FRENCH INTERNATIONAL MODERN FILM AND SCRIPT FESTIVAL
Selection of the season
July - August 2023
A Better Place
Maggie understands death is hard for the living to deal with but comes to realize it’s a blessing for the dead as she tries to convince the adults of this.
Tammy Boyer
A Broken Heart & the Immortal Hen
A teenage boy struggles to overcome a series of setbacks. Then he encounters his steepest hurdle yet.
Benjamin Sarno
A Fire in the Mind
Joseph Campbell, John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts are pursuing their individual dreams – Campbell is seeking knowledge; Steinbeck is working on the great American novel; and Ricketts is trying to save Mother Earth.
Through a fateful turn of events, their lives intersect at a critical crossroads for each personally and professionally in 1932 in Monterey, California.
Tammy Boyer
A Generation of Peaceful Warriors
Andy has been learning martial arts for his whole life, and it helped him managing his anger and emotions. He will soon compete in his first public fight and we follow his preparation, with the support of his family and friends.
Bertrand Remaut
A kidnapping on Asylum Hill
In 1968 on the heels of the historic Tuskegee Syphilis Study, two white doctors, Bryce and Feldman launched a secret experiment to find a cure for white mental illness. However, tired of using rats as test subjects they decided to use Negro men instead. The premise was to see if negro's (who's brains were thought to be smaller than whites) had the same mental illness trait of whites.
Eric Burton Ramsey
A Lenda| The Legend
The short film “The Legend” tells the journey of a lonely man in search of his soulmate. The film mixes a bit of romance with fantastic realism.
Alfredo Dias Gomes
a LIV e
A young girl is suddenly left with her grandfather after they have been separated for 5 years. They attempt to develop a relationship in this strange and strained situation.
Jim Winton Porter, Hanni Witt
A Piece of Work is Man
A soldiers last call of duty.
ARMAND plays a dangerous game with his past, CAMILLE, and GENERAL BLAIZE in Paris, and his nemesis PERRY, to grab a secure future for humanity.
Kain Baigent, Stig Wemyss
A RED MADRASA SCHOOL UNDER MAO
It is a part of unknown history in late 60s when Soviets are threatening of bombing major Chinese cities. A group of university intellectuals, together with their families settle down in an isolated village where is unaffected by Cultural Revolution.
Gang Chen
A Serenade
The year is 1984. After suffering from a weak heart for most of his adult life ALFREDO SALVATORI, a gentleman in his 60s, is awaiting a heart transplant. As his health declines, he decides to hire a live-in carer for safety.
Reese Morgan
A Siren's Sweet Whisper
In 1916, HANK BRADDOCK, 18, a young reporter from rural Indiana arrives in Bar-le-Duc, France to volunteer for the Red Cross at the height of World War I. He’ll be working with Red Cross ambulances transporting wounded soldiers from the battlefield to a grand old chateau converted to a hospital.
Fred G Stemme
A Tale of Two Cities in 4 Episodes
Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years, is released to the custody of his daughter, Lucie Manette.
Michael O'Rourke
TREMORS
Two travelers are trapped in a place of enormous esoteric tension. There they will experience changes in their personality.
Alberto Martín-Aragón
Missy Jubilee is Trash
A film about sociopaths in helicopters
Missy Jubilee
A Siren's Sweet Whisper
A man leaves an oasis and starts walking. In the middle of the desert, he comes across this strange building and immediately, he addresses someone on the inside of the building: whether there's any need for airco, food, or maybe some music or television, there in that inhospitable part of the world?
Henk Pringels
A Tale of Two Cities in 4 Episodes
Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years, is released to the custody of his daughter, Lucie Manette.
Eddy Falconer
Food for Thought
José Bibian
Art for Everyone?
This short documentary illustrates the exhibition of Keith Haring at The Broad, the largest solo exhibition of his work in Los Angeles. The film’s title question mark tries to bring attention to the misconception that his art is simple; it is not. Haring's work is very complex.
Rick Meghiddo
Delight
Go back in time with these youngsters who meet up with a fairy godmother, and are blessed by her magic wand as they dance around the Maypole, and enjoy the secrets woods they have discovered.
Barbara Becker Holstein
THE MAN CALLED BIBLE
A cowboy named Bible Jones who lives by the Old Testament - "An eye for an eye" hunts for his young sister, Ruth, who was kidnapped by Apache warriors.
Jack Polo
Road 721
Road 721 is an allegory about global warming. Set in a number of California forests it tells the tale of Sam, a photo journalist from Los Angeles whose dream has been to write an essay about the state of forestry in the Redwoods as well as other wooded areas in the Western United States.
Lucinda Luvaas
RETARDATION
RETARDATION is the second short film in the Male Nature Studies series. ”The Great Acceleration” gained momentum in the 1950s with the Western man at the wheel.
Nils Agdler
Run, Chad Run
In 2045, humans passed the "Nirvanee" Bill in order to attain immortality. Wealthy human individuals would utilize AI technology to create avatars, known as "Nirvana," and upload their consciousness onto them before their physical bodies perished.
Nadia Guo
Wither With Her
Wither with her is an experimental short film, revolving around a couple, Ivan and Kayla, who are heroin addicts who have overdosed and died. The film follows them through their final days, blurring the lines between documentary and classic narrative, to create something uniquely surreal.
Jason W Hammond
6.14
Celebrated Irish literary photographer, John Minihan, returns to Paris, and to the locations that evoke memories of his most well known subject, the Nobel laureate, Samuel Beckett.
An intimate portrait of Samual Beckett’s relationship with his adopted home, 6.14 examines the writer’s creative bond to the city of Paris as seen through the lens of acclaimed photographer John Minihan.
David Ian Bickley
90 Days of Games
In 2020 millions of New York City couples were suddenly forced to quarantine together for 90 days, due to a new terrifying virus. This is the tale of their epic struggle to survive.
James Merendino
THE RIVER OF SEVEN NAMES
Traveling with a river is like traveling with life. For nine months, photographer and mountain guide Sergi Ricart followed alone the Mekong river from the Tibetan plateaus, where he explored and climbed several virgin mountains, to the Delta in Vietnam, after cycling about 3000 km, living along the way the awesome metamorphosis of its nature and humanity.
Fred G Stemme
A Vampire's Dilemma
A vampire cult initiation takes a turn when the new recruit refuses to suck blood.
Wayne Landreth
The Birthday Hunt
A monster named Argos is sent on a scavenger hunt to find clues in order to open a safe which contains his birthday present.
Wayne Landreth
Wind
Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). LaMDA was designed to create chat bots that interact with humans.
