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
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
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
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
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
PEOPLE IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE - Best Short Screenplay, Minoru Mizoguchi
CAST & ACTING
THROUGH LIFE AND DEATH - Best Ensemble Cast in Feature Film
A TOUCH OF MAGIC - Best Ensemble Cast in Short Film
LOLA - Best Actress in Short Film, Lily Hendrick Doyle
NIGHT VOICES - Best Actor in Short Film, Gorman Ruggiero
ONCE UPON A TIME ON BORDER - Best Actor in Foreign Short Film, Umut Ulas Er
DIRECTING & PRODUCING
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI - Best Producers in Feature Film, Marika Tosheva, Nikolay Bogomilov, Angel Stavrev
ACERBITY - Best Directors in Short Film, Edgar Jimz, Artemus Cole
ONCE UPON A TIME ON BORDER - Best Producer in Short Film, Umut Ulas Er
PEOPLE IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE - Best Director in Foreign Short Film, Minoru Mizoguchi
THE DARK SIDE OF PET BREEDING - Best Young Filmmakers, Asher Anantham, Alana Keira Anantham, Zarina Penn Aronson
EDITING, CINEMATOGRAPHY, SOUND
ACERBITY - Best Editing, Edgar Jimz
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI - Best Cinematography, Emil Topuzov
NIGHT VOICES - Best Sound Design, Michael Mowen
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI - Best Production Design, Boryana Mincheva
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI - Best Costume Design, Djanina Baykoucheva
…DER FLITTER GRAUT. ES BLEIBT VERPASSTES ÜBRIG. - Best Visual Effects, Carsten Fuhrmann, Mark Klotz
GRAND JURY AWARDS
THE PICKLEBALL KILLER - Grand Jury Award, Feature Screenplay, Jim Carroll
AHOY FOR JOY - Grand Jury Award, First Time Screenwriter, Keith Reilly
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
HONORABLE MENTIONS
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
THE BOTTLE COLLECTOR - Honorable Mention, Short, Leopold Vincent Medley
COSMOS ON THE ALLEY - Honorable Mention, Foreign LGBT Short, 憲和 小田
DER BRUDER - Honorable Mention, Foreign Short, Jeremias Zeh
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
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