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Best Film Awards

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Best Director

Best Australian Director

Winner
Ben McHugh
Riley

Best Director

Winner
Paco Alvarez(director)
Dulce María: Origen
Winner
Brad Tobler
Pale Ember
Imagine That Films
Gizem Özmen
Echo
Pin Production

Best Director Comedy Film

Winner
Clifford Milner(director)
The Last Slice

Best Director Feature Documentary

Winner
Rodrigo Occelli(director)
Las Sanadoras
Veta Films

Best Director Psychological Film

Winner
Dan Bronzite
All That Glitters
Buckle Up Entertainment

Best Director Short Film

Winner
Sabine Crossen
Bienvenue chez Candy
Mustang Productions
SerialB Studio
Winner
Silvia Monga(director)
Passi di danza
Winner
Sheridan Philipp(director/producer)
De Nada

Best Director Thriller Film

Winner
Khoa Nguyen
Exchange
nColors Production

Best Female Director

Winner
Daria Perelmuter(Director)
Ron Nesher: Ein Kadosh Be Cnaan
Lilo Enote

Best Male Director

Winner
Brad Tobler
Desert Moonlight
Imagine That Films
Winner
Christopher Fitzjarrald(director)
Behind the Card

Director Indie Feature Film

Winner
Niall Duffy
The Rock in the Sea
Keltik Elk

Best Director Short Documentary

David Roger Juan(director)
Días de abril

Best First Time Director

Best First Time Director

Winner
Angelina Turska(director)
Worried about the matches?
Kinoguild
Winner
Lenara Serazheva(director)
Single Mother
Winner
Lucy Sheen
Abandoned Adopted Here
Foundling Films
Gizem Özmen
Echo
Pin Production

Best Music Video

Best Music Video

Winner
Dulce María: Lo que ves no es lo que soy
8.5 (6)
Paco Alvarez(director)
Honorable Mention
Gothminister: Pandemonium
Daniel William Bones(director)
Bjørn Alexander Brem(producer)

Honorable Mention Best Music Video

Winner
Sculpture
7.5 (34)
Ramin Hosseinpour

Low Budget Music Video

Winner
Inigo: Dio esiste
Tommaso Trombetta(director)
Honorable Mention
Winner
From my heart
Sigfrido Giammona(director)
From my heart song Retro F

Rock Music Video

Winner
Lighthouse - The ShopWindow
Darren Stokes
Carl Mann

Best Art Music Video

Sculpture
7.5 (34)
Ramin Hosseinpour

Best Action Film

Best Action Short Film

Winner
No Girls in the Dojo
Alps Lifee

Best Short Film

Best Editor

Winner
Trash/glue
Smith Black

Best Indie Film from Asia and Australia

Winner
Hide and Seek
Greg Powell
Little Dog Productions

Best Indie Super Short Film

Winner
Booksmart
8.4 (5)
Côme Ferré(director)
Wanda Productions

Best Short Film

Winner
Seva
9.3 (86)
Flow
7.6 (10)
Simon Elrahi
Simon Shepherd Productions

Best Actress Award

Best Actress

Winner
Rodnesha Green
Ace Date
BEST SHORT FILM AWARD 2022/23 - AUTUMN EDITION

Best Actor Award

Best Actor

Winner
Dylan Sprayberry
Malibu Horror Story

Best Indie Film Award

Best Actor

Winner
Sean Rhys-James
The Youth

Best Director

Winner
Fabrizio Ancillai
Burning Red

Best Female Director

Winner
Zoe Wakelam(Director)
The Sleepover

Best Indie Drama Film

Winner
Luca
8.8 (8)
Gianluca Zoppa

Best Indie Film Award

Winner
What No One Knows
3.5 (156)
Tope Laguda
I Have an Idea Entertainment

Best Indie Historical film

Winner
Langobardi - Alboino e Romans
9.4 (7)
Matteo Grudina(producer)

Best Male Director

Winner
Martin Lloyd
Housewarming
Martin Lloyd - Housewarming

Best Producer

Winner
Vlada Goes to London
9.6 (15)
Arti Savchenko

Indie Film from Europe

Winner
Det var det livet
Arantxa Hurtado
Sprouting Pictures
TM
7.4 (15)
MI FILM

Best Drama Film, Best Indie Short Film, Best Cinematography

The Bridge
Suleman Mahmood(executive producer)
Official Selection

Best Indie Film

Fading Petals
6.0 (298)
Bradley Charlton
The Roommate
Richard Wingert
Alex Joseph Pires
Torin Scott
Escape the Box Productions
Honored to be nominated for Best Indie Film
Before You Go
Elle Brown(director)

Best Indie Super Short Film

Minha Mãe Fazia
Andrei Smoler(producer/director)

Best Documentary Award

Autobiographical Documentary

Winner
Krafftówna w Krainie Czarów
6.4 (7)
Piotr Konstantinow
Cuckooegg Productions

