HONORABLE MENTION
Best Feature Film
Pierre & Jeanne
Clémentine Célarié
The Roland family lives in Etretat.
Jeanne, the youngest, inherits the fortune from Mr. Maréchal, a friend of the parents.
Best Short Documentary
Tyranny
David Adamko
A dysfunctional society controlled by a toxic leader results in the reality of illiberalism and the sole autocratic EU member state is leading the way.
Best Feature Documentary
Don't Forget to Leave
Bill Fulkerson
Tim Landers, a prolific songwriter and founding member of the emo/pop-punk band TRANSIT, struggled. He fought battles, often privately, with substance misuse and his own mental health needs.
Best Animation
Chocolate Cake & Ice Cream
Steve Cowden
An unlikely friendship turns to love when a dog and cat go through tough times.
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Best Music Video
I Am Change
Reno Anastasio
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was elevated to a statutory holiday by the Parliament of Canada in 2021.
Best Dance Video
ONEONE
Daniel Belton
OneOne creates a sense of an ancient culture, an archetype being unearthed through real-world experience that is timeless and contemporary.
Best Thriller
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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.
Best RomCom
ANYBODY BUT A MILLIONAIRE!
Larisa Vödisch-Nikitina
Alice Hill’s book outlines all the tricks gold-digging women use to con millionaires into marrying them.
Best Drama
Underwater
Nicolas Seguel
Mara, an introverted girl who lost her father, Erik several years ago, doesn’t practice water dance anymore.
Best Horror
Requiem For Lugosi
MIke Buckendorf
Two vampire lovers, one a European aristocrat, the other a former East German Intelligence Officer are pursued by a team of hunters dispatched by the Vatican.
Best Sci-Fi
Run, Chad Run
Nadia Guo
In 2045, humans passed the "Nirvanee" Bill in order to attain immortality.
Best Fantasy
Pet Psychic
Alan Natale
A man finds the world's worst pet psychic to help him speak to his deceased cat.
Best War Film
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Newsreel '44
Mike Buckendorf
A faux wartime newsreel, capturing news highlights from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge with period music and narration.
Best Black & White Film
HEARTWORK
Benjamin Filinson
Through the merging of 16mm film and HD Video, shot exclusively at night in B&W.
Best LGBTQ+ Film
For I Am Dead
Patricia Delso Lucas
In late 1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived an extravagant life in a chateau, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.
Best Educational Film
Si Tokan: Kulintang Maker from Upriver Maguindanao
Jose Semblante Buenconsejo
Si Tokan: Ang Manggagawa ng Kulintang sa Maguindanao Ilaya presents the history of the kulintang, small bossed gongs horizontally laid-in-a row, which has been the Philippines' most "celebrated" deterritorialized "ethnic" instrument, having flowed to translocal spaces out of its origin.
Best Experimental Film
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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 Symbolic Film
FEMINAM
Marijke De Belie
The movie FEMINAM, Latin for woman is an autonomous visual work by Marijke De Belie in which the artist plays with representations of women throughout the centuries.
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Best No-Dialogue Film
MusArt
Kevin Hanzlik
Musician and painter, Randall Vemer, has once again expanded his talent pool; this time into filmmaking.
Best Student Film
Paranoia
John Herndon
Alex is having a bad night trying to meet his deadline, when a friend stops by asking for help because he thinks someone is trying to kill him.
Best Short Screenplay
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Time
Mario Luis Telles
After trying their luck at rock and roll fame, 4 friends embark on a hilarious journey to get their fame and fortune.
Best Super Short Script
The Lesson
Duncan Putney
An old man journey's into the city to meet his university student daughter at a busy cafe and play a game of chess.
Best Feature Script
Best Thriller Screenplay
Othello
Samuel Benjamin Books Negin
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Best Adapted Screenplay
The secrets of Chauvigny
PAOLA FABIANI
In a November dawn of 1806, the Marquis François Demoraux, the only one of his house to have survived the Parisian Terror, returns from Nantes to his hunting lodge in Chauvigny, in the countryside of the Loire Valley.
