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FALL 2019 WINNERS
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| USA |
FRANCE |
USA |
| Life Interrupted Documentary Paula Mosen  “I am sorry, but you have breast cancer.” In the United States, one in eight women will hear these shattering words in her lifetime. LIFE INTERRUPTED is a powerful film featuring intimate stories of three survivors including the filmmaker herself. These women are confronting a life- altering diagnosis and respond to their disease process and the rebuilding of their lives with honesty, dignity, humor, and grace.  Paula Mozen, is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker, educator, and PBS consultant who was twice diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2008 and May 2011. Her treatments include: 2 lumpectomies, 38 weeks radiation therapy , chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and a bilateral mastectomy in January 2012 with reconstruction. She has served on the film faculties at Towson University in Baltimore, Montana State University, and San Francisco State University. Her two highly acclaimed Health Issue documentaries are NO REWIND (teenagers and HIV/AIDS) and 3 girls i know... (young women and sexuality) are currently distributed nationally and internationally to over 6,000 high schools, universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Columbia among many others,) public libraries, hospitals, medical schools, community health clinics and public health departments ; have been screened at dozens of highly acclaimed film festivals; and broadcast by PBS, Discovery Channel and Knowledge Network. |
from one shore to another Loose Shorts DRAMA Gerard Corporon  An oyster farmer from the South of France, who only listens to his heart, is confronted to a situation which is going to make resentment, racism and intolerance rise in others.  |
You Drive Me Crazy Tight Shorts - Comedy Vickie Rose Sampson -Director/Producer Wendy Fishman - Writer - Co-producer  You Drive Me Crazy is a dark comedy/thriller about a GPS who takes revenge on a cheating husband. Longer synopsis:A dark comedy thriller, “You Drive Me Crazy” is a cautionary tale about our obsessive reliance on technology. A seemingly ordinary guy, Glen, is driving when his GPS voice gives him directions that don’t quite add up. When he tries to follow his own path, the GPS computer shockingly takes control berating him for some of his life choices. Things go from bad to worse when Glen winds up in the last place he’d ever want to be.  Victoria Sampson is an award-winning producer/writer/director, film and sound editor. With over 201 Sound credits, including sound editing on Academy Award winning films for Sound, “Speed” and “The River,” she has also won 4 Golden Reel Awards and an Emmy for her sound work. Since 1992, Victoria also created and taught Post Production Sound for Directors and Editors at UCLA, USC, Video Symphony, AFI and often guest lectures at colleges and universities. I like films that challenge people - make them think, laugh, wonder, and talk afterward! You Drive Me Crazy came out of a real incident that Wendy (the writer) and I experienced using WAZE to get to a screening. I was listening to WAZE and Wendy told me "Don't listen to that. Just go up to Sunset and turn right!" I insisted that I HAD to listen to the WAZE lady! And we just exaggerated it from there. How far until technology takes us over? This is a funny and scary exploration of that question! |
| GERMANY |
ITALY |
USA |
Driven Crazy Drama Feature (Foreign) Kerstin Siehl  When a call girl and her driver skip town to find a new beginning, they must learn the truth about one another before their crimes destroy them. DRIVEN CRAZY starts as a dark, headlight-blinding, white-line staring road movie, about two of the world's forgotten underbelly people who try to flee the cesspit city and make a new life for themselves in the countryside. A pregnant abused hooker NATASHA and a sad, confused junkie PAUL go on a desperate drive to escape the vengeance of a psychotic drug dealer. In the countryside they discover their damaged, fated love-affair and are forced to face the awful truth in a crashing vortex of violence when the road finally runs out. There can only be one survivor. Driven Crazy explores how gullible human beings overwhelmed by life can no longer distinguish between the truth and lies during their emotional arguments. |