Best Director

Winner
Quinn Early
The Shoulders of Giants (Frank Kinney Holbrook)

Best Document about Quarantine

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

Best Document about a Theme: War

Winner
Helianthus
Daniele Lo Presti(director)

Best Documentary

Winner
Harada
Jean-Francois Even
KH Pictures
Winner
A Moment in Time
James Bell(director)

Best First-Time Director

Winner
Lucy Sheen
Abandoned Adopted Here

Best Male Director

Winner
Marcus Peters
Beyond Ink: Deep Water (Pilot)

Best Short Documentary

Winner
Earth man
Yuri Maslak
Olga Tugaeva
I.E. Yuri Maslak

Feature Documentary

Winner
Keeping Christmas
8.0 (8)
Rick Van Velsor
Surviving Burkitts
Alex Tweddle
Angry Man Pictures
The Forgotten Children of Congo (Director's Cut)
Alex Tweddle
Angry Man Pictures

Super Short Documentary

Winner
Artist: Sena Shah
Todor Tragmar

Best Feature Film Award

Best Film

Makeup
8.3 (52)
Hugo Andre
Red Blazer Productions

Best Script Award

BEST SCREENWRITER

Winner
Yuletide Reunion
Joseph Anthony Francis

Best Feature LGBTQ+ Screenplay

Winner
Windy City
Joseph Anthony Francis

Best Script Award

Winner
Secrets of the Codex
Dean H. Huh
Duncan B. Putney
Performance Partners Organization
John's Monologue
Victoria Quin-Harkin

Best Feature Horror Screenplay

Screenplay

Winner
Dead Rose
Grace Sargeant
Graceless Productions

Special Award

Best Director, LGBT Film

Winner
Katie McNeice
In Orbit
Hardback Films

Drama

Winner
Point Five
Samuel Turner(director)

Honorable Mention

Best Director

Winner
Victoria Warmerdam
Snorrie

Best Indie Short Film

Winner
DID/didn't
8.8 (10)
Nicholas Bromund
Victoria Horn
Capital B Films
Winner
2030
6.1 (27)
Pierre Dugowson
Cosmonaut 391
Winner
The Gift
Vince Mirabile
Winner
All stuffed with fluff
Gwenaël Clause(main director)
Frank Berjot(director)
France

Best Super Short Script

Winner
Black Dog
Renee Pezzotta(writer)

Low Budget Music Video

Winner
Dina Mongo - Run away
Mariya Makhnacheva(director)

Super Short Film

Winner
Just a Little
Hanna Gruber
Winner
Expression
Kyle Briot(director)

Best Indie Feature Film

Hostile
7.9 (73)
Sonita Gale
Galeforce Films

Best Student Film

Drowning
7.6 (22)
João Lopes(director)

Best Indie Thriller Film

Best Indie Thriller Film

Winner
Magda
7.9 (18)
Dimitris Galatas(director)
Fragkiskos Arapai(second director)
Winner
The House
Rosie Grypma(Director/ Writer)
Wayne Lai(Director)
Marcus Mullen(Editor)
Andrew M. Johnson(Producer)
Carey Feehan(Producer/ Sound)
Kwasi Thomas(Actor / Original Song)
Jessica Quartel(Actress)
Simon Hatton(Score)
Andrew Wales(engineer/mixer)
Paulo Jorge Narciso(Score)
Laurent Danis(DOP)
Leigah Keewatin(anamation)
Alexander Ma(DOP)

Best Indie Experimental Film

Winner
Les Dieux Changeants
7.3 (6)

Best Indie Crime

Best Indie Crime

Winner
The Case
Tony D. Head

Best Indie Drama Film

Best Indie Drama Film

Winner
Don't care to share
8.7 (13)
Dekel Aizen

Best Indie Super Short

Best Indie Super Short Film

Winner
10 Days of Dogs
Tony Nocerino(director)
Winner
The Order from Wannsee
Dariusz Henka
Echo
Gizem Özmen
Pin Production

Best Comedy

Comedy Short

Winner
Flawless
Lévy Claude(Director)

Best Indie Fantasy Film

Best Indie Fanstasy Film

Winner
Betur sjá augu (See No Evil)
Sesselia Olafs
Peter Callow

Best Indie Film from Europe

Indie Film from Europe

Winner
Nothing's Left
7.0 (8)
Davide Pellino
Studio 23

Best LGBT Screenplay

Best LGBT Screenplay

Winner
My Father the Queen
Lisa N. Alexander
PrettyWork Studios

Best Film Award

Best Short Film

Winner
Winner

Best Music Video from America

Best Music Video from America

Winner
Only Eden
Andrea Plamondon

Best Female Director

Echo
Gizem Özmen
Pin Production

Best Sound Design

Echo
Gizem Özmen
Pin Production

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