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Vegas Movie Award

Best 1st Time Director / Feature

Winner
Anna Gerasimova(Director)
The Breath of Life

Best 1st Time Producer

Winner
Adulting
6.7 (17)
Ania Gauer

Best Action Film

Winner
Burn Out
Tomasz Rewers

Best Actor

Winner
Dustin Ardine
Angel of Mercy
Winner
Stephen Sorrentino
A Tale of Redemption and Regret with Sunny the Heat
Even Stephen Productions
Alessandro Masella
Morella, My Wife
Jed Rowen
The Electric Man

Best Cinematography

Winner
Silver Gandhi
Shakil A. Khan
Contrapunto Communication
Winner
I walk on
Bianka Fórmanowska(cinematographer)
Rewers Film Crew
A Serious Predicament
7.1 (12)
Jason Vandygriff
Tin Star Films
Le Cineaste - A Director's Journey
Paul Ross Newton(director of photography)

Best Director

Winner
Philip Hamilton(Scott Wilson)
Ocean Souls
Leilani Amour Arenzana(Director/Producer/Writer)
A Groom, Three Brides and a Doctor
Heavenly Eyes Productions

Best Documentary Feature

Winner
The Long Ride Home: Part 2
8.2 (18)
Steve Haining
Winner
Ocean Souls
7.4 (54)
Philip Hamilton
Winner
The Author
Nima Soofi
Daniel Irias
QubeFilm

Best Ensemble

Winner
I walk on
Dorota Fórmanowska(actress, director, producer, screenwriter)
Emilia Warabida(actress)
Rewers Film Crew

Best Experimental Film

Winner
Question Everything
9.3 (20)
Shaun Rylee
Scott Engrotti
Cinema Dandan

Best Fantasy

Winner
The Breath of Life
8.0 (10)
Anna Gerasimova(Director)
Arthur Herring(Producer)

Best Fantasy Film

Winner
Fix Me
Woonyea Han

Best Feature Film

Winner
Mambo Man
6.0 (108)
Mo Fini(director)
Edesio Alejandro(director)
Tumi Productions
The debut film of two retired directors

Best Indie Short

Winner
A Tale of Redemption and Regret with Sunny the Heat
7.1 (8)
Stephen Sorrentino
Even Stephen Productions

Best Inspirational Film

Winner
Silver Gandhi
Avinash Nanda
Contrapunto Communication
Winner
Detroit Landmarks: Inspiration
William Huszti
Olivia Huszti
Sophia Huszti

Best Movie Poster

Winner
Briar
8.6 (5)
Mark Sposato
Pearls Daily

Best Music Video

Winner
Family Crest
Leilani Amour Arenzana(Producer/Director/Camera)
Mike Osborn(Singer/The Viking)
Jordan Corpion(Young Boy)
Bang Young Suk(Editor/Camera)
Bill MacSwiney(Production Assistant)
Jose Torres(Production Assistant)
Phuoc Vu(Camera)
George Nixon(Camera)
Nimfa A. Arenzana(Production Designer)
Diana Marie Abad(Album Designer)
Winner
I walk on
Dorota Fórmanowska(actress, director, producer, screenwriter)
Artur Jasinski(producer, screen writer)
Bianka Fórmanowska(cinematographer)
Julia Jurek(actress)
Emilia Warabida(actress)
Rewers Film Crew
Jonathan Morrill
Phaya Nak Pictures

Best Original Score

Winner
Silver Gandhi
Sudeep Jena
Contrapunto Communication
Winner
The Breath of Life
8.0 (10)
Anna Gerasimova(composer)
Le Cineaste - A Director's Journey
Pablo Davilla(composer)

Best Original Story

Winner
The Breath of Life
8.0 (10)
Anna Gerasimova(writer)
Winner
A Tale of Redemption and Regret with Sunny the Heat
7.1 (8)
Stephen Sorrentino
Even Stephen Productions

Best Sci-Fi

Winner
Close the Loop
Dario Vero(director)

Best Song

Winner
A Tale of Redemption and Regret with Sunny the Heat
7.1 (8)
Stephen Sorrentino
Even Stephen Productions
Life Ain't Like the Movies
7.7 (423)
Tracy Swearingen
Rosa Veleno
Easy Breezy Productions
Opes Media
Little White Lotus Studio

Best Supporting Actor

Winner
Tom Hudson
Talk
R-Lines Productions
Paul Bates
Life Ain't Like the Movies
Easy Breezy Productions
Opes Media

Best Thriller

Winner
Talk
7.3 (41)
Romuald Boulanger
R-Lines Productions
Winner
The Obscured
4.3 (68)
Dianna Ippolito
It's All Happening Productions
SNSR
Rainfalls
4.7 (198)
Richard Poche
Poche Pictures

Best Trailer

Winner
Ocean Souls
7.4 (54)
Philip Hamilton

Best Voice Over

Winner
A Tale of Redemption and Regret with Sunny the Heat
7.1 (8)
Stephen Sorrentino
Even Stephen Productions

Best Web Series/TV Series

Winner
NinonSpeaks
Episode:
NinonSpeaks with Special VIP Guest JUDAH RAY #54
Judah Ray
Ninon de Vere De Rosa
AJ Dean

Best Woman Filmmaker

Winner
Lost But Found
Dianna Ippolito(writer/director)
Susan Lavelle(executive producer)
Jennifer Collins
Colten Currey(director of photography)
It's All Happening Productions
Winner
The Breath of Life
8.0 (10)
Anna Gerasimova(Director)

Best screenplay

Winner
Talk
7.3 (41)
Romuald Boulanger
R-Lines Productions

Social Awareness Award

Winner
Ocean Souls
7.4 (54)
Philip Hamilton
Winner
Still Suffering
Steven Berez
Diana Puzikova
The Bridge Entertainment

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Life Ain't Like the Movies
7.7 (423)
Eddie Torres
Easy Breezy Productions
Opes Media

Best 1st Time Director

Jermaine Taishi Thomas
Best Man in the World
Phaya Nak Pictures

Best Actress

Natty Moss-Bond
Best Man in the World
Phaya Nak Pictures
Georgia Winters(actress)
Le Cineaste - A Director's Journey

Best Comedy

A Groom, Three Brides and a Doctor
Leilani Amour Arenzana(Director/Producer/Writer)
Heavenly Eyes Productions

Best Film of the Month

Life Ain't Like the Movies
7.7 (423)
Robert Mychal Patrick Butler
Kimel Fryer
Easy Breezy Productions
Opes Media

Best Narrative Short

Awareness
Lane Forbes(director)
OFP Production

Best Romance

Harley Quinn - Blazing Shadows
8.0 (32)
Thomas Bernecker
Think Big Studios

Best Screenplay

Le Cineaste - A Director's Journey
Manlio Roseano(writer)
Gary Condés(writer)

Best Short Film

Lost But Found
Dianna Ippolito(writer/director)
Susan Lavelle(executive producer)
Joseph Powers(associate producer)
It's All Happening Productions

Award of Prestige

Award of Prestige

Winner
Not a Match
Michael Collins
Frayne Rosanoff
Steve Helgoth
Cinekat Filmworks

BEST DIRECTOR

Winner
Jason Vandygriff
A Serious Predicament
Tin Star Films
Winner
Manlio Roseano(director)
Le Cineaste - A Director's Journey
Winner
B. Luciano Barsuglia
The Electric Man

BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM

Winner
Angels Do Fly West
8.7 (9)
Joe McNeal
Universal Spectrums Entertainment

BEST TRAILER

Winner
Cupcake
Christopher Nation

Best 1st Time Director

Winner
Beau Garner(director)
The Adventures of the Gray Hat Hacker
Winner
Cengiz Dervis
When the Mist Clears
Fight Me Productions
Winner
Katie Austin
Aubergine
Charming Stranger Films