Mike Hoolboom
Zu den Sternen
Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall Singer Marco Hoffmann has reached the height of his popularity. Suddenly, the ex-frontman of the East German rock combo DIE KOSMONAUTEN is accused of being by his former band colleague Volker Hinze, that "IM singer" who betrayed him to the Stasi at that time.
Nicolai Tegeler
Logion 100
Homeless alcohol, nicotine and drug addicts live under the S-Bahn bridge at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin. On the way to my fitness center, I saw them sleeping and using drugs there.
Gerhard Muff
Switch
A dark love letter to the critic, from the artist. ‘Switch’...the one who is both slave and master…(in BDSM), questions the limits imposed on filmmakers.
Desiree Faust, Stefana D. Brancastle
Heaven Sent Me
After he catches his wife cheating with his best friend, a devastated firefighter’s life is permanently changed when a guardian angel in the form of a beautiful woman saves his life and then takes over his life .
Jim Norman
Hazel the Viking
A young woman discovers that the Viking genes she inherited give her amazing powers in any confrontation, but threaten her ability to pursue a normal career and family life
Jim Norman
Invitation To My Own Assassination
Elliot Hyde is an enfant terrible turned Hollywood golden goose who finds himself stuck directing massive blockbusters. One night he is kidnapped by a group of conservative fanatics who lock him up in a secret prison and plan to put him on trial.
Casey Mensing
The Messenger * Hermes Remembers
Hermes, the most human-like of all the Olympian gods, is now old. On this day he remembers himself as a younger transgendered man, irrepressible but needy of his father Zeus and his aunt Aphrodite.
Algis Kemezys
Enter the Room
A young adult (Brian) is visited by his brother, Jeremy, who needs a place to stay as he settles into his new city. The two polar opposite personalities begin to clash as Jeremy's presence poses a threat to Brian's way of life.
Harry Waldman
The Greek Passage
2019. The photograph of a Kurdish girl killed in Syria obsesses Joe Fares, a photojournalist suffering from PTSD.
Lorenzo Guarnieri
Delta
After killing her dealer husband and stealing a suitcase full of heroin, violence and mayhem follow Martha Cooper as she makes a highway escape across the Salt Flats of Utah.
Daniel Corey
In a Whole New Way
Ensnaring almost four million Americans, probation has evolved from a second chance to avoid prison to a sanction actually feeding mass incarceration. Supported by neighborhood allies, some people of color set out in a whole new way to change all this—equipped only with cameras.
TIGER (Silver Lotus)
The Tiger has incited a sense of both awe and admiration throughout history - the prowess, ferocity, beauty and a harmony of opposites comes to mind with this powerful animal totem.
Daniel Belton
The Dead Ringer
Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the mistress of a London-based Chinese Triad boss, an illegal immigrant is trained by MI5 to infiltrate the gang and bring them down.
The Grand Jury
A small random group gets a chance at an interview for a sought-after position and endures a long wait in a room where the test truly begins.
Garbage People: Trash Conspiracies + Trash Carnival
Double Feature, 2-for-1 episode! Trash Conspiracies Ever wonder what Garbage People eat? Or where the dead Trash go when they die? Patches and Peel know... but maybe it's just a Trash conspiracy.
Brit Tobin
Buried in the blues
Now it’s my turn to be the hero and my film will even speak English. Now it’s my turn to recount what does not count and cannot be counted: the power that resists impotence, and the metamorphosis of loss.
Pedro Ludgero
Maggie understands death is hard for the living to deal with but comes to realize it’s a blessing for the dead as she tries to convince the adults of this.
Freedom - Faith-based
Downloading the faith-based version of the Freedom script.
Anita Waggoner
POEM
A master poet loses her muse but tries to pass on her art and craft to a young talented poet.
Robert Fritz
Natzee Zombie Carnage
An old style Spaghetti War / Horror B-Movie. About, American Dog-Face GIs in the Battle of the Bulge. The story of the fight against an offensive of Undead Nazi Atomic Super-soldiers trying to destroy Europe and bring about the Thousand Years of Darkness.
Nicholas Weed
Scraggliness
Emaciated beings in a desolated landscape stand out in front of suspended remains. The poses of these silhouettes make the human figure almost animal, hardly recognizable. Can we detect in this ghostly wall the spectres of the people to which these abandoned moults belonged, these remains of a past existence?
Johanne Chagnon
Omnipotent Resolution
This is a short film of the song, “Omnipotent Resolution”, from the band Uniqueness, with a conceptual theme called, reality in dreamscape.
Uniqueness
Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 - Journey to Netherworld
LOGLINE: Emergency Musical Response Team 421 responds to distress calls using music as a healing therapy (EMR Part 1). What is initially perceived as a routine service call devolves into an existential challenge where the very fate of pop music hangs in the balance (EMR Part 2).
Cosmo Swevens
The Donbass children
This is a movie about the Donbas war, first-person stories. You will hear the stories of so-called "ordinary people". These people suffered from irrational from a military point of view strikes on civilian targets. They are victims of someone's desire to wage war on their territory at all costs.
Lubomir Dankov
L'Amerika
Place Unknown from the dream of an outsider European visitor.
Ilkka Ilmari Levä
Something
A million moments in time of a relationship at a crossroads is juxtaposed with the question about the future of physics and the existence of a multiverse.
Barbara Stepansky
A Serenade
The year is 1984. After suffering from a weak heart for most of his adult life ALFREDO SALVATORI, a gentleman in his 60s, is awaiting a heart transplant. As his health declines, he decides to hire a live-in carer for safety. MARIA HENDRIX, an out of work and recently single lady in her 40s, moves in with Alfredo. She is immediately charmed by him, but he keeps her at an arm’s length at first
Reese Morgan
Comeback in Vienna
Classic Hollywood meets classic Vienna in a romantic tale of reconciliation and forgiveness. While attending a Vienna tribute to her career, an aging movie star encounters her presumed-dead ex-husband ex-costar, who is determined to reunite with her on-screen and off.
Marc Baron, Richard Wolf
MegaBall$
Log Line: When a computer geek, determined to prove he can predict winning lotto results, uncovers his plan has been bankrolled by the Mob, he struggles to beat the odds before his number’s up.
Marc Baron
Old New Age
Old New Age is a comic experimental film that was made using only a mobile phone and several apps, including Artificial Intelligence. As in previous mobile phone films by Vasco Diogo, its single images were first posted on Instagram and then edited by free association, as in a day dream.
Vasco Diogo
Anima # 1
This experimental and abstract animation reflects upon the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, following the structure of an hip-hop song and mixing plenty of digital hand-painted techniques. The style alternates between continuity and frame collision.
