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Outstanding Achievement Award

Best Actor

Winner
Raman Irman(actor)
Visualization
July
Winner
Oswaldo Salas(actor)
Sonata Para Un Calendario

Best Actress

Winner
Caitlynn McCauley
Hearts of New England
Maine Event Films
Fyfe Media Company
White Pine Digital Studios
Winner
Dawna Lee Heising
Demo Reel 2022-Dawna Lee Heising
Eye on Excellence Productions
Winner
Laura Ellen Wilson
Project Skyquake
Winner
Katarzyna Adamus
Show some mercy Dr Dearcy
161 Days
Revelion Pictures

Best Animated Film

Winner
Lear's Nonsense
8.9 (10)
Artie Romero(director)
Atinuke Oyebade(animator)
Ron Hayden(actor)
Woodrow Martin(animator)
ARG! Cartoon Animation
Shared with Ron Hayden, Atinuke Kemi Oyebade and Woodrow Martin

Best Animation

Winner
O Antiquário
Manuel Matos Barbosa(director)
Antonio Costa Valente(producer)
Filmógrafo
Cine-Clube de Avanca

Best Cinematography

Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Pat Mitchell(writer/director)

Best Director

Winner
Enzo Zelocchi(Director)
Crossroads Entertainment
Winner
Rod Smith
The Legacy
Bloodletting Productions
Winner
Raman Irman(director)
Visualization

Best Editing

Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Pat Mitchell(writer/director)
Liv Emotive
Winner
Sonata Para Un Calendario
Carlos Vargas Farfán(editor)
Winner
Show some mercy Dr Dearcy
Arek Zasowski
Katarzyna Adamus
161 Days
Revelion Pictures

Best Feature Script

Winner
Reclaim & Rescued
Christan van Slyke(writer)
Winner
Frigid Dealings
Christan van Slyke(writer)
Winner
In the Cards
Christan van Slyke(writer)
Winner
Stone Family Inn
Christan van Slyke(writer)
Wayne D Burdette Jr.(director) (executive producer)
Moonless Media
Delicious Dilemma
JK Jones
Sargeant Classified
JK Jones
The Gotaways
Christan van Slyke(Writer)
Reclaim & Rescued
Christan van Slyke(Writer)
In the Cards
Christan van Slyke(Writer)
Less Traveled
Christan van Slyke(Writer)

Best Film Score - Soundtrack

Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Winner
Visualization
9.5 (555)
Jazzephin(composer)

Best Film on Disability Issue

Winner
Finding Purpose: The Road to Redemption
5.9 (132)
John Reign
Rowena Reign
Dawna Lee Heising

Best International Narrative Feature

Winner
The Big Father
7.8 (42)
Konstantinos Stragalinos
Winner
Rings of the Unpromised
9.4 (53)
Michelle Arthur(Director)
Princess Arthur Productions
Winner
Aftermath
5.2 (4.4K)
Roy McClurg Jr.(executive producer)
Kevin Cuong Phu Nguyen(co-executive producer)
Malachy Fergus Godfrey(co-executive producer)
Gergö Elekes(producer)
József Gallai(producer)
Chuck Harding(producer)
Reginald Welkin(co-producer)

Best Performing Arts

Winner
Demo Reel 2022-Dawna Lee Heising
8.2 (5)
Dawna Lee Heising
Richard Thrift
Winner
Evil Madame An
Dawna Lee Heising
Eye on Excellence Productions

Best Producer - July

Winner
The Death Ox
7.2 (6)
Serkan Aktas(writer/producer/director/editor)

Best Short Film

Winner
Time to fly
Shihyun Wang
Winner
D After C
8.9 (18)
Christan van Slyke(writer) (producer)
Sandra E Williams(director) (executive producer)
All Dog Entertainment
D After C
8.9 (18)
Christan van Slyke(Writer) (Producer)
Sandra E Williams(director) (executive Producer)
All Dog Entertainment

Best Sound Designing

Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Pat Mitchell(writer/director)

Best Supporting Actor

Winner
Aki Aleong
Finding Purpose: The Road to Redemption
Polarstar Pictures

Best Supporting Actress

Winner
Laura Saxon
Project Skyquake
Winner
Katarzyna Adamus
It's non-emergency!
Revelion Pictures
161 Days