Best 1st Time Director (Short), June 2021

Winner
Bonnie McKee(director)
April Kills the Vibe

Best 1st Time Screenwriter

Winner
Mothers of Mayhem
Anthony Sarracco(writer)
Rebellion Films
Winner
The Curb
Justin Moodie

Best Action

Winner
No War
3.6 (16K)
Enzo Zelocchi(director)

Best Action Film

Winner
Boneyard Racers
7.6 (49)
Neil Chase
David Heacock
Preston Ewasiuk
Lindsay Christopher
Thomas Kassian
Ryley Shandro
Logan Wilson
Phillip Wilson
Empty Holster Media
Man With A Cane Media
Winner
Gunther
Ryan Carl Rowley(director)
Joel Wetterstein(producer)
Frank in the Cage
Winner
Gunther
Ryan Carl Rowley(director)
Joel Wetterstein(producer)
Frank in the Cage
Winner
Burn Out
Tomasz Rewers

Best Actor

Winner
Robert Craighead
Amazing Grace
Positude Productions
Winner
Artur Jasinski(actor)
Don't Come Too Early
Rewers Film Crew
Winner
Gary Condés(actor)
Le Cineaste - A Director's Journey
Winner
Ignacyo Matynia
Break Every Chain
Winner
Mike Gassaway
The Pro Bono Watchman
Lost Maples Productions
Winner
Alexander Klebanoff
The Decipio
Winner
David Wurawa
Wienerland Pilot
Derringer Entertainment
Wurawa Originals

Best Actress

Winner
Winner
Winner
Koon-Lan Law(actress)
Million Loves in Me
Winner
Melania Dalla Costa(producer)
I sogni sospesi
Winner
Nicola Lambo
The Ice Cream Stop
Winner
Jennifer Collins
Mama's Boy

Best Animation

Winner
Destiny Station: Realm 16
Craig Lew(Director)
Bright Penny Productions
Winner
Moorriiss the Robot
Wade Chitwood
Hoplight Productions
Winner
Orange Purpose
Brian O'Connor

Best Child/Young Actress

Winner
Liam Dow
The Adventures of the Gray Hat Hacker
Winner
Kariana Karhu
The Pro Bono Watchman
Lost Maples Productions

Best Cinematography

Winner
The Colour of Spring
8.5 (39)
Dillon Garland(director of photography)
Winter Light Productions
Winner
Righteous Villains
3.4 (3.4K)
Andreas Neo(D.O.P.)
Saints and Savages
Winner
Implanted
4.5 (4.9K)
Fabien Dufils
Mad Street Motion Pictures

Best Comedy

Winner
Two Out-of-Work Actors
9.1 (7)
Fred Shahadi(Producer)
RJ Lucci(Producer)
Jason Maxim(Producer)
Bearclaw Productions
Winner
Chronicles of Gnarnia: The Rex Chadwick Story
Brian Colin Foley(Director, Writer, Executive Producer)
Emily Simmons(Executive Producer)
Sarah Brown Carter(Executive Producer)
Winner
Diamond Heist
Dianna Ippolito
Susan Lavelle
It's All Happening Productions
Winner
Suchtpotenzial
Franz Josef Danner
Stagedive

Best Comedy Screenplay

Winner
A Night at the Drive-in
Brett Howard Nelson(writer)

Best Comedy Short

Winner
Aubergine
Katie Austin
Connie Jo Sechrist
Charming Stranger Films

Best Costume Design

Winner
Seijin Shiki
Leilani Amour Arenzana(Director/Producer/Writer)
Michiko Green(Designer)
Heavenly Eyes Productions

Best Debut Performance

Winner
Chronicles of Gnarnia: The Rex Chadwick Story
Brian Colin Foley(Actor)
Winner
Million Loves in Me
8.5 (97)
John Y(actor)
Winner
House of Inequity
3.2 (256)
Parker Little

Best Director

Winner
Jacky Song
Incognito
Winner
Ray Spivey
The Pro Bono Watchman
Lost Maples Productions
Winner
Michael William Hogan
Breaking & Entering
Leilani Amour Arenzana(Director/Producer/Writer)
Seijin Shiki
Heavenly Eyes Productions

Best Documentary Feature

Winner
The Jewels of the Salton Sea
Steven Vitali(director)
Hollywood Dark Castle Film Production
Winner
Las Gardenias
Federico Ahumada
Mayakara Films

Best Documentary Short

Winner
The States of Emergency: New York & New Jersey
Laura 'L.A.', Barbato
Twelve 83 Entertainment
Winner
The States of Emergency: New York & New Jersey
Laura 'L.A.', Barbato
Twelve 83 Entertainment
Winner
Typography Through Time
Rodney Roldan
Winner
Growing Peace in the Middle East
Steven Hoffen(Filmmaker)

Best Drama

Winner
The Coffin Bound Kings
Matthew Ewald(Actor & Director)
Winner
45 Days Later - Official Film
Baptiste Perraudin(director)
Winner
Maggie IV
Peachanda DuBose

Best Drone Video

Winner
Not Here, Nor There
Fletcher Turale(director)

Best Duo

Winner
Million Loves in Me
8.5 (97)
John Y(actor)
Koon-Lan Law(actress)
Winner
Pacific Roses
Aida King
Jeff Pridgen

Best Editing

Winner
Changing Times
Antonio Harper
Winner
Awkward Endeavors
Derek Frey
Lazer Film Productions

Best Ensemble

Winner
ReVisitant
3.3 (148)
Renaissance Entertainment (II)
Winner
Righteous Villains
3.4 (3.4K)
Gary Dourdan(actor)
Steven Berkoff(actor)
Steven Brand(actor)
Adam Deacon(actor)
Lois Tallulah(actor)
Jamie Crew(actor)
Jason Duff(actor)
Saints and Savages
Winner
Life...
Mirlande Amazan
Stacy Ann Rose
Hayes Beyersdorfer
Ashna Sharan
Poorva Wachh
Dein-Rene Amazan
Darlene Aniebonam
Gordon Greene
Galina
Shawn Lockie
Barry Newell
Coventry Halcyon
Camazan Group
Winner
2020: A 1917 Parody
7.7 (87)
Michael Lieberman
Colton Eschief Mastro
Terika Jefferson
Monib Abhat
Josh Han
Jennifer McDonnell
Darrel J Delfin
Camryn Grimes
Katie Burton
Winner
Door Salesman Dave
Ross Henson(actor)
Celal Can Orhan(actor)
Georgia Curtis(actress)
Nina Cooke(dog trainer for Reggie/dog)
Hense Films
Winner
The Decipio
8.8 (12)
Alexander Klebanoff
Sandy Mölling
Deon Williams
Gregory Mangieri
Heidi Berg

Best Experimental Film

Winner
Trip to the Tax Paradise - Rumbo al Paraiso Fiscal
7.1 (14)
Antonio Bellido Marín
Producciones Antonio Bellido

Best Fantasy/Sci-Fi Screenplay

Winner
Joan of Arc: The Series
Rapsodies
Orso Vesperini
Toby Osborne
Terry Newman
Richard Lasser
Carole Starcevic

Best Feature Script

Winner
Mia
Matt Townsend
Winner
Nicole Sell
The True Story of Pinocchio
Antonis Toumanidis
Dark Universe Pictures

Best Feature Script / Screenplay

Winner
Die bittere Wahrheit...
Thorsten Kramer(writer)
Gitti Sartorius(writer)
Sartorius Film

