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Elegant International Film Festival

202520242023

Jury Prize

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Best Actor

  • Cameron Ring
    Winner
    • Cameron Ring
    • In the Shadows of War

Best Actress

  • Dawna Lee Heising
    Winner
    • Dawna Lee Heising
    • Demo Reel 2022-Dawna Lee Heising
    Eye on Excellence Productions

Best Animation Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    On/Off

    8.1 (27)
    Nicolás P. Villarreal(Director/Writer/producer)
  • Winner

    Cut Bait

    Robert Walkine(director)
  • [object Object]

    Cosmic Dawn

    4.2 (664)
    Cosmic Dawn(director)
  • [object Object]

    To the Rescue

    9.5 (15)
    Ellen Gall(Director/Writer/Producer)

Best Cinematography

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Our Triumphant Holy Day

    Greg Di Roma(director)

Best Comedy Film

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    Love in Space

    Jordan Tofalo(director)
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    Boss of the Toss

    Chris Harboldt(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]

    Getting Hit On

    Lilton Stewart III(director)

Best Director

  • Jake Alexander Williams
    Winner
    • Jake Alexander Williams
    • In the Shadows of War
  • Rey Janjua
    • Rey Janjua(director)
    • The Neon Ballerina
    Right Eye Productions

Best Fantasy Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    HIGHLANDER: Immortal Warriors

    Sergii Shykin(Director)

Best Feature Script/Screenplay

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    Winner

    Dissolved

    6.9 (49)
    Jesus Gonzalez(director)
  • [object Object]

    The Restaurant Man

    7.1 (17)
    Donald J. Boudreaux(director)

Best Mobile Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Night Terror 2 the Awakening

    9.4 (16)
    David Duke(Director/Writer/Producer)

Best Narrative Feature

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    Winner

    Clownery

    7.0 (176)
    Dmitri Frolov(director)

Best Romantic Film

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    Winner

    Flawless

    6.7 (28K)
    Levy Claude(writer/director)

Best Science Fiction

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    Winner

    The John Experiment

    Lux Karpov Kinrade(director)

Best Short Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Chieftain's Curse

    Ríaín Ó Conchóbaír(writer/director)
  • Winner

    Bloodlines

    Todd Royal(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]
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    An Ever After Drama

    Michelle Lynn(director)
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    Winner

    Made in Technicolor

    Millie Cupp(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]
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    Somebody's Baby

    Mervyn McCracken(writer/director)
  • Winner

    Don't Touch That

    Sydney Bennett(writer/director)
  • Winner

    Delvin

    Terry Podnar(writer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Tempting Fate

    5.5 (984)
    Terry Podnar(writer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Little Miss Sunshine

    7.8 (549K)
    Charli Brown(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]

    The Day from Hell

    Melissa Stanton(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]

    Vanished

    3.9 (978)
    Benjamin Suchman(director)
  • [object Object]

    Food for Thought

    8.7 (30)
    José Bibián(director)
  • [object Object]

    The Speech Writer

    Todd Royal(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]

    The Messenger Herme's Remembers

    5.7 (11)
    Algis Kemezys(director)
  • [object Object]

    Hate Can Kill

    Imtiaz Popat(writer/director)
  • [object Object]

    Wolf Street

    Frank Mancuso(writer)

  • A Few Strands of Hair

    Shahin Jabbarzadeh(director)
  • [object Object]

    Grave 'n' Breakfast

    Benedikt Keller-Zeller(director)

  • Fandemonium

    Benjamin Suchman(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]

    Theophany

    Isabella Gonzales Lastra(writer/director)

  • The Test

    Corey Davis(Director/Writer/Producer)

Best Short Script

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Price of Love

    7.6 (175)
    Dorian Kane(writer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Long Way Home

    8.1 (1.9K)
    Terry Podnar(writer)
  • [object Object]

    Whispers on Red Lake

    Adrian Campbell(writer/director)