TangoX Art-house Short (Foreign) Alessandra Guarino  Ingredients: an old accordion, a musician, a dancer, wardrobe with mirrors, rays of sun... A musician is getting ready to play a Tango. A dancer is getting ready to dance a Tango. A Tango is such a serious thing. A Tango is such a powerful thing. So much that something could happen if you don't close the wardrobe doors carefully...  Alessandra Guarino 7bde49eb1e headshot Always passionate about all kinds of art (but also in technology), I dedicated my whole life to dance, playing and composing music, singing and creating in different ways. Realizing videos and short films has become for me the most exciting form to express myself and to bring life to “something”, merging all the things that I love to do. I try to do my best, doing almost everything on my own, with my poor devices... for now... :-) |
The Spirit Seam Animated (Domestic) Ashley Gerst  The Spirit Seam is a short animated film about a little girl, Pollywog, and her Pap-Paw. Located in an Appalachain coal-mining town in the 1950s, the film takes the audience through the daily life of both characters. At the start of the film, the characters eat breakfast together and then travel to their respective locations- Pollywog is dropped off at school, and Pap-Paw clocks into work at the Hiraethsburg coal mine. Throughout the film they experience the simple pleasures of rural Appalachian life: catching fireflies, fishing, catching frogs, and birthdays. Pap-Paw and Pollywog's bond is incredibly strong. In fact, they are inseparable until illness threatens to fracture their small family. This film is an homage to Gerst's maternal side and their origins working in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It is a piece rooted not only in family roots and origin, but in grief over the loss of family members as well. The Spirit Seam combines a mixture of animation mediums. The characters have been 3D modeled and animated in Audodesk Maya while the elemental effects are created in the 2D Animation software Toonboom Harmony. The sets are created physically, and are created in a variety of ways: 3D printing, embroidery, felted yarn, and sculptural techniques.  Ashley Gerst is a 2D and 3D animator living in Brooklyn NY. She holds a BFA in Digital Arts from Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA in Computer Art from School of Visual Arts. In addition to her professorial work at William Paterson, Ashley is a freelance animator working for a variety of production companies and clients in the Greater New York City area. She has created animation and VFX for broadcast commercials, TV shows, and documentaries for AMC, VH1, and BET. Some of her clients include Fast Company, Behance, Credit Suisse, Nivea, Nissan, Afrin, Red Bull, Hudson Media, CBS, Nurturing Press, iNomadics, Redwood Living and more. Ashley Gerst was also responsible for animating the title sequence for the 2018 feature film 'The Con is On'. The film, distributed by Grindhouse/Lionsgate, is a heist comedy directed by James Haslam and stars Uma Thurman and Tim Roth. She is currently finishing an animated short film titled the Spirit Seam. The film, taking place in 1952, follows a little girl named Pollywog and her PapPaw as they experience daily life in a small coal mining town in Appalachia. The final project combines a mixture of mediums: 3D animated character, 2D animated effects, and physically constructed sets. The sets were created with a combination of 3D printing, fiber arts, and carved sculpture. The Spirit Seam's concept art and set construction has been featured in the article “Explore the World of Fine-Art Animation” in Professional Artist Magazine's December/January 2017-2018 issue. The sets and embroidery for the film were also in a solo show at Misbits Gallery in 2018 in Oxford Mississippi. Other animated films created by Ashley Gerst have been screened nationally in several film festivals including Dam Short Film Festival, Tucson Slow Food and Film Festival, Standing Rock Film Festival (Third Place Award). Her films have also been exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art and featured in Cleveland's local newspaper: The Plain Dealer, LA Weekly and Makezine. |