Best Horror

Winner
C.L.E.A.N.
4.1 (471)
Vjekoslav Katusin(producer)
Winner
A Serious Predicament
7.1 (12)
Jason Vandygriff
Chance Gibbs
Tin Star Films
Winner
Home Alone: Jigsaw Origins
Beau Garner(director)
Winner
Routine
7.9 (25)
Russ Emanuel(producer, director)
Emile Haris(writer)
Bill Victor Arucan(executive producer)
Russem Productions

Best Horror Screenplay

Winner
Arcturus Rising
Robert Cox

Best Indie Feature

Winner
Macbeth
Sergei Tsimbalenko
Winner
Silence of Scent
9.0 (44)
Hasan Qureshi
Hasan Qureshi Films

Best Indie Short

Winner
Hazegrauw
Remco Texer

Best Microfilm

Winner
Le Voyeuriste
Nicolas Dozol
Winner
Seijin Shiki
Leilani Amour Arenzana(Director/Producer/Writer)
Heavenly Eyes Productions

Best Movie Poster

Winner
House of Inequity
3.2 (256)
Tegan Hale
550 Studios PTY

Best Music Video

Winner
Andre Colquhoun: Short Term
7.5 (11)
Andre Colquhoun
Winner
Kayla Bohan: Back to School
Xuewei Yang(producer)
Kate Bohan(director)
Kayla Bohan(performer)
Kayla Movie
Winner
Authentic Sellout: Cemetery
Sulo King(producer)
Christian Borja(producer)

Best Narrative Feature

Winner
The Colour of Spring
8.5 (39)
Paul Andrew Kimball(director/producer)
Ron Foley MacDonald(producer)
Andrew Mark Sewell(executive producer)
Winter Light Productions
Winner
Righteous Villains
3.4 (3.4K)
Savvas D. Michael(writer/director)
John Pavlakos(producer)
Saints and Savages
Winner
Le Cineaste - A Director's Journey
Manlio Roseano(producer)
MR Productions
Winner
Vortex, the Dawn of Sovereignty
4.8 (138)
Michel Rousseau

Best Narrative Short

Winner
The Ice Cream Stop
8.3 (11)
Raul Perez

Best Noir/Mystery Film

Winner
Der Zirkel
Nadine Knobloch(creator, actress, director)

Best Original Score

Winner
Impressions de Loire le court-métrage symphonique
Thibaut Vuillermet
Winner
Contingency
Kojau
Penalty Productions
Winner
Fate's Shadow: The Whole Story
8.5 (59)
R. Kim Shultz(Composer/Sound Editor)
Princess Arthur Productions
Winner
The Last Horns of Africa
7.6 (17)
Sean Tinnion

Best Original Story

Winner
Never Alone
7.1 (18)
Ronnie Michael
Altruism Media Production
Winner
Life...
Mirlande Amazan
Camazan Group
Winner
Trust
Paul Nyamekye
Tinpauls Pictures
Winner
The Curb
Justin Moodie

Best Producer

Winner
The States of Emergency: New York & New Jersey
Laura 'L.A.', Barbato
Twelve 83 Entertainment
Winner
The States of Emergency: New York & New Jersey
Laura 'L.A.', Barbato
Twelve 83 Entertainment
Winner
Don't Come Too Early
Dorota Fórmanowska(producer)
Rewers Film Crew
Winner
Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name
7.0 (42)
Robin K. Phillips(Director) (Narrator) (Editor) (Artistic Director) (Music Director)
Christina di Marlo(Producer) (Writer) (Production Design)
Art Harman(Associate Producer) (Editor) (Cinematographer) (Director of Photography) (Sound Director)
Groundbreaker Films
Winner
Dwellers
2.9 (210)
David Ellefson
Winner
The Jewels of the Salton Sea
Grace Yang Vitali(producer)
Hollywood Dark Castle Film Production
Winner
Whoever You Are
Rae Piper
Paul Chantry
Tim Mountain
Winner
At 10 PM
Andy Zhang

Best Romance

Winner
July 15th
8.1 (9)
Kristian Comer(Director)
J. David Brimmer(Actor)
Jor el Jordan(Actor)
Mario Bokara(Actor)
Chrissy Castronuova(Actress)
Carlo Darcelin(Actor)
Andrew Fokker Scourge Erb(Actor)
Kay Gee(Actress)
Brad Everett Gilliam(Actor)
Kelvin Grullon(Actor)
Julie Han(Actress)
Nadia c Harmsen(Actress)
Jessica Jones(Actress)
Melanie Rei Langworthy(Actress)
Kaylin Lemchak(Actress)
Chang Liu(Actor)
Mariel Marino(Makeup)
James McEnroe(Actor)
Holly McMahon(Actress)
Carla Mejia(Actress)
Ji-Young Min(Actress)
Daniel Portela(Actor)
Cindy b Reed(Actress)
Steven Robinson(Actor)
Ayiesha Alizai Sadik(Actress)
Daniel Sarfati(Actor)
Mare Schell(Actress)
Hyunju Yang(Actress)
Pauline Yang(Actress)
Rumman Chowdhury(Producer)
James Comer(Producer)
Justin W. Cornell(Producer)
Alice m Koziol(Producer)
Patricia Maloney-Titland(Producer)
Peter Simpson(Producer)
Eyiad Bidewy(Cinematography)
Bill Drummer(Cinematography)
Jesse Ortigas(Editor)
J.T. Maguire(Casting)
Juan David Pinzon(Assistant Director)
Freia Serafina(Second assistant Director)
Michael Emmer(Photographer)
Elizabeth Alvarez(Sound)
Alicia Estrada(Wardrobe)
Tristram Plummer(Script editor)
Amanda Castro-Conroy(Production assistant)
Sean Collishaw(Production assistant)
Maggie Comer(Production assistant)
Sam Harps(Production assistant)
Matt Hill(Production assistant)
Matt Masiello(Production assistant)
Mike Stalzer(Production assistant)
Derek Tarson(Production assistant)
Rosemary Slaby Witte(Production assistant)
Christie Battista(Thanks)
Catherine Brunelle(Thanks)
Justine Duong(Thanks)

Best Sci Fi Short

Winner
The Adventures of the Gray Hat Hacker
Beau Garner(director)
Liam Dow(actor)

Best Sci-Fi

Winner
The Conspiracy of Dark Falls
2.8 (232)
Flynn Moores(Director, Writer, Producer)
Ethan Chapples(Actor)
Jo Hart(Actress)
Carl Wharton(Actor)
Katherine Drake(Actress)
George McCluskey(Actor)
Martin Challinor(Actor)
Philip Alexander Baker(Actor)
Cia Allan(Actress)
Gareth Ifan Clark(Actor)
Paco Van Cant(Actor)
John Blissitt(Actor)
Jinny Owen(Actress)
Rachel Worth(Actress)
Phil Batty(Actor)
James Wordsworth(Actor)
Linda Woods(Actress)
David Moors(First Assistant Director)
Zoeie Buser-Evans(Production Assistant)
Steve Lewis(Production Assistant)
Fourth Dimension Films
Winner
The Adventures of the Gray Hat Hacker
Cecelia Dow(producer)
Winner
45 Days Later - Official Film
Baptiste Perraudin(director)

Best Screenwriter

Winner
Nicole Sell
Winner
The True Story of Pinocchio
Antonis Toumanidis
Dark Universe Pictures
Winner
Ransom
Sarah Daly
Fjord Productions
Winner
With New Eyes
5.2 (15)
George Leontakianakos
Alexandra Dyranis-Maounis