Best Television Script - Pilot
Still's Life
Duncan Putney
A year after an auto accident shatters Detective Eric Still's skull and kills his wife, the homicide detective returns to duty and on his first case discovers that his traumatic brain injury had given him artistic talents he didn't have before.
Best Comedy Screenplay
LOVE ACCORDING TO EROS
Sammy Kistell
Bitter after her redundancy, a sexual priestess and three partners open up a new sex clinic. They soon face challenges when her egotistical ex-boss tries to sabotage their chances of success.
Best Drama Screenplay
The Phatman
Dale Melgaard
Twenty years after the Vietnam war, an army photographer remains haunted by the atrocities committed against the Vietnamese people and the tragic ending of his marriage to a local woman.
Best Horror Screenplay
Resident Evil: Biohazard
Michael John Chase
After the events at the Spencer Mansion, an outbreak takes place in Racoon City after an a failed attempt to steal the G-Virus within the N.E.S.T Facility by the Umbrella Security Service's Alpha Team led by HUNK, after his team is slaughtered within the Sewers.
Best Action Screenplay
Secrets of Montmartre
Michelle Lynn
Estelle Emerson, an American Tourist visiting Paris for the first time finds herself caught in a dangerous web of espionage and romance, when she witnesses a high profile murder in the vibrant art district of Montmartre.
Best Sci-fi Screenplay
Hollow Earth Quest
Kathy Krantz Stewart
Hollow Earth Quest
In 1985 Dan interviews Ritter Von X, German scientist living at secret Arctic Nazi military base disguised as weather station. X tells Dan about Hollow Earth, and alien being, Thal.
Best Psychological Screenplay
Nocturnal
Peter Hardy
A visionary theatre director, who nearly drowned when he was a boy, becomes fascinated with a woman who wanders through neighborhoods at night, stealing into people's yards and swimming in their pools.
Best Historical Screenplay
Whispers of Love
Michelle Lynn
In the 1930's in Berlin, Germany, Lea Bachstein, a Jewish Ballerina, and Karl Richter, a high ranking German Cabinet member find themselves entangled in a forbidden love affair as the storm of the Holocaust begins to downpour, testing their loyalties and roles.
Best Fantasy Screenplay
Clawed Predator
Peter Michael Kershaw
An indigenous vampiric boy's family is killed. Alone in a world of humans, he struggles to understand his nature, branded as other, hunted by his family’s killer, haunted by the reality of what he is, of who he will become.
Best Romantic Screenplay
Comeback in Vienna
Marc Baron, Richard Wolf
Classic Hollywood meets classic Vienna in a romantic tale of reconciliation and forgiveness.
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Best Detective Screenplay
Whispering Place
Peter John Sinclair
A young woman travels abroad to search for answers only to find danger and death that will change her life and those she meets on her journey, forever!
Best Musical Screenplay
Baby Boomers Can Dance
Pam Price
After being teased by the catty women in her bridge club for being "boring", Dot, a poor shy Baby Boomer, decides to spice up her life by taking dance lessons. She confides in her flamboyant upstairs neighbor, Elvis White, an "Elvis" impersonator, and he suggests contacting "Blanche's Ballroom Boys" to find an instructor.
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Best Stage Play
Gina and Fidel
Pozsgai Zsolt
In 1974, Gina Lollobrigida was commissioned by Italian television to travel to Cuba to delay an interview with the then revolutionary Fidel Castro.
Best Story
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 Screenwriter
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Run, Chad Run
Nadia Guo
In 2045, humans passed the "Nirvanee" Bill in order to attain immortality. Wealthy human individuals could utilize AI technology to create avatars, known as "Nirvanees," and upload their consciousness onto them before their physical bodies perished.
Best First-Time 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 Female Screenwriter
Siracusa
Birna Ivonne Avila
After many years, Paolo, an antique dealer, returns to his hometown to make the sale of his life. But he still needs to get the piece to sell.
Best Director
Cora
Mauricio De la Maza-Benignos
A woman compulsively accumulates black plastic baggs in her bedroom closet. What's in the bags?
Best Director Debut
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MEANS TO AN END
TANYA M. WHEELER
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Best Actress
Cyber Date
James Jeffery Caldwell
The relationship of a couple quarantined in their respective homes during the pandemic.
Best Synopsis
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.