Awards

OCTOBER 2022

WINNERS

Best International Short – Cognition (Ravi Ajit Chopra, United Kingdom)
Best Feature – Hollywood is a whole other thing (Filippo Feel Cavalca, Italy)
Best Documentary Feature – born in 1938 Kim Han-ok (소리 이 – Korea, Republic of)
Best Feature Script – A Ghastly Sight (David Wang, China)
Best Short Script – Paper Gloves (David Barbeschi, Italy)
Best TV Pilot Script – No Winner
Best Amateur Short – An Erotic Dream (Rémi Santolaria, France)
Best Animation Short – KUTA (Chin-Che Chen, Yun Cheng, Ya-Chieh Chang – Taiwan)
Best Comedy Short – Lana & Toni (Predrag Peter Rajčič, Slovenia)
Best Covid-19 Short – no shapes in the clouds – Images and Sounds from 2020 (Simone Redeghieri Baroni, Italy)
Best Documentary Short – Quinn (Eva Colmers, Canada)
Best Drama Short – Meraki & The Swan Song (Eric Felizardo, Canada)
Best Experimental Short – All American Cam Girl (Audrey Jeanne, United States)
Best First-Time Filmmaker Short – Venus and the Mirror (Amin Ben Moussa, Morocco)
Best Horror Short – Cry Baby River (Justin Gorun, United States)
Best Italian Short – Roma (Alessandro Vazzoler)
Best Micro Short – Small World (Jim Ford, United States)
Best Mobile Short – Last Voice (Chin Fook On Robert, Malaysia)
Best Romantic Short – Yohiro (Luigi Di Domenico, Italy)
Best Sci-Fi Short – E-Day (Irene Magnani, Italy)
Best Student Short – Imagine You In The Summer Night (Wang Chen, China)
Best Thriller Short – A Tiger in the Subway (James Abrams, United States)
Best TV Pilot – Spy v Spia (Cristo Zambone, United States)
Best Music Video – Let me freeze again (Gaultier Durhin, France)
Best Dance Short – Umbilical Cord (Fan Mei, China)
Best Trailer – Giles & Rupert’s Prehistoric Predicament (Toby Haslam, United Kingdom)

Best Acting Ensemble – Cognition (directed by Ravi Ajit Chopra, United Kingdom)
Best Actor – Andrew Scott (Cognition, directed by Ravi Ajit Chopra, United Kingdom)
Best Actress – Lora Hristova (Red Admiral, directed by Marin Rangelov, Bulgaria)
Best Cinematography – Babour Zainullah (Meraki & The Swan Song, directed by Eric Felizardo, Canada)
Best Costume Design – Heidi Miller (Cognition, directed by Ravi Ajit Chopra, United Kingdom)
Best Director – Lauranne Simpere (Héritières, France)
Best Editing – Marco Felipe (Go Fool Yourself, directed by Marco Felipe Rossi, Spain)
Best MakeUp and Hairstyling – Roz Gomersall (Cognition, directed by Ravi Ajit Chopra, United Kingdom)
Best Original Soundtrack – Lorenzo Gioco (Gunfight At Deadman Wash, directed by Dale Koehler, Norman S Davis, United States)
Best Screenplay – Eric Felizardo (Meraki & The Swan Song, directed by Eric Felizardo, Canada)
Best Poster – Sam (directed by Jen Stafford, Ryan Thielen, United States)

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Bedroom, Elham Pagarx (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
The Jar, Samuel Lindén (Sweden)
The Prowler, Tanguy Pochoy (France)
1x1x1, Yinuo Shao (United Kingdom)
The Only One In Time, Jiri Balcar (United States)

FINALISTS

Wāhine & Waves, Ryan Thielen (New Zealand)
My fears, Claudia Marcela Ruiz (Argentina)
Secrets at the Intermissions, Su Xue (China)
Dystopia, bellopropello (Switzerland)
The Water Wall, Andrea Sambuccetti (United States)
The Birthday, David Mastinu (Italy)
The one who knows the land, Teresa Medina (Spain)
The Lost Love, Huang Congrong (China)
Father & Son, Barry Adams (United Kingdom)
Salvatore – Claudio Russo, Andrea Corbo (Italy)
Datie: The Art Tribe of Tiegang – Baker Bohan Zhan, Cindy Tiantian Liu, David Binghui Sun, Alice Xiaoqian Sun, Elina Yiqi Wen, Ivy Ziyi Yang, Alison Yi Jin (China)
The Dress Code, Rikard Westman (Sweden)

SEMI-FINALISTS

All But Harmony, Yamin Rasheed (Maldives)
The Herd, Deepa Ranganath (India)
How to Meet 42nd Sheep, Yasu Tanaka (Malaysia)
In the name of plants, Hervé Bressaud (France)
Lost, Yujia Tan (China)
The Hit, Kerr Lordygan (United States)
Iron Nest of the Moon – Kerr Lordygan, Brad C. Wilcox, Justin T. Bowler, Rachel Kanouse, Laura Lee Bahr (United States)
Shielding Sheila, Joyce Ann Grey-Carter (United Kingdom)
Armstrong, Trayvon (Tray) Williams (United States)
Nyx, Renato Rosati (Italy)
Ashes to Ashes – GEORGE ZOUVELOS, Deanna Doyle (United States)
Meta, Federico Calzolari (Italy)
When I Die, Dante Matthew Tanikie-Montagnani (United Kingdom)
Passenger Seat, Louis Conte-Bourges (France)
Hidden Encounter – Peng Ziqi, Liu Zhiqi (China)
Membership Revoked, John Aguirre (United States)
Superman & Me – Andrea Corbo, Claudio Russo (Italy)
Out of the box, Anik Roy (India)
Dark Room, Juha Antero Lilja (Finland)
Winter Solstice, Armand Arekian (United States)