Vasco Diogo
Anima # 2
Anima # 2 is an experimental animation that shows 6 hand drawn human like figures in a constant row. Their movement, similar to a video dance, is created by the nature of the drawing, both by form and color. The apparent stillness of the figures confronts the viewer, as if the latter is being watched and questioned about its physical condition as an observer.
Vasco Diogo
TUTOPIQUE #SLOGAN
Cosmic influencer of utopic tutorials, Alfa Wonk is forced to fight absurd human paradoxes to deal with facts and fake news. Presently, he explains how to handle fallacious speeches to create a good tagline.
Maurice Huvelin
TUTOPIQUE #FLATMOD
About how to wear the latest fashion trend.
Maurice Huvelin
TUTOPIQUE #CRACK
About how to have a billion Bitcoins.
Maurice HUVELIN
Waterdrops Insoluble
Chinese economy booms as new century arrives. Students are pouring to US. Study Worldwide Education, an agency famous for F-1 Student Visa approval claims ‘We Have Connections From US Embassy’, winning reputation in business circle.
Gang Chen
THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN UNDER HALF THE SKY
A timespan of 70 years portrays a family of three generations without yinyang balance as she lives with her mother and daughter for more than half century. She decides to secretly swap her granddaughter at delivery room.
Gang Chen
Private collection of abstractions
Abstract art is not art. This is the failed bright future of mankind
Kostiantyn Mishchenko
The S.S. Robin
In middle-class Brooklyn in 1971 a mixed race family was simply not the norm. The S.S. Robin takes place in Brooklyn, New York in 1971. It tells the story of the DeLucas - a working-class Italian/American family who struggle with the turbulence of the early 70’s, while facing new and unexpected challenges stemming from the inclusion of a mixed race child into their home.
Camille DeBiase
Digital Asylum
A journalist is invited to present to the world the first of its kind facility created to help people overcome their addiction to technology, digital applications, social media, and online chats. By interviewing the patients, he discovers the truth about this place.
Nick Stanchev
Beyond & Above
A wannabe guardian angel takes an undercover office job in order to earn her wings but complications from an HR confrontation and a potential inter-office romance send things into disarray.
Chris Harcum
STREET 105
Best Short Film, Best Director
Two Saudi Policemen Marwan, and Nasser facing the last members of ISIS in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. "Inspired by true story"
Abdulrahman Al Jandal
Kath Duncan -The untold struggle for civil rights
Best LGBTQ+ Film
A Documentary film about the life and activism of LGBTQ Scot Kath Duncan The most important Uk Civil rights leader past 100 years but almost forgotten in time until my Highly acclaimed stage play #liberty and my biography of Kath The Last Queen Of Scotland stage play Liberty
Ray Barron Woolford FRSA
A Tale of Two Cities in 4 Episodes
Best Experimental Film
Shamans is the portrait of 4 artists living and working in London, UK. Angel Ito, originally from Puerto Rico, is a dancer, performer, actor and painter, that has spent many years living in the UK.
Santiago Echeverry
Monday Night Scandals
Best LGBTQ+ Film
Scandals Saloon is a Country/Western Gay bar in Wilton Manors, FL, city with the second highest LGBTQ population in the USA. Every Monday night they host a Drag Queen show called 'Stilettos' on the main dance floor, at the same time as a Cigar Smokers Social in the patio.
Santiago Echeverry
From within
Best LGBTQ+ Film
FROM WITHIN Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005), is one of the most recognisable Polish painters of the 20th century. To this day, his surrealist, visionary painting arouses wide interest among audiences and remains an inspiration for successive generations of artists.
Cezary Grzesiuk, Krystian Kamiński, Tomasz Szwan
Solid Venom
Best Feature Script
In the not too distant future, the small fishing town of Whitby, North Yorkshire will once again fall victim of a plague that dominated the town over a hundred years ago, killing hundreds of men, women and children, sending the survivors into local asylums.
Matt Bland Bland, Paul Hodgson, Stuart Hanrahan, Joseph Tan
John's Journey
Best Feature Script
JOHN’S JOURNEY SYNOPSIS PRIVATE JOHN WRAY (20s) is sheltering from artillery shells in a WW1 British trench when the SERGEANT (30s) tells him the Commanding Officer wants to see him.
Paul Hodgson
Water Thrust Movie
Best Feature Film
An Ancient South Saharan Africa Mbanti warriors tribe had to migrate due to severe drought that affected their village. They had to face strenuous conditions to avert extinction while in search for a fertile land to dwell.
Vincent Kojo Krah
Think Back Movie
Best Feature Film
Prince Zoe returns from the United States of America after many years of studies and launches a crusade against foreign exploitation and Africa corruption.
BUMBA IBRAHIM
Mi Amore (my love)
Best Animation
This short film is a love tragedy and as typical as they are, it also ends on a sad note. But there is always a brighter side to every story.
Richie Valentino
FEMINAM
Best Symbolic Film
The movie FEMINAM, Latin for woman is an autonomous visual work by Marijke De Belie in which the artist plays with representations of women throughout the centuries.
Marijke De Belie
The talking ear
Best Short Documentary
"Do you know what it's like not to hear anything, to be deaf? It's with me everywhere I go, at work, at school, with my friends." A film for listening to those who hear little or nothing. A film to better communicate with these endearing people!
Lakhdar, Hassan
KATAGMAN
Best Director, Best Actress
A film I have written and co-directed in celebration of the 450th year of founding of Oton, a first class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. Founded in 1572, Oton is considered the oldest town in Panay Island.
Ramon Castillanes Tenoso, Peter D Deocos
False Rumor
Best Short Film
Issam, 16, dreams of becoming a great dancer. As he is preparing for a decisive audition, he is very well surrounded by his coach and the other students, who are also his friends. But a rumor is circulating on social media, which could alarm his family and thwart his plans...
Fred G Stemme
Same, Same but Different
Best Short Film
East meets West in this romantic comedy with an Indian/Brazilian couple try to cope with the same difficulties all couples face. A film with international implications.
Dave McGrath
MusArt
Best No-Dialogue Film
Musician and painter, Randall Vemer, has once again expanded his talent pool; this time into filmmaking. In a nearly 12-minute biographical documentary, Vemer reveals what happened when his ability to play his beloved viola was taken away.
Kevin Hanzlik
Mambo Man
Best Feature Film
MAMBO MAN is the story of a Cuban farmer and music promoter who gambles everything on a deal that appears too good to be true!
Mo Fini, Edesio Alejandro
An Incident In A Small Town
Best Feature Script
Denise and Ally follow Dan and Julie to a barn where Julie is killed by being impaled on a pitchfork by Dan in a fight. Dan drags the body to a well and drops it down it. Denise, Ally and Dan are then haunted by Julie's ghost.
