Winners November – December 2018 Edition
Features
Best Fiction Feature Film:
Sword of Destiny (2018) – Meng Zhang – China
Best Fantasy Feature Film:
2050 (2018) – Princeton Holt – United States
Best LGBT Feature Film:
The Hurt (2018) – Kevin Stevenson – United States
Best original story:
Pennan Brae – The Astronot (2018) – Tim Cash – Canada
Best Documentary Feature:
A Tree Remembers (2018) – Konstantinos Follas – Greece
Best Director Documentary Feature:
Sean Bloomfield, Cimela Kidonakis – Where There Is Darkness (2018) – United States
Best First Time Filmmaker Documentary Feature:
Trista Suke – Foxy (2018) – Canada
Shorts
Best Fiction Short Film:
JANEK / BASTARD (2017) – Muriel Naim – United States
Best Drama Short Film:
The father, the son (2018) – Bret Hoy – United States
Best Historical Short Film:
Black Gold (2018) – Aaron Huggett – Canada
Best Experimental Short Film:
A Leaf (2018) – Bishara Shoukry – Egypt
Best Documentary Short Film:
GWYR II Vision of Times (2018) – Georgios Dimitropoulus – United Kingdom
Best Animation Short Film:
FILMESQUE (2018) – Vincenzo De Sio, Walton Zed (Davide Capasso) – Italy
Best Under 5 Minute Short Film:
The Invisible Superman (2018) – Siqi Wu – China
Best Actress:
Lucy Chappell – Two Housemates (2018) – Ryan Watson – United Kingdom
Best Actor:
Eric Davis – Rest Stop (2018) – Stephen Baxter – Canada
Best Director Student:
Under Her Wings (2018) – Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath – United States
Best TV & Web Serie:
Discharged (2018) – Jas Boothe – United States
Best First Time Filmmaker Fiction Short Film:
Louka Hogue – Plume (2018) – Canada
Best First Time Filmmaker Experimental Short Film
Sofia Kalogianni – Shadow (2016) – Greece
Best Commercial & Trailer:
Alpha Browser Commercial (2018) – Yao Yu – United States
Best Music Video:
Rakib Erick – Mediocre Frequency ft. Esha, Farrah, Fraan & Mason (2018) – Rakib Erick, Christian Kennedy -Australia
Best Experimental Music Video:
Alessandra Leone – Inouï ( and free ) (2018) – Germany
Best Sci-fi Music Video:
Technoir “METROPOLIS” (2018) – Erika Errante Baruffaldi – Italy
Best Photography (Photos):
Natural Lines (2018) – Travis Fox – United States
Best Piece of Music (Only Music):
The Arrival (2018) – Ros Gilman – United Kingdom
Winners October Edition
Features
Best Fiction Feature Film:
KHAI O MHEETHEBA ( A KIND HEARTED MAN) (2017) – Ganesh Gurung – Nepal
Best Satire Feature Film:
Search Engines (2016) – Russell Brown – United States
Best Director:
Juan Pablo Arroyo Abraham – DAY SIX (2016) – Mexico
Best First Time Filmmaker:
Chris Redish – Eleven Eleven (2018) – United States
Best Documentary Feature:
Women of 1915 (2016) – Bared Maronian – United States
Best Historical documentary:
Vietnam: An Inner View (2017) – Marc C. Waszkiewicz – United States
Best Documentary First Time Filmmaker:
50 Summers (2018) – Dan Napoli – United States
Shorts
Best Fiction Short Film:
Family Day (2018) – Harry O’Reilly – United States
Best Romantic Short Film:
Life is Love (2018) – Andrew Sindt – United States
Best Horror Short Film:
Beautiful Cake (2018) – Brian McWha – Canada
Best Experimental Short Film:
“Dare To Disturb” Silent Film. (2018) – Paul Rees – United Kingdom
Best Documentary Short Film:
ODYSSEY [ An Exploration to the North. Hokkaido, Japan ] (2018) – Hirokl Ito – Japan
Best Experimental Documentary Short Film:
1,2,3, Once Again (2018) – Vasco Diogo – Portugal
Best Animation Short Film:
Introducing Skülly (2018) – Kirk Wallace – United States