| INDIA |
USA/COSTA RICA |
CANADA |
| Noblemen LGBT (Foreign) Vandana Kataria  It is winter in a prestigious all boys' boarding school, where children continue to practice age-old rituals and codes bound by years of hierarchy. Shay is picked on constantly, the main perpetrators being Arjun, the tall athletic sports captain, and his best friend Baadal. Shay and Pia, the spunky daughter of the new Junior School Principal are cast as Bassanio and Portia in the Founder's Day production of Merchant of Venice. Murali, the charismatic drama teacher unknowingly adds salt to Baadal's wounds by casting him as Shay's understudy. Indignant, Baadal vows to get Shay's part at any cost and turns to his buddy Arjun for help. Events take a sinister turn when Shay walks in on Arjun, Baadal, and their cronies on a debauched night.  Vandana Kataria graduated from the National Institute of Design. She began her career in films as a production designer working on films such as 'Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008)', 'Shanghai (2012)', and 'Detective Byomkesh Bakshi (2015)'. She was selected to be a part of the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2016, and directed the music video 'Jungli Sher' for Indian rap sensation DIVINE, shot entirely on an iPhone 6S in the same year. Vandana has in the past also directed television commercials and is making her debut as a writer and director with a feature length film titled 'Noblemen'. |
TAMING WILD: PURA VIDA Documentary (Foreign) Elsa Sinclair  Two Costa Rican horses rescued from lives of pain and hardship, two horse trainers on a mission to understand new beginnings and connection through movement. A country to cross from the Pacific to the Atlantic ocean, over mountains, through valleys, across rives, and embraced by Costa Rican jungle. Could this shared journey be enough to build trust between horse and human? Could horses from a history such as theirs learn to trust anew?  Elsa Sinclair is a professional horse trainer and documentary filmmaker who brings to the horse world a unique and powerful perspective. Gathering together knowledge from a variety of equine disciplines Elsa created a brand new style of training she calls Freedom Based Training. Her style is now popular around the world. Most recently, she and a student of hers embarked on an ambitious project, walking across the country of Costa Rica with two rescue horses, training them in motion while filming everything that happened along the way. Once again pushing the limits of what a horse and human partnership can really be. |
Viaticum Loose Shorts Lara Daans  Liz Newey, a recovering alcoholic, is in the midst of her early morning recitation of the Twelve Steps, when she's interrupted by a phone call. Her father, Frank Newey, estranged for twenty-three years, is on his death bed in a Toronto hospital. Torn, Liz arrives at her morning waitressing shift but ultimately decides to ask her boss for three days off. She needs to tackle “Step Nine”- make amends – of the AA program. Her boss and AA sponsor, Edith understands all too well. At the hospital, Father Warren, a young inexperienced priest with a past, offers Frank the sacrament of Viaticum, the giving of the last rites. Frank reluctantly agrees but is more concerned about the priest helping him to complete a letter to his daughter Liz. Liz, riddled with disturbing childhood memories, including that of the suicide of her older