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Grand Award

Best Film

1618
5.7 (327)
Luis Ismael
Lightbox Filmes

Best Supporting Actress

Mafalda Banquart
1618

Platinum Award

Best Original Dramatic Short Film

Winner
Another Life
Victor Warren
Glydascope

Gold Special Jury Award

Action Thriller

Winner
The Shipment
3.5 (6.2K)
Shawn Welling
Derek H. Potts
Welling Films
Deep Water Productions Motion Picture Group

Gold Award

Short Film

Winner
The Lost Wife
Patrick Crellin
Dark Avenue Film

Best Director

Michelle Danner
The Runner
All in Films

Suspense/Thriller

The Runner
4.2 (325)
Michelle Danner
All in Films

Silver Award

Animation

Winner
Romeo and the Goldfish
Joseph M. Clark IV(Director)

Bronze Award

Black/Dark Comedy

Winner
Only Human
7.1 (140)
Igor Ivanov Izi(director)

Student Short Script

Winner
The Last Dream
Martina Lisec

Special Jury Award

Documentary

Winner
Farmer, a way of life
Gaetano Naccarato
Sanctuary Films

Gold Remi Award

Animated short Film

Winner
The Ballad of Bob Winston
Ryan R. Nitsch

Best Art Direction

Winner
1618
5.7 (327)
Daniel Machado
Ana Meleiro
Ana Maria Simões

Best Cinematography

Winner
The Traveler
James D. Meyer
Gemstone Media

Best Director

Winner
Luis Ismael
1618
Lightbox Filmes
Winner
Lakshmi Devy
When the Music Changes
FiDi Talkies

Best Documentary

Winner
MacLeod: There Can Be Only One
Thomas Edward Seymour(director)
Tim Kulig(producer)
John Patrick Brennan(producer)
Lloyd Kaufman(executive producer)
Stephanie Perez(producer)
Troma Entertainment
VHS Massacre Films
Winner
My Rembetika Blues
8.5 (20)
M. Zournazi(director)

Best Drama (Short)

Winner
38 Minutes
8.4 (26)
Paul Lacovara
All In Productions

Best Film

Winner
1618
5.7 (327)
Luis Ismael
Maria Pacheco
Lightbox Filmes
Winner
Fire on the Ridge
8.5 (12)
Nancy Hamilton(Director)
Desiree DeAnda(Cinematographer)
Sandra Dee Richardson(Assistant Director)
Golden Eagle Films

Best First Feature

Winner
Bone Cage
5.5 (123)
Taylor Olson
Melani Wood
Afro Viking Pictures
Bone Cage Productions
Winner
Questions and Comments
4.5 (10)
Matthew Rubino
Media M

Best Music Score

Winner
1618
5.7 (327)
Pedro Marques

Best Music Video

Winner
Dreams
Justinz
The Red/Black Label

Best Screenplay

Winner
The Fish Husband
Lourvey Bourdan

Best Short

Winner
Enigma - The Fallen Angel
9.1 (12)
Abhay Thakur(director)
Dream Catcher Company

Best Short Film

Winner
Transference
Juan Cardenas
Fourth Moon Productions
Winner
Dominion Evolucion
Lucas Zoppi(Director, Writer, Producer)
Winner
The Perfect Date
Sonia Bajaj
Craig Miller
Winner
Away
6.6 (27K)
Quintin Allen Bell
Colin Cadarette
Jason Keepler
Nick Coppola
John Christian Love
Lea Zesati
Matt Mullery
Winner
Class
8.1 (21)
Enzo Cellucci
Ash McNair
Goosemango Films

Best Student Film

Winner
Retrieval
7.6 (46)
Nick Azzaro

Best Visual Effects Feature Film

Winner
1618
5.7 (327)
Paulo Pinho
Nuno Coutinho
Lightbox Filmes

Documentary

Winner
F.E.A.R: Face Everything and Rise
Manny Bains(director)
Annie Koshy(actor)
Serge Velbovets(director)
Velbix Films
Winner
What Was It Like?
Genevieve Clay-Smith(director) (producer)
Dianna La Grassa(producer)
Ricky Kremer(co-writer) (co-director)
Liam Vosu(co-writer) (co-director)
Nathan Basha(co-writer)
Shay Bell(co-writer)
Joni Campbell(co-writer)
Jack Leighton(co-writer)
Chloe Morrison-Greet(co-writer)
Lianne Mackessy(co-writer)
Sangeetha Punnia-Moorthy(co-writer)
Bus Stop Films
Winner
Charmed by Darkness
7.2 (42)
Chris Lang
Lifestreams Media