Best Television Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Bromance

    2.4 (168)
    Dylan Avery(director)

Best Thriller

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Fried

    9.0 (13)
    Richard Goss
    Jake McDaid(Actor)
    Zak Fenning
    Odyssey 10 Productions

Best Time FilmMaker

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    I Am God

    Brooklynn Winters(Director/Writer/Producer)

Best Trailer

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Staycation

    7.0 (131)
    Russ Emanuel(producer, director)
    Emile Haris(writer)
    Bill Victor Arucan(executive producer)
    Eric Kask(executive producer)
    Russem Productions
    Bad Bob Productions
    Alien Donut Films

Best Unproduced Script

  • Winner

    Lucky in Long Island

    Michelle Lynn(writer)
  • Winner

    Illiterate

    Naveen Kumar(writer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Devil Pulls the Strings

    J.W. Zarek(writer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Born to Love

    5.9 (381)
    Clayton Dudzic(Director)

  • Cat's Cradle

    Felicity Fair-Thompson(writer)
  • [object Object]

    Underwater Hazards

    Pamela A. Perry(writer)
  • [object Object]

    The Last Earth Station

    Kathryn Radmall(writer)

  • Pieces

    David Arch Hatch(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]

    Black Sand

    Nathanial D. House(writer)
  • [object Object]

    Checkered Trix

    Anthony Applegate(writer)
  • [object Object]

    Trust Me

    6.1 (3.7K)
    Jonathan Izard(writer)

  • Dare to Dream

    Clayton Dudzic(writer)
  • [object Object]

    The Vagrant

    Frank Mancuso(writer)

  • Ishaemic

    Andrew Cahill-Lloyd(writer)
  • [object Object]

    Damage

    6.7 (22K)
    Cameron Ray Hawkins(writer)

Best Women's Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    E40S

    Chong Kim(director)

Best mobile film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Night Terror 2 the Awakening

    9.4 (16)
    David Duke(Director)

Best short

  • [object Object]

    Bergamota

    8.5 (24)
    Hsu Chien Hsin(Director)
    Silvia Gangemi(Director of photography)
    Gabriel Canella(Actor)
    Gorila Cinefilo Filmes

Unproduced Script

  • [object Object]

    The Last Earth Station

    Kathryn Radmall

Best Thriller

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Best Thriller Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Fried

    6.2 (644)
    Richard Goss(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Legendary

    6.1 (5.6K)
    Janusz Madej(Director)
  • [object Object]

    Enter the Room

    8.9 (51)
    Harry Waldman(writer/director)

Finalist

  • [object Object]

    Enter the Room

    8.9 (51)
    Harry Waldman
    Edgewater Film Productions

Best Action

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Finalist

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    In the Shadows of War

    Cameron Ring
    Shane Yuhas
    Andromeda Pictures
  • [object Object]

    In the Backseat

    8.1 (22)
    Harry Waldman
    Edgewater Film Productions

Best Action Film

  • [object Object]

    In the Backseat

    8.1 (22)
    Harry Waldman(producer)

Best Drama

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Best Drama

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    Winner

    Mismatch

    4.7 (348)
    Babawale Odunuga(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Long Walk

    6.8 (74K)
    Vignesh Vyas(director)

Best Drama Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Brothers of Babylon

    Gabriel Womack(writer)

Best Pilot Script

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Best Pilot Script

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    2 Flawless

    Lévy Claude(writer/director)
  • [object Object]

    Light 'em Up

    Sami Garcia(writer)

Best Music Video

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Best Music Video

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Boom Boom Bruno

    6.3 (229)
    Hiroaki Hirakata(director)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Native Sun

    5.6 (48)
    Zakkee K. Hendricks(Director/Writer/Producer)

Best Narrative Feature

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Best Narrative Feature

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Space Between Words

    5.8 (27)
    Ian Fowler(director)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Clownery