brother, drives on determined to see her father before he passes. A near accident derails her and she finds herself seated at a roadside bar. As Liz contemplates the drink before her, the priest tries to complete the last rites but Frank, staring at mortality, interrupts and asks the priest to hear his confession. The struggle against time for both father and daughter is real. Regrettably, Father Warren does not succeed in completing the sacrament. As Liz hurries to her father's hospital room, a deflated Father Warren, exits the hospital only to be brutally attacked by a druggie. The sacred viaticum case is scattered about and the letter to Liz tumbles from the priest’s jacket pocket. Liz, alone with her deceased father attempts to make peace with him but peace is elusive. She numbly exits the hospital and surprisingly finds all that she emotionally sought.  Lara commenced her career as a ballet dancer performing professionally at a very young age. She also began figure skating competitively at a young age, the perfect sport for someone who loved music and loved performing. She studied sciences at McGill University and the University of Toronto but decided to abandon a medical career and pursue acting. After studying acting in NYC, with many of the greats, Lara has gone on to star in both theatre and film/television productions. Select credits include, Hearts of War (2010) with Nina Dobrev; A Dark Truth (2012) starring opposite Andy Garcia and Ice Girls (2016) starring Natasha Hendstridge. She won a best actress award for her starring role opposite Kim Coates in the feature film “King of Sorrow”. During this time she subsequently worked on a number of film productions in various capacities. From development to post production supervision, Lara honed her skills learning all aspects of filmmaking. Production credits include Woman Wanted (1999), The Poet (2010) and Hit It (2013), With twenty years of acting credits behind her, and the success of her first produced screen play ICE GIRLS, a personal film drawing upon her figure skating experience, Lara embraced the opportunity to move behind the camera to direct the short film Viaticum. Viaticum is Lara’s directorial debut. Striving for artistic control that is the hallmark of a great artist, Lara sees directing as the ultimate position from which her stories can be told with the greatest amount of truth and integrity. Her curiosity and desire to tell the truth are what drives her career choices. Lara looks forward to learning evermore about the art of cinema and to telling great stories. |
| Afterglow |
Animation Students Inspirational |
Costa Rica Ariana Bolaños Guevara |
Outstanding Excellence ALL 3 Award Of Outstanding Excellence: Viewer Impact: Inspirational |
| Chubby
Cafe |
Drama |
China |
Outstanding
Excellence Award Of Excellence: Script/Writer, CAO Yiwen |
| Foreclosure on Faith |
Documentary |
Hungary
Viktoria Somogyi |
Outstanding Excellence |
| Full Moon and High Tide in the
Ladies Room |
Loose Shorts | USA Marcia Haufrecht |
Outstanding Excellence Award of Excellence: Actress: Lead, Meissa Hampton Award Of Excellence: Direction, Marcia Haufrecht |
| Getting Started |
LGBT |
USA Andrea Meyerson |
Outstanding Excellence |
| Glass Ceiling |
Students |
UK Alice Lambert |
Outstanding excellence |
| In the name of Your Daughter | Documentary Inspirational |
Canada Giselle Portenier |
Outstanding Excellence BOTH Award Of Outstanding Excellence: Viewer Impact: Inspirational |
| I
See The Roses |
PSA |
USA Sarah Goras Peterson |
Outstanding
Excellence |
| Pakhi
Loga Mon - The Wings of Mind |
Loose
Shorts |
India Junmoni Devi Khaund |
Outstanding
Excellence Award Of Excellence: Direction, Junmoni Devi Khaund Award Of Excellence: Voice Over Talent |
| Rebecca
Gold |
Webisode |
UK
Ian Diaz: Director
Katie Sheridan: Lead Actress
|
Outstanding
Excellence Award Of Excellence: Lead actress, Katie Sheridan |
| Remembering: The Maurits Kiek
Story |
Documentary |
Austria |
Outstanding Excellence |
| Sac
de Merde |
Comedy |