Best Screenwriter/Short

Winner
The Letter: A Dramatic Short Story
Brett Howard Nelson

Best Short Script

Winner
Fatal Ambition
6.4 (7)
Angel Connell(screenwriter)
Parousian Pictures
Winner
Out on A Limb
Antoinette Fernandez
Winner
Out on A Limb
Antoinette Fernandez
Winner
The Architects
Justin Zachary
Winner
Dead Mother's Numbers
Warren Paul Glover
Winner
Pandora's Adversaries
Jason Harley(writer)

Best Song

Winner
The Real Greatest Showmen
8.8 (6)
Karl Walsh
Make a Difference Films

Best Student Film

Winner
11 Minutos
Felipe Lemos
Winner
The Gallery
David Y. Cruz
Pablo G. Arteaga
Winner
Growing Peace in the Middle East
Steven Hoffen(Filmmaker)
Harra and the Donkey
Chris Malone

Best Supporting Actor

Winner
Rudi Lee
Never Alone
Altruism Media Production
Winner
Tom Young
A Serious Predicament
Tin Star Films
Winner
Henk Brugge
Last Laugh
Tinpauls Pictures
Winner
Patrick Stalinski(Supporting Actor)
Fate's Shadow: The Whole Story
Princess Arthur Productions
Winner
Steven Michael Quezada(actor)
The Protege' Project: Chapter 1
SEEFilms
Winner
Todd Lien
Always Come in Second
iStage Entertainment

Best Supporting Actress

Winner
Karen Sharpe(Supporting Actress)
Fate's Shadow: The Whole Story
Princess Arthur Productions

Best Thriller

Winner
Inhumanity
8.2 (6)
Herbert Gantner
Winner
Blueberry Flytrap
Ali Matlock
Apogee Media
Winner
Officer Down
7.8 (49)
Emily Haigh
Simon Pearce
Deniable Productions
Siren Call Films

Best Visual Effects

Winner
The Conspiracy of Dark Falls
2.8 (232)
Flynn Moores
Fourth Dimension Films

Best Voice Over

Winner
Typography Through Time
Rodney Roldan
Winner
Yendor - The Journey of a Junior Adventurer
Sarah Matthews(voice actor)
Winner
The Devil Inside Me
Joshua T. Berglan(artist)
Live Mana Worldwide Foundation
Winner
Country and Courage
Rodney Roldan

Best Web/TV Series

Winner
The Real Greatest Showmen
8.8 (6)
Paul Barker
Make a Difference Films

Best Web/Tv Pilot

Winner
The Ghost Writer Show - The Call of Cthulhu
Carlos Dohrn(director)
Miriam N. Dohrn(writer)
Winner
Soiled Shorts: The Series
Giles Sander(director)
Excalibur Animation
Winner
Tapu
Hinano Tekurio Tanielu
Manu Tanielu
Joshua Leomiti
Leomiti Productions

Best Woman Filmmaker

Winner
Don't Come Too Early
Dorota Fórmanowska
Rewers Film Crew
Winner
Aubergine
Katie Austin
Charming Stranger Films

Social Awareness Award

Winner
Hurtful Truth
Marie France Louis(producer/director)
Emmy Swayze(Director)
Twee Vu Sosa(actress)
Trey Peyton(actor)
Emily Pokora(actress)
Alfonso Aguirre(actor)
Elizabeth Maass(Script and Continuity)
Busola Adeboyejo(cinematographer)
Devika Kornbacher(actress)
Cindy Teniente(actress)
Russell Corwyn(actor)
Reyna Gonzalez(actress)
Jim Devault(actor)
Jerry Schultz(actor)
Sam Kuzel(composer)
Ayodele Ayodeji Omoniyi(editor)
Jeannie Stell(Script and Continuity)
Vinh Hoang(re-recording mixer)
Alex Miranda(re-recording mixer)
Alessandro Rivolta(Audio restoration)
LoneBard
BardKing Entertainment
Winner
The Long Ride Home: Part 2
8.2 (18)
Steve Haining
Winner
America Boxed In
6.9 (10)
Casey Williams(Producer and Director)
Ian Williams(Producer and Director)
Lance Hoovestal(Executive Producer)

Best 1st Time Director Short Film,August 2021

Philip Sedgwick
Zap!
August 2021

Best Narrative Short,August 2021

Zap!
9.2 (11)
Philip Sedgwick
August 2021

Award of Excellence

BEST 1st TIME DIRECTOR / SHORT

Winner
Saunak Mitra
Exchange offer
Colour Purple Films

BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM

Winner
Exchange offer
9.0 (16)
Saunak Mitra
Colour Purple Films

Best 1st Time Director

Winner
Halfdan Hallseth
Ransom
Fjord Productions
Winner
Khoa Nguyen
Listeners: The Whispering
nColors Production
Winner
Yumin Zhang
One Afternoon
Winner
Michel Rousseau
Vortex, the Dawn of Sovereignty

Best 1st Time Screenwriter

Winner
Max Winslow and the House of Secrets
5.1 (2.6K)
Jeff Wild
Skipstone Pictures
Standing Room Only Cinema
Winner
Out on A Limb
Antoinette Fernandez

Best Action

Winner
The Cure
Toom Chanda
Toom Stunt Team

Best Actor

Winner
Jamie Muscato
The Colour of Spring
Winter Light Productions
Winner
William Baldwin
Talk
R-Lines Productions
Winner
Kostis Savvidakis
Winner
Thai Edwards
The Ice Cream Stop
Winner
Kostis Savvidakis
The Shepherd's Supper
Winner
Quang Su
Listeners: The Whispering
nColors Production
Winner
Dustin Ardine
Birth
Winner
Daniel James Dismuke
Mama's Boy
Orenda Pictures
Winner
Kostis Savvidakis

Best Actress

Winner
Hanna Oldenburg
Mareld
Winner
Cassandra Dailey
Goodbye to Yesterday
Winner
Elena Thomopoulou
The Shepherd's Supper
Winner
Oanh Kieu
Listeners: The Whispering
nColors Production
Winner
Kiri Hartig
Breaking & Entering
Winner
Chloe-Jean Vincent
Fading Numbers
Winners
Gregory Dasilva
Alison Wakefield
Saint Evans
Winner
Elena Thomopoulou

Best Child/Young Actor

Winner
Jade Rattigan
ReVisitant
Renaissance Entertainment (II)
Winner
Jeffery Liu
Always Come in Second
iStage Entertainment

Best Choreography

Winner
Sergi & Irina
5.3 (7)
Tary Barceló(Assistant Choreographer)
Viking 1942
Singular Audiovisual
Winner
Whoever You Are
Javier De Frutos

Best Comedy

Winner
Across the Room
Mellinda Hensley
Matt Clifford
Winner
Paldemic
7.1 (210)
Kenny Hotz(Director)
Sebastian Cluer(co-director)
John Morayniss(executive producer)
Jeff Lynas(executive producer)
Ken Simpson(editor)
Winner
The Rite Girl
Rhett Wellington
Cody Theilman
Paper Cloud Productions
Winner
Moorriiss the Robot
Wade Chitwood
Shadoe Stevens
Hoplight Productions
Winner
Awkward Endeavors
Derek Frey
Lazer Film Productions

