WINNERS
Best Short Film
Best Student Film
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Wake Up Mijita!
Daniel E. Kennedy
When a Latina teen is depressed and suicidal, her parents struggle to know how to support her and two scenarios are played out of how they respond and each have very different outcomes.
Best Feature Film
Best Thriller
Cora
Mauricio De la Maza-Benignos
A woman compulsively accumulates black plastic baggs in her bedroom closet. What's in the bags?
Best Short Documentary
The Fight: A Tribute to Homeless Veterans
Chaz Fatur
I shot this short Doc while attending Los Angeles Film School. I was a homeless Veteran living out of my car while attending film school.
Best Feature Documentary
The Religion Move
Alan Kryszak
A walk through the footsteps of several major religions, those who are drawn to it, and those who are repelled. The first-person accounts of the faithful & the unaffiliated, from Maine to Massachusetts, explore the practices of democracy & theocracy & what lies between.
Best Animation
I.M.L.A. ~ A Musical Graphic Novel
Mae Edwards
A story about Queer Femmes of Color on their Hero’s Journey through Tinsel Town, as told in a musical video-ized graphic novel.
Best Music Video
Keepers of the Earth
Reno Anastasio
A music video dedicated to the wisdom, generosity and teachings that the Elders pass on to the next generations.
Best Dance Video
YOURS
Flaminia Graziadei
The body of a dying old woman lies in a bed in stillness, while her soul is dancing on the magic stage she dreamt to be all her life.
Best Action Movie
Best Drama
Tasered
David M Hinds
LOGLINE: After a celebrity therapist known online as The Happiness Angel is tasered, she experiences the real-life taser-related disorder EXCITED DELIRIUM. She develops a compulsion to attack her lovers mid-act, electrifying her sex life and transforming her into a dangerous Jekyll and Hyde-type personality.
Best Comedy
In Search of Hawaiian Bigfoot
MarQ Morrison
This award-winning experimental, hybrid, cinematic, vlog (CineVlog2020) film follows "marQ" an award-winning micro-documentary filmmaker turned Cine-Vlogger (Cine-Vlog.com) as he searches for the Maui Skunk Ape a.k.a. Hawaiian Bigfoot in the jungles of Maui.
Best RomCom
An Ever After Drama
Michelle Lynn
An Aspiring Hollywood star is swept away in a fairytale day with the worlds youngest French billionaire as she begin to get a taste of his world and ponder the possibility for something more.
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Best Horror
MEANS TO AN END
TANYA M. WHEELER
A sexy young woman seeks out married men to seduce in a bar in an effort to get pregnant, but her intentions for the baby are unexpected.
Best Sci-Fi
Best Fantasy
Hey Alexa
Xochi Blymyer
Alexa is helpful, she's funny, she's kind, she's a friend, who is she? A day in her life...with us.
Best Family Movie
Restoration
JOSE LIVINO LOPES
A couple in their youth voluntarily donated their daughter at birth. After more than 30 years, they decide to go looking for him, surrounded by existential anguish.
Best Detective
FLORENCE IN BLACK - the murders of the Monster of Florence
Gianpaolo Saccomano
The Monster of Florence was a serial killer who between 1968 and 1985 killed at least eight couples in the
hills around Florence. More than fifty years after the first crime, the real culprit has never been identified.
Best War Film
Last Chance
Mike Buckendorf
A soldier who is a petty crook and grifter returns to France in 1944, and is haunted by his failures and mistakes made two decades before during WWI. He has one shot left to make things right and atone, even if it kills him.
Best Historical Film
Alta California
Lynn H. Elliott
In 1780 California, a mixed-blood scout, violently torn from his tribe, struggles to return to his people.
Best Erotic Film
Art & Joy & Pleasure
Goran Ajtič
An erotic journey through twelve visually attractive vignettes; there are twelve main concepts, with each one of them shot in a very different and innovative way, crowned with great wish to portray two of the greatest themes in our world - love and eros without any limits ...
Best ECO work
Leafcutters
Catherine Chalmers
“Leafcutters” is an unusual collaboration with millions of wild ants. Focusing on four supposedly unique human traits – language, ritual, war and art – the narrative aims to blur the boundaries between culture and nature.
Best Black & White Film
Detective Stories
Graham Pike
A 'film noir' musical drama.
Is he being unfaithful?
She hires a private detective.
Best LGBTQ+ Film
UNION
Whitney Hamilton
A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War. With the help of Indians hiding in the mountains 'Henry' is reunited with the widow, Virginia, who saved his life at the battle of Antietam and marries her to rescue Virginia from an unfortunate arranged betrothal.