Documentary (Under 60 Minutes)

Winner
Pant Hoot
8.0 (8)
Richard Reens(Director)
Winner
A Grain of Wheat in Flames
Lee Hyoung-Joon(director)
Christian Broadcating System (CBS)
Winner
Covid and Who I am Now
Diana Dai
Diana Dai Communications

Dramatic Original Short

Winner
Carried Away
Joshua Hinkson
Winner
I'm Sorry. No More.
Mariana Plesco(producer)
Tony Pancho(writer/director/producer)

Dramatic Shorts

Winner
Wesley
Travis Andrade
Jon Brewer
Valeria Gualdi

Drone Production

Winner
Detroit Landmarks: Inspiration
William Huszti
Sophia Huszti
Olivia Huszti

Feature Documentary

Winner
The New Abolitionists
9.5 (30)
Christina Zorich(Director/Producer)
Winner
Zero Gravity
8.3 (28)
Thomas Verrette
Skylight Cinema

Feature Film

Winner
Le Cineaste - A Director's Journey
Manlio Roseano(director)
MR Productions

Independent Short Subject Award - Family / Children

Winner
Salvia
Hiroyuki Oda(director)

Music Video - New Artists

Winner
Devil: Scendi da 'ste nuvole
Tullio Imperatore
NPS Multimedia Production Studio

Short Film

Winner
Cold Call
Katherine Cronyn
Full Circle Films (II)
Winner
Where to Now?
Brady Bryson(director)
Mr. Weirdbob
Winner
End of the Line
Aiden Call(director/writer)
Calling Card Productions
Vuboy Productions

Shorts - Comedy - Black/Dark

Winner
Remisivir
9.6 (10)
Bobby Barbacioru(director)
Cristina Barbacioru(producer)
Luna Films
Creation Ink

Suspense/Thriller

Winner
Black Heart, Red Hands
8.9 (10)
Russell Southam(director)
Adam Spinks(producer)
Owen Elliott(consulting producer)
Little Big Film Company

Suspense/Thrillers Short

Winner
Officer Down
7.8 (49)
Emily Haigh
Simon Pearce
Deniable Productions
Siren Call Films

Bronze Remi Award

Best Adapted Short Comedy

Winner
In the Woods with a Dead Dog
Vera Graziadei
Anya Ryzhenkova
Luminous Arts Productions

Best Dark Comedy Short Film

Winner
Offline
Kate Kelsen
Fictional Films

Best Dramatic Feature

Winner
Broken
4.7 (80)
Patrick Phillips(producer)
Laura Buckles(producer)
Opine Entertainment
Winner
Angel by Thursday
6.0 (48)
Jeff Wallace

Best Family/Children Short

Winner
Always Come in Second
Shihan Lu
Todd Lien
Jeffery Liu
iStage Entertainment

Best Music Video

Winner
B.Y. Fresh Off the Boat
Todd Lien
Xuewei Yang
iStage Entertainment
Winner
Girls Like Me
9.0 (6)
Darla Rae

Best Original Dramatic Short Film

Winner
Soldiers from the Past
Shihyun Wang

Best Short Film

Winner
Hush
8.4 (11)
Jennifer Lana Harper
Alex Merkin

Documentary

Winner
Marilyn
Shihyun Wang
Winner
From Fat Lolli to Six Pack Lolli: The Ultimate Transformation Story
4.6 (164)
Keith Eccles(Director)
Anthony Lolli(Producer)
James Hergott(Producer)
Carlos Angelucci(Produceer)
Lolli Brands Entertainment
Winner
Children of Nikozi
Nino Benashvili(director)