Best Trailer/Teaser

Winner
Enzo Zelocchi
Crossroads Entertainment

Best Women's Film

Winner
Don't Make Me Cry
Karen Klami
Winner
D After C
8.9 (18)
Christan van Slyke(writer) (producer)
Sandra E Williams(director) (executive producer)
All Dog Entertainment

Comedy Short

Winner
Lear's Nonsense
8.9 (10)
Artie Romero(director)
Matthew A. Rebel(artist)
Ron Hayden(actor)
Edward Lear(writer)
Brittney Thalayan(artist)
ARG! Cartoon Animation

Documentary

Winner
Stories about the past, present and future
Shihyun Wang(director)
James Chen(producer)
Taiwan

Documentary Films

Winner
Managers of Luck
8.8 (16)
Egle Vertelyte(director)

Film / Video Poster

Winner
Enzo Zelocchi
Crossroads Entertainment

Film/Video Poster - July

Winner
The Death Ox
7.2 (6)
Serkan Aktas(director)

Horror / Science Fiction / Genre Feature Film

Winner
The Legacy
5.0 (62)
Rod Smith
Michael Beran
Michael D. Pollard
Tatiana Larrea
Philip Bushman
Dawna Lee Heising
Bloodletting Productions

Perfoming Arts

Winner
Enzo Zelocchi
Crossroads Entertainment

Short Film

Winner
Moth of the Mind
William Samson

Silent Film

Winner
Dreams of the Past
9.6 (127)
Dmitri Frolov(director)

Student Film - July

Winner
The Librarian
8.5 (8)
Serkan Aktas(writer/producer/director/editor)

Television / Pilot Program or Series

Winner
Cancer/evolution
Maggie Jones
Brad Jones
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DIFF Award

Amateur Film - July

Winner
Lucky Coin!
8.0 (6)
Serkan Aktas(writer/producer/director/editor)

Best Actor

Winner
Dmitri Frolov(director/actor)
Dreams of the Past
Robert LaSardo
Project Skyquake

Best Actress

Winner
Eugenia Costantini
Santa Guerra
Lyudmila Konyaeva(Actress)
Dreams of the Past

Best Cinematography

Winner
Sonata Para Un Calendario
Marco Antonio Alvarado Garazatua(cinematographer)
Dreams of the Past
9.6 (127)
Dmitri Frolov(director of photography)

Best Comedy Short

Winner
No Dessert for Bert
8.3 (10)
Matt Florio
Pierre Joseph
Ole Goode

Best Commercial

Winner
Habitat Immobiliare
Rossano Bagialemani

Best Debut Filmmaker

Winner
Secrets of marguerites
Eliza Bahr

Best Director

Winner
Carmen Rosa Vargas(director)
Sonata Para Un Calendario

Best Documentary Film

Winner
Ballin Abroad
Sonny Weems
Tywanna Smith
Kristine McPherson
John Wayne S. III
Sonny Dayz Media
Londyn Town Pictures
Winner
Martian & Me
Mark Starks

Best Editing

Winner
Demo Reel 2022-Dawna Lee Heising
8.2 (5)
Richard Thrift
Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Pat Mitchell(writer/director)

Best Feature Documentary

Winner
Famille FC
André Valentim Almeida(director)
Antonio Costa Valente(producer)
Filmógrafo
Cine-Clube de Avanca

Best Feature Screenplay

Winner
Her Legacy: Christmas Edition
Alyxandrya Prynce

Best Feature Script

Winners
Christan van Slyke(writer)
Wayne D Burdette Jr.(writer) (producer)
Moonless Media
Winner
Less Traveled
Christan van Slyke(writer)
Stone Family Inn
Christan van Slyke(writer)
Wayne D Burdette Jr.(writer) (producer)
Moonless Media

Best Film Score - Soundtrack

Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Andrew Scott Foust(original score)

Best Film/Video Poster

Winner
Aftermath
5.2 (4.4K)
Gergö Elekes
József Gallai
Winner
It's non-emergency!
Katarzyna Adamus
Revelion Pictures
161 Days

