

WINNERS 2017

FEATURE Films
The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle, Best Feature , Fran Burst-Terranella
Safe Harbor Amsterdam -Best First Feature Film Award, Jack Luceno
The Algebra of Need - Best Experimental Feature, David Williams
The World of Which we Dream Doesn't Exist - Best Experimental Foreign Feature, Ayoub Qanir
Promises - Best Romance Feature, Melody Brooke and Michael Henricks
Lend a Hand- Best Foreign Comedy Feature, Raffaella Covino
Spent- Best Feature Comedy, Lisa Mikitarian
Mafiosa - Best Feature Action Film, Yusaku Mizoguchi and Veronica Russo
Is This Now – Best Musical Feature, Joe Scott
SFashion - Best Foreign Horror Feature, Mauro John Capece, Giuseppe Lepore
Nephilim - Best Animation Feature, Danny Wilson
Torments of Love - Best Foreign Feature, Caroline Jules
URVI - Best Foreign Feature Producer , Airier Drreams
Unmarked - Best Young Filmmaker , Alec Ybarra
Back to '97 - Best Foreign Youth Feature Film, Zeca Brito, Leo Garcia
Jungle Book 2016 CC - Best Web/New Media Feature
Documentary Feature:
Unveiled: The Kohistan Video Scandal -Best Feature Documentary: Women Rights Subject, Brishkay Ahmed
All Love Schmidt - Best Foreign Documentary, Lars PapeDirector, Holger Schuermann
Hoda's Story - Best inspirational Feature Documentary, Johan Eriksson
Short Films
(A)utomated (I)rritation - Best Short Story, Bo Liebman
Journey Notes - Best Foreign Short Story, Andrea Natale
Emmott & Rowland - Best Historical Short, Aneel Ahmad
The Example - Best Short Historical Fiction, Wyatt Cagle, Gordon S. Williams, Kenneth Dupuis
New Neighbors - Best Short Film, E.G. Bailey, Sha Cage
Brutal - Best Foreign Drama Short, Hoseung Lee
The Eve - Best Experimental Short, Luca Machnich
Believers - Best Original Short Story, Stephen M. Hunt
A big Love - Best Foreign Short, Max Chicco
Reuben - Best Short Drama Student , Kaisania Calubaquib
Fresh Choppuccino - Best High School Student Film , Anthony Cintron
Cheaters - Best Short Foreign Comedy, Jarrad Bhatia
The Love Suckers - Best Short Comedy, Jim Politano
Invisible Eyes - Best Foreign Short Student, Gustavo Sani
No Sunday West of Newton - Best Western Short, Spencer Cameron
Switch - Best Short Student, Robin Wan
The Barber's Cut - Best Short Horror Comedy, Mark Brocking
Redshift - Best SciFi/Futuristic Short , Benjamin Crane
Triangle - Best SciFi Short, Christopher Fox
Sunny and Gerd in Spring Cleaning - Best Short Animation Story , DaCosta Bayley
Freaktown - Best Foreign Short Animation, Diana Cruz Gonzalez
The Family Blend! - Best Short Animation, Sebastian Foxworth
Memoire - Best Animation Short Student, Collin McAtee
Extinguished - Best Animation Short Student, Ashley Anderson & Jacob Mann
Mum, I'm back - Best LGBT Short Foreign, Dimitris Katsimiris
Bereavement - Best Foreign Short Drama, Yolanda Roman
Identification - Best Foreign Short Film Producer, Julia Deak
4242 - Best Student Short, Sara Eustaquio
Documentaries & Experimentals:
Surviving International Boulevard: Domestic Child Sex Trafficking-Best Short Documentary/
Social subject , Sian Taylor Gowan
The Great Outdoors... - Best Sports Documentary, Jerry Kelleher
From State Prisoner To State Professor - Best inspirational Documentary, Joshua Jackson
My Name is Joan - Best Short Documentary, Margaret Stapor Costa
Alchemy - Best Short Domestic Experimental, Brandon Polanco, Ian Kevin Scott
Not Waving - Best Experimental Foreign Short, Freya Billingto
PM 2.5 - Best Foreign Environmental Subject Short, Piotr Biedroń
Sisi Ni Mashujaa - Best Foreign Short Ethnographical Documentary, Juan Jaume Fernandez
The Underwater Forest - Best Ecological Short Documentary, Ben Raines
Webisode/New Media:
The Family Blend! - Best Web & New Media, Short Animation, Sebastian Foxworth
The Superhost - Best Foreign Short Web / New Media , Britta Thie
anexperimentalviralvlog - Best Short Video Art / Web / New Media , Vasco Diogo
Tv /Music Video:
The Old Man by Indigorado - Best Foreign Music Video, Kenneth Aakerland Berg
My Help - Best Religious Music Video, Darlene TINA Batten
Forty Miles to Macon - Best Documentarial Music Video, Daniel Espeut, Tyler Goforth
Food To Ate - Best Experimental Music Video, Randy Huling
The Theater - Best Trailer, Paul Pastore
New York 2150 - Best TV Pilot, Harry Assouline
Miss Winn's Garden - Best Television Short Director, Shanalyna C. Palmer
Screenplays
Dakota Caves - 2 Miles - Best Short Screenplay, Robert J. Rogers
Farewell Cinema - Best Short Foreign Screenplay, Reinhard J. Steiner
Breathless - Best Short Story , Anaiis Cisco
Never Too Late - Best Screen Play Short/Web Series/TV/Treatment, Bryan Whorton
Twirling At Ole Miss - Best Comedy Short Screenplay, John M Tyson