Best Covid-19 Film
Masked Ball
Samy Challah
Best Sport Film
MY TIME DANCES WITH ME
Józef Romasz
Anna has been dancing on ice for over fifty years. She is fascinated not only with ice skating itself but also with dancing with a partner. In the last years it was Jan with whom Anna was ice skating.
Best Educational Film
Finding the Line - An Exploration of Structural Integration
Aleš Urbanczik, Grzegorz Oleksa
Boulder Colorado and Esalen Institute USA 1960's & 1970’s:
Resulting from her studies Dr. Ida Rolf developed a program of postural re-patterning using fascial manipulation and movement education which she called Structural Integration and which is nowadays known in the public at large as ‘rolfing’.
Best Experimental Film
I.M.L.A. ~ A Musical Graphic Novel
Mae Edwards
A story about Queer Femmes of Color on their Hero’s Journey through Tinsel Town, as told in a musical video-ized graphic novel.
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Best Symbolic Film
Outcry
lucinda luvaas
A visual poem about anxieties of the moment: fires, climate change--living with the scattered sense of civilization breaking apart while the needs of humanity still remain the same--desire for love, peace and a harmony within a more natural world.
Best No-Dialogue Film
RETARDATION
Nils Agdler
RETARDATION is the second short film in the Male Nature Studies series.
Best Short Screenplay
Mad Moons
Jeffrey Morin
Two poets cross paths in the city and encounter a darkness they try to outshine as mad moons.
Best Super Short Script
Six to Wash
Joshua Marc Allen
Nate is destroyed by a recent tragedy and is working to cope with the world around him, defined in the simplest way he can find. Six quarters to wash a load of laundry, five to dry it. Nothing is even. He has to stay clean.
Best Medium-Length Script
Best Thriller Screenplay
Best Action Screenplay
Best Historical Screenplay
Best Story
Bad Love Tigers
Kevin Schewe
It is New Year’s Eve, 1974, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the fun-loving and adventurous teens of the Bad Love Gang are ambushed by a Russian KGB agent. This propels them to use the White Hole Project Time Machine to time travel back to World War II.
Best Feature Script
Best Male Screenwriter
Power Milk and Ice Cream
Brian Jewell
Forging a friendship can sometime be difficult. But not for these two twelve-year-olds, like Joey, a shy introvert, who secretly falls in love with his best friend, Mandy.
Best Feature Treatment
The Slovenian Girl
Chaz Fatur
A twenties-something girl is sent to Slovenia from the United States to be part of the Foreign Exchange program. But when her Parent get a divorce and forget about her, including paying for her schooling, she has to resort to the oldest profession in the newest trend - become a Call Girl
Best Adapted Screenplay
Lions of Florence
Ken White
In the arena of Renaissance art, Leonardo was the undisputed heavyweight champ; Michelangelo the brash, talented contender.
Best Television Script - Pilot
Mike Goes Fishing
Wayne Allen Gibson
A mafia boss, Mike Tagliafero, decides to take a break and go fishing in Florida for a world record Tarpon. He brings his two soldiers, Bobby Big and Tommy Zane along, of course trouble follows.
Best Comedy Screenplay
Krazy Dead
Horatio Tihanyi, Dawn Nargi
Kray Dead is comedy about a dysfunctional family that owns operates in funeral home. Seems even the dead need a good laugh now and then.
Best Drama Screenplay
The Blameless
Gil Luna
A veteran, haunted by his sorted past, returns home to reconcile with his family when he falls for a troubled woman whose involvement with a serial killer turns their world upside down as they are drawn to solve the case of the woman's missing friends.
Best Horror Screenplay
M - Demon Killer
Mark William Hammond
A young Asian waitress discovers she is the last in a long line of Demon Killers when a billionaire/sorcerer opens a portal to Hell under City Hall in New York City.
Best Sci-fi Screenplay
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Escape to Hollow Earth
Kevin Schewe
A draft resister flees the US to Iceland tempted by absolute power and destiny of the world for either good or evil while encountering an advanced civilization living in the center of the Earth.
Best LGBTQ Screenplay
Questioning
Joshua Marc Allen
Chris has always been uncertain as to what he really wants and where his life will take him. Questioning is a journey through the uncertain moments in life and about finding a path to self acceptance; no matter the answer to the question.
Best Psychological Screenplay
Wise Old Owl
Jacob Louis Hayek
A middle-aged man is living in seclusion following a sad and failed life. He begins experiencing strange and horrifying occurrences; all of which are related to the choices of his life...