Best Free Speech Film - August/September

Winner
Positive Thinking
Alexis Krasilovsky
Rafael Film

Best Horror/Science Fiction/Genre Feature Film

Winner
Aftermath
5.2 (4.4K)
Roy McClurg Jr.(executive producer)
Kevin Cuong Phu Nguyen(co-executive producer)
Malachy Fergus Godfrey(co-executive producer)
Gergö Elekes(producer)
József Gallai(producer)
Chuck Harding(producer)
Reginald Welkin(co-producer)

Best International Narrative Feature Film

Winner
When Death Comes Knocking
6.7 (8)
Danny Lopez

Best Midnight Movie

Winner
The Sickness
Ian Volner

Best One-Minute Film - August/September

Winner
A Petal Pushed by a Breeze
Alexis Krasilovsky
Rafael Film

Best Performing Arts

Winner
Rings of the Unpromised
9.4 (53)
Michelle Arthur
Jeff Vernon
Princess Arthur Productions

Best Short Script

Winner
The Last Humans
Ray Brady(writer)

Best Silent Film

Winner
Sonata Para Un Calendario
Carmen Rosa Vargas(director)

Best Sound Design

Winner
Santa Guerra
8.3 (43)
Enrico Maria Paolillo

Best Student Film

Winner
Night in the Woods
Brendon Lynn(director)
Hailey Lopez(producer)

Best Supporting Actor

Winner
Sergio Julian De Oliveira
Rings of the Unpromised
Princess Arthur Productions

Best Supporting Actress

Winner
Kat Kramer
Rings of the Unpromised
Princess Arthur Productions
Winner
Samantha Casella
Santa Guerra

Best VFX Artist

Winner
Project Skyquake
4.0 (458)
Neil Rowe

Best Women's Film

Winner
Secrets of marguerites
Eliza Bahr

Comedy Short

Winner
It's non-emergency!
Katarzyna Adamus
Pat Caesar
Ian Reed-Golden
Arek Zasowski
DeAlva
Viola Zasowska
161 Days
Revelion Pictures

Film on Women

Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Pat Mitchell(writer/director)

Films on Disability Issue

Winner
Dysability
Shihyun Wang

International Narrative Feature

Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Pat Mitchell(writer/director)
Ashley LaRue(producer)

Mobile Film - July

Winner
The Death Ox
7.2 (6)
Serkan Aktas(writer/producer/director/editor)

One Minute Film

Winner
Show some mercy Dr Dearcy
Katarzyna Adamus
Arek Zasowski
Viola Zasowska
161 Days
Revelion Pictures

Postmodern Film - July

Winner
The Librarian
8.5 (8)
Serkan Aktas(writer/producer/director/editor)

Romantic Short

Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Pat Mitchell(writer/director)
Ashley LaRue(producer)

Television/Pilot Program or Series

Winner
Insomnia Theater
9.0 (7)
Paul Ganus
Mark Starks

Best Film Score

Project Skyquake
4.0 (458)
Gergö Elekes

Best Short Film

Glitch
Christan van Slyke(Writer) (Producer)
Sandra E Williams(director) (executive Producer)
All Dog Entertainment

Critic's Choice Award

Best Cinematography

Winner
Hearts of New England
7.0 (61)
Alan Dillingham
Christopher Fyfe
Maine Event Films
Fyfe Media Company
White Pine Digital Studios
Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Pat Mitchell(writer/director)
Liv Emotive

Best Cinematography - July

Winner
The Death Ox
7.2 (6)
Serkan Aktas(director of photography)

Best Director

Winner
John Reign
Finding Purpose: The Road to Redemption
Polarstar Pictures

Best Director - July

Winner
Serkan Aktas(writer/producer/director/editor)
The Librarian

Best Feature Screenplay

Winner
Desperately Seeking Sikh
Mariella Spagnolo(writer)
Winners
Donia Youssef(producer)
Steve Sloan(writer)
MONSTER WORLD STUDIOS
Winner
Less Traveled
Christan van Slyke(writer)
Winner
The Gotaways
Christan van Slyke(writer)
Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Pat Mitchell(writer/director)
Liv Emotive
Winner
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
7.6 (31)
Pat Mitchell(writer/director)
Liv Emotive