Dramatic - Original

Winner
Broken
4.7 (80)
Laura Buckles
Patrick Phillips
Opine Entertainment

Editing - Shorts

Winner
Receiver
6.1 (10)
Luke Higginson

Experimental-Dramatic Film

Winner
Something Round
5.4 (7)
Nick Lovely

First Time Filmmaker

Winner
By the Grace of...
6.7 (49)
Dylan Reid

Graduate Level Student Productions

Winner
Gemstone Baby
Matt Bird
Connor Parker
Prince Nediyedath
Winner
Gaslight
Louisa Weichmann
Amy Perera
Prince Nediyedath
Simon Dang

Independent Short Subject-Films & Video - Documentary (Under 60 Minutes)

Winner
Children of Nikozi
Nino Benashvili

Long Short historical

Winner
The two emperor poets
Shihyun Wang(director)
Zen Won(actor)
James Chen(producer)

Long Shorts - Fantasy / Horror

Winner
The Vanishing Hitchhiker
Rosario Brucato(producer/writer/director/editor)
Veronica Brucato(actress/executive producer)
Giuseppe Brucato(actor/executive producer)
R.B Cinema

Shorts - Work-In-Progress

Winner
Reaper Island Part III
Nolan Schmidt
NHS Films
Apex Studios

Student Short Film

Winner
The Nick
Robert Smellin
Chris Smellin
Winner
The Letter
Kexin Cai
Kosher
Gideon Imagor

Television - Pilot Program

Winner
Pastiche
8.7 (16)
Shivaan Makker
Sullivan McGuffin
Hemant Makker
Pastiche Fiilms

Television Commercials

Winner
Moonflake: De l'espace pour l'imagination
Brice Blanloeil
Sébastien Duijndam
Moonflake

Platinum Remi Award

Best Documentary Short

Winner
Valle del Silicio
James Michael Douglas
Noah Amedick
Vince Williams

Best Dramatic Short Film

Winner
Prologue
5.8 (12)
Justin Joseph Hall(director)
Piper Werle(writer)
Kate Branom(assistant director)
Ricky Rosario(producer)
Gary Jaquez(cinematographer)
Fourwind Films
Winner
Voicemail
James Blanco
Kandu Films

Best Feature Film

Winner
Shibil
5.3 (256)
Nikola Bozadzhiev
First Clapper
Winner
Saving Paradise
6.3 (513)
Jay Silverman

Best Feature Film - Romance

Winner
Hab
6.1 (871)
Nóra Lakos(director)
Péter Reich(producer)
Katalin Harrer(producer)
AGA Media

Best Graduate Student Short Movie

Winner
Hakuumacaato
8.8 (24)
Kulan Farah
Swinburne University of Technology
Winner
Here Cut Salon

Best Original Score

Winner
Another Life
Or Oren
Glydascope

Best PSA

Winner
Final Moments
Dax Phelan

Best Short - Suspense Thriller

Winner
The Dark Between Us
Nikhil Kamkolkar
Winner
Poolside
8.4 (230)
Alex Kinter(director)
Erik Schuessler(co-director)
Jose Luis Partida(producer)
Kinter Media

Best Short Film - Dramatic Adaptation

Winner
The Forgotten Place
7.9 (49)
Oscar Rene Lozoya II
Good Dog
The Knights Young Productions
Winner
The Forgotten Place
7.9 (49)
Jeff Locker
Good Dog

Directing, Short

Winner
The Dispensable
8.2 (6)
Robert J Morgalo
Outhouse Production Films

Documentary

Winner
Killing the Shepherd
7.4 (15)
Thomas Opre(Director)
Firesteel Films

Documentary Feature

Winner
Corona & The Jewels
Annina Alexis Fedorkova
The Palace Entertainment Group FZE
Winner
We Want the Airwaves
9.3 (95)
Scott Ryan

Dramatic Original Short Film

Winner
Road Dogs
5.6 (6)
Victoria Peralto Cruz(Director)
GapToof Entertainment
Winner
Take and Run
7.5 (952)
Maria Brendle
Filmgerberei

Experimental Film & Video Awards - Film & Video Art

Winner
Metamorphosis
Xi Wang(director)
Winner
Manasanamaha
8.3 (222)
Deepak Reddy

Independent Shorts - Science Fiction

Winner
The Prospector
Wade Chitwood
Hoplight Productions

Live Action - Narrative (Little or No Dialogue)