Best War Screenplay
All You Can Carry
Max Orkis
Best Fantasy Screenplay
Barkoo's Amerie
Richie Valentino
As the Universe multiplies with its progressive cycles of life, it transcends a delusional vision of harmony from the planets' unknown.
What truly exists and ventures between those solar systems has remained hidden within their own darkest mysteries.
Best Romantic Screenplay
A Tale of Two Cities
Samuel Benjamin Books Negin
An 18th century story of revenge, rebellion, and intrigue set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, this timeless story of love and politics has been a classic for generations.
Best Western Screenplay
Brothers of Babylon
Gabriel Womack
After their father's death, two brothers are forced to face their violent past, and reunite on their ranch in Montana, only to discover that a corrupt sheriff and outlaw biker gang have stolen their land and created a drug empire.
Best Detective Screenplay
Savannah, Mon Amour
Ronan O'Sullivan
In a forgotten part of the world, two street smart
detectives blunder upon a gang of strange speaking
misfits with a shocking plan.
Best Musical Screenplay
Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 - Journey to Netherworld
Cosmo Swevens
LOGLINE: Emergency Musical Response Team 421 responds to distress calls using music as a healing therapy (EMR Part 1). What is initially perceived as a routine service call devolves into an existential challenge where the very fate of pop music hangs in the balance (EMR Part 2).
Best Social Screenplay
It Really Is About Me
Karen Mussette
Best Stage Play
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The Show Must Go On
Lauren Foley
When Cecilia's famous, identical twin sister, Leila, disappears mid-production from her hit TV show, it gives Cecilia the ultimatum of a lifetime-- take her sister’s place or let her lose the best acting gig she’s ever had.
Best Book
The Dancing Spies
Francis Longworth Billingsley
The story begins with OLGA, a beautiful Russian agent living in Havana, and WILLIAM the CIA computer analyst from New York City, as they meet again at a Manhattan social dance function after twenty years of separation and silence.
Best Screenwriter
MOTHER.
Brandi Haugen
“MOTHER.” is the true story of a teenage girl, Norah, who lives in an abusive home with her mother, father, and sister. Norah's mother, Molly, is extremely abusive, both emotionally and physically.
Best First-Time Screenwriter
Best Female Screenwriter
GAMBIA UNTITLED
Xochi Blymyer
Has been director finds new purpose when saddled with a movie in The Gambia. He learns there's more to life than blockbuster films.
Best Director
Wish You Well
Nadia Guo
The Boy and the Girl were in love. They led a plain yet loving life, sharing profound resonance with each other. The Girl loved the sea and they made a deal to travel to the sea someday.
Best Director Debut
Election Night
Peter Zerzan
Election Night is the story of two organizers, one a veteran, the other a rookie, at a campaign office on Election Night 2018. Alone for the first time, they discuss their hopes, their trials, their regrets, and their fears.
Best Producer
Shared psychosis
Paolo Furino, Felice Antignani
Marina and Piero, both lovers of transgressive dates, find Ric and Luna on their way, who hide other intentions.
Best Composer
Cosmic Light
Anaya(AnayaMusic) Kunst
In the troubled times we live in, there is a real need for taking the listener above the common vibrations and that helps them rise up to their full potential, and “Transcendence” is a wonderful way of that.
Best Actor
Best Sound Design
Polished Gentlemen‘s Shoes
Joachim H. Böttcher
Isa Eren is a gambler and in financial trouble. In despair he accepts the odd ob of a catholic priest to steal the cell phone of a young lady.
Best Actress
Greek Fire - Demon Spirit
Dan T. Hall
An old county home sits abandoned. Its occupants - a father, young mother, and child - have long since vanished.
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Best Young Actress
Twitter Files
Ellie Mae Smith
Twitter Files, Elon Musk gives Mark Walker the information to blow the story out of the water.
Best Editing
Diamond Dust
Ann Huang
A mid-aged poetess reconciles with the value of her true self after having lost both her mother and her career inspiration during the pandemic.
Best Original Song
Alaska Rescue Story
Mark D Rose
This Alaska Bush Pilot makes an all out effort to save the last Caribou in Alaska, but nearly pays the ultimate price in the process.
Best Synopsis
Red Dog & Bates
Xochi Blymyer
In 1958, Red Dog & Bates decided to walk from Los Angeles to Mexico City. 2300 miles, 12 pairs of shoes, 7 months and 1 extraordinary adventure!
