
Elias Neijens(writer/director)

Best Thriller Super Short Film

Surprise!
Chris Borgo
Revulsion Pictures

Best Writer (Long Short Category)

Café Marylin
7.5 (76)
András Attila Farkas
AuroraFilm Kecskemét

Long Short Films

Todeskuss
Dennis Demirbas
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft, NRW

Short Comedy

1 plus 4 I love you all
Shihyun Wang
Mixed Bag
Matthew Walker(director)

Short Documentary

Energy for the 7 brothers
James Chen(director)
Shihyun Wang(writer)
Zen Won(actor)
My Filming Detour
Shihyun Wang
Travel the world with Ceia Zhou
Jim Wang
Shihyun Wang
Nostradamus on disaster - quake
Shihyun Wang
Prophecies in action - Tui Bei Tu
Shihyun Wang
A New Chapter for UK According to Nostradamus - After Liz Truss
Shihyun Wang

Short Film

Instant Love
Kinga Kornak
Inside Talk II
6.0 (44)
Anthony S Parker
Andrew J. Parker

Super Short

T-Bone
Alison J. Loeb

Fall Award

Best Actor

Winner
Steve Kasan
The Exchanger
Overheal Digital
Bryan Edwards
The Mechanic
Overheal Digital
Remigiusz Felsmann
The Order from Wannsee

Best Actress

Winner
Ocean Williams
Pandora's Adversaries
Winner
Krystyna Walters
The Greatest of All Tina
Marie Tifo(actress)
Helen at Dusk

Best Animation International - Super Short Category

Winner
The Death of Captain Crackers
David Pountain

Best Cast

Winner
Meraki & The Swan Song
Winner
The Dress Code
8.8 (5)
Rikard Westman
Jesper Widström
Kerstin Bergström
Jens Eriksson
Stills
Kyle Marra(director)
Duplicitous Minds
Duplicitous Minds
Matthew Palumbo(Actor)
Catalina Yue(Actress)
Rob LaColla Jr.(Actor)
Jason Fay(Actor)
Arap Bethke(Actor)
Chris Wadhams(Actor)
Ryan Kendrick(Actor)
Clair Fujioka(Actor)
Pixie Entertainment

Best Cinematography

Winner
The Order from Wannsee
Tobiasz Gottfried(director of photography)
Meraki & The Swan Song
Babour Zainullah
Wilde Zeiten - Das Festival und die Pandemie
8.9 (9)
Patrick Protz(director of photography)
Frieder Unselt(cinematographer)

Best Cinematography (Long Short)

Winner
Disregard the Vampire: A Mike Messier Documentary
7.0 (8)
Tim Labonte
Chris Hunter
Mike Messier

Best Comedy

Winner
Queen of Spades
Melanie Kaklamanis(director)
Johnny Gingell(actor)
Kurtis Maguire(actor)
Martina Biljan(actor)
Lucho Berzek(director of photography)
Jackson Lee(assistant director)
Max Vignette
Mychaylo Prystupa
Athena Rajah Balaji
Ciaran O'Donnell
Kendra D'silva-King
Alex Swayn
Ana Orlova Kliri

Best Director - Feature Category

Winner
Johnny Kalangis
7 7
SpaceCowboy.io
Dirk Gunther Mohr
Fabienne Leenart
Capo di Famiglia III

Best Drama

Winner
The Order from Wannsee
Dariusz Henka(director)
Ippo
Yûki Kedôin
Dylan MacGregor
IPPO Production
Kedomon

Best Feature Film North America

Winner
Roads of Ithriyah
7.7 (44)
Javier Badillo
Shayan Bayat
Jay Kamal
Panta Mosleh
Juan Carlos López Duran
Paul Lowey
Jaz Gill
Kelly White
Spit Shine Flicks
Wethic Media
PK Studio Productions
Indie Rights
Return to the Island
Nolan Schmidt
NHS Films
7 7
8.7 (16)
Johnny Kalangis
SpaceCowboy.io

Best Film of the Festival

Winner
In Search of Receptionist - Genetic Salon
Shuk Pui Yu
Mystic Minnie
Barry Smyth(director/producer)
Joseph Palmer(producer)
Barney Smyth(producer)
Dolmen Films

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Winner
Prescribed Memories
Zach Calvento(director)
Capilano University
A Dust of Phantasm
Mathew Ouzounis
Andrew Ouzounis
Pandemic Productions
Sunflower
Bryan Edwards
Overheal Digital

Best Short Film

Winner
Sensibility
9.5 (9)
Ha Hum Ah Productions

Best Student Film

Winner
Our Highest Priority
Daniel Karan
Emma Macklin
Winner
Love Sucks
Chris J. Cullen
Robert Cunniff
Larry Rosen
Mike Vezza
Happy Smile Films

