GOLD AWARD WINNERS
MAIN CATEGORY
FEATURES
BEST FEATURE FILM - DRAMA
Free Slave (dir. Mehmet Tanrısever, Turkey)
BEST FEATURE FILM - COMEDY
Lift (dir. Alexander Kaminer, USA)
BEST FEATURE FILM - FIRST-TIME FILMMAKER
Lie Low (dir. Jamie Noel, United Kingdom)
BEST FEATURE FILM - FOREIGN
Bozkir Look at the Birds (dir. Mehmet Tanrısever, Turkey)
BEST FEATURE FILM - MYSTERY / THRILLER
Exit 0 (dir. E.B. Hughes, USA)
BEST FEATURE FILM - FAMILY / FAITH
Boarding Pass (dir. Mehdi Rahmani, Iran)
BEST FEATURE FILM - EXPERIMENTAL
Last Call (dir. Gavin Michael Booth, Canada)
BEST FEATURE FILM - DOCUMENTARY
Soldiers Without Guns (dir. Will Watson, New Zealand)
SHORTS
BEST SHORT FILM - DRAMA
The Dishwasher (dir. Sam Roden & Nick Hartanto, USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - WAR / MILITARY
LEAD (dir. Benjamin Leichtenstern, Germany)
BEST SHORT FILM - COMEDY
Lady Hater (dir. Alexandra Barreto, USA)
Bunker Burger (dir. Adam Yorke, Canada)
BEST SHORT FILM - FAMILY / FAITH
Way Out (dir. Liv Li, USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - FOREIGN
I Will Wait (dir. Mohammed Sherwani, Iran)
BEST SHORT FILM - ACTION
#QuiProQuo (dir. Liil Serge Mbeutcha, France)
BEST SHORT FILM - SOCIAL AWARENESS
Yoo Kyung (dir. Simon McEnteggart, Republic of Korea)
BEST SHORT FILM - MYSTERY / THRILLER
Nasty Habits (dir. Allisyn Arm, USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - SCI-FI / FANTASY
HA:NA (dir. Isadora Verissimo, USA)
Relicious (dir. Eugenio Villani & Raffaele Palazzoo, Italy)
BEST SHORT FILM - DOCUMENTARY
Violet is Blue: A Tale of Gibbons and Guardians
(Alex M. Azmi, Director / Michael Thau & Dan Watt, Producers)
BEST SHORT FILM - HORROR
The Desecrated (dir. John Gray, USA)
Killer Date (dir. Colton Tran, USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - STUDENT
East of the River (dir. Hannah Peterson, USA)
Erin (dir. Myles Yaksich, USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - FIRST-TIME FILMMAKER
Heroines (dir. Katia Badalian, USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - LOVE IS LOVE
Lucky (dir. Lydia Lane, USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - ANIMATION
My Mother’s Eyes (dir. Jenny Wright, USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - SILENT
His Hands (dir. Arron Blake & Darius Shu, United Kingdom)
BEST SHORT FILM - EXPERIMENTAL
Triskelion (dir. Stuart T Birchall, United Kingdom)
BEST SHORT FILM - SPORTS / INSPIRATIONAL
Champ (dir. Tomislav Vujcic, Germany)
BEST MICROFILM
Dog in the Woods (dir. Christian Chapman & Paul Jason Hoffman, USA)
BEST COMMERCIAL / PSA
Pink Tax PSA (dir. Dominique Cruz, USA)
BEST TRAILER
M (Trailer) (dir. Javier Devitt, Argentina)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“The Assistant”
(Performed by Pac Lane from the film “The Assistant”)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE / COMPOSITION
The Ribbon (Composed by Jonathan Galland, USA)
BEST POSTER
Killer Date
WEB SERIES / TV PILOT
BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT
M (dir. Javier Devitt, Argentina)
MUSIC VIDEO
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Under the Moonlight (dir. Jia Shijun, China)
SCREENPLAY
BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
Perfect Contrition
(by James Palmer USA)
BEST SHORT SCRIPT
The Hero in 9B
(by Michael Horwitz & Molly Knight Raskin, USA)
BEST TV SCRIPT
Pneuma, California
(by Maximilliano W.C. Del Rio, USA)