Santa Klawn - Best Horror Feature Screenplay, Jeffrey Lee DuPree
Mea Culpa - Best Television Screenplay, Leonard Nannarone
American Snake Pit - Best Historical Screenplay, Dan Tomasulo
Cast & Acting
Pajero (The Wanker:) - Best Actor Short Film, Javier Chueca
The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle - Best Actress, April Billingsley
Spent- Best Actor in Feature film, Nick Nerangis
Alchemy - Best Actor in Short Film, Ian Kevin Scott
116 - Best Actress in Short film, Julia Campanelli
Believers - Best Foreign Actress , Allison O'Flynn
GOOD'n Screwed - Best Supporting Actress, Suzanne H. Smart
Triangle - Best Supporting Actress, Margo Goodman
Apples for Bullies - Best Youth Actress , Abigail Friend
Listen - Best Foreign Youth Actor, Mathieu Denesle
Good 'n Screwed - Best Ensemble Cast , Short
Safe Harbour Amsterdam, Best Ensemble Cast, Feature
Editing, Cinematography, Sound
A big Love - Best Editing in Foreign film, Max Chicco
Crime Confidential - Best Foreign Short Editing, Julian Lim, Julia Van Der Hoeven
The Madame in Black - Best Editing, Short,
Spent- Best Editor, Jeff Herberger, Erik Kristopher Myers
Triangle - Best Sound Design, Christopher Fox
Five Minutes with Mary - Best Soundtrack
The Barber's Cut - Best Art Direction, Mark Brocking
Lend a Hand - Best Costume design
The Madame in Black - Best Cinematography in Foreign Short, Jarno Lee Vinsencius
A big Love - Best Cinemotography, Short
Torments of Love - Best Feature Cinematography, Stéphane Patti
Directing & Producing
The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle - Best Women Director ,Fran Burst-Terranella
GOOD'n Screwed - Best women filmmaker in short screenwriting, Joanna Bonaro
Forward - Best Women Theme Short film, Cole Sax
The Lighthouse - Best Short Young Filmmaker ,Mark Leschinsky
The Final Barrier - Best Foreign Feature Director, Jasmin Durakovic
Listen - Best Foreign Director, Short, Niko Mikadze
Spent – Best Producer , Lisa Mikitarian
Another Day - Best Short Director Drama, Marc Lyon Galang
Here Again - Best Veteran Director, Foreign Short, Robin Brockman
Pajero (The Wanker:) - Best Director Foreign Short Comedy, Aitor Gonzalez Iturbe
Creatures of Whitechapel - Best Student Filmmaker, Jonathan Martin
We Are Friends - Best Domestic Short Animation Producer
Video Art
anexperimentalviralvlog - Best Short Video Art
VOICES - Best Experimental Video Art, Alberto Nacci
Imaginary Novels - Best Video Art Animation, Nancy Gifford
Sacred And Profane Faceless Jacks - Best Video Art-Live Action, Vagabond Beaumont
New Song - Best Virtual Reality, Kate Gardner
GRAND JURY AWARDS
Balloon Ride - Grand Jury Award, Best Short Animation, Evan Hughes
The Buzzing of a Bumblebee - Grand Jury Student Film Award, Vladimir Beldian
The blind side - Grand Jury, First Short Film Award, David Manzi
Blockbuster - A Life in Moving Pictures: Grand Jury Award, Feature Film
The Conspiracy Project - Grand Jury Award Short Screenplay , Sarah McKinnon
Is This Now - Grand Jury Award Feature Screenplay, Joe Scott
My Pretty Pony - Best Foreign Short , Maciej Barczewski
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Five Minutes with Mary Honorable Mention Short , Matt Beurois
The shortest are always the best! - Honorable Mention Foreign Short Fiction, Daniel Jenny
January - Honorable Mention - Script writing, Craig Pospisil
It Plays Like Love - Honorable Mention Feature Film, Jeremy Waltman, Adam Lucas
Pompeii, Oregon - Honorable Mention-Feature Animation, Mark Andres
Four Journeys - Honorable Mention Feature Documentary, Teresa Mular
The Dream/in Space - Honorable Mention - Video Art - Animation, Eva Ingolf
The Scope of Seperation - Honorable Mention Foreign Feature Film, Yue Chen, Weilin Wang, Kun Fu
The Queen - Honorable Mention - Short Fantasy, Hugo Teugels
Pittari - Honorable Mention - Short Animation, Patrick Smith
Requembarren - Honorable Mention - Foreign Experimental Short, Roman Rubert
Darker - Honorable Mention - Short Horror, Alex Torres
Eileen - Honorable Mention - Feature Screenplay, Elizabeth Samaroo
The Global Fund - Honorable Mention, Short Screenplay, Josep Colomer
Long Yearning - Honorable Mention Foreign Short Experimental Documentary, Elliot Spencer
a la mémoire de Lune - Honorable Mention Short
Becoming Lucy - Honorable Mention Short Drama
HELL OF A NEW YEAR - Best Honorable Mention Short Horror
Back Page Ripper - Honorable Mention Short, Stephen Rutterford
Sisters' Sunday Funday! - Honorable Mention - Short Experimental Film, Storm Garner
Kaddish! - Honorable Mention - Musical Short Comedy, Emeline Castaneda
Jetty Cats - Honorable Mention, Mid lenght Feature Documentary
New Neighbors -Honorable Mention- Best Actress, Sha Cage
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