Best International Narrative Feature

Winner
Project Skyquake
4.0 (458)
Roy McClurg Jr.(executive producer)
Kai Destiny(co-executive producer)
Roderick M. Gordon(co-executive producer)
Kevin Cuong Phu Nguyen(co-executive producer)
Jon Vangdal Aamaas(producer)
Gergö Elekes(producer)
József Gallai(producer)
Pete Baez(producer)
Beáta Boldog(producer)
Stephen Sid Jardine(producer)

Best Romantic Short

Winner
Summer of Hearts
J. Davis Harvill
Jason Anthony Fisher
Melissa L. Simpson
Kevin Tompkins
Amusement Ride Entertainment

Best Short Film

Winner
Talkin' to Myself
10 (9)
Jaron Herren
Just An Idea Productions
Wolftale Pictures

Documentary Film

Winner
The Hopes & Dreams of Gazza Snell
7.2 (58)
Shihyun Wang

Experimental Films

Winner
Pvt. Ravel's Bolero
JZ Murdock(director)
Last good Nerve Productions

Feature Documentary

Winner
Rose to Crown
Shihyun Wang
Winner
Enzo Zelocchi
Crossroads Entertainment

Film/Video Poster - July

Winner
The Librarian
8.5 (8)
Serkan Aktas(director)

International Narrative Feature

Winner
Rose to Crown
Shihyun Wang

Golden Dragon Award

Best Actress

Winner
Mojo Mona(actress)
Visualization

Best VFX Artist

Winner
Visualization
9.5 (555)
Payam Arabzadeh(VFX)

Best Cinematography

Visualization
9.5 (555)
Raman Irman(cinematographer)

Jury Prize

Animated Films (any length)

Winner
Full Moon
Ellen Weisberg Ken Yoffe
Lonely Lane Productions

Best International Feature Film

Winner
Regresar al Final
8.5 (258)
Gustavo Letelier(director)
Amerindia Films

Certificate of Achievement

Best Actor

Winner
J.R. Fortin
Hearts of New England
Maine Event Films
Fyfe Media Company
White Pine Digital Studios

Best Comedy Short

Winner
Summer of Hearts
J. Davis Harvill
Jason Anthony Fisher
Melissa L. Simpson
Kevin Tompkins
Amusement Ride Entertainment

Best Editing

Winner
Meet Los Parents
Jack Sherman

Best Film Score Soundtrack

Winner
Hearts of New England
7.0 (61)
Christopher Fyfe
Maine Event Films
Fyfe Media Company
White Pine Digital Studios

Best Short Films

Winner
The Horrible 'Charm' of a Nuclear Explosion
Kostiantyn Mishchenko
Winner
Like Son, Like Father
Mark Bethea(producer/director)
Blue Ascot Media
Winner
Intoxication
Tara Salas
Tara Salas

Best Short Script

Winner
Artifact Mac
Jason Anthony Fisher
Amusement Ride Entertainment

Best Sound Designing

Winner
Hearts of New England
7.0 (61)
Christopher Fyfe
Maine Event Films
Fyfe Media Company
White Pine Digital Studios

Best Trailer

Winner
Cassandra Venice
Hugo Teugels(director)
Polli Cannabis(actress)
TVP services Video Art Productions

Film on Religion

Winner
Last Station Calvary
Holger Klussmann

Mobile Film

Winner
Ballet... ballet
Kostiantyn Mishchenko

Music Video

Winner
The Alliance 2 the Hunt for Breeze
Robert L. Butler Jr.
Thaartist Kali
Alonzo Carrillo
Andrew Modeen
Sean Puno
Nick Winter
Destany Joy

Web and New Media

Winner
First Kiss
Karen Klami
Alexandra E. Bell

Master of Storytelling Award

Master of Storytelling

Winner
It's About Love
6.3 (18)
Robert David Duncan
Film and Art by Robert David Duncan
Winner
Enter the Room
9.0 (47)
Harry Waldman
Edgewater Film Productions

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