WINNERS 2018
FEATURE FILMS
OCTAV - Best Feature, Serge Ioan Celebidachi
SINGLE PALM TREE - Best Experimental Foreign Feature, Puthiyavan Rasiah
ELEVEN ELEVEN - Best Romance-Comedy Feature, Chris Redish
THE LAST DIVIDE - Best Feature Action Film, Paul Kimball
GT STUBBY - An Unlikely Hero - Best Animation Feature, Richard Lanni
JOURNEY TO HOPE - Best inspirational Feature Documentary, Anita Kruse
DARK IRON- Best Foreign Feature, Jerzy Bojanowski
9-22- Best Animation Feature, Bamdad Bahar
& - Best Experimental Feature, Cedric van Eenoo
ONE,TWO,GUESS WHO'S WHO- Best First Feature Film Award, System
VANDETTA GAMES- Best Crime & Thriller Feature, Andre Joseph
FEELING YOU- Best Foreign Romance-Fantasy Feature, Yuez Zeng
SHORT FILMS
HIROFUMI’S SUITCASE - Best Foreign Short, Natasja Pattipeilohy
NANA’S ROOM - Best Short Story, Mitch Roberson
TEN THOUSAND CAMELS - Best Short Film, Kent Flaagan
ABOUT PATIENCE - Best Foreign Drama Short, Till Gmuer
RIVERS - Best Experimental Short, Graciela Cassel
THE WAITING ROOM - Best Short Script Debra Markowitz
REPLACING YOSHI - Best Short Drama Student, Alec Cohen
THE ROOT OF HAPPINES - Best Short, First time filmmaker, Andy Truschinski
QUANDARY - Best Short Comedy, Tom Soter, Christian Doherty
THE SALESMAN - Best Short Fantasy, Richard Corso
LIMBO - Best Experimental-SciFi Short, Gokce Erenmemisoglu
FAT FOUGHT - Best Short Animation Story, Nancy Marshall
HARLS - Best Short Animation, Kenzie Sutton
CRIMINALS- Best SciFi/Futuristic Short, Gabrielle Hawkins
LEAVING MALCOLM- Best Short Student, Lucas Ruderman
THE LONG WET GRASS- Best Historical Short, Justin Davey
THE HUN- Best Short Student Narrative, Tyler Mendelson
DOCUMENTARIES & EXPERIMENTALS
FLOWERS OF MARRAKECH - Best Short Documentary/Social subject, Yuntong Man
The Kaleidoscope Guy at the Market - Best Short inspirational Documentary, Russell Brown
GASLIGHT - Best Short Dance Experimental, Mimi Garrard
ANUMASA - Best Historical Documentary Short, Adam Thomason
WEBISODE / NEW MEDIA
BROKERS - Best Web & New Media, Talya Klein
LET’S LOVE - Best Foreign Short Web/New Media, Cláudio Pitanga
TEAM MARS - Best Short Web/New Media, Steve O'Reilly, Andy Ferguson, Damien Drake
PIGS IN A BOWL-Best Comedy Webisode, Emmitt Thrower
TV / MUSIC VIDEO
BIKE SONG - Best Music Video, Andrea Morgan, Matthew Fernicola
THE EMOJI SONG- Best Experimental Music Video, Ben Rauch, Adam Volerich
THE GIFT- Best Music Video Story, Alex Ho
INSOMNIA- Best Documentarial Music Video, Olga and Andrii Andreiev
SCREENPLAYS
LIFE, LOVE, SEX & DEATH - Best Feature Screenplay, Gordon S. Williams
DON - Best Feature Drama Screenplay, Alberto Battistutti
HOBO - Best Horror Feature Screenplay, Henry Gravelle
FAST ASLEEP - Best Horror Short Screenplay, Patrick Gamble
BLACK INK PEARL- Best Sci-Fiction Feature Screenplay, Ruth Finnegan
FLYING BIRD’S DIARY - Best Historical Feature Screenplay, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
LITTLE EARTHQUAKES - Best LGBT Drama Screenplay, Todd Bird
GOLD DIGGERS- Best Comedy Feature Screenplay, Ian Burns
TEN THOUSAND CAMELS - Best Short Screenplay, Kent Flaagan
CAST & ACTING
OCTAV - Best Actor in Feature Film, Marcel Iures
THE SALESMAN - Best Actor in Short Film, Brent Podosek
UNVOICED - Best Actress in Short Film, Ilaria Malvezzi
THERE’S ALWAYS ONE - Best Ensemble Cast, Feature
ARSON - Best Ensemble Cast, Short
BROKERS - Best Ensemble Team, Best Web & New Media
EDITING, CINEMATOGRAPHY, SOUND
TEN THOUSAND CAMELS - Best Sound Design, Nihan Yesil
TEN THOUSAND CAMELS - Best Soundtrack-Original Score, Nihan Yesil
