WINNERS 2023
FEATURE FILMS
ELEANOR SLAUGHTER - Best Comedy Feature, Chris Chan Roberson *
WESTERMARCK EFFECT - Best Drama Feature, Saara Lamberg *
CANCER/EVOLUTION: The Dustbin of History - Best Feature Documentary, Maggie Jones, Brad Jones*
SOPHIA - Best Foreign Feature, Efriem Kahsay Quada*
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI - Best Foreign Romance-Fantasy Feature, Nikolay Bogomilov*
SHORT FILMS
HAMLEYED - Best Short Fiction, Pedro Blanco-Uribe
THE ANIMAL - Best Short Animation, Dana Leigh Snyder
THE CLASS ANALYSIS - Best Short Sci-Fi, Jim Politano, Webb Pickersgill
PENNY - Best Short Thriller, Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid
- Best Short Fantasy, Patricia Delso Lucas
WHO'S AFRAID OF SHORTY VIRGINIA ? - Best Short Dark Comedy, Levon Manoukian*
?A TOUCH OF MAGIC - Best Short Story, Shane LeCocq, John F Daniel *
THE TROXLER EFFECT - Best Short Experimental, Daryl Sparkes *
LOLA - Best Foreign Short Drama, Nic Furlong*
ALLEGRO CONFUSO - Best Foreign Short Comedy, Clément de Dadelsen*
JUDAS KISS - Best Foreign Short Fiction, Elvin Ahmadoglu*
?…der Flitter graut. Es bleibt Verpasstes übrig. - Best Foreign Short Experimental, Carsten Fuhrmann, Mark Klotz *
THE TO-DON'T LIST - Best Student Short Film, David J Porras*
FUNKBOY - Best First Short Film Award, Ian O'Boyle
PETER THE CATERPILLAR - Best Student Short Animation, Elizabeth Kirshtein
VAL (-E-REE) - Best LGBT Short, Samantha D Lavin
AMADI COMES HOME - Best Women Empowerment Film, Julie Asriyan, Jessica Burgess
DOCUMENTARIES, EXPERIMENTALS, VIDEO ART
? ONE PILL CAN KILL - Best Short Documentary, Molly Hermann, Rob Lyall *
PERSONS SET APART - Best Student Short Documentary, Gabe Schmidt*
NEVER FADE AWAY - Best Musical Documentary Short, Donna Weng Friedman*
YOUR LOVING SON, HENRY - Best Historical Short Documentary, Matthew McLaughlin
RUGBYTOWN - Best Inspirational Short Documentary, Patrick Guthrie
DISABLED ARTIST SHOWCASE: CREATING OUR SPACE - Best Short Documentary / Social Subject, Emmitt Thrower
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM - A MUSICABRE - Best Experimental Short, Danny Ashkenasi
WEBISODE / NEW MEDIA/ TV / MUSIC VIDEO
S.Q.U.A.D - Best TV Short, Ethan William Cyr, Carlos Jose Lavezzari, Dakota Holmes-Dodge *
CAM GIRL - Season 1 Episode 2 - Best Web / New Media - Short, Ian Gregory Trutt *
- Best Music Video,
raison d'être - Best Experimental Music Video, Shananjit Thiara *
SCREENPLAYS
DOG BITES MAN - Best Feature Screenplay, Frederick Kirwin *
MOKSHA - Best Feature LGBT Screenplay, Saurin Lakhia *
SACRED SUN - Best Sci-Fiction Horror Feature Screenplay, Michael Louis Gould*
BOUNCE - Best First Time Screenwriter, Christopher Manydeeds *
CAST & ACTING
MOON STUDENTS - Best Ensemble Cast, Feature Film
A TOUCH OF MAGIC - Best Ensemble Cast in Short Film *
VAL (-E-REE) - Best Actress in Short Film, Maryfrances Careccia
NIGHT VOICES - Best Actor in Short Film, Gorman Ruggiero*
ONCE UPON A TIME ON BORDER - Best Actor in Foreign Short Film, Umut Ulas Er*
EDITING, CINEMATOGRAPHY, SOUND
FUNKBOY - Best Editing, Connor Morgan, Rich Imburgio
HAMLEYED - Best Cinematography, Nevil Guerra
CINE HIDALGO - Best Sound Design, Rafael Ruiz
HAMLEYED - Best Production Design, Erasmo Colon
MUSART - Best Soundtrack, Kira Zeeman Rugen
- Best Costume Design, Miguel Penaranda Olmeda, Mary Wiklander Williams
A HAIRCUT FOR THE HINA DOLL - Best Make-up Design, Yanagi Nobuto, Minami, Harada Maho
DIRECTING & PRODUCING
MOON STUDENTS - Best Director in Feature Film, Daniel Patrick Holland
1991. WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR? - Best Producer in Feature Film, Drazen Hrzenjak
ACERBITY - Best Director in Short Film, Edgar Jimz, Artemus Cole*
ONCE UPON A TIME ON BORDER - Best Producer in Short Film, Umut Ulas Er*
