BEST SHORT FILM
BUDDY LOVE
Director: Kiefer O'Reilly
Country of origin: Canada
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
THE HOODTROPHY BINO STORY: BREAKING THE GENERATIONAL CURSE
Director: Sam "Gebar" Gebremiche
Country of origin: United States of America
HONOURABLE MENTION:
WARSAW GHETTO
Director: Dovid Loew
Country of origin: United States of America
HONOURABLE MENTION:
THE DOLPHIN DILEMMA
Director: Olivia Andrus-Drennan
Country of origin: United States of America
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
EARTHBOUND - FLIGHT
Director: Jake Alexander Pemberton
Country of origin: United Kingdom
FLUKE - INSANELY BEAUTIFUL
Director: Tone Davies
Country of origin: United Kingdom
BEST SUPER SHORT
BROKE BUT MAKE IT BOUGIE
Director: Noahamin Taye
Country of origin: United States of America
HONOURABLE MENTION:
MUSHROOM’S QUEST
Director: Dave Johnson
Country of origin: United Kingdom
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
SEEKING THOMAS
Director: Julia Lisa Zlotnick
Country of origin: United Kingdom
BEST ANIMATION
NEW IDEA
Director: Marko Bosanac
Country of origin: Serbia
THE ONE
Director: Molly Parsons & Ellery Stocker
Country of origin: United States of America
BEST STUDENT FILM
NATU
Director: Amadou Moustapha Barry
Country of origin: Guinea
NANCY JOY
Director: Francesca Dean
Country of origin: United States of America
HONOURABLE MENTION
THE NIGHT DUTY
Director: Tianyu Zhang
Country of origin: United Kingdom
BEST DRAMA
HONOURABLE MENTION:
L’HYPERMNÉSIQUE
Director: Julien Mouquet
Country of origin: United Kingdom
BEST COMEDY
I DON’T NEED THE BADGE
Director: David Thackeray
Country of origin: United Kingdom
HONOURABLE MENTION:
THE ONE
Director: Molly Parsons & Ellery Stocker
Country of origin: United States of America
HONOURABLE MENTION:
PLACES, PLEASE!
Director: Paul Keith Rye
Country of origin: Austraila
BEST THRILLER
SHADOW
Director: Jae Won Jung
Country of origin: Korea
HONOURABLE MENTION:
THE PLAN
Director: Angelo Donzella
Country of origin: Italy
HONOURABLE MENTION:
THE HIDDEN TRAUMA OF RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Director: Adam Richard Carroll
Country of origin: United Kingdom
BEST SCI-FI
HONOURABLE MENTION:
CRISIS
Director: Patrick Wei
Country of origin: United States of America
BEST DIRECTOR
BUDDY LOVE
Director: Kiefer O'Reilly
Country of origin: Canada
BEST FIRST-TIME DIRECTOR
ON THE PATHS AWAKENED
Director: Axel Dahan
Country of origin: France
BEST PRODUCER
HONOURABLE MENTION:
GILDED CAGES
Producer: Harriet Innes
Country of origin: United Kingdom
HONOURABLE MENTION:
TEARS OF WAR
Producer: Patrick Sass
Country of origin: Germany
BEST ACTRESS
GOLDFISH FOR BREAKFAST
Starring: Loveday Smith
Country of origin: Netherlands
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
HONOURABLE MENTION:
BUDDY LOVE
Written by: Kiefer O'Reilly
Country of origin: Canada
BEST SCORE
THRILLING LOVE
Score by: Michael Rosen
Country of origin: United States of America
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB
DOP: Leimi Zhou
Country of origin: Thailand
BEST EDITING
HONOURABLE MENTION:
MISMATCH
Editor: Dayeon Kwak
Country of origin: Korea
BEST SOUND DESIGN
LETTER FROM A STRANGER
Sound Design by: Shima Omidvar
Country of origin: Iran
BEST INSPIRATIONAL STORY
THE DOLPHIN DILEMMA
Director: Olivia Andrus-Drennan
Country of origin: United States of America
HONOURABLE MENTION:
BIRTHDAY PRESENT
Editor: Dayeon Kwak
Country of origin: Korea
BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
THE TRIAL OF LADY ANNABELLE
by Victoria Louise Bradley
Country of origin: United Kingdom
HONOURABLE MENTION:
SINGLE GIRL’S GUIDE TO NARCISSISTS
by Diane Thomassin & Michael Miceli
Country of origin: United States of America
BEST EPISODIC SCRIPT
GUARDIAN
by Michael Cloherty
Country of origin: United Kingdom
MY FAVOURITE NARCISSIST
by Diane Thomassin & Michael Miceli
Country of origin: United States of America
BEST SHORT SCRIPT
THE ESTATE
by Rachel D Griffiths
Country of origin: United Kingdom
BEST INSPIRATIONAL SCRIPT
HONOURABLE MENTION:
A KID WALKS INTO A BAR
by Heather Quinlan
Country of origin: United States of America