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California Film Awards

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Grand Winner

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Best Director

  • Winner
    • Teresa Carante(director)
    • Blue Chameleon
    Sydney Film School

Best Foreign Short

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    I Remember the Future

    6.5 (16)
    Klayton Stainer
    Zané Pyper
    KAS Creations

Best Narrative Film

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    Indigo

    5.3 (49)
    John Hawthorne Smith
    Mancha Films, La

Best Television Pilot

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    Todd and Anne

    Jeffrey Engelson
    Insight Studio Productions

Grand Jury Award

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    Reflections of Maya Rose

    7.1 (9)
    Alexandra Wedenig

Screenplay Competition

  • Winner
    • Martin Ponferrada(writer)
    Screenplay: "The Niece"

  • Soul to Soul

    John Harris
    Michael Sieve
    43rd Big Idea Films
  • Tony Cammarata
    • Tony Cammarata
    Mimmo Fortunati (feature screenplay)
  • Tony Cammarata
    • Tony Cammarata
    Church (TV pilot)
    • Ashley Matteson(writer)
    Screenplay: "Lilium"
  • Wynn Reichert
    • Wynn Reichert(writer)
    Screenplay: "Saving Samantha"
  • Minoti Vaishnav
    • Minoti Vaishnav(writer)
    Screenplay: "The Realm of The Stones"
  • Jessi Gotta
    • Jessi Gotta(writer)
    Screenplay: "The Moose Head"
  • David E. Baugnon
    • David E. Baugnon(writer)
    Screenplay: "SkyBurner"
    • Pim Hendrix(writer)
    Screenplay: "The Italian Spy"
  • Charles Laulette
    • Charles Laulette(writer)
    Screenplay: "Season of Change"
  • Richard Geiwitz
    • Richard Geiwitz(writer)
    Screenplay: "Through the Glass Ceiling"

Special Jury Prize

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    One Small Hitch

    6.5 (5.6K)
    John Burgess
    Principle Entertainment

Best Screenplay

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    The Night Witches

    Steven Prowse

Orson Welles Award

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Best Television Pilot

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    The Ushers: A Dark Tale of a Bright Night

    8.3 (9)
    Andrea Galatà(director)
    Mab Creative Crew

California Film

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    A Good Ol' Chap

    Ryan Casselman(director/producer)

Student Film

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    Welcome Home

    Patrick C. Clinton
    Daniel Tomlinson
    Nima Ghamari
    Meg Stewart

Best Feature Screenplay

  • Minoti Vaishnav
    • Minoti Vaishnav(writer)
    for "The Realm of The Stones"

Gold Award

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Best Film

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    Fatty

    9.0 (10)
    Marina Loos(executive producer)

Best Short

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    Cassandra

    4.8 (5)
    Guy-Roger Duvert(director)
    Lidderdalei Productions

Documentary Short

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    LeRoy Critter Wolfinger

    Nancy Bowers

Foreign Film

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    Break-Up

    7.2 (11)
    Alexander Tuschinski(director)
  • Winner

    Let's Play, Ghost

    Damien Dematra(director)
    Irene Christina(producer)
    Damien Dematra Production

Screenplay Competition

  • Tony Cammarata
    Winner
    • Tony Cammarata
    Hooligan (feature screenplay)

Short Film Competition

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    Winner

    The Mirror

    6.6 (41)
    Selcen Yilmazoglu Lombardi(director)
    Sweet Dreams Production
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    Pint

    6.4 (17)
    Nic Barker
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    Frammenti

    9.4 (9)
    Emanuele Michetti
    Altreproduzioni
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    Winner

    Dr. Luciana Show: Aging and Falling

    Luciana Lagana

Student Film Competition

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    Copyright Warfare

    7.0 (5)
    Runze Zhou
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    Winner

    Carry On

    7.8 (33)
    Yatao Li
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    Dorothy

    David Ward

Silver Award

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Documentary Film Competition

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    Non ci è stato regalato niente

    5.8 (10)
    Eric Esser(director)
    MakeShiftMovies

Foreign Film Competition

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    Materiya

    Natalya Naftalieva(director)

Narrative Film Competition

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    Insane

    5.6 (218)
    Eros D'Antona
    Funny Dreamers
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    Winner

    Simshar

    6.6 (341)
    Rebecca Cremona(director)
    Leslie Lucey(producer)
    Kukumajsa Productions

Short Film Competition

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    Once Again

    6.7 (20)
    Sanjay Arora
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    Winner

    The House of the Rising Sun

    5.8 (39)
    Ivan King(director)
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    Winner

    Los Muertos

    Dewayne Austin
    Farview Studios

Student Film Competition

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    You Bet

    4.3 (48)
    Sky Wang(director)

Diamond Award

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Best Short

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    Dispossessed

    Cheyanne Kane(writer)
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    Winner

    Indigo

    6.5 (14)
    Paul Jerndal

California Film Competition

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    Winner

    Gen RX

    9.1 (43)
    John Taschner(Director)

Foreign Feature

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    Blood Empires

    7.8 (60)
    B Empires Productions

Foreign Film

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    Dernière

    Marco Marra

Narrative Film Competition

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    A Ghost and the Boy with A Box on His Head

    6.7 (54)
    Philip Blue(Director)
    Blue Line Pictures

Short Film

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    Reproach

    Daniel C. Hale
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    Coral

    6.6 (5)
    Giacomo Martelli
    Light Cargo
    Images and Sound
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    Winner

    Indigo

    6.5 (14)
    Paul Jerndal
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    Lapsus

    6.2 (35)
    Karim Ouaret(director)
    Come On Productions

Short Film Competition

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    Judith

    Riccardo Brex
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    Intimate Temp Agency

    Luciana Lagana
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    Winner

    Suparhearo: A True Tail by Chance

    9.2 (12)
    Sean McCarthy
    Guerilla Wanderers Films

Student Film Competition

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    Winner

    Awaken

    6.9 (11)
    Bruce Sze Han Chen
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    Winner

    Nadezhda

    Denis Kulikov
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    Crossroads

    Chris Marius Jones(director)
    King Louie Palomo(producer)

Television Production

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    Have You Met Miss Jones?

    6.4 (14)
    James Di Giacomo
    David D. Mattia
    Undecided Pictures

Special Jury Prize

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Grand Winner

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    One Small Hitch

    6.5 (5.6K)
    John Burgess
    Principle Entertainment
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    One Small Hitch

    6.5 (5.6K)
    Brett Henenberg

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