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Winners 2023 (November)
Best Animation
Hinter-Land – Directed By Christopher Angus
Best Student Film
Defunction - Directed By Alexander Eberhage
Best Music Video
The Signal And The Noise – Directed By Jim Hannah
Best TV & Web Series
Voices of Innocents – Directed By Ishma Yusaf Valenti I, Denis Paul Circo
Best Short Screenplay
Strong Woman – Written By Hervé Desnoix
Best Feature Screenplay
Alta California – Written By Lynn H. Elliott
Best Documentary
All short films about the work & the exhibitions of "BrückenKunst" from 2014 to 2019,
a group of unrecognized artists in Berlin. - Directed By Gilbert Brüning
Best Spanish Documentary
Bill Lishman - The Man Who Flew With The Birds – Directed By Peter Shatalow
Best Short Film (Group 1)
Run Away To Mars – Directed By Courtney Paige
Best Short Film (Group 2)
Enter the Room – Directed By Harry Waldman
Best Feature Film (Group 1)
Encontro – Directed By François Manceaux
Best Feature Film (Group 2)
Shocking Marriage – Directed By Demetrio Casile
Best Asian Short Film
The Family Roots – Directed By Shihyun Wang
Best Asian Feature Film
Shaakuntalam - Directed By Gunasekhar Karri
HONORABLE MENTION :
an award or special praise given to someone who has done something
extremely well but who has not won any of the official prizes.
Speaker - Directed By Alan Hamwan
The Pickleball Killer – Written By Jim Carroll
A Most Annoying Man – Directed By Lee Steinbeck
Insect – Directed By Cherelle Ann Sarah Higgins
La Belle Dame Sans Merci – Directed By Nikolay Bogomilov
The Sky Is The Limit – Directed By Mirka Anderson
Pup Perfect – Directed By Henry Baker
Ray's Second Act – Directed By Robert Toms
I Love You – Directed By Rafael Maria Friebe
The Wedding Bandit – Directed By Sadruddin Khan
Unconquered – Directed By John Parr
Robot Asteroid – Written By Paul May
The Visit – Written By Hoyt Hilsman
Insect – Directed By Cherelle Ann Sarah Higgins
Sargeant Classified – Written By James K Jones
That Girl From Ukraine – Directed By Mohinder Pal Singh Sobti
Hidi Sleeps in the Bathtub – Directed By Caroline Andréason
I Still Love You – Written By James Wallace McDonald
Winners 2023 (April)
BEST ANIMATION
I’m Here – By Jennifer Hathaway
BEST STUDENT FILM
Home Sweet Home – By Hang (Kimo) Li
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Your Only Friend In Town – By Andres Paredes
BEST TV & WEB SERIES
Chateau Laurier -Season 2 – By James Stewart
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
The Mountain – By Ruth Finnegan
BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
No Address – By Julia Verdin, James Papa
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Relentless One – By M. Douglas Silverstein
BEST SPANISH DOCUMENTARY
La Calle Prohibida – By Narciso Dante
BEST SHORT FILM
Revenge of a Grandmother – By Timur Örge
BEST SPANISH SHORT FILM
Illusion Crime – By Robin Anctil
BEST ASIAN SHORT FILM
The Game The Doubt – By Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi
BEST FEATURE FILM
Harper – By Kate Bohan
BEST SPANISH FEATURE FILM
Never – By Alberto Torres
BEST ASIAN FEATURE FILM
Bless you – By Sanjay Sure
BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
The future of the Past – By Zoltan Boros
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Bones of Hilo – By Hoyt Hilsman
Fantasy on Symphony No. 7: Allegretto Groovando – By James Templeton
Riot in the Meadow – By Thomas Harman
North By Freaking West – By Chris Kotsovos
I got your letter, John Bauer – By Noel Brady
A Summers Day at Sherwood Park – By Conor Forrest
Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion – By Arturo Dueñas Herrero
Suburban Fantasy – By Peter Mancuso
Mirage – By Tina Nubia Love
HONORABLE MENTION
Chronos – By João Pico
The Vegetable Garden- By Maria Marinho Moreira
Dust and Fog – By Daniel Corey
Delicious Dilemma – By James K Jones
Inspiration – By Alberto Martín-Aragón
La Voz – By Carlos Arenal
Jakob & Maria – By Christian Schiesser
Suchtpotenzial – By Franz Josef Danner
Winners 2021
BEST ANIMATION
Save Ralph – By Spencer Susser
A Journey to the Moon – By Jack Getschman
BEST STUDENT FILM
Nut Cracker – By David Pinkston
BEST TV & WEB SERIES
Monsters – Chapter 3: Love – By Eire García Cid
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Lovemaking – By Tereza Hirsch
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
Pisscynism – By Patricil Complex
BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
Banana Shot – By Eduardo Rodríguez Spiteri
BEST DOCUMENTARY
La Amable Euforia de la Danza – By Miguel Castanet
BEST SHORT FILM – Group #1
Daddy’s Note – By Gavin Irvine
BEST SHORT FILM - Group #2
See Naples and Then (Not) Die – By Ferdinando Maddaloni
BEST ASIAN SHORT FILM
Rumadiya – By Dinesh Shukla
BEST FEATURE FILM
The Right of Jesus - By Jesus Galindo
BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
De Suite – By Marco Cucurnia
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Flamenco – By Alberto Nacci
Kalliope’s From Fear to Freedom – By Kalliope Barlis
Tell me Who I Am – By Luca Caserta
Future Italian Frescoes – By Salvatore Garau
Belle-ile in Acadie – By Phil Comeau
Straight Into The Ocean – By Carolyn Laws
Mia – By Matthew Townsend
Face Painters – By Giovanni Sanseviero
Do You Like Poetry? - By Eduardo Mattos
Suddenly The Sky – By Erwan Gobilliard
We Are Here – By Fadi Awad
Legends – By Danny Alex
Incompleteness – By David Ash
The Last Witness – By Piotr Szkopiak
HONORABLE MENTION
Candyland.Com – By Joan Barrett
Legal Passion – By James Jones
Humanity Key – By Ettore Pasculli
Life Appointment – By Amr Elbehidy
ON / OFF – By Nicolas P. Villarreal
A Unicorn in Tel Aviv – By Zohar Ballas
Hide and Seek – By Zou Gaoxu
Love of Silence – By Tsai, Han-Yun, Chen, Zhi-Ling
Apartments, "The 4th of the Month" – By Maria Robles
Boundless – By Julie D. Dunn, Sean Higgs, Victor Lockhart
The Honey Trapper – By Felise Garcia
LET IT OUT / Stay Homas – By Ben Woolf
Maribor ans Saxophone – By Franc Kopic
Me, Myself & I – By Katy Jordan
S.A.L. (Serious About Love) – By Dean H. Huh, Chris Arocho
Put a Price On Emotion – By Giuseppe De Vuono
Parallax – By Stefania Simoni & Giorgio Messina
Perfect Song – By Andreas Kranzler
This Case & My Life – By Ana P. Braunstein
Hallowed Be Thy Name – By Andy Kowalczyk
Dark Hearts – By Kevin Van Stevenson
Once Upon A Judgment Day – By Mehmet Tanrisever
Pond Life – By Gord Rand
Map of The World – By Daniel Corey
Golden Era Glamour – By Tiago Mesquita
Estos Muros – By Alberto Pascual