WINNERS 2024
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FEATURE FILMS
E - Best Comedy Feature, Chris Chan Roberson
n - Best Drama Feature, Saara Lamberg
?The Veteran - Best Feature, Jeremy Waltman
E - Best Feature Documentary, Maggie Jones, Brad Jones
Look Up — The Science of Cultural Evolution - Best Foreign Feature Documentary, Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold, Espen Jan Folmo
Aftermath of Destiny - from the musical "This is Love" - Best Experimental Feature, New Media, Akisai M
L - Best Foreign Romance-Fantasy Feature, Nikolay Bogomilov
Colombano & LA 21Esima Fetta - Best Foreign Feature, Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti
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SHORT FILMS
T - Best Short Dark Comedy, Levon Manoukian
Little Library - Best Short Story, Luke Ring
T - Best Short Experimental, Daryl Sparkes
A - Best Foreign Short Drama, Nic Furlong
La Langue - Best Short Comedy, Béla Baptiste
The White Box - Best Short Thriller, Meredith Esquivel
O - Best Foreign Short Comedy, Clément de Dadelsen
We Gon’be alright - Best Foreign Short Fiction, Wuyue Gao
?Hero - Best First-time Filmmaker, Nandi Sharma
Fascino d'altri tempi - Best Foreign Short Horror, Andrea Natale
?The Crime Family - Best Short Comedy Horror, Jason B Markowitz
Sanxingdui - Future Revelation - Best Foreign Short AI Sci-Fiction, Bona Film AIGMS Production Center
13 Strokes... - Best Foreign Short Experimental, Ioulia Lymperopoulou
Nowhere Land - Best Student Short Film, Aocheng Fu
Wishful Thinking - Best Student Short Animation, Margaret Messer
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DOCUMENTARIES, EXPERIMENTALS, VIDEO ART
?Casa y Comunidad: Latino/a/x Housing in Oregon (Rogue Valley) - Best Short Documentary, John C. Arroyo
Noble Savage - Best Foreign Short Documentary, Machiel van den Heuvel
T - Best Student Short Documentary, Gabe Schmidt
Y - Best Musical Documentary Short, Donna Weng Friedman
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​WEBISODE / NEW MEDIA/ TV / MUSIC VIDEO
D. - Best TV Short, Ethan William Cyr, Carlos Jose Lavezzari, Dakota Holmes-Dodge
SCENE I, SCENE II - Best Web / New Media - Animation Short, Pei-Yu SHIH
Gravitation - Best Experimental Music Video, Nolan Stolz
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SCREENPLAYS
Voodoo Valentinos - Best Feature Screenplay, Michael Louis Gould
M- Best Feature LGBT Screenplay, Saurin Lakhia
S - Best Sci-Fiction Horror Feature Screenplay, Michael Louis Gould
The Styrofoam Shaman - Best First Time Screenwriter, Christopher Manydeeds
P - Best Short Screenplay, Minoru Mizoguchi
?Why Are You Weeping, Sister - Best Short TV Screenplay, Helen C. Chapman
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CAST & ACTING
T - Best Ensemble Cast in Feature Film
A - Best Ensemble Cast in Short Film
The Sniper - Best Actress in Short Film, Johanna Watts
N - Best Actor in Short Film, Gorman Ruggiero
O - Best Actor in Foreign Short Film, Umut Ulas Er
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DIRECTING & PRODUCING
?Vlad The Timewalker - Best Producers in Feature Film, Dorian Stan, Stefan Vasiliu
People - Best Directors in Feature Film, Maciej Åšlesicki, Filip Hillesland
The Sniper - Best Director in Short Film, Dastan Khalili
O - Best Producer in Short Film, Umut Ulas Er
P - Best Director in Foreign Short Film, Minoru Mizoguchi
Your Necklace - Best Young Filmmakers, Kayla Jem Ling
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EDITING, CINEMATOGRAPHY, SOUND
A - Best Editing, Edgar Jimz
L - Best Cinematography, Emil Topuzov
N - Best Sound Design, Michael Mowen
L - Best Production Design, Boryana Mincheva
L - Best Costume Design, Djanina Baykoucheva
D - Best Visual Effects, Carsten Fuhrmann, Mark Klotz
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GRAND JURY AWARDS
The Road to Painted Hills - Grand Jury Award, Feature Screenplay, R. David Becker
?Angels Desired - Grand Jury Award, First Time Screenwriter, Lukas Scheja
The Age of the Empath - Grand Jury Award, Feature TV Screenplay, Steve Brown
115 - Grand Jury Award, Experimental Feature, Dave Huynh Macon
O - Grand Jury Award, Foreign Feature, Qing Chang
4 - Grand Jury Award, Foreign Short, Efriem Kahsay Quada
Y - Grand Jury Award, Short Action, Edgar Jimz, Artemus Cole
S - Grand Jury Award, Short Drama, Bradley Hawkins
R - Grand Jury Award, Short Experimental, Chien-Ping Lin
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HONORABLE MENTIONS
Feartober - Honorable Mention, Feature Screenplay, Anthony G Azcarate
?"Just Kids Havin' Fun" - Honorable Mention, Screenwriter, Anthony G Azcarate
?Big Butt Bruise Brothers - Honorable Mention, Feature Comedy, Dennis Collins Johnson, Eugene McDaniels
After the Freeze - Honorable Mention, Feature, Tenley Eakin Raj
?Tokyo, I Love You - Honorable Mention, Foreign Feature, Hiroshi Nakazima
A - Honorable Mention, Feature Documentary, Te
Invisible Machines - Honorable Mention, Short Documentary, Yelena Gluzman
Consequence - Honorable Mention, Short, Genaro T. Perez
The Clockmaker's Sanctuary - Honorable Mention, Short Screenplay, Frances Rice
Black Candle - Honorable Mention, Short Fiction, Anthony G Azcarate
Older Self - Honorable Mention, Short Sci-Fiction, Mystery, Tom Michaels
?You Know It Ain't Easy - Honorable Mention, LGBT Short, George Adams
R - Honorable Mention, Foreign Short, Jeremias Zeh
? Before the Freeze - Honorable Mention, Short Experimental, Tenley Eakin Raj
Into the Reds Tale - Honorable Mention, Short Animation, Alisdair Zhang
Vultures - Honorable Mention, Short Drama, Blake J Burke
Life of the Party - Honorable Mention, Short Fiction, Tom Michaels
The Rooftop - Honorable Mention, Short Romance, Gabe Schmidt
Roko Moro - Honorable Mention, Short Comedy, Levon Ohanes Manoukian
D - Honorable Mention, Student Short, Andreana Loukidis
?The BBQ - Honorable Mention, Short Dark Comedy, Jonathan Frey, Daniel Breithaupt
Only We Know - Honorable Mention, Short Student, Chris Byrne
The Double Room - Honorable Mention, Short Story, Martin Del Carpio
T - Honorable Mention, Short Story - Student, Margaux Staten-Lusty
D - Honorable Mention, First Time Filmmaker, Romain Fleury
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