Winner
Inner Selves
Meriem Sakrouhi(director)

Original Dramatic Short

Winner
Meet You Half Way
Paul DiVito
Danielle Fraboni LaRauf
Vintage Films
Code 3 Films

Platinum Remi Award

Winner
Elle
Nicole Vanden Broeck

Platinum Remi Award in Feature

Winner
He yi fei xiang
8.7 (34)
Loi Man Keong(Executive Producer)
Shangshi Chen(Producer/Director)
Sunny Xiang(US Producer/ Distribution Executive)

Short Comedy Original

Winner
One Dave at a time
Emmy Swayze
Barry Atkins
Vickie Guerrero
Marie France Louis
Edgar Alvidrez
Angela Perkins
Russell Corwyn
Chip Davison
Jana Dayan
Bobo Hoang
Harry Nelson
Joe Varghese
Imaginary Preview Films
Echo Film Studio

Short Dramatic Adaptation

Winner
Intersection
Artes Ferruni
Funke Alafiatayo
Eisa Alhabib
Raj Dutta
Puty Puar
Roberto Pino Almeyda

Short Film

Winner
Incognito
Jacky Song
Winner
Swiped
Edward J. Douglas
Winner
Ingredients
5.2 (28)
Hannah Michielsen
Willows & Windmills Productions
Winner
My Darling Christopher
Jo Sargeant(writer)
Clare-Louise English(writer/director)
Hot Coals Productions
Winner
An Invasion at Dinner
Sasha Bilik
Anna Bilik
Kiri Allen
Gravitywell Films
Winner
Mute
Constance Hilton

Short Film Productions - Documentary

Winner
Finding Manny
8.1 (34)
Kacey Cox(director)
Jan Jekielek(producer)
Cindy Drukier(producer)
Joe Wang(executive producer)
Long Trek Home Productions

Shorts Documentary

Winner
A Greenlander
Nicholas Jones
Picture Imperfect Limited
Winner
Hubble Space Wonders
Kevin Stirling(Producer)
NCI Film Productions

Student Film & Video Production College Level

Winner
See you back soon
Sonya Padalka
Winner
The Mailman
Matt Hourigan

Silver Remi Award

Best Editing

Winner
The Cathar
8.0 (7)
Liam Hendrix Heath
Liam Hendrix Heath

Best Film

Winner
Trash
5.3 (306)
Winner
Frankie
7.8 (25)
James Kautz
Red Seed Films

Best Screenplay

Winner
Harold L. Brown

Best Short - Suspense/Thriller

Winner
SC 4
5.7 (23)
Eros D'Antona(director)
Desirèe Pöpper(producer)
Kateryna Korchynska(producer)
Fran Kirchmair(producer)
Vertex Entertainment

Documentary - Short

Winner
The fight is on - Vaccine against virus
Shihyun Wang
Winner
Energy vs. Covid 19
Shihyun Wang
Zen Won

Documentary Long/Short

Winner
20 something in Taiwan
Shihyun Wang

Dramatic Original

Winner
Trees of Peace
6.5 (2K)
Alanna Brown(producer)
Ron Ray(produced by) (p.g.a.)
Mike Bundlie(produced by)
Barry Levine(produced by) (p.g.a.)
Vicky Petela(producer) (p.g.a.)
Brian Baniqued(producer)
Jeffrey Spiegel(producer)
RR Film Production
Abstract Entertainment
ABrownGirl Films

Family/Children

Winner
The Twins
Shihyun Wang
Winner
Il bambino che sarà cavaliere
Gianmarco D'Agostino
Advaita Film Srl

Film & Video Art

Winner
Ariel Neo(Film director)
Ariel Neo Productions
Winner
Negra
7.7 (25)
Medhin Tewolde Serrano

Shorts Dramatic Original

Winner
The Shift
Mayk Azzato(director)

Shorts - Dramatic - Original

Shadowed
6.9 (721)
Alexander Galant(director)
Master of Darkness

Grand Remi Award

Best Student Film

Winner
A Matter of Time
Yang Liu

Rising Star Award

Rising Star Award

Run Woman Run
7.1 (144)
Sladen Peltier(actor)