Best Under 5 Minute Short Film:
A Letter to My Father (2018) – Magdalena Musialkiewicz, Ross Melling – United Kingdom
Best Photography:
A Leaf (2018) – Bishara Shoukry – Egypt
Best Production:
We Will Live (2018) – Pascal Pernix – Cayman Islands
Best Original Idea:
Satisfied (2018) – MAYLIS DE PONCINS – France
Best International Actress:
“Hailee Robinson” – We Will Live (2018) – Pascal Pernix – Cayman Islands
Best Actress:
“Reza Leal-Smartt” – Limbo (2018) – Andrew Sindt – United States
Best Actor:
“Adam Ginsberg” – Mr. Kiss (2018) – Afonso Henrique – United States
Best Young Actor:
“Louis von Böhlen” – The Boy At Platform 3 (2017) – Michael Daniel Vetter – Germany
Best Experimental Director :
“Cem Göksoy” – Quintessence (2018) – Turkey
Best Fiction Director:
“Humberto Rosa” – Don’t Look Back (2018) – United States
Best Director Experimental Short Film:
“Francesco Santoro” – Practices from Beyond (2018) – Italy
Best Director Student:
“Oliver Marsden” – 78 (2016) – Australia
Best First Time Filmmaker:
“Berry Salem” – Parental Responsibility (2018) – Australia
Best Commercial:
Spare One (2018) – Sergio Mishchenko – United States
Best Trailer:
Luna (2018) – Valerie Shyokina – United States
Best Music Video:
Freak (2018) – Martina Sochor – Austria
Best Photography (Photos):
SOCIAL (2017) – Mehrshad Kheradmandi – Iran
Best Piece of Music (Only Music):
Observation (No. 5) (2017) – Stefan Kristinkov – United States
Winners September Edition
Features
Best Fiction Feature Film:
Rosalie (2018) – Moussa Djigo – Canada
Best Thriller:
Loners (2018) – Mario Di Leonardo – Netherlands
Best Documentary Feature:
How The West Was Once (2018) – Dave Johnson – United States
Best original idea:
Ramekin (20018) – Cody Clarke – United States
Best Director:
Puthiyavan Rasiash – Single Palm Tree (2018) – United Kingdom
Best Actress:
Deeya Dey as Sister Maya – Devil (Maupassant’s Le Diable) (2018) – Kshitij Sharma – India
Shorts
Best Ficction Short Film:
Like Glass (2018) – Adam Spinks – United Kingdom
Best Sci-Fi Short Film:
SIKLUS (2018) – Louis Minnaar – South Africa
Best Comedy Short Film:
Next time! (2018) – Thomas Deshays – France
Best Drama Short Film:
The Dove Never Breaks Its Promise (2018) – Tengku Adrian Ismail – Malaysia
Best Romantic Short Film:
Ma Terre (2016) RUÉ MICHAËL – Suiza
Best Experimental Short Film:
The Opened Field (2018) – Helmie Stil – United Kingdom
Best Documentary Short Film:
My Name Was January (2018) – Elina Gress & Lenee Son – Canada
Best Animation Short Film:
Meeting MacGuffin (2017) – Catya Plate – United States
Best Dance Short Film:
Franciszka (2018) – Elias Djemil – Canada
Best Under 5 Minute Short Film:
Session no. 78 (2018) – Bridget O’Driscoll – France
Best TV & Web Serie:
Back in Bangkok (2018) – Byron Bishop – Thailand
Best Music Video:
BEING, India Czajkowska & Kuba Lasocki (2017) – India Czajkowska – Poland
Best Director Experimental Short Film:
Yolanda Román – DUELOS (BEREAVEMENT) 2016 – Spain
Best Director Student:
Chephrena Mbouombouo – Amaranthine (2018) – United States
Best First Time Filmmaker:
Zhiwei Ou – I have a dream (2017) – United Kingdom
Best Actress of Short Film:
Piper Nairn as Kylie – Mother’s Day (2018) – Greg Powel – Australia
Best Actor TV Short Film:
“Joshua Triplett” Black Coffee (2018) – Jason Perez – United States
Winners Edition August
Features
Best Fiction Feature Film:
She, The Sergeant Matacho (2015) – William Gonzalez – Colombia
Best Documentary Feature:
Journey to Hope (2018) – Anita Kruse – United States
