Awards

April 2024

WINNERS

Best International Short – Resurrection (Vahid Kordlou, Iran, Islamic Republic of)
Best International Feature – Jackknife (Adam Jack, Canada)
Best Amateur Short – In The Hood (Ani Valentinova Haralampieva, Bulgaria)
Best Animation Short – Vita Nova (Dmytro Zavora, Ukraine)
Best Comedy Short – Goodnight Irene (Matty Killen, Laura Mac – United Kingdom)
Best Dance Short – Grief’s Embrace (Samuel Laubscher, United States)
Best Documentary Feature – Beyond the Beach: The Hell and the Hope (Graeme Scott, Buddy Squires – United Kingdom)
Best Documentary Short – Sounds in Bamboo Forest (Zhong Chenwei, China)
Best Drama Feature – I want to live (Yunus Şevik, Turkey)
Best Drama Short – Unlived Life (Bella Rinsky, Cyprus)
Best Experimental Short – Tohu Wa-Bohu (Matthew Sergeevich Krivolapov, Russian Federation)
Best First-Time Filmmaker Movie – Melodrama (Giuseppe De Vuono, Italy)
Best Italian Short – Esther’s Tale (Simone Barletta)
Best Micro Short – AI Awakened (Matthew James Blakemore, United Kingdom)
Best Music Video – Twisted Mind (Nathan Benisty, France)
Best Romance Short – Gift Of Life (Mohammed Alshehhi, United States)
Best Sci-Fi Feature – Gemini (Nicole Ice, United States)
Best Student Short – Places, Please! (Paul Keith Rye, Australia)
Best Thriller Feature – The Carrier (Andrei Turcan, Germany)
Best Thriller Short – 3770 (Iris Ehrlich Tokouete, France)
Best TV Pilot – Poscoito (Postcoitus) (Héctor Rodríguez, Spain)

Best Feature Script – Single Girl’s Guide To Narcissists (Diane Thomassin, Michael Miceli – United States)
Best Short Script – New Age (Jay Menos McIntyre, United Kingdom)
Best TV Pilot Script – Burt & Mildred Go West (Randy Zobel, United States)

Best Acting Ensemble – Jackknife (directed by Adam Jack, Canada)
Best Actor – Tivon Charles (Jackknife, directed by Adam Jack, Canada)
Best Actress – Cassidy Krygger (Daisy, directed by Alyssa Scott, Australia)
Best Cinematography – Jason Lupish (Jackknife, directed by Adam Jack, Canada)
Best Costume Design – Agnieszka Dutkiewicz (Die letzte Hexe, directed by Ömer Pekyürek, Germany)
Best Creative Idea – Space Station Village EP8:Miss You to the Stars (Li-Yu Fu (NTHU), Vick Wang (USC) &Yi-Feng Kao, Taiwan)
Best Director – Rafael Franco Gomez (Invisibles México, Mexico)
Best Editing – 3770 (directed by Iris Ehrlich Tokouete, France)
Best MakeUp & Hairstyling – Lis Jaima, Jess Rao (The Captive, directed by Alexander Ku, Australia)
Best Original Soundtrack – Nix Kumaneko (THE SILENT SYNTHETIC SYMPHONY : A Human-AI Collaboration, directed by Giannakopoulos Efstathios, Greece)
Best Producer – Adam Jack, Jason Lupish, Douglas Vermeeren Jackknife, Canada)
Best Screenplay – Alexander Ku (The Captive, Australia)
Best VFX – AI Awakened (Matthew James Blakemore, United Kingdom)
Best Poster – Daisy (directed by Alyssa Scott, Australia)

FINALISTS

Kim Carnie Out Loud (Maureen Macleod, United Kingdom)
BFFR (Erika Apelgren, United States)
ARCH- (Ahmad Mohamed Alariqi, United Arab Emirates)
Port Hope (Yulia Petrauskas, Canada)
Love of Magdalena (Iva Kevra, Ireland)

SEMI-FINALISTS

What Kind of Films Do You Like (Idil Sukan, United Kingdom)
Fractured (Trenton J Brisco, Joseph Charafi – United States)
My Favorite Narcissist (Diane Thomassin, United States)
The Imbibed (Oscar G Williams, United States)
Expiration Date (Sinead Cassidy Holt, Ireland)
The New Page (Kosta Gligorijevic, Serbia)
Nice to Meet You, Ariana (Ekaterina Parashchenkova, United States)
FOREST: for rest (Eunjung Cho – Korea, Republic of)
Colours Set (Yufei Du, United Kingdom)
Rose Tinted (Louis Philpott, United Kingdom)
Spy Capital: Vienna (Boris Volodarsky, Austria)
An Extraordinary Place (Tom Bell, United States)
Freeland – A White Grass Story (Justin Harris, United States)
Voices Beyond the Veil – The Story of God, Humanly Speaking (Phillip Ginsburg, United States)
Sa’Ana (Bola Mustapha Adebisi, Nigeria)

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