THE DARK SIDE OF PET BREEDING - Best Young Filmmakers, Asher Anantham, Alana Keira Anantham, Zarina Penn Aronson*
PEOPLE IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE - Best Director in Foreign Short Film, Minoru Mizoguchi *
THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE - Best Producer in Foreign Short Film, Mofieni Iniya
GRAND JURY AWARDS
?THE PICKLEBALL KILLER - Grand Jury Award, Feature Screenplay, Jim Carroll *
THROUGH LIFE AND DEATH - Grand Jury Award, Foreign Feature, Qing Chang*
CENTO QUATRO OR ARTICLE 104 - Grand Jury Award, Foreign Short, Efriem Kahsay Quada*
ACERBITY - Grand Jury Award, Short Action, Edgar Jimz, Artemus Cole*
NIGHT VOICES - Grand Jury Award, Short Drama, Bradley Hawkins*
LITTLE YELLOW FLOWER - Grand Jury Award, Short Experimental, Chien-Ping Lin*
THE NEW GUARD - Grand Jury Award, Woman Screenwriter, Sophia Flot-Warner
LAJJAWATI: A LOVE STORY FROM INDIA - Grand Jury Award, Feature Screenplay, Sumathy Ram, Charles Leopardo
GRID DOWN, POWER UP - Grand Jury Award, Documentary Feature, David Tice
GPS - Grand Jury Award, Woman Director in Short Film, Nell Dashiell
MUSART - Grand Jury Award, Short Musical Documentary, Kevin Hanzlik, Randall Vemer
AVAILABLE POSITION - Grand Jury Award, Best Actor, Umut Ulas Er
HONORABLE MENTIONS
AHOY FOR JOY - Honorable Mention, Feature Screenplay, Keith Reilly *
?CARNEGIE'S CALL - Honorable Mention, Feature Screenplay, Ryan J Skinner *
LIAR-IN-CHIEF: A Chronicle of the Trump Presidency Through the Eyes of An Outraged Graphic Artist - Honorable Mention, Feature Documentary, M Kaplan *
?COSMOS ON THE ALLEY - Honorable Mention, Foreign LGBT Short, 憲和 小田 *
DER BRUDER - Honorable Mention, Foreign Short, Jeremias Zeh*
THE BOTTLE COLLECTOR - Honorable Mention, Short, Leopold Vincent Medley*
I AM - Honorable Mention, Short Experimental, Marcus Graham*
LIVE FROM THE MULTIVERSE - Honorable Mention, Short Comedy, Gabe Schmidt *
?STAY BEHIND - Honorable Mention, Student Short, Andreana Loukidis *
ALLEGRO CONFUSO - Honorable Mention, Short Fiction, Giorgio Arcelli Fontana*
THE TABLEHERDER - Honorable Mention, Short Dark Comedy, Aleksandr Tretiakevich*
MOONLIGHT STREET - Honorable Mention, Short Story - Student, Margaux Staten-Lusty *
SIDELINED - Honorable Mention, First Time Filmmaker, Romain Fleury *
THE CHIEF OF NASH VALLEY & THE SAGA CONTINUES - Honorable Mention, Feature Drama, Aundra' Michael Segrest
PANDEMONIUM - Honorable Mention, Feature Comedy, Taylor Page
THE PRIORY OF SION PUBLISHED BY EDITIONS EDILIVRE IN FRANCE - Honorable Mention, Feature Screenplay, Florence Cazebon-Taveau
A SCRAPBOOK OF WHAT'S YOURS - Honorable Mention, Feature Experimental, Darryl Ashton
THIS IS WHAT NEW YORKERS SAY - Honorable Mention, Feature Documentary, Sara Alessandrini
NESSELRODE - Honorable Mention, Comedy Feature Screenplay, Jim Norman
LUSEA - Honorable Mention, Short Animation, Carly Dessain, Ashley Rose Reiner
OUTPATIENT - Honorable Mention, Short Drama, Joseph Samuel Meyerson
AWKWARD SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS - Honorable Mention, Short Comedy, Brian Broeckelma
EYES OF GOD - Honorable Mention, Short Thriller, Leah Lin
SALVATION - Honorable Mention, Short Story, Zane
- Honorable Mention, Short Student,
ASIAN AMERICAN VOICES - Honorable Mention, Short Student Documentary, Sharon Lo
TO BE LIKE YOU - Honorable Mention, Director, Meredith Esquivel
DRIVE - Honorable Mention, Producer, Robert Monegan
- Honorable Mention Actor, Al Nazemian
EMILY WHITE - EARLY MONDAY - Honorable Mention, Music Video, Hunter Heath
PERFECTLY NUMB - Honorable Mention, LGBT Short, Fraser John Richardson, David Lewis Richardson
LIKE A POWERPOINT - Honorable Mention, Short Romance, Pat Bradley, Melanie Gretchen