Second Best Documentary Feature:
Man In Camo (2017) – Ethan Minsker – United States
Best First Time Filmmaker Feature Film:
Natalia Saufert – Resentment (2019) – Republic of Moldova
Best Director Documentary Film:
José Luis Tirado – No, Un Cuento Flamenco (2016) – Spain
Best Actress Feature Film:
Fabiana Medina as Rosalba Velasco (Sargento Matacho) – She, The Sergeant Matacho (2015) – William Gonzalez – Colombia
Best Actor Feature Film:
Steve Hodgetts as Alex Clough – Love Possibly (2018) – Michael Boccalini, Che Grant – United Kingdom
Shorts
Best Short Film:
Blood of Jerusalem (2018) – Jonathan Zsofi – Israel
Best Short Film of Drama:
Elroy’s Birthday (2018) – Ravin Vythelingum – United Kingdom
Best Film Noir Short Film:
Room 32 (2018) – Emmy Winner & Victoria Larimore – United States
Best Horror Short Film:
The Shroud (2018) – Marie Vandelannoote – France
Best Short Film of War:
The Code (2018) – Patrick Ryder – United Kingdom
Best Documentary Short:
Warpath – The Road to States (2018) – Clark Vandergrift – United States
Best Animation Short Film:
UP IN THE SKY (2017) – SAMI NATSHEH & ARLY JONES – Spain
Best Experimental Short Film:
Palindrome (2018) – David Ronner – Germany
Best Under 5 Minute Short Film:
Pea Pod (2018) – Rosser Goodman – United States
Best Television Pilot:
Black Coffee (2018) – Jason Perez – United States
Best Short Film Director:
Terrain Vague (2017) – Latifa Said- France
Best First Time Filmmaker:
Famous Little Girls (2018) – Luciana Caplan & Sophano Van – United States
Best Director Student Short Film:
Time-Lapse (2018) – Sankalp Gora – India
Best Director – Experimental:
Jose Luis Tirado – Madre Santa Puta (2018) – Spain
Best Commercial:
XIAOMI- SPACE (2018) – Joel Cartier – Filming in China
Best Videoart:
Mehr Moor, Mehr Leben (2017) – Florian Reittner – Austria
Best Trailer:
MMA – Never Surrender (2018) – Gerald J. Godbout III – United States
Best Actress:
“Melanie Caplan” as Jenny – Famous Little Girls (2018) – Luciana Caplan & Sophano Van – United States
Winners Edition July
Features
Best Fiction Feature Film:
Beside me (2017) – Tedy Necula – Romania
Best Director Feature Film:
Aashish Chanana for Afreen (2018) – Canada
Best First Time Filmmaker Feature Film:
Sky Wang for Lost In Apocalypse (2018) – China
Best Documentary Feature:
Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists (2018) – John L Potash – United States
Second Best Documentary Feature:
You Racist, Sexist, Bigot. (2017) – Pita Juarez & Matty Steinkamp – United States
Best Director Documentary Film:
Ela Elisabeth Beken for A Piece of Germany (2018) – Germany
Best First Time Filmmaker Documentary Feature:
Filip Zaruba for Bufo Alvarius – The Underground Secret (2017) – Czech Republic
Best Animation Feature:
Touttay (Parrots) (2018) – Shashank Shekar Singh – India
Shorts
Best Ficction Short Film:
Black Spirit (2018) – Chakib Taleb-Bendiab – Tunisia
Best First Time Filmmaker
Cecile (2018) – Alexsa Tolentino – United States
Best Director Student Short Film:
After Ashes (2018) – Jesse McAnally – United States
Best Actor Short Film:
Mac Estelle (Michael Madden) for Help Wanted (2018) – United States
Best Animation Short:
Expend (2018) – Bismark Fernandes – United States
Best Director – Experimental:
A P E X (2018) – Stuart T Birchall – United Kingdom
Best Music Video:
ONLY WANNA PARTY 2016 (2015) – Brian Kohne – United States
Best Director of Music Video
Cassandre Émanuel for Long time (2018) – Canada
Best Piece of Music (Only Music) :
Be Gentle my Love (2018) – MEÏA – Spain