Winners Brazil 2025

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Best Animation

Santé Et Tropica – Directed By Angelina Gilderman

 

Best Tv & Web Series

Sasha Counters! - Directed By Anna Zaytseva

 

Best Documentary

Axé, Salvador! - Directed By Domenico Rodolfo Grillone

 

Best Short Film

The Ballad of Bobby Shine – Directed By Gavin Irvine

 

Best Feature Film

Sunset Heights – Directed By Colm Villa

 

 

Special Jury Awards

 

Angels Don’t Buzz – Directed By Aleksandr Seliverstov

Pégame – Directed By Dylan Verrechia

 

 

Winners Brazil 2024

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Best Animation

Space Station Village Ep8：Miss You To The Stars – Directed By Yi-Feng Kao

 

Best Student Film

Paradiso – Directed By Colm Villa

 

Best Tv & Web Series

Tap Talk Ep. 4 - Meet The Crew: Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind, Part Ii. - Directed By Ryan Bijan

 

Best Music Video

The Girl Who Faded Away – Directed By Brent Heise

 

Best Feature Screenplay

Next Time We Meet – Written By Robert Gokay

 

Best Documentary

From The Same Tree – Directed By Claudia Fischer

 

Best Documentary In Portuguese Language

The Journey Of The Princes – Directed By Malcolm Dale Kigar

 

Best Short Film

Your Move, My Lady – Directed By Tereza Hirsch

 

Best Feature Film

La Pura Vida – Directed By Dylan Verrechia

 

Best Asian Short Film

[Mado] – Directed By Mao

 

Special Jury Award

Things I Never Did – Directed By Teresa Ruiz

Bay For Blood – Directed By Harry Waldman

Code Of Illusion – Directed By Ard Kelmendi

Cuban Breeze – Directed By Colm Villa

Kill me, Too – Directed By John Ervin

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Winners Brazil 2023

 

Best Animation

My Digital Truth - Directed By Swen Werner

 

Best Student Film

The Enemy - Directed By Michele Profeta

 

Best Music Video

I'm Dreaming of You - Directed By Eddie Reid – Performed By Jen Ash

 

Best TV & Web Series

Laure in America - Directed By Andrew Essig

 

Best Short Screenplay

Luck Be A Lady - Written By Elliot Stanton

 

Best Feature Screenplay

Mia - Written By Matthew Townsend

 

Best Documentary

Muito Amor - Jews and Judaism in Amazonia – Directed by Malka Shabtay
 

Best Documentary in Portuguese Language

Phoenix: David’s Dream – Directed By Vinicius Donola, Roberta Salomone & João Rocha

 

Best Short Film

The Butler - Directed By Catriona Boeing & Adrienne Boeing

 

Best Short Film in Portuguese Language

Cura - Directed By Pedro Silva & João Guilherme Matos

 

Best Feature Film

Open Asylum 1982 (Restored 2021) - Directed By Colm Bernard Villa
 

Best Feature Film in Portuguese Language

Dasein - Directed By Canuto
 

Best Asian Short Film

Speaker - Directed By Alan Hamwan

 

Best Asian Feature Film

Shaakuntalam - Directed By Gunasekhar Karri
 

Best Actor

I Don't Want to Live Without You – Actor: Lorenzo Gabanizza

 

Best Actress

Don't Get in the Car - Actress: Jennimay Walker

 

Best Cinematography

A Song for Juliette – Director of Photography: Hamid Rahbaoui

 

Best Director

Encontro – Director: François Manceaux

 

Best Drama Screenplay

Unconquered - Written By John Parr

 

Best Comedy Screenplay

Steve's Law - Written By Paul May

 

 

HONORABLE MENTION

 

Honorable Mention is an award given to someone who has done something extremely well
but who has not won any of the official prizes.

 

Run Away To Mars – Directed By Courtney Paige

Vanishing Grace – Directed By Matty Killen

The Deal - Directed By Edward Palmer

Humanity – Directed and Performed By Jeremy Parsons

The Pickleball Killer – Written By Jim Carroll

The Substitute – Written By Hoyt Hilsman

A Most Annoying Man – Directed By Lee Steinbeck

Praise Party – Directed By Martins Onyedika Obi

Biba May "No More" - Directed By Arlinda Morina

Insect – Directed By Cherelle Ann Sarah Higgins

Save Skin Save Life – Directed By Dinesh Shukla

Trail Of Tears – Written By Hans Sluijter

The Chase – Directed By Mirzaab

Sleep/Talk - Directed By Aleksey Zyzin

The Applicants – Directed By María Yolanda Brown Melián & Kevin Ramos Fernández

River N' Me – Directed By Sharpe Dunaway – Performed By Ten Penny Gypsy

Enter The Room - Directed By Harry Waldman

The Invitation – Directed By Peter Bruno

Empty Spaces – Directed By Lukas Hanulak

Hoffmann – Written By Patrick Craddock

Land Of The Nen-Us-Yok – Written By Jamie Sutliff

In Your Dreams – Directed By Mike Krohn

Wills – Directed By Ignacio Ferreyra

Bill Lishman - The Man Who Flew With The Birds – Directed By Peter Shatalow

Gher – Directed By Dinesh Shukla

Ruby – Directed By Gwendoline Laurent

Fateful Encounter - Directed By Ryo Kagawa

On/Off - Directed Jurg Slabbert

Delicious Dilemma – Written By James K Jones

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