USA Gabrielle Berberich: Writer Arielle Haller-Silverstone: Story Greg Chwerchak: Director |
Outstanding
Excellence |
| Sisters and the Shrink |
Drama |
USA Hazel Simpson |
Outstanding Excellence |
| The first memory | Art-house Film |
Spain Jesus Ponce |
Outstanding Excellence |
| Unraveling
Athena |
Documentary |
USA Francis Amat |
Outstanding
Excellence |
| Untying the Knot |
Documentary |
Canada Zana Shammi: Director Katy Swailes: Writer |
Outstanding Excellence |
| All
This Time |
Student |
Czech
Republic |
Excellence |
| Amaterasu |
Animation |
USA Christine Papalexis |
Excellence Award Of Exceptional Merit: Voice-Over Talent |
| Amplified: A Conversation with
Women in American Film Sound |
Documentary |
USA Vanessa Theme Ament |
Excellence |
| Angie Haze: Embracing Each Part Of You |
Inspirational | USA Todd Volkmer |
Excellence |
| Artemis
& the Astronaut |
Art-house |
USA Alice L. Lee |
Excellence |
| A
Scratch for Every Itch |
Tight
Shorts |
USA Maryanne Galvin |
Excellence |
| A
Story of Courage |
Tight
Shorts |
USA Ariana Feiner |
Excellence |
| Back
To The Wall |
Drama |
USA Brian Drillinger Suwannee Sam |
Excellence |
| Be
Prepared |
Documentary |
USA Susan Ealer |
Excellence |
| Between a Tango and a Danzon |
Loose Shorts |
USA Marta Bautis |
Excellence |
| Breaking the I.C.E |
Comedy |
USA Alejandra Hinojosa |
Excellence |
| Burnt
Oranges |
Documentary |
USA |
Excellence |
| Dead Weight |
Drama |
USA Anna Maganini |
Excellence Award Of Excellence: Lead Actress, Anna Maganini |
| Dishonour |
Loose Shorts |
Canada Terrence Turner |
Excellence |
| Don't
Call Me a Spinster |
Comedy |
Peru Ani Alva Helfer |
Excellence |
| Feminomics TV - Home:
Transitions & Transformations |
TV Show |
USA Anthony Geathers: Director Lisa Kaess: Writer/Producer |
Excellence |
| I
Do |
France |
Webisode |
Excellence |
| Isle of Capri: A Song of My
Mother |
Dust Collector |
USA Dawn Young |
Excellence |
| Isaac Pope:
The Spirit of an America Century |
Inspirational |
USA Paula J. Caplan, Writer/producer Rock Grant: Director |
Excellence |
| KEY TO THE SECRETS |
Comedy |
Switzerland Nicole Ferrari |
Excellence |
| Medea |
Art-house Film | USA Andronica Marquis |
Excellence Award Of Excellence: Lead Actress, Andronica Marquis Award Of Excellence: Direction, Andronica Marquis Award Of Merit: Editing, Mark Oguschewitz Award Of Exceptional Merit: Cinematography, Colten Becker Award Of Excellence: Original Score, Pat Marqis Award Of Exceptional Merit: Makeup. Award Of Outstanding Excellence: coustume Design, Sophia Thoreson |
| My
Sister Hali |
Documentary |
USA Paul Sheriff/ Toby Towson / Kathryn Talbott |
Excellence Award Of Excellence: Original Score Award Od Excellence: Viewer Impact: Inspirational |
| Narrator Syndrome |
Tight Shorts |
USA Tijuana Ricks |
Excellence |
| Remembering: The Maurits Kiek
Story |
Documentary |
USA |
Excellence |
| RIDE: Challenge to Conquer Cancer |
Documentary |
USA Jokes Yanes |
Excellence |
| Ridin' Ropin' & Jumpin' Over
Cars |
Documentary |
USA Elaine Smith |
Excellence |
| Ring of Fire |
Tight Shorts |
USA Katherine Banos |
Excellence Award Of Excellence: Lead Actress, Katherine Banos Award Of Outstanding Excellence: Direction, Tracy Kleeman Award Of Excellence: Cinematography Award Of Excellence: Script/Writer, Katherine Banos Award Of Excellence: Sound |
| Road to Zuni |
Documentary |
USA Annapurna Devi Pandey |
Excellence |
| Sibling Sunday |
Loose Shorts |
USA Toni Nagy |
Excellence |
| The
Reprogramming of Jeremy |
LGBT |
USA Gail Wagner |
Excellence Award Of Excellence: Supporting Actress, Alexandra Ford Award Of Excellence: Direction, Gail Wagner Award of Excellence: Original Concept |
| The
Turtle Light |
LGBT |
USA Rachel Pollack |
Excellence Award Of Excellence: Lead Actress, Rachel Pollack |
| True Ripples |
Tight Shorts |
UK Saudat Sanusi |
Excellence |
| Twisp:
The Power of Community |
Documentary |
USA Leslee Goodman |
Excellence |
| Unconditional Love |
Inspirational TightShorts |
Canada Franie Eleonore Bernier |
Excellence Both Award Of Excellence: Original Song Award Of Excellence: Cinematography |
