Awards

2023 Annual Winners

WINNERS

Best International Short – The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre (Danny Ashkenasi, United States)
Best Feature – Scarpedicemente (John Vamvas, Olga Montes – Canada)
Best Documentary Feature – Built lands (Arturo Dueñas Herrero, Spain)
Best Feature Script – A Ghastly Sight (David Wang, China)
Best Short Script – Saints in Heaven (Andrea Cantafio, Italy)
Best TV Pilot Script – Tears of Glass (David Lake, United Kingdom)
Best Amateur Short – An Erotic Dream (Rémi Santolaria, France)
Best Animation Short – Two trees in Jerusalem (Juan Pablo De Gamboa, Panama)
Best Comedy Short – Lana & Toni (Predrag Peter Rajčič, Slovenia)
Best Dance Short – Parade (Ben Crompton, United Kingdom)
Best Documentary Short – QUINN (Eva Colmers, Canada)
Best Drama Short – RIft (Laura Daragó, Hungary)
Best Experimental Short – Yesterday ended last night (Galenus Zhou, Jia jie lin, Ze cong kuang – China)
Best First-Time Filmmaker Short – Once upon a common ground (Directed by Anja Neukomm, Laetitia Kohler, Naomi Kamihigashi – Switzerland)
Best Horror Short – Zmiena (Pierre Renverseau, France)
Best Italian Short – Jigen_Daisuke (Agostino Di Cio)
Best Lockdown Short – No shapes in the clouds – Images and Sounds from 2020 (Simone Redeghieri Baroni, Italy)
Best Micro Short – F r a g m e n t e d (Ioulia Lymperopoulou, Greece)
Best Mobile Short – ROTOR (Malena Perrot, France)
Best Music Video – Parasite (Vincenzo Carubia, United States)
Best Romance Short – The Last Jackolantern (William Grave, United Kingdom)
Best Sci-Fi Short – Step by Step (Sébastien Duhem, France)
Best Student Short – Kindred (Jad Chatila, Lebanon)
Best Thriller Short – Mister Sleep (John Perivolaris, United Kingdom)
Best Trailer – The Golden Acorn (Maciej Osuch, United Kingdom)
Best TV Pilot – Chateau Laurier (James Stewart, Canada)

Best Acting Ensemble – Chateau Laurier (directed by James Stewart, Canada)
Best Actor in a Feature Film – John Vamvas (Scarpedicemente, Canada)
Best Actress in a Feature Film – Olga Montes (Scarpedicemente, Canada)
Best Actor in a Short Film – Andrew Scott (Cognition, directed by Ravi Ajit Chopra, United Kingdom)
Best Actress in a Short Film – Sydney Carvill (Moon Students, directed by Daniel Patrick Holland, United States)
Best Cinematography – Jung Hoon No (Island, directed by Elly (Yae Li) Cho, Korea, Republic of)
Best Costume Design – Melissa Bessey (Chateau Laurier – Season 2, directed by James Stewart, Canada)
Best Director – Rami Samir Salloum (Le Poussin et les Sourcils, Lebanon)
Best Editing – David Olson (Makeover #2dye4, directed by Santiago Larrauri, Canada)
Best MakeUp and Hairstyling – Carla Garriga, Emma Rodriguez, Maria Serret (Lovely To Meet You, directed by Darwin Reina, Spain)
Best Original Soundtrack – Danny Ashkenasi (The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre, United States)
Best Screenplay – Faruk Kuğu (Not Game, directed by Faruk Kuğu, Turkey)
Best Poster – Oh, Little Spark! (Charlie Lyon Budden, United Kingdom)

HONORABLE MENTIONS

E-Day (for Best Sci-Fi Short by Irene Magnani, Italy)

Sonata for a Calendar (Oswaldo Salas for Best Actor, Perù)

Women’s Business (for Best International Short by Jennifer Gartler, Austria)

Hollywood is a whole other thing (for Best Feature Film by Filippo Feel Cavalca, Italy)

Lovely To Meet You (for Best Thriller Short by Darwin Reina, Spain)

Yohiro (for Best Romantic Short by Luigi Di Domenico, Italy)