JUST TO BE FRANK - Best Cinemotography Short, Bruce Wabbit
OCTAV - Best Feature Cinematography, Blasco Giurato
TEN THOUSAND CAMELS - Best Editing Short, Hillary Larson
DIRECTING & PRODUCING
THE WAITING ROOM - Best Woman Director, Debra Markowitz
IN THE FIELD- Best Woman Producer, Tesia Walker
ST.JOSEPH - Best Woman filmmaker in short screenwriting, Kathrina Miccio
NORA EPHRON GOES TO PRISON - Best Women Theme Short film, Hannah Elless
UNDER PRESSURE - Best Young Filmmaker-Short film, Gabe Schmidt
NANA’S ROOM - Best Producer in Short Film, Mitch Roberson
ARSON - Best Director in Short Film-Drama, Christopher Ortiz
A DATE WITH SHILLELAGH - Best Producer-Foreign Short, Keith Large
OCTAV- Best Director in Feature Film, Serge Ioan Celebidachi
OCTAV- Best Producer in Feature Film, Adela Vrinceanu Celebidachi
VIDEO ART
ALIEN THREADS - Best Experimental Short-Video Art, Eva Ingolf
AN ART VIDEO- Best Video Art-Live Action, Steven Siegel
GRAND JURY AWARDS
KOMMANDO 1944 - Grand Jury Award, Short Film, Derek Quick
EXPEND - Grand Jury Student Film Award, Bismark Fernandes
MINGLE - Grand Jury First Short Film Award, Ty Cooper
FATHER AND FATHER – Grand Jury Best Short Comedy Award, Mark Goldman
HE CALLS THEM ALL BY NAME- Best Short Drama , Chad Sogas
HALF AN HOUR CAFE - Grand Jury Award-Feature Screenplay, Eric Futterman
TEN THOUSAND CAMELS-Grand Jury Award-Best Actors-Michael Thayer, Daniel Fleming
NANA’S ROOM - Grand Jury Award, Best Woman Director in Short Film, Kaye Tuckerman
UNVOICED- Grand Jury Award, Best Director in Short Film, Jeremiah Kipp
THE PHANTASMAGORIA OF OFFENSE- Grand Jury Award-Best Experimental Documentary, Jessica Irish
HONORABLE MENTIONS
OF A 6 - YEAR - OLD GIRL - Honorable Mention Short Documentary, Jessica Robles
THE FIXIES, TOP SECRET- Honorable Mention Feature Animation, Vasily Bedoshvili, Andrey Kolpin, Ivan Pshonkin
RIDING ON DUKE`S TRAIN-B -Honorable Mention Feature Screeplay, Mick Carlon & Ken Kimmelman
GAP - Honorable Mention Foreign Short Fiction, Gazanfer Biricik
ONE,TWO,GUESS WHO'S WHO- Honorable Mention Feature-Cast & Crew
THE BALKING DEAD-Honorable Mention, Short Animation, John Maslowski
THE CODEPENDENT THERAPIST-Honorable Mention Short Fiction, Tommy McInnis
THERE’S ALWAYS ONE - Honorable Mention Feature Film, George Massimillo
BENT ON SOMNOLENCE - Honorable Mention First Feature Film, Timothy McCarthy
ONE NATION UNDER GOD - Honorable Mention–Faith, Inspirational Feature, Lisa Arnold
MEDITATION - Honorable Mention-Short Experimental, Gilbrando Acevedo, Michael Leavy
THE LITTLEST UNDERTAKER - Honorable Mention-Short, Fantasy, Kevin Molohan
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH - Honorable Mention-Feature Screenplay, Samuel Taylor
I AM NOT THE HERO - Honorable Mention Short, Anurag Massey
FLOWERS - Honorable Mention Short Foreign Drama, Mina Maniska
ASH - Honorable Mention Short Student, Chen Lu
DROP POCKET-Honorable Mention Short Drama-Student, Margaux Hemard
PERCEPTIONS-Honorable Mention Best Actress, Eha Urbsalu
DUMPLING- Honorable Mention, Short Story, Lauren Friedman
HEARTS THAT CROSS BORDERS- Honorable Mention Short Drama, Renee Stork, Anna Just
The Only Sad Person on the Beach- Honorable Mention, Short Foreign language Film, Lily Jiacheng Xu
THE NAKED TRUTH - Honorable Mention, Mid lenght Feature Comedy, Rick Herrera, Guru Enlightment
REPLACING YOSHI - Honorable Mention, Best Young Actress, Sasha Fedderly
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Attn: WINNERS 2018
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