Best Commercial

Winner
8102 ARIM
Brice Blanloeil

Best Costume Design

Winner
The Cathedrals of Steam - Europe's Railway Stations
7.0 (10)
Jeremy J.P. Fekete(writer/director)
Yuzu Productions
Laokoon Filmgroup
Stefilm
ARTE
ServusTV
Winner
Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name
7.0 (42)
Robin K. Phillips(Director) (Narrator) (Editor) (Artistic Director) (Music Director)
Christina di Marlo(Producer) (Writer) (Production Design)
Art Harman(Associate Producer) (Editor) (Cinematographer) (Director of Photography) (Sound Design)
Groundbreaker Films
Winner
Wienerland Pilot
Ale Elsbacher
Derringer Entertainment
Wurawa Originals

Best Director

Winner
Axel Loh(director)
Paul Keller - Stille im Schrei
Frame Store Filmproduktion
Winner
Matej Pichler(Director)
Daria
Europe DMT Production
Winner
Josh Hale
House of Inequity
Halestorm Productions
Winner
Yiannis Stravolaimos
The Shepherd's Supper
Winner
Fabien Dufils
Implanted
Mad Street Motion Pictures
Winner
Kalliope
Kalliope's from Fear to Freedom
Winner
Yiannis Stravolaimos

Best Director - Short

Winner
Dorota Fórmanowska(Director)
Don't Come Too Early
Rewers Film Crew

Best Director Short

Winner
Frank Christian Wagner
A Father's Job
Winner
Aron Attiwell
Fading Numbers

Best Documentary Feature

Winner
The Cathedrals of Steam - Europe's Railway Stations
7.0 (10)
Jeremy J.P. Fekete(writer/director)
Yuzu Productions
Laokoon Filmgroup
Stefilm
ARTE
ServusTV
Winner
Let Me Be Me
6.2 (51)
Wavelength

Best Drama

Winner
The Gesture and The Word
7.5 (59)
Helen Alexis Yonov
Burden & Light
Winner
The Pro Bono Watchman
4.2 (60)
Ralph Cinque
Lost Maples Productions
Winner
Stay with Me
Mark Owen
Belloq Productions
Winner
Fading Numbers
8.6 (10)
Aron Attiwell
Heeren Kumar

Best Drama/Thriller Sreenplay

Winner
Shadows of the Unknown
Justin Moodie

Best Drone Video

Winner
Detroit Landmarks: Inspiration
William Huszti
Olivia Huszti
Sophia Huszti

Best Duo

Winner
Paldemic
7.1 (210)
Kenny Hotz(executive producer)
Spencer Rice
Winner
2020: A 1917 Parody
7.7 (87)
Michael Lieberman
Colton Eschief Mastro
Winner
Ransom
Halfdan Hallseth
Jon Vangdal Aamaas
Fjord Productions
Winner
April Kills the Vibe
7.2 (9)
Bonnie McKee(actress)
Andy Harry(actor)

Best Editing

Winner
Max Winslow and the House of Secrets
5.1 (2.6K)
Sean Olson
Skipstone Pictures
Standing Room Only Cinema
Winner
Fly Myself Home
Jose Restrepo

Best Ensemble

Winner
Officer Down
7.8 (49)
Martin Delaney
Josef Altin
Ben Turner
Winner
Wienerland Pilot
David Wurawa
Jeannine Mik
Michael Pink
Barbara Kaudelka
Max Grodénchik
Clara Montocchio
Tilo Keiner
Derringer Entertainment
Wurawa Originals

Best Experimental Film

Winner
Good Bye
Michael Lena
Winner
Terminal
Kadi Wald
Winner
Whoever You Are
Javier De Frutos

Best Fantasy

Winner
Good Feng Shui
Yurong Xu(director)
Winner
Battle of the Gods
3.5 (481)
Martin Munthe

Best Feature Script

Winner
Mothers of Mayhem
Anthony Sarracco(writer)
Rebellion Films
Winner
Mind Out of Time
Rapsodies
Orso Vesperini
Terry Newman
Carole Starcevic
R. Lee Brown

Best First Time Screenwriter

Winner
NOT AN EXIT
Sid Kramer

Best Horror

Winner
The Relic
6.7 (106)
J.M. Logan
Winner
Dwellers
2.9 (210)
Drew Fortier
Winner
House of Inequity
3.2 (256)
Josh Hale
550 Studios PTY
Halestorm Productions
Winner
III Day
3.6 (20)
Alfons Emilian
3rd Vision Pictures
Winner
Pill
5.5 (13)
Steven Belcher(director)
Lomisfilm

Best Horror Screenplay

Winner
NOT AN EXIT
Sid Kramer

Best Indie Feature

Winner
Malocchio Moderno
Anthony Sarracco(director)
Michael Franceschini(cinematographer)
Rebellion Films
TLN Media Group
Winner
When the Mist Clears
3.4 (671)
Cengiz Dervis
Silvia Busuioc
Fight Me Productions

Best Indie Short

Winner
Pokoravanje
10 (6)
Marko Jocic
Viktorija Film
Winner
Killer Miller
7.3 (14)
Austin Spicer
Winner
Whoever You Are
Javier De Frutos

Best Inspirational Film

Winner
Justice for Vincent
8.4 (18)
Lawrence Chau
Winner
Break Every Chain
7.1 (2.1K)
Tim Searfoss
Winner
Vortex, the Dawn of Sovereignty
4.8 (138)
Michel Rousseau
Winner
Let Me Be Me
6.2 (51)
Wavelength
Winner
Not Here, Nor There
Fletcher Turale(director)

Best LGBTQ

Winner
Love is Always Losing
Michael Lena

Best Microfilm

Winner
Don't Come Too Early
Bianka Fórmanowska(cinematographer)
Przemyslaw Jurkiewicz(cinematographer)
Artur Jasinski(actor)
Henryk Dabrowski(actor)
Adam Ryszkowski(sound editor)
Rewers Film Crew
Winner
Torn
Ron Sonedecker
AlienSmile Productions
Winner
Routine
7.9 (25)
Russ Emanuel(producer, director)
Emile Haris(writer)
Bill Victor Arucan(executive producer)
Russem Productions

Best Music Video

Winner
Impressions de Loire le court-métrage symphonique
Thibaut Vuillermet

Best Narrative Feature

Winner
Mareld
3.4 (380)
Ove Valeskog
Viktor Åkerblom
Tribespider Film
Winner
Implanted
4.5 (4.9K)
Fabien Dufils
Mad Street Motion Pictures

Best Narrative Short

Winner
A Father's Job
9.2 (5)
Frank Christian Wagner
Winner
Fading Numbers
8.6 (10)
Aron Attiwell
Heeren Kumar

Best Original Score

Winner
Max Winslow and the House of Secrets
5.1 (2.6K)
Jason Brandt
Skipstone Pictures
Standing Room Only Cinema

Best Original Story

Winner
C.L.E.A.N.
4.1 (471)
Konstantin Georgiou
Winner
Mothers of Mayhem
Anthony Sarracco(writer)
Rebellion Films
Winner
Blueberry Flytrap
Ali Matlock
Apogee Media
Winner
Killer Miller
7.3 (14)
R.J. Hendricks II

Best Producer

Winner
The Shepherd's Supper
6.6 (654)
Konstantinos Gourgiotis
Winner
Konstantinos Gourgiotis

Best Romance

Winner
Fate's Shadow: The Whole Story
8.5 (59)
Michelle Arthur(Director/Lead Actress)
Kevin Caliber(1st AD/Lead Actor)
Princess Arthur Productions

Best Sci-Fi

Winner
Max Winslow and the House of Secrets
5.1 (2.6K)
Sean Olson(director)
Johnny Remo(producer)
Jason Brandt(co-executive producer)
Joe Donaldson(co-executive producer)
Larra Donaldson(co-executive producer)
Skipstone Pictures
Standing Room Only Cinema
Winner
Vortex, the Dawn of Sovereignty
4.8 (138)
Michel Rousseau