| We Are Galapagos |
Documentary |
USA Inspirational |
Excellence BOTH Categories Award Of Excellence: Direction, Kum-Kum Bhavnani Award Of Exceptional Merit: Cinematography, Skye Biorgman Award Of Exceptional Merit: Original Score, Antonio Cepeda Award Of Excellence: Research Award Of Exceptional Merit: Original Concept |
| Wild Hope |
Documentary |
USA Dave Devine & Suez Jacobson: Directors |
Excellence |
| Women: a success story |
Documentary |
UK
Ceri Dingle |
Excellence |
| Women: Beyond labels |
LGBT |
Canada Julie Vaillancourt |
Excellence |
| Yoo
Kyung |
Student |
Republic
Of Korea Simon McEnteggart: Director Yoo Kyung Chun: Lead Actress |
Excellence |
| Activism
through Enlightenment |
Student |
USA Rebecca Rauch-Thane |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Africa Amini Alama - Africa I Believe in You | Documentary | Austria | Exceptional Merit Award Of Excellence: Sound Editing |
| ALL OUR LIVES |
Drama |
Germany Jay Alansky |
Exceptional Merit |
| An Accidental Zombie (Named Ted) |
Comedy |
USA Anne Welles |
Exceptional Merit |
| a rose is a rose |
Student |
Germany Maja Zagorska |
Exceptional merit |
| Before I Am Ready |
Inspirational |
Thailand Nattasuda Anusonadisai |
Exceptional Merit |
| Beneath the Surface: Water Polo |
Documentary |
USA Dawn Young |
Exceptional Merit |
| Blind Text |
Tight Shorts |
Canada
Katalina Kovecses
|
Exceptional Merit |
| BLURRED |
Loose
Shorts |
Netherlands Veerle Ackerstaff |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Buried |
Loose Shorts |
USA Cherie Julander |
Exceptional Merit |
| CHASM |
Drama |
UK
Lewis & Clover Peake
|
Exceptional Merit |
| Colors
of Resistance |
Documentary |
USA Areeb Zuaiter |
Exceptional
Merit Award of Excellence: Original Score, Suad Bushnaq |
| CORE |
Student |
USA Joyce Lim |
Exceptional Merit |
| Don't Yell For Help |
Tight Shorts |
USA Irena Murphy |
Exceptional Merit |
| Dreams, Washed Out |
Zero Budget |
Italy Momo Lee |
Exceptional Merit |
| Dust
and Dignity - African Lessons |
Documentary |
Italy
Carla Zickfeld
|
Exceptional
Merit |
| Eka Veli Ek Diwas / One day at a
time |
Loose Shorts |
India Sarika Joshi |
Exceptional Merit |
| ESPIRAL |
Loose Shorts |
USA Susana Weingarten |
Exceptional Merit |
| Fairytale |
Students |
USA Delaney Kunkle |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Finding Home |
Tight Shorts |
USA
Shea E Butler |
Exceptional Merit |
| Finding
The Balance |
Documentary |
USA Anne Lewis |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Hidden
Wounds |
Tight
Shorts |
Canada Brenda Cardinal |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Hiro's Table |
Documentary |
USA Lynn Hamrick |
Exceptional Merit |
| How Me Parent Good: And You Can
Too! |
Webisode |
AU Jenny Wynter |
Exceptional Merit |
| In
the footsteps of yearning |
Drama |
Austria Paul Wimmer: Director Manuela Ferihumer: Writer |
Exceptional
Merit |
| In
The Ground |
Student |
Israel Moran Pe'er Raviv |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Islam of my childhood |
Documentary |
Canada Nadia Zouaoui |
Exceptional Merit |
| Juchitan-
Women's Networks |
Documentary |
Austria Magdalena Frey |
Exceptional
Merit |
| JUMP |
Art-house |
Ireland Clea van der Grijn |
Exceptional Merit |
| Leaving
Virginville |
Zero
Budget |
USA Melissa Whitely |
Exceptional
merit |
| Lost
Love |
Tight
Shorts |
USA Filiz Rezvan |
Exceptional
Merit |
| MACDELLA |
Documentary |
USA Aliya Naumoff |
Exceptional Merit |
| Mont Blanc
(acclimatization & summit) |
Student |
USA Ilma Vallee |
Exceptional Merit |
| My
Shell |
Tight
Shorts |
Ireland Auveen Lush |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Newport
Castle |
Drama |
USA |
Exceptional
Merit |
| No
Really, It's Fine. |
Art-house
Film |
USA Becca Dobyns |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Nothing
to See |
Zero
Budget Tight Shorts |
USA Chris Andersen Nancy Safavi |
Exceptional
Merit Both Award of Excellence: Original Song |
| Ping Pong Pigeons |
Tigth Shorts |
USA Charlotte Wincott |
Exceptional Merit |
| PINK