Hidden in the Spotlight
6.8 (400)
Roosmarijn van der Hoek(actress)
Rinkel Film
September Film Distribution

Finalist Award

Film & Video Productions - Performing Arts / Dance

Winner
Orson Rehearsed
Daron Hagen

Romantic Comedy

Winner
All Shook Up
Matthew Ramsaur
Ramsaur Films
Selah Pictures
Krafty Productions

Best film

Harmony Road
Gilbert Khoury(director)

Original Dramatic Short

Divorce During Pandemic
James Carey
Attic Studios

Short Film

The Dispensable
8.2 (6)
Robert J Morgalo
Outhouse Production Films
The World I See
Shawn Lai
Solicitude
Uday Padyana
Sergi & Irina
5.3 (7)
Álex Tejedor(Director)
Miquel Verd(Director)
Viking 1942
Singular Audiovisual

Award of Excellence

Best Music Video

Winner
Psychocide: Wasted on you
Goldwyn Thandrayen
Psychocide(IV)

Silver Remi

Best Director

Winner
Pedro Brenner
Lady of Guadalupe

Documentary Feature

Winner
Fearless
Wojciech Lorenc
Valentina Trevino

Short Dramatic Original

Winner
Purple, Green, Blue
Eugene Kangawa
Double set
Winner
Shadowed
Alexander Galant

Short Film

Winner
21st & Colonial
Angelo Reyes(director, writer, producer)
Alicia Kelley(producer)
Toby Osborne(writer)
Winner
Shadowed
6.9 (721)
Alexander Galant
Master of Darkness

Shorts - Fantasy/Horror

Winner
Routine
7.9 (25)
Russ Emanuel
Emile Haris(writer)
Bill Victor Arucan
Russem Productions
Winner
Adam in aeternum
9.3 (55)
Pedro Jaén R.

Web / New Media

Winner
Fratelli Noir
9.0 (23)
Daniele Gangemi(Director)
Winner
Fratelli Noir
9.0 (23)
Daniele Gangemi(Director)

Remi Award

Best Actor

Winner
Asivak Koostachin(actor)
Run Woman Run
Devonshire Productions

Best Animated Short Film

Winner
Rudy
Elizabeth Dean

Best Short Film

Winner
Man on the Tower
Karl Shefelman
Jackalope Pictures
Intersection
Artes Ferruni
Funke Alafiatayo
Eisa Alhabib
Raj Dutta
Puty Puar
Roberto Pino Almeyda

Best screenplay-Teleplay

Winner
22
Gunnar Garrett

Documentary Feature

Winner
Life with Ghosts
Stephen Berkley(director)

Film Craft - Editing

Winner
The Dress
Nicole Emilíana Mendez
Company Dime Pictures

Remi Award Winner

Winner
Spin State
6.0 (29)
Ross A. Wilson(director)
React Films

Special Jury Remi

Drama Short Film

Winner
Boundless
8.8 (8)
Clark Stanley

Experimental Film

Winner
Oklahoma Mon Amour
7.3 (52)

Feature Documentary Film

Winner
Get Back Up
7.5 (376)
Norry Niven
Winner
The Girl Who Wore Freedom
8.2 (74)
Christian Taylor
Bill Ebel
Jeff Kurtenacker
Jason Hoban
Normandy Project

Short Film

Winner
Boundless
8.8 (8)
Kate Campbell(writer, director, producer)
Sarah Thomas Moffat(Cinematographer, producer)
S.H.E Lifts Off Films
BUCK Productions
The Rolling Picture Company

Short Subject - Animated

Winner
Du Iz Tak?
Galen Fott
Bigfott Studios
Weston Woods Studios

Shorts - Documentary (under 60 minutes)

Winner
Sansui Llafretaw
Eugene Kangawa
Eugene Studio

Special Jury Remi Award

Winner
The FBI's Secret War
David Reppond
Winner
¡No Nos Callarán!
Sophie Venecia Reyes
Inside Us Films
Winner
The Day I Had to Grow Up
9.3 (39)
Stefano Da Fre
Laura Pellegrini
Nolan Kelly
Brandon Delosreyes
A.J. Desimone
Rosso Films International

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