    2.8 (302)
    Dmitri Frolov(director)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Bi the Way

    5.9 (137)
    Prerna Saraff Chauhan(director)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Amends of the Father

    9.6 (12)
    Stephen Sorrentino(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]

    Tom & Luce

    Paule Muxel(writer/director)
  • [object Object]

    Punched After the Fact

    5.6 (5)
    Gabriel Isaac Lakey(director)
  • [object Object]

    Retrograde

    7.3 (1.2K)
    Maximillian Decker(director)

Best Horror

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Best Horror Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Waifu 3000

    Natasha Nicole(writer)
  • [object Object]

    Blind Malice

    Christopher Johnson(director)
  • [object Object]

    A Date with a Cheerleader

    J. Seth Estes(Director/Writer/Producer)

Best Documentary

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Best Documentary Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Introduction

    Tonny Agami(writer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    I mille cancelli di Filippo

    8.5 (7)
    Adamo Antonacci(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • Winner

    100 of the Best

    Matthew Bland(director)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Monument to Love

    Martha Aladjem Bloomfield(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Unstoppable

    6.8 (4.9K)
    Christopher John(director)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Squirrels

    Nick McGee(director)
  • [object Object]

    A Breast Expose: The Breast Kept Secret

    Gaea Powell(director)

  • Behind the Paint

    James Anthony McElligott(director)
  • [object Object]

    Project M

    6.2 (47)
    Anil Contractor(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]

    Fascination: Helena's Story

    9.0 (8)
    Karen Goldfarb(director)
  • [object Object]

    We Are the Builders

    9.9 (8)
    Jorge Troncone Osorio(director)

Best Experimental Film

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Best Experimental Film

  • [object Object]

    Custer's Last Plan

    Matthew Toffolo(director)
  • [object Object]

    Artsattack

    Kostiantyn Mishchenko(director)

  • Thus Spake Zarathustra

    6.4 (68)
    Johanna Ruben(director)

Best Original Music

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Best Original Music

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Dojo

    9.5 (70)
    Lamar Anthony(Director/Writer/Producer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Where Have U Been

    Liam Torres(Director/Writer/Producer)

Best Actor

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Best Actor/Actress

  • Dawna Lee Heising
    Winner
    • Dawna Lee Heising(Director/Writer/Producer)
    • Demo Reel 2022-Dawna Lee Heising

Best Screenplay

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Best Feature Script/Screenplay

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Richard Spong

    Terry Podnar(writer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Back to the Future

    8.5 (1.4M)
    Matthew L. Stevens(writer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Tesla Effect

    7.7 (169)
    Matthew L. Stevens(Director/Writer/Producer)

  • Guns a Blazing

    Tiffany Collins(writer)

  • Squarespace: John's Journey

    Paul Hodgson(writer)
  • [object Object]

    Alta California

    Lynn H Elliott(writer)

  • A Colorado Christmas

    Tiffany Collins(writer)

  • Reach for the Sun

    Douglas May(writer)
  • [object Object]

    The Hill

    6.7 (9.3K)
    Paul Hodgson(writer)
  • [object Object]

    The Red Zone

    Terry Podnar(writer)

  • The Receiver

    Clayton Dudzic(writer)
  • [object Object]

    Closets

    7.1 (211)
    Matthew L. Stevens(writer)
  • [object Object]

    From Homeless to Hollywood

    9.7 (11)
    Shaneen Charese Bonner(writer)

Best Director

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Best Director

  • Winner
    • Annarita Campo(director)
    • L'altra metà di me sei tu
  • Rey Janjua
    Winner
    • Rey Janjua(writer/director)
    • The Neon Ballerina
  • Jake Alexander Williams
    Winner
    • Jake Alexander Williams(director)
    • In the Shadows of War

Best director

  • Michelle Lynn
    Winner
    • Michelle Lynn(Director/Writer/Producer)
    • An Ever After Drama

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