TAX PSA |
PSA |
USA Dominique Cruz |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Priced
Out: Why You Can't Afford A Place to Live in the City |
Tight
Shorts |
USA Dyan Ruiz |
Exceptional
Merit Award Of Excellence: Viewer Impact: Inspirational |
| Reverie |
Animated |
USA Emily DeWoolfson |
Exceptional
Merit |
| SEED: One Man's Journey to Grow
Food, People and Community |
Documentary |
USA Malena Cunningham Anderson |
Exceptional Merit |
| Sisters March |
Documentary |
USA Laurie Little |
Exceptional Merit |
| Songs
Of The Day After |
Loose
Shorts |
France Barbara Glas |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Sookee - Of Seahorses and Closets |
LGBT |
Germany Kerstin Polte |
Exceptional Merit |
| Split Decision |
Loose Shorts |
USA |
Exceptional Merit |
| Stress
& Success: Georgetown |
Documentary Students |
USA |
Exceptional
Merit Award Of Excellence: Viewer Impact: Inspirational |
| Swept Away |
Tight Shorts |
USA Thomas Grascoeur: Director Sheri Davenport: Writer |
Exceptional Merit |
| Tarab |
Comedy Zero Budget Inspirational |
USA Jennifer Hanley: Director |
Exceptional
Merit ALL 3 Categories Award Of Excellence: Lead Actress, Maria Michaels Award Of Excellence: Supporting Actress, TAMIR Award Of Excellence: Direction |
| Teta |
Documentary |
USA Alexandra Hidalgo |
Exceptional Merit Award of Excellence: Viewer Impact: Inspirational |
| The Caged Bird: The Life and
Music of Florence B. Price |
Documentary |
USA James Greeson: Director Dale Carpenter: Associate Producer |
Exceptional Merit |
| The Cherry Tree Carol |
Student |
USA Jed Bell: director Barbara West: Producer |
Exceptional Merit |
| The
Cracks |
Student |
UK Catriona Anne Blackburn |
Exceptional
Merit |
| The Loss |
Drama |
USA Mandy Looney Mike Madigan |
Exceptional Merit |
| The Masses |
Webisode |
USA Toni Nagy |
Exceptional Merit |
| The
New Year's Eve |
Students |
Taiwan 徐子寅HSU,TZU-YIN 黃法祥Huang, Fa-Hsiang |
Exceptional
Merit |
| The Pet Peeve Police |
Webisode |
USA Sarah Delpizzo & Melissa Graver: Producers PJ Germain: Director |
Exceptional Merit |
| The Pharaohs |
Loose Shorts |
USA David Malouf: Director Patricia Meyers Producer |
Exceptional Merit Award Of Excellence: Lead Actress, Mary Suib Award Of Excellence: Original Score |
| The
Ring |
Student |
USA Ava Auffret |
Exceptional
Merit YOUNG PROMISING FILMAKER SPECIAL AWARD  |
| The
Stolen Word |
Loose
Shorts |
USA Byron Butterworth |
Exceptional
Merit Award Of Exceptional Merit: Lead Actress, Jess Barbour Award Of Exceptional Merit: Viewer Impact: Inspirational |
| The Trance Bardo |
Loose Shorts |
USA Willa Kaufman: Director Gabriela Williams Lourdes Roche: Producers |
Exceptional merit |
| Their Time Is Now |
Animated |
Thailand Nattasuda Anusonadisai |
Exceptional Merit |
| Through The Windows |
Documentary |
USA Bret Parker, Petey Barma: Directors |
Exceptional Merit |
| TOPSY |
Drama |
UK Lewis & Clover Peake |
Exceptional Merit |
| Twig |
Tight
Shorts |
AU Adrian Nugent Meaghan Leonard |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Uncle
Fun: You're The One |
Documentary Inspirational Alternate Media LGBT Art-house Film |
USA Laura Force Scruggs |
Exceptional
Merit ALL |
| When
Kids Meet A Creature |
Student |
USA Alicia Rice |
Exceptional
Merit |
| White
Christmas |
Tight
Shorts |
USA Jeff Kanew |
Exceptional
Merit |
| Walk
in my Shoes |
Drama |
USA Teya Sepinuck |
Exceptional Merit Award Of Excellence: Viewer Impact: Inspirational |
| Where
the Waters Blend |
LGBT |
USA Susanne Coates |
Exceptional Merit |
| 8
Million is the Loneliest Number |
Loose
Shorts |
USA Montgomery Mauro: Director Larissa Kruesi: Writer |
Merit |
| As Pastoras - Samba Chorous
Singers (2018) |
Documentary |
Brazil Juliana Chagas |
Merit |
| Assisted Suicide |
Loose Shorts |
USA Herb Cremer & Joe Cremer: directors Grace Soriano: Producer |
Merit |
| Beard
Cover |
LGBT |
Canada Carly Telford |
Merit |
| Before
We Wrap |
Student |
USA Elizabeth Charles |
Merit |
| Distortion |
Tight
Shorts |
Canada Cori Brownlee |
Merit |
| Estherleon: Tears of Stone |