Best Thriller

Winner
Duplicitous Minds
Sari Colt(executive producer)
Robert Rippberger(Director)
Catalina Yue(Producer)
Winner
Stills
Kyle Marra
Lief Thomason
Root and Branch Films
Stills
Kyle Marra(director)
Mudmonster
O.B. De Alessi
The Exchanger
Bryan Edwards
Overheal Digital
Pandora's Adversaries
Austin Odigie(director)
Jason Harley(writer)
Jesse Palangio(director of photography)
Stay
Jack Ndupuechi(Director)

Best Thriller - Super Short Film Category

Winner
The Mechanic
Bryan Edwards
Overheal Digital

Best Under 1 Minute Film

Winner
Rounding Cape Horn in a Dream
Robert David Duncan
Film and Art by Robert David Duncan

Best Writer

Winner
Make Up Your Mind
Hayley Nash
Winner
Ippo
Yûki Kedôin
IPPO Production
Kedomon
Winner
The Cloaked Realm
Marisa L. Cohen
Peter Issac Alexander
Mudmonster
O.B. De Alessi
Pets + Mental Health
Gleyse de Franca
Potiguara Productions

Short Documentary

Winner
Destination Poland
Shihyun Wang
Art of Resistance
Sergei Safiullin(director)
Alexander Oleynikov(director)
Nostradamus' Doomsday Prediction - Death
Shihyun Wang

Super Short

Winner
Night Fly
Shai Alexandroni
Wreckage (Rival feat. Neoni)
Jean Behrad(director/producer)
InFocus Film School
Reach for the Dead
Kevin Lucero Less
Halo One Productions
DystopiaScope Films
TAC Productions

Super Short documentary

Winner
#Meet_Brooklyn_Museum
Kostiantyn Mishchenko

Best Action (Short)

Curse of the Mononoke
Parker Barton
20X Productions

Best Comedy (Short)

SirCooly's Luckiest Holiday
Christina Barton
Nolan Schmidt
NHS Films
20X Productions

Best Comedy (Super Short)

Night of the Ghoul 2
Parker Barton
20X Productions

Best Director

Kyle Marra(director)
Stills
Eric Felizardo
Meraki & The Swan Song
Robert Rippberger(Director)
Duplicitous Minds
Pixie Entertainment

Best Documentary

Nostradamus' Doomsday Prediction - Death
Shihyun Wang

Best Drama - Short Category

Helen at Dusk
Marco Joubert(director)

Best Feature Film

Capo di Famiglia III
9.4 (24)
Dirk Gunther Mohr(director)
Fabienne Leenart(director)
Yvonne Kuijn-Gerrits(producer)

Best Feature Film International

Wilde Zeiten - Das Festival und die Pandemie
8.9 (9)
Patrick Protz(director)
Dennis Gross(director)

Best Horror

Marriage Graveyard
Julz Janzen
Owl & Mirror

Best North American Experimental

Boxed
Changyi Yu

Best Poster

Unsolved mysteries of the world
Shihyun Wang
Amazing Grace - Mary's life
Shihyun Wang
Mystery - 30 Parallel North and lost civilization
Edward Huang

Best Thriller - Super Short Category

The Death of Captain Crackers
David Pountain

Best music video

Amazing Grace - Mary's life
Shihyun Wang

Best romance

The one hundred
Shihyun Wang

Ultra Short

Best One-Minute Film

Winner
Call of Nature
Donal O'Dea
Remarkable Films

Ultra Short

Winner
Summer Turns to Fall
David Creighton
+380 Kyev, Ukraine
8.8 (41)
Troy Bronson(actor)
Andrew Opryshko(director)
Independent Production

Best documentary

Who Should Rule UK Next? $50 to Solve the Mystery
Shihyun Wang

Long Short

Best Long Short

Conspiracy Cases
Jeffrey Paul Agosta

Best Writer

Three AM
Jeff Wolverton

Short Film

Best Animation International

Winner
La Pequeña

Best Horror

Winner
Doll
Louis Taylor(writer/director)
LouMan Entertainment
The Haunted Hall
Daniel Attrill
Dark Urban Entertainment

Best Short Film

Winner
(Des)conexión
Andrea Lizarte
Winner
The Gig
Xander Turian
Johanna von Salmuth
Cuprite Productions
Raindance Film School
Procam Take 2
Night and Wrong
John Hipwell
Hipwell International Production Services

5:01-20:00 Minutes

Terre Ancestrale - Ancestral Land
Gabriel Bissonnette
Héroique Films Inc

Best Drama International

Suspicious Minds
5.6 (9)
Imelda O'Reilly
Faz In Ate Films

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