Peter Gartner
Josie - A Tart With A Heart Condition
Best Feature Script
Josie, a smoker, who works as an escort, has a heart attack and has to have a triple artery bypass. She has to continue to work as an escort, despite the risk to her health, to pay off her medical bills to the surgeon who saved her life.
Peter Gartner
Francoise
Best Short Screenplay
Francoise, a young Parisian smoker, meets an old woman at a cafe, who warns Francoise to quit, before it is too late.
Peter Gartner
ROOTS, DIASPORA & WAR
Best Feature Documentary, Best Director
Singer Isabelle Cyr takes a fascinating journey in France to meet her Acadian cousins, whose ancestors were deported from Canada. During the journey, where past and present mingle with personal discoveries, she composes a song on her identity and connections with the people.
Phil Comeau
Sayama City, Saitama Prefecture
Best Actor
A story about a painter who came back from France to Japan and settle in the City of Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
Mitsuo Kuribara
Ghost Warrior: 'Redemption'
Best Feature Script
After her release from Colchester Correctional Training Center, our Protagonist Natasha leaves the UK for a Fresh Start.
Michael John Chase
Gimme Shelter Part Three
Best Feature Script,Best Drama Screenplay,Review
This is a love, sex and action story. Officer Jack Bordowski is a Viet Nam Veteran who battles to reintegrate with society. When things get tough he turns to his wife Mary’s arms for comfort. Facing crime on the streets of New York and a lot of family disasters, this man needs a lot of shelter. This script contains descriptive sex and violence.
Christopher Kulikowski
Black City Nights
Best Music Video
Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years, is released to the custody of his daughter, Lucie Manette.
Nathan Castiel
Dawna Lee Heising Demo Reel - 2022
Best Actress
Edited by Richard Thrift
Dawna Lee Heising
Roller Coaster
Best Animation
A nervous girl encountered a strange spirit at the train station. She was invited to try on a roller coaster.
Sapphira Chen
Long Paths
Best Short Documentary
He lived the past returning to Macao. This reencounter surprised him with a different reality. He grew up with a Chinese family in the Catholic neighbourhood of St. Lázaro. Brought unseen images from Macao, saved for sixty years.
António José de Lemos Ferreira
D Aeolian Contrabass
Best Short Documentary
Calin Matei meticulously crafting a bamboo flute and composing a soundtrack including the same flute that is in the project.
Cole McLester
Anti-Trump Covid-19 Video
Best Covid-19 Film
Coverage of President Trump's comments about the Covid-19 pandemic being over by end of April.
Philip Thompson
Dreaming Vincent
Best Super Short Script
"Dreaming Vincent" reprises Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece "Dreams" in the episode recognized as one of the most successful crossovers between arts: episode 5 titled "Crows" where the pictorial art of Vincent Van Gogh, the music of Chopin and the authorial wisdom of a master of cinema like Akira Kurosawa are intertwined.
Christian Candido
Virtual Cultures in Pandemic Times
Bernhard Drax
Since March 2020, Draxtor has been following researchers based in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, around Animal Crossing and Second Life to find out how COVID-19 is reshaping online interaction.
Bernhard Drax
Shoe Horn/Office
Best Experimental Film
This film deals with the restrictive nature of women's clothing throughout the ages and also with sexism in general.
Ingrid Nachstern
Quiet
Best Short Film
At home, Vida cares for her ailing father whose dementia gives way to long buried emotional conflicts Vida has spent her lifetime running from.
Barbara Zemljič
Alaska Long Hunters
Best Feature Documentary
This award winning story follows the life of a young pilot who flew in Alaska’s frontier arctic. Experience the front-seat thrills of bush planes and helicopters operating in the most dangerous conditions on earth, airborne among the magnificent mountains, glaciers and rivers that only Alaska has to offer.
Mark Rose, Mark Rose
OutSwing
Best Short Documentary
On the outskirts of Islamabad, a committed coach teaches a team of unlikely players, their families, and a community how playing Cricket can change lives.
Samar Minallah Khan
Neighborhood Walk
Best Experimental Film
A nice walk around the neighborhood...
William Jacob Deem
Review
Best Feature Script
In a video message, a social media acolyte invites other women to have sex with her boyfriend, but only if they film their review after. A game of power dynamics intertwines the lives of several amused participants, then the videos leak and those lives are forever changed, destroyed, or ended.
Jonathan Zarantonello
TRIP TO THE TAX PARADISE - RUMBO AL PARAISO FISCAL
Best Experimental Film
DO NOT INVADE EUROPE BUY IT!! TRIP TO TAX PARADISE is an experimental silent film feature film, on which a musical with neorealist and humorous touches has been mounted.
Antonio Bellido Marín
I LOST THE WAY
Best Animation
Two parallel monologues. Two men of different ages, talk about their lives and what haunts them. One, almost middle-aged, feels he has lost his way.
Panagiotis Rappas
Pétanque was never so much fun!
Best Comedy Screenplay
The short film “The Legend” tells the journey of a lonely man in search of his soulmate. The film mixes a bit of romance with fantastic realism.
Zeff Lawless, Billy Lawless
Acting With Impact
Best Feature Script
A former stunt-man attempts to make it as a serious actor only to discover the industry is stranger than he imagined.
Devon Doyle
The Wheel
Best Short Film, Best Short Screenplay
THE WHEEL SYNOPSIS Perpetually stuck a world of what-ifs, a lonely man struggles to discern what is real and what is unreal. Set in present-day Singapore, this film explores loneliness and aging, the possibilities and consequences of a man choosing a life alone.
Kain Baigent, Stig Wemyss
Hollywood Vamps
Best Music Video
It is a part of unknown history in late 60s when Soviets are threatening of bombing major Chinese cities. A group of university intellectuals, together with their families settle down in an isolated village where is unaffected by Cultural Revolution.
Pam Price
A Serenade
Best Television Script - Pilot
The year is 1984. After suffering from a weak heart for most of his adult life ALFREDO SALVATORI, a gentleman in his 60s, is awaiting a heart transplant. As his health declines, he decides to hire a live-in carer for safety.
Pam Price
SMELL OF PAIN-T
Best Dance Video
Una storia di violenza strisciante sottolinea l'eterna questione della doppia natura umana. Una lacerazione.