Best Sci-Fi,August 2021

Winner
Zap!
9.2 (11)
Philip Sedgwick
August 2021

Best Screenplay From A Movie

Winner
A Father's Job
9.2 (5)
Frank Christian Wagner

Best Screenwriter

Winner
The Colour of Spring
8.5 (39)
Paul Andrew Kimball
Winter Light Productions
Winner
After This
Kaitlyn Clare
Winner
Listeners: The Whispering
5.2 (50)
Khoa Nguyen
nColors Production

Best Screenwriter/Feature

Winner
A Night at the Drive-in
Brett Howard Nelson(writer)

Best Screenwriter/Short

Winner
Out on A Limb
Antoinette Fernandez
Winner
Shadows of the Unknown
Justin Moodie

Best Short Script

Winner
After This
Kaitlyn Clare
Winner
Incognito
Jacky Song
Winner
The Letter: A Dramatic Short Story
Brett Howard Nelson
Winner
Love and Loneliness in an Advanced Technological Age
Warren Paul Glover

Best Short Script/Screenplay

Winner
Door Salesman Dave
Ross Henson(writer/creator)
Hense Films
Winner
Mama's Boy
Daniel James Dismuke
Orenda Pictures

Best Song

Winner
Max Winslow and the House of Secrets
5.1 (2.6K)
Jeremy Pholwattana
Emery Kelly
Cooper Anderson
Skipstone Pictures
Standing Room Only Cinema
Winner
The Pro Bono Watchman
4.2 (60)
Ralph Cinque
Lost Maples Productions

Best Sound Design

Winner
Vortex, the Dawn of Sovereignty
4.8 (138)
Michel Rousseau

Best Student Film

Winner
Major Robinson
Andrew Klein
Winner
The Guardian
Yifan Huo
Winner
One Afternoon
Yumin Zhang

Best Supporting Actor

Winner
Tom Sizemore
C.L.E.A.N.
Winner
Dustin Harnish
The Ice Cream Stop
Winner
Theo Theodoridis
The Shepherd's Supper
Winner
Celal Can Orhan(actor)
Door Salesman Dave
Hense Films
Winner
Tom Sizemore
The Electric Man

Best Supporting Actress

Winner
Holly Stevens
The Colour of Spring
Winter Light Productions
Winner
Theo Theodoridis

Best Thriller

Winner
Enigma - The Fallen Angel
9.1 (12)
Abhay Thakur(director)
Dream Catcher Company
Winner
Macbeth
Sergei Tsimbalenko
Winner
Listeners: The Whispering
5.2 (50)
Khoa Nguyen
nColors Production
Winner
Implanted
4.5 (4.9K)
Fabien Dufils
Mad Street Motion Pictures

Best Trailer

Winner
Cooking with Kyssara
Anne Mueller(producer)
Misty Forest Films

Best Visual Effects

Winner
Vortex, the Dawn of Sovereignty
4.8 (138)
Michel Rousseau

Best Voice Over

Winner
And God Remembered Babylon
Matthew Ewald(Actor & Director)
Winner
Whoever You Are
Charles Hagerty
Winner
Wienerland Pilot
David Wurawa
Derringer Entertainment
Wurawa Originals

Best Web Series

Winner
Cooking with Kyssara
Anne Mueller(director)
Misty Forest Films

Best Web/TV Pilot

Winner
Wienerland Pilot
Jan Woletz
Stefan Polasek
David Wurawa
Christof G. Dertschei
Derringer Entertainment
Wurawa Originals

Best Woman Filmmaker

Winner
Amazing Grace
Nina Brissey
Positude Productions

Best young actress

Winner
Kyssara Mueller(actress)
Cooking with Kyssara
Misty Forest Films

Winner
Dealbreaker
Dustin Hawkins
Lucas Cohen
Retro Hawk Productions
Winner
Dealbreaker
Michael Beran

Honorable Mention

Best Music Video

Winner
Dreams
Justinz
Todd Lien
The Red/Black Label

Audience Award

BEST FILM

Winner
Good Feng Shui
Yurong Xu(director)

Best Advertising Film

Winner
Arvange Beyond Frames
Carlo Guttadauro(director)

Winner
11 Minutos
Felipe Lemos
Winner
Million Loves in Me
8.5 (97)
John Y(producer)
Kenny Chan(producer)
J.K. Holdings
Winner
Door Salesman Dave
Ross Henson(director)
Celal Can Orhan(actor)
Georgia Curtis(actress)
Ashley Harris(cinematographer)
Peter Lay(story)
Lydia Lakemoore(producer)
Finley Redwood(assistant camera)
Alex Moss(assistant camera)
Catherine Nkaa(lighting)
Loz Rushmer(script supervisor)
Glenn Linstead(sound)
Melissa Jansu Vasif(behind the scenes camera operator)
Nina Cooke(dog trainer)
Hense Films
Daniel Couts(Director)

Audience Award

Angels Do Fly West
8.7 (9)
Joe McNeal
Universal Spectrums Entertainment
Angels Do Fly West
8.7 (9)
Joe McNeal
Universal Spectrums Entertainment
Angels Do Fly West
8.7 (9)
Joe McNeal
Universal Spectrums Entertainment
Rueful Warrior
8.0 (11)
Mark Owen
Belloq Productions

Award of Merit

BEST ACTION

Winner
The Mailman
Matt Hourigan

BEST DIRECTOR/FEATURE

Winner
Steven Vitali(director)
The Jewels of the Salton Sea
Hollywood Dark Castle Film Production

BEST ENSEMBLE

Winner
Justice for Vincent
8.4 (18)
Lee Chen
Lawrence Chau
Peter Adrian Sudarso
William McNamara
Zach Scheerer
Rachelle Dimaria
Winner
Interview
Robert Marekovic(actor)
Frano Putica(actor)
Sara Knezevic(actress)
Winner
Awkward Endeavors
Kathleen Kozak
Gil Damon
Steve Kuzmick
David Amadio
Desmond Frey
Lazer Film Productions

Best 1st Time Director

Winner
Matt Hourigan
The Mailman
Winners
Robin K. Phillips(Director) (Narrator) (Editor) (Artistic Director) (Music Director)
Christina di Marlo(Producer) (Writer) (Production Design)
Art Harman(Associate Producer) (Editor) (Cinematographer) (Director of Photography) (Sound Design)
Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name
Groundbreaker Films

Best Action

Winner
The Local
8.7 (8)
Movie Knights
Winner
Attraction Man
9.0 (26)
Eddie Eniel(Director / Writer / Producer / Actor)
Anthony Gaita(Producer)
Lj Ugarte(Executive Producer)

Best Actor

Winner
Toom Chanda
The Cure
Toom Stunt Team
Winner
Andy Cohen
Goodbye to Yesterday

Best Actress

Winner
Erika Dawn Smith
Rainfalls
Poche Pictures
Winner
Rachel Stillings(actress)
The Diner 2021
Whole Village Moving Pictures
Cache Productions
Winner
Alina Person
Locked
Winner
Pearls Daily
Briar

Best Animation

Winner
Boy Scientist
Susan Lim(director)
Samudra Kajal Saikia(director)
Quantum Classics
Winner
Yendor - The Journey of a Junior Adventurer
Rodney Matthews(director)
Sarah Matthews(director)
Rodney Matthews Studios
Winner
Kythera Zero
Raziel Gore(director)
Benjamin Sutherland(producer)
Marcus Purnell(producer)
Studio Y.G.Krow
Winner
Let Me Be Me
6.2 (51)
Alan Dickson(Animation)
Wavelength