DAMIANO ROSSI
DAGGERS AND ROSES. HANDGUNS
Best Web-Series
Stir presents us with the story of Ruby, currently turned into a hitwoman. Amoeba imposing its will of order in Ciudad Paraiso. Night Angel, Dragon Eyes, and the League of Assassins, face their destinies with full violence..... Stir, based on the short film The Spirit of Shadows.
juan manuel fagetti
La sposa nel vento - The bride in the wind
Best Feature Documentary, Best Educational Film
A group of artists organize a day to remember all the women who were victims of violence. Through a series of performances, they craft a collective yet personal story, that talks about their lives and about the lives of others, moving between past, present and future.
Fred G Stemme
Whispers - full cover page (with name and contact information)
Best Horror Screenplay
Two children face the neglect and violence of their parents every day. If they want to get out alive, they will have to accept the help of supernatural forces, however, all help comes at a price.
Andre Schuck
The Split
Best Historical Screenplay
Based on true events, this is the story of three lives intertwined; a 1960's London sporting hero turned gold thief, a sick child and a grieving daughter, determined to uncover her family's secrets, finding far more than she ever could have bargained for.
nicola green
Time
Best Short Screenplay
After trying their luck at rock and roll fame, 4 friends embark on a hilarious journey to get their fame and fortune.
Mario Luis Telles
School of Idiots by Sheldon Mashugana
Best Short Film
Comedy like Cheech and Chong and the Three Stooges
Dean Morgan
For the Greater Good
Best Short Film
When three people are introduced to The Better Earth Program, they learn that one of them must make the ultimate sacrifice.
Michael Gavino
Twilight Zone: The Worst Accident in Film History
Best Short Documentary
Three people were killed during the Steven Spielberg production of Twilight Zone: The Movie, making it the worst accident in film history.
Robert Jones
No Expectations
Best Feature Film
A young singer tries to escape her working class background as her brother slips into a life of crime.
Bob Jones
FALLING
Best Experimental Film
"Falling" is the third season/film of the Cycle of Life series, using my Cineflow concept. At this stage, we can often feel the rapid passing of time. We feel we are still of value, but time overwhelms us and engulfs us. Our brilliant colors slolwly wash away.
Miguel Raymond
May 12, 2022
Best Short Documentary
A meandering view of street life in Paris.
Mark Street
Flutter
Best Short Documentary
“Attention without object is a supreme form of prayer” Simone Veil Fragments and minor moments coalesce and argue in this paean to overlooked and forgotten sketches.
Mark Street
Clear Ice Fern
Best Feature Script
Images shot through architectural glass on Super 8 film in the dead of night in NYC. The title refers to one of the glass samples I used to frame up images of Times Square and other nightspots in NYC. The city peeks its head in as an off screen character, but the glass bends and twists it in its own warped and wonderful way.
Terry Luke Podnar
Suomi daredevil
Best Animation
An intimate, casual and amusing conversation between two long expatriated persons living in Finland. One being an expatriate for a longer time than the other.
Claude Bouillin
Crowded
Best Animation
Crowded is a hand-drawn erase and redraw animation featuring a disappearing and reappearing entity who continually changes form throughout the film.
Nathania Rubin
Duty
Best Feature Script
A young Father is haunted by the loss of his Wife and child. Now as Christmas and the season of goodwill approaches, strange happenings occur, and he investigates - only to set in motion a chain of events which uncover the truth of their deaths.
Anthony Ford
T'es Belle
Best Covid-19 Film
An American art student locked down in Paris during the pandemic pursues a risky connection with an older Frenchman she meets on a dating app.
Eva MeiLing Pollitt
Meeting Director Sam Peckinpah
Best Feature Film, Best Female Screenwriter
One cold morning at the Apachieland saloon two men walked in and sat at the end of the bar to my right. One was a big fellow with wavy hair down to his shoulders, mustached and bearded---he looked like he’d seen better days.
Nancee LaFayette
The Waves in Eflat & F (A Conversation with my Mother)
Best Experimental Film
A drawing of a keyboard in the sand is erased by the incoming tide.
Karen Leone Trask
EarthLove
Best Dance Video
Earth Love is a poetic music/dance film with 6 dancers, filmed in the city of Malmo, south of Sweden. "There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us.
Felicia Konrad, Johan Haugen
Precious Balance Walk
Best Experimental Film
6 Nordic Performance Artists invited to perform in, and with water. Filmed in the waters of Öresund, at Ribergsborg city beach, Malmö, Sweden. "We are all water in the same Ocean" Yoko Ono
Felicia Konrad, Johan Haugen
Tom and Luce
Best Feature Film
A couple in crisis is about to renovate an apartment. The state of the walls is like the state of their relationship.
Muxel Paule
The hunter and the girl with Pokemon
Best Educational Film
Maurice, a seventy years old man, walks in the forest; when he hears a noise. The old man aims his rifle in the direction the noise is coming from. He is ready to kill the animal. At this time, Maurices' life will change for ever.
Wirickx Didier Wirickx
PHYLLIS
Best Actress
PHYLLIS, beautiful and charming, relies on cocktails to keep her demons at bay. The painful fragility beneath her proud defiance is laid bare as the lonely night closes in.
roberta pyzel
Monk Arsenije
Best Feature Documentary
The intimate portrait of Monk Arsenie, once a Belgradian cult figure from the ’80s who has been living as a monk for the past 30 years, is engaged in restoring and creating a spiritual and cultural center in the Monastery of Ribnica, which had been destroyed by the Turks in the 19th century.
Svetlana Cemin
Dior Lover_Natasa Lanieri Shakespeare
Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Producer
SYNOPSIS of the film "Dior Lover", genre drama, comedy: Dior Lover works for a gourmet factory, yet she also draws Dior Fashion sketches hoping to work for Dior one day.
Natasa Lanieri Shakespeare
Murder of doubt
Best Horror
(Spoiler alert!) Anna is paranoia after breaking up with her boyfriend. Later on she helps save another girl. She ends up in a sanatorium and escapes to the beach.
Arthur X
The forgotten
Best Short Documentary
2023, Laik, Quentin, two homeless people take us into their difficult daily lives and show us how they survive in their precarious situations. On the other hand, we have the marauders who help the homeless as best they can and testify to what they can see in a community forgotten by society...
Maxime LEFEBVRE
SAVE SKIN SAVE LIFE
Best Educational Film
Cancer is not one disease but many more types with different conditions each with its own name and treatment. Skin cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the skin.
DINESH SHUKLA
Family entertainment
Best Short Film
It’s ABBA night on Mallorca, but before things get started, the wll known entertainer Totte warms up the audience with some gospel. Family entertainment, puts a twist on woke culture with a charter satire that pinches where it hurts.
Johanna Ställberg
Corsican Diaries
Best Experimental Film
After a global economic collapse, civil wars break out and engulf Europe. Then the great powers end up fighting each other, causing chaos.