Best Child/Young Actor

Winner
Bowen Yu
B.Y. Fresh Off the Boat
Winner
Bowen Yu
B.Y. Fresh Off the Boat
iStage Entertainment
Winner
Faela Van Deyzen
Last Laugh
Tinpauls Pictures
Winner
Liam Dow
Home Alone: Jigsaw Origins

Best Choreography

Winner
Dreams
Martijn Sedgfield
The Red/Black Label
Winner
Suchtpotenzial
Franz Josef Danner
Raphael Stompe
Stagedive

Best Cinematography

Winner
Heads Will Roll
Charles Schner
Winner
The Jewels of the Salton Sea
Steven Vitali
Hollywood Dark Castle Film Production
Winner
Ransom
Halfdan Hallseth
Isabel Furhovde
Fjord Productions
Winner
Whoever You Are
Tim Mountain
Winner
Silence of Scent
9.0 (44)
Hasan Qureshi
Hasan Qureshi Films
Winner
Nero a Seneca
Peter Bencsik(director of photography)

Best Comedy Screenplay

Winner
The Come Up
Glenn McBride Jr.
Eugene T. Barnes
Ryan Roman
MR. GM Studios

Best Debut Performance

Winner
And God Remembered Babylon
Adelai Love(Actress)

Best Director

Winner
Sean Olson
Max Winslow and the House of Secrets
Skipstone Pictures
Standing Room Only Cinema
Winner
Anthony Sarracco(director)
Malocchio Moderno
Rebellion Films
TLN Media Group
Winners
Robin K. Phillips(Director) (Narrator) (Editor) (Artistic Director) (Music Director)
Christina di Marlo(Producer) (Writer) (Production Design)
Art Harman(Associate Producer) (Editor) (Cinematographer) (Director of Photography) (Sound Design)
Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name
Groundbreaker Films
Winner
Michael Prince Smith(director)
Parallel
Hybricore
Winner
Chae Talley
Goodbye to Yesterday
Winner
Robert Mychal Patrick Butler
Life Ain't Like the Movies
Easy Breezy Productions

Best Director/ Short

Winner
C.S. Hughes
Silver Flask
Vagabond Jerk Productions
Winner
Javier De Frutos
Whoever You Are
Winner
Alessandro Masella
Morella, My Wife

Best Documentary Feature

Winner
Paolo Rossi, The Heart of a Champion
7.8 (35)
Michela Scolari
Gianluca Fellini
Bradamante Entertainment
Filmin'Tuscany
Winner
She Saved Me
Felicia Gonzalez Brown
Winner
Country and Courage
Rodney Roldan
Winner
Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam
7.3 (76)
Nefise Özkal Lorentzen(director)
Integral Film

Best Documentary Short

Winner
A Bard for the Ages: Shakespeare's Timeless Effect
8.8 (14)
B. Luciano Barsuglia
Koa Aloha Media
Winner
Legacy Spirit of the Black Panthers
Jermaine Taishi Thomas
Winner
Memories of Mortlake
Mark Forbes

Best Drama

Winner
When the Music Stops Playing
Sadie Duarte(director)
Winner
Welcome Home Frankie
Carlie McCann(director)
Harrison Myles(actor)
Carlos Arroyo(producer)
Lily Lopez(cinematographer)
Hector Lopez(sound mixer/boom operator)
ENF Productions
Winner
Million Loves in Me
8.5 (97)
John Y(producer)
Kenny Chan(producer)
J.K. Holdings
Winner
Kaali Maati
9.3 (11)
Hemantkumar Mahale
HMG Entertainments
Winner
Cupcake
Christopher Nation
Winner
This Case, and My Life
Ana A Prickett Braunstein(director/writer)

Best Duo

Winner
The Diner 2021
Morgan LeBlanc(actor)
Rachel Stillings(actress)
Whole Village Moving Pictures
Cache Productions
Winner
Suchtpotenzial
Franz Josef Danner
Raphael Stompe
Stagedive

Best Editing

Winner
A Serious Predicament
7.1 (12)
Jason Vandygriff
Tin Star Films
Winner
She Saved Me
Felicia Gonzalez Brown
Winner
Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name
7.0 (42)
Robin K. Phillips(Director) (Narrator) (Editor) (Artistic Director) (Music Director)
Christina di Marlo(Producer) (Writer) (Production Design)
Art Harman(Associate Producer) (Editor) (Cinematographer) (Director of Photography) (Sound Design)
Groundbreaker Films
Harra and the Donkey
Chris Malone

Best Experimental Film

Winner
Follow Leader
Scott Johnson
Infinity Machine Films

Best Feature Script

Winner
Rails Run Parallel
Rapsodies
Orso Vesperini
Terry Newman
Guy Laudereau
Carole Starcevic
Aurèle N'Dja

Best First Time Director - Short

Winner
Mirlande Amazan
Life...
Camazan Group
Winner
Gabriela Lima
Compliance
Winner
Ken Blindenbacher
ChickenQueen Paradise

Best First Time Screenwriter

Winner
Pacific Roses
Aida King
Winner
April Kills the Vibe
7.2 (9)
Bonnie McKee(Sceenwriter)

Best Horror

Winner
Bloodline
Richard Poche
Poche Pictures

Best Horror Script

Winner
Black Mold
Carlos Guerrero(written by)

Best Indie Feature

Winner
The Lioness
4.0 (217)
Richard Poche
Poche Pictures
Winner
Yucca Fest
8.5 (13)
Chelsea Murphy
meddle media
Winner
Ransom
Halfdan Hallseth
Jon Vangdal Aamaas
Hanne Andersen
Sarah Daly
Isabel Furhovde
Fjord Productions

Best Indie Short

Winner
The Empty
Atakan Satiroglu
Ayhan Isik Oyunculuk Okulu
Winner
Margie's Christmas Eve
Sijie Leslie Liu(editor)
Karin Zhao(director)
Winner
34902
Yisrael Dubov(writer)
Adam Moses(director)
First Man Films
Junction Lads Productions

Best Inspirational Film

Winner
Fate's Shadow: The Whole Story
8.5 (59)
Michelle Arthur(Producer/Director)
Jeff Vernon(Sr. Associate Producer/Film Editor)
Princess Arthur Productions

Best MicroFilm

Winner
LightFall
Hermann Kayode(director)

Best Narrative Feature

Winner
The Family Tree
4.8 (2.9K)
Jorge Ameer
Hollywood Independents
A.J. Productions
Winner
Black Butterfly
Setlife Studios
Winner
Life Ain't Like the Movies
7.7 (423)
Robert Mychal Patrick Butler
Kimel Fryer
Easy Breezy Productions

Best Narrative Short

Winner
Awareness
Lane Forbes(director)
OFP Production
Winner
16/8
Sasha Leonard Paracels(director)
Luca Paracels(producer)
Matthew D. Gilpin(writer)
Stanislav Yudakov(director of photography)
Artyom Vasilev(composer)
Aleksey Nikonenko(production designer)
Aleksey Sinitsyn(sound designer)
Garik Navasardyan(sound mixer)
Maxim Rozhkov(colorist)
Aleksandr Delvig(executive producer)
Dmitriy Kliminov(re-recording mixer)
Nikita Bestuzhev(storyboard artist)
Odin Lund Biron(actor)
Anna Isaeva(actress)
Igor Otdelnov(editor)
Winner
Compliance
Gabriela Lima
Winner
Incognito
Jacky Song
Winner
Last Laugh
Paul Nyamekye
Tinpauls Pictures
Winner
Florence
9.3 (10)
Motiejus Barauskas(cinematographer)
Emanuele Daga(director)
Almotaz Aljefri(producer)
American Film Institute (AFI)

Best Original Score

Winner
The Jewels of the Salton Sea
Steven Vitali(composer)
Hollywood Dark Castle Film Production

Best Poster

Winner
The Alliance 2 the Hunt for Breeze
Robert L. Butler Jr.
Sean Puno
Dan McCormack
Fabiola Lubin
Rashan Mitchell
Winner
The Alliance 2 the Hunt for Breeze
Sonia Carrillo(Hair and Make up)
Winner
Briar
8.6 (5)
Mark Sposato

Best Producer

Winner
A Groom, Three Brides and a Doctor
Leilani Amour Arenzana(Director/Producer/Writer)
Heavenly Eyes Productions

Best Romance

Winner
From Where There Is Nothing
Tylor Myers(director)
DEATHSQUAD
Winner
Boy Scientist
Susan Lim(director)
Samudra Kajal Saikia(director)
Quantum Classics

Best Sci-Fi

Winner
Rueful Warrior
8.0 (11)
Mark Owen
Belloq Productions
Winner
The Electric Man
3.3 (801)
B. Luciano Barsuglia
Barry R. Barsuglia
Steve Wollett
James Di Giacomo
Koa Aloha Media

Best Screenwriter

Winner
Pandora's Adversaries
Jason Harley(writer)

Best Screenwriter/ Feature

Winner
The Alliance 2 the Hunt for Breeze
Robert L. Butler Jr.
Winner
It Laughs Like Us
Nicole Sell
Michael Knobbe Jr.
Winner
Lost in HEL
Rapsodies
Orso Vesperini
Terry Newman
Carole Starcevic
Toby Osborne
R. Lee Brown

Best Short Script

Winner
The Ripper 2020
Randy S. Kirk

Best Song

Winner
Best Man in the World
Judy Tampa
Phaya Nak Pictures
Winner
Boy Scientist
Ron Josef Danziger(composer)
Christina Teenz Tan(lyricist)
Matthieu Eymard(co-producer)
Manu Martin(Musician)
Quantum Classics

Best Sound Design

Winner
Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name
7.0 (42)
Robin K. Phillips(Director) (Narrator) (Editor) (Artistic Director) (Sound Design)
Christina di Marlo(Producer) (Writer) (Production Design)
Art Harman(Associate Producer) (Editor) (Cinematographer) (Director of Photography) (Sound Design)

Best Student Film

Winner
Love is Always Losing
Michael Lena
Winner
Daniel Couts(Director)
Title: The Code

Best Supporting Actor

Winner
Sharard Baker(Supporting Actor)
Home Alone: Jigsaw Origins
Winner
Paul Bates
Life Ain't Like the Movies
Easy Breezy Productions
Winner
Kostis Savvidakis
With New Eyes

Best Supporting Actress

Winner
Madi Wright
Home Alone: Jigsaw Origins
Winners
Margo Quinn
Christopher Nation
Cupcake

Best Thriller

Winner
Happy Anniversary, Darling
Leilani Amour Arenzana(Director/Producer/Writer)
Heavenly Eyes Productions
Winner
Contingency
Logan Mansberger(Director)
Ethan Kaiser(Producer)
Penalty Productions
Winner
Parallel
Michael Prince Smith(director)
Hybricore
Winner
Briar
8.6 (5)
Pearls Daily

Best Trailer

Winner
The Real Greatest Showmen
8.8 (6)
Paul Barker
Make a Difference Films
Winner
ChickenQueen Paradise
Ken Blindenbacher

Best Visual Effects

Winner
Detective Jack Berdett
Arek Zasowski

Best Voice Over

Winner
V & F
9.4 (38)
Michelle Arthur(Voice Over Artist)
Jeff Vernon(Voice Over Artist)
Princess Arthur Productions

Best Web/TV Pilot

Winner
Episode #1.1
Arek Zasowski(self/host/writer/director/cinematographer/producer)
Lizet Benrey(self/actress)
Viola Zasowska(first assistant director/camera operator)

Best Woman Filmmaker

Winner
She Saved Me
Felicia Gonzalez Brown
Winner
Maggie IV
Peachanda DuBose
Winner
An Artist's Journey from China to America
BiLan Liao
Winner
An Artist's Journey from China to America
BiLan Liao

Social Awareness Award

Winner
Swann
Antonio Petrone(director)

Social Awarness Award of Merit

Winner
Awareness
Lane Forbes(director)
OFP Production

Best Comedy

Where's Kate?
Keith Macri(writer/director)

Best Music Video

Heavy Crown
Daniel Couts

August Award

Best Experimental Film

Winner
Sin
2.6 (3.1K)
Don Tjernagel

Best of Month

Winner
Unbothered
Jeorge Benton(director)
Rashada Coton(producer)
Confused Style of Art Studios
Listeners: The Whispering
5.2 (50)
Khoa Nguyen
nColors Production

May Award

Best Trailer

Winner
The Hun
9.8 (7)
Andor Záhonyi
Steven Lovy

October Award

Best Director / Feature

Winner
Peter Molnar
Alone

Best Documentary Feature

Winner
The Last Horns of Africa
7.6 (17)
De Bruno Austin Garth

Best Editing

Winner
A Morte Não Te Ama
Catarina Aranha

Best Poster

Winner
A Morte Não Te Ama
Bruno Caporusso

Best Thriller

Winner
Saint Evans
Gregory Dasilva

Best Drama/Thriller Screenplay

Death of the Wolf
Vincent Edwards(writer)

Best of the Month

Stay with Me
Mark Owen
Belloq Productions

March Award

Best Child/Young Actress

Winner
Lexie Lovering
Miss Mary Mack
Pink Boots Productions

Best Director Feature

Winner
Anthony Nti(director)
Good Night
Rondini
Salaud Morisset

Best Duo

Winner
Miss Mary Mack
8.7 (7)
Sydney Lovering
Lexie Lovering
Pink Boots Productions

Best Narrative Feature

Winner
Good Night
6.6 (584)
Anthony Nti(director)
Rondini
Salaud Morisset

Best Narrative Short

Winner
Miss Mary Mack
8.7 (7)
Tim True
Pink Boots Productions

Best Thriller

Winner
Miss Mary Mack
8.7 (7)
Tim True
Pink Boots Productions

Best of the Month

Winner
Good Night
6.6 (584)
Anthony Nti(director)
Rondini
Salaud Morisset

Jury Prize

Best Documentary Feature

Winner
The Quest: Nepal
8.0 (83)
Alex Harz
The Quest

Best Editing

Winner
The Quest: Nepal
8.0 (83)
Alex Harz
The Quest

Best Microfilm

Winner
Masks
Carolyn Bridget Kennedy
Demure Duchess Pictures

November Award

Best Horror Screenplay

Winner
NOT AN EXIT
Sid Kramer

Best action short

Winner
Lola
Nicolas Bosc(Director)
Les Films Fantôme

Social Awareness Award

Best Social Awareness Documentary

Winner
Glass World Project - Nature & Human
Raphael Sommer(Director)
Olivia Lina Gasche(director)

Documentary Feature

Winner
Still Suffering
Steven Berez
Diana Puzikova
The Bridge Entertainment

February Award

Best Animation

Winner
My Babushka smokes a pipe
Ivan Pavlov(director)
OCA ANIMATION School

Best Duo

Winner
Award of Merit
Winner
Watch the Birdie
Krishna Menon
Alec Espinoza

Best Editing

Semi-Finalist
Watch the Birdie
Krishna Menon

January Award

Best First Time Screenwriter

Winner
Three Ladies of Orpington
Daniel Guyton

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