Cyrill d'Agata
Smoking Kills
Best Short Film
One morning after Karl, Julia's husband, leaves for work, she lets herself be tempted by a last cigarette ... But smoking Kills.
Steven LUCHEL
Q 1
Best Original Score
Moving mandala what I started with a simple circle . I was interested what are the possibilities of such simple basic programme as Windows paint .
Silvano Perozic
ZAUBERWEGE - On the path to music
Best Short Documentary, Best Educational Film
Salzburg, the city of Mozart, of music and of musicians: who are they, what do they do and why? what is music to them? what is behind the beauty and the emotions of their concerts?
Francesca Canali
Pharaoh
Best Feature Script, Best Historical Screenplay
"He will taste my revenge!" On his deathbed, the Pharaoh's Architect tells his sons he made a secret entrance to the Royal Treasury, giving them access to vast amounts of gold and jewels.
Dimitri Devyatkin
Insects and Worms
Best Dark Comedy
A culinary political satire.
Graham Pike
Silently, in me...
Best Short Film
Nanda, a hearing and speech-impaired clay artist from a village in South India, lives in a world of beautiful silence. Soon, she experiences her first pangs of love but is wracked by her insecurities.
Anup Narayanan
That Girl from Ukraine
Best Feature Film
This is a story inspired by true events, about a girl who moved out of Ukraine, because of the war in her country.
Mohinder Pal Singh Sobti
The Smile of December
Best Feature Film
With an overall theme of fatherhood, a man raises two sons (who lead very opposite lives as adults) after being blackmailed into marrying a woman he does not love - a woman who was raped and impregnated by his best friend; a rape that alters and defines who these people are.
Jonathan Vickers
Best Feature Script
A merger announcement begins to unravel the lives of Jamie and Sophie in ways they could never imagine. The Russian Mob has been the invisible hand in their lives and now that hand is about to reveal the truth.
T Anderson
Ghostfree
Best Short Film
David, an American businessman living in Taipei, needs to become free from his past. His dead girlfriend haunts him in his dreams.
Susanne Palm
Sukoon
Best Short Film
Ahsan Mihnas, Marwan Elbakri
Oba Omo (The King Child)
Oba Omo (The King Child)
A performance art piece that uses movement, sound, and costume to bring the oral folk tradition of Ibeji into the 21st century.
Seun Richards
EYO
Best Animation
This narrative animated film boasts the rich heritage of Eyo in Lagos, Nigeria. Set In a post-apocalyptic era where all else is gone and only cultural heritage remains.
Temiloluwa Esther Ami-Williams, Andreas Aristidou
Here
Best Experimental Film
‘Here’ is about discovering our reality by connecting with nature that co exists in a world filled with reveries and illusion. Everything is ‘Here’, we only find what we seek.
Chandni Srivastava
Laura
Best Short Film
Contrainte de quitter la ville et soin quotidien bruyant, Laura se rend dans une maison à la campagne où ne l'attendent pas que des souvenirs...
François Albaranes
The Treacherous Border
Best First-Time Screenwriter
Script for a feature film to be make as an independent film that portrays a current issue that is affecting thousands and is a crisis happening right now, crossing the U.S./Mexican border illegally.
Lawrence Michael Watson
I WAS 12. AND THEN…
Best Feature Film
When a love story tinged with poetry unravels a conflict.
Jean-Claude NADER
THE LINGERING
Best Short Film
The moments after a woman kills her abusive partner.
CK Love
Hair In A Bag
Best Feature Documentary
Hair In A Bag An artist visits his family for the holidays, only to discover the old cat he grew up with has a terminal condition.
Adam Schlachter
The Last Day
Best Animation
The old man has nightmares again. He wakes up by the sound of someone trying to play on his old and out of tunes piano. He knows that his time will soon be over. There is only one more thing he has to do…
Margaret Emdal
The Absence of Memory
Best Short Documentary
The Absence of Memory is an animated documentary that brings together the collective experience of multiple individuals used to survive an atmosphere designed to suppress their individuality.
Brian Yulo Ng
HOLD MY HAND
Best Short Film
Masha is over forty, and she is pregnant. The event is long-awaited and joyful - she and her husband really want children.
Alexandra Alekhina
If Cities Could Dance: J-Setting Atlanta
Best LGBTQ+ Film
J-Setting: The Acrobatic LGBTQ Dance sensation that traveled From Southern Historically Black Colleges to the Clubs of Atlanta | KQED Arts
Fr3deR1cK Jerome Taylor
Rise
Best Covid-19 Film
Banjo has been in Covid lockdown for months, will it ever end?
Rod Lara
ESSENCE ON TIME FRAMES
Best Short Film
Maryana is one woman who climbs into a taxi searching for her true essence and her freedom in a never endless journey. This trip will never end. She knows is supposed to be like that and the World goes on rather she want or not
Luis Dias
The Great Dorito
Best Comedy Screenplay
Teodoro is a great businessman at the distribution area. He has no children, as far as it is known, and at his 60´s he still lives with his mother.
Pedro Gil Vasconcelos
Masked Fighter. Mixed martial arts was born in Japan. 1985
Best Feature Documentary
The main character is the professional wrestler Super Rider. He is a former mixed martial arts champion and the first disciple of the first Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama).
Kenji Ogusu
FOSSIL of JUNE
Best Feature Film
Akira and Haruko Nishida, an elderly couple, visit an abandoned mountain village for the first time in 50 years to visit a grave.
Hiroshi Toda
The Deadly Deposit
Best Feature Script
Deadly Deposit is a suspense/thriller about a real estate agent closing a big deal who puts a $2 million payment in the wrong bank account of a struggling entrepreneur, who spends the money to finance a unique invention for pets.
Gini Graham Scott
An Ever After Drama
Best Short Film, Best Romance, Best Actress, Best Young Actress
An Aspiring Hollywood star is swept away in a fairytale day with the worlds youngest French billionaire as she begin to get a taste of his world and ponder the possibility for something more.
Michelle Lynn
The Silver Slipper Club
Best Feature Script
In 1926, Magnolia arrives in Luck at the Big Apple, with her new Love, "Lucky Luciano", New York's most ruthless gangster.
Michelle Lynn
Pivot During CoVid
Best Mobile Film
Filmmaker Tom DiDonato contracts the OMNICRON virus during the Christmas holidays in 2021. He documents his journey back to health.
Tom DiDonato
out of control
Best Animation
Machines and robots take care of almost all human activities. The world is automated, and meaningful individual employment isn't possible anymore.
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Reminiscences
Best Experimental Film
They come from everywhere... From here, from elsewhere, from the bowels of the ancestors... They intervene and testify, these voices; they hammer and seek not only to denounce the ineffable, but also to show the way to resilience.
Ella MOUN
MUDAR
Best No-Dialogue Film
davide canali
Ina's Circle
Best Feature Documentary
A documentarian is shocked to learn that the two paintings hanging in his childhood home were created by a relative born in 1888.
William LORTON
The Protectors of Nature (English Subtitles) XP Transfer
Best Fantasy
Cycles follow one to another and sometimes leave traces of past times.
Fabrizio MASINI
Lost Images
Best Experimental Film
This film is about a life left behind in a distant land, about a final departure, memory and loss, love and dead birds, visions and blindness. A visual poem also inspired by a drawing by Egon Schiele.
Cesare Bedogne
Izzy's Demons
Best Animation
Izzy is a person who struggles with the decision to reconnect with an old friend. As she gives into her jealousy for her friend’s success, she makes a decision that her subconscious does not let her get away with so easy.
Greg Garay
HEARTWORK
Best Black & White Film
Through the merging of 16mm film and HD Video, shot exclusively at night in B&W. This film explores the consequences of unintegrated childhood trauma, and its growth into adulthood by feeding on fear, anger and grief.
Benjamin Filinson
The Mechanics of Intimacy
Best Experimental Film
The Mechanics of Intimacy is the third installment in a series of Experimental films exploring the process of realizing emotional responsibility.
Benjamin Filinson
Don't Cry
Best Animation
A Palestinian girl, a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman meet at a celestial lake, the meeting triggers a conflict between the man and the woman caused by previous encounter, the girl tries to mediate. Will she succeed? Would it be possible to bridge between them?
Hisham Zreiq
Best Experimental Film
"WOMAN" reveals the three archetypes that all women utilize throughout their lives. The Mother is Unconditional Love, The Hunter is search for the Truth and The Witch is Wisdom and Intuition.
Lillian Carter
They're coming
Best Covid-19 Film
During the Covid lockdown, some friends pay a stranger to spend an evening together in his cellar... They think they're alone, safe from the neighbors and the threat of the police, but the evening turns into a nightmare when they discover that other people are coming.
Léonore Calles
The Wall
Best Short Film
Three young friends mysteriously find themselves in a white room guarded by a strange character.
Léonore Calles
WHEN WE WERE GUYS
Best Feature Script, Best Drama Screenplay
Los Angeles California 90’s; During a night spent with his gang formed by budding teen criminals and bullies, the leader John Connor fearless overbearing and aimless bully challenges a shy and awkward boy Michael Pain to join his gang.
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Handsome Sailor of Rock'n Roll
Best Feature Documentary
Erkut Taçkın is the first Rock'n Roll perfromer of Turkey and Athough he is 76, he still can perform on stage. 'Handsome Sailor Of Rock'n Roll' is the portrait of this extra ordinary entertainer
Kagan Olgunturk
The Happy Statue
Best Animation
The story of a bronze statue with a strong pose that inspires many on a daily basis. One day, a little girl notices that the statue is hiding how it truly feels and she decides to do something to help him out.
Curtis Fulster, Tony Pham
RED STORM
Best Historical Screenplay
In the 1800s, a Sioux woman was raped by American soldiers, and her American husband and children were slayed by them. She survives the attack, and takes revenge on them.
Peter Noel
Scorpio
Best Actor
The love story between a novelist and his muse ends up abruptly with the revealing of an unexpected secret.
Zoran Zonde Stojanovski
Saint-Désir l'Exil
Best Experimental Film
In the heart of Saint-Désir l'Exil there is a swimming pool. In the heart of the pool are the noxious bodies. Next to the pool, my mother lives her last moments under the sun.
Natacha Nisic
Kairos
This is a film, with cinematographic language in an experimental style, which approaches the Kairós time, in the sense of lived time, showing that a thought can create experiences in different situations and in multiple different times.
JOSE LIVINO PINHEIRO LOPES
Templin Highway
Best Romantic Screenplay
"Hounded by mysterious space aliens and sinister men in black, an underemployed roofer struggles to hang on to his disaffected girlfriend." Science Fiction / Romance, an escalating whirlwind adventure with quirky characters, situational humor and a happy ending.
William Prosser
Requiem For Lugosi
Best Horror
Two vampire lovers, one a European aristocrat, the other a former East German Intelligence Officer are pursued by a team of hunters dispatched by the Vatican. Hunters become hunted as a web of intrigue and blood closes in around all of them.
MIke Buckendorf
STATIONED
Best Experimental Film
STATIONED project is postmodern in nature. It started with a discussion about the role of perception in memory and compulsive behaviour. The viewer is invited to partake in the creative process by coming up with their own narrative for the film.
Anne Gart
Retri3ution
Best Short Film
3 spirits in the afterlife seeks revenge on their serial killer by sending him to hell on earth by lightning, fire and other elements of torture.
Michael W. Reid
Street Beat
Best Short Documentary
This is a rockumentary short film from Matilda Mother band´s second visit to New York. During visit in July 2023 they created a new music album called A Closer View. The trip had a loose mission: to get a feel of New York mostly by walking around, then to transfer those feelings into words and music.
Ninel Grönholm
The Happiness Angel
When a famous stress management influencer gets tasered trying to stop a suspected kidnapping, the 50,000 volt shockwave triggers another side to her… a killer hell-bent on strangling her lovers mid-act.
David M Hinds
FORECLOSURE
Best Experimental Film
FORECLOSURE is an art-house science fiction drama re-imagined from the classic movie footage of ‘The Last Man On Earth’ by the Italian director Ubaldo Ragona.
Maki NatalisGroup
Lucinda´s Pandora
Best Short Film, Best Drama, Best Director
A woman destroys the life of her new love out of nowhere and faces her hidden self in the shadow of this existence.
Sylvia Piechocki Gonzalez
The Spring of life
Best Director Debut
THE SPRING OF LIFE is a comedy movie about adolescence, and student life. It follows a double cast story about two friends who live in center of Zagreb.
Borna Armanini
Planetary Rebellion
Best Music Video
what is real? if you change your point of view, you might be surprised.
Fabrizio Fuochi
In God's Hand
Best Short Documentary
The war in Ukraine has created a humanitarian crisis with over 100,000 orphans. By faith operation care international travelled to war torn Ukraine to meet the spiritual and physical needs of this displaced families and orphans. Even in the darkness of war we saw the light and hope of Jesus and many miracles.
Andy Costa
ANIMAL MESSENGER - A True Story
Best First-Time Screenwriter
"ANIMAL MESSENGER" is the true story about a woman who communicates telepathically with a variety of animals including Keiko the orca whale after his starring role in the movie, "Free Willy."
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The Bobbsey Twins Go to Hell
Best Comedy Screenplay
To break a family curse, descendants from the present-day attempt to escape hell with their dead relatives from the 1930s and 1980s by saving them from their discriminatory ways when Lucifer traps them in the underworld.
Gil Luna
True Friend
Best Drama
When Mr. Walker comes into debt with the wrong kind of people, a lifelong friend steps in to repay them.
Matthew J. Roch
It Doesn't Matter
Best Music Video
This is a music video of a mother & daughter embracing themselves the way God made them.
Gwendolyn McDowell
The Romanian Incident
Best Feature Script
A Cold War KGB agent arrives at a Romanian hotel during a raging blizzard only to become involved in an assassination, a murder, and a collection of international spies.
Simon King
Somebody's Baby
Best Comedy Screenplay
A homeless woman who, driven by grief, snatches a baby.
Gil Luna
The Hearts that Foster Care
Best Short Documentary
Non profit organization in Austin TX FUNDamentals for Foster Care whos mission is to promote healthy and positive mentors to help foster children succeed
Paul Brenno
Punched After The Fact
Best Feature Film
Loving referred to as a (psycho-antic-coma-drama-ller) and underpinned by social anxiety, depression and mental illness and free will vs determinism
Ian Fowler, Gabriel Isaac Lakey
The Space Between Words
Best Feature Film
Trauma, love, and healing examined through the lens of a sweet film with gentle, likable characters and a lot to say. She won’t drive, she doesn’t use a cell phone and she’s VERY done talking about feelings…
Ian Fowler
Deoch Dance
Best No-Dialogue Film
Deoch Dance centres around Sheila who is weighed down from the effects of living with active addiction.
Orlagh Heverin
I/O (Input-Output)
Best Female Screenwriter, Best Sci-fi Screenplay
A twelve-year-old girl unwittingly becomes the only hope for humankind's salvation after she loses I/O, which she believes to be a high-stakes virtual game she wanted to win for her father. (Updated version September 11, 2023 - Version 1.6.1)
Molly J Vernon
Four on the Mantle
Best Short Film
Two couples in the same family face a new pregnancy, one for the first time, the other with a sorrowful past. After a miscarriage, the family dynamics change and they must learn to deal with tragedy in a whole new way.
Rachel Jacob
The Space Between Words
Best Feature Film
Trauma, love, and healing examined through the lens of a sweet film with gentle, likable characters and a lot to say. She won’t drive, she doesn’t use a cell phone and she’s VERY done talking about feelings…
Ian Fowler
WINNERS
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The WHITE SNAKE
Yang Ju Chiang
Best Cinematography
"Hallelujah"
Zeff Lawless
Best Musical Screenplay
90 Days of Games
James Merendino
Best Covid-19 Film
a LIV e
Jim Winton Porter, Hanni Witt
Best Young Actress
A kidnapping on Asylum Hill
Eric Burton Ramsey
Best Black & White Film
A Tale of Two Cities in 4 Episodes
Michael O'Rourke
Best Adapted Screenplay
ATLAS OF UNCERTAINTY (7'15'')
Massimo Vito Avantaggiato
Best Sound Design
Haenyeo
Ralph T Vituccio
Best Short Documentary
CARPET, THE
Shamil Aliyev
Best Feature Script
CODE 10
Matthew Margo
Best Detective Screenplay
Cruise of the Amberjack
E. Lyn Foster
Best Historical Screenplay
HELP
Lesley Manning
Best Super Short Script
HOLY CITY
Terri Thomas
Best LGBTQ Screenplay
I WAS 12. AND THEN… When a love story tinged with poetry unravels a conflict.
Matthew Margo
Best Synopsis
It Really Is About Me
Karen Mussette
Best Social Screenplay
MOKSHA
Saurin Lakhia
Best Sci-fi Screenplay
MOUNT MORA
Eric Gerard Sollars, Michael David Sollars, Geoffrey Durand Sollars
Best Action Screenplay
Sliding into Momentum: Life in Junior A Baseball
James Anthony McElligott
Best Sport Film
Ray's Second Act
Robert Toms
Best Mobile Film
Best Television Script - Pilot
The Whispering Chimeras
Jordi Avalos
Best Thriller Screenplay (Short/Feature)
Taste of Glory
Rey Zane
Best First-Time Screenwriter
The Curse of Leap Castle
Zeff Lawless, Derek Carroll
Best Horror Screenplay
Uprooted
Ghada Youssef
Best Symbolic Film
The Ride
Alysha Haran
Best Short Screenplay
Best Young Actor
Best Closing Credits
Best Color Editing
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Makeup
Best Scenography
Best VFX
Best Supporting Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Honorable mentions
CODE 10
Matthew Margo
Best Action Screenplay
Best Crimi Screenplay
Best Thriller Screenplay
A kidnapping on Asylum Hill
Eric Burton Ramsey
Best BLM Film
ONCE UPON A TIME ON BORDER
Umut Ulaş ER
Best Actor
A Broken Heart & the Immortal Hen
Benjamin Sarno
Best Drama Screenplay
The WHITE SNAKE
Yang Ju Chiang
Best Scenography
ALCANZA EL SOL
(REACH FOR THE SUN)
Douglas May
Best Psychological Screenplay
Brothers of Babylon
Gabriel Womack
Best First-Time Screenwriter
CAUGHT
Kim Karpanty
Best Sound Design
Breakfast In Bed
Zay Rodriguez
Best Mobile Film
HOLY CITY
Terri Thomas
Best Social Screenplay
Danger
Ned Stresen-Reuter
Best Music Video
Love at first slide
Shihyun Wang
Best Comedy
Mera Bhalu
Mariella Spagnolo
Best Short Screenplay
Lily's - Sacred Journey
Benjamin Kennedy
Best Producer
Nesselrode
Jim Norman
Best Comedy Screenplay
Riding On Duke's Train-GGG
Ken Kimmelman, Mick Carlon
Best Adapted Screenplay
RED FAUST
Zsolt Pozsgai
Best Historical Film
Roses in the Night
Pencho Kunchev
Best Animation
Ray's Second Act
Robert Toms
Best LGBTQ+ Film
Sunday In The Park With Clare
Johnny Vonneumann
Best Young Actress
Standing in Line
Jules Corriere
Best Super Short Script
Talking Cure
Maren Krüger
Best No-Dialogue Film
The Rascals of Red Square
Jimmy Miller
Best Fantasy
Welfare Check
Devon John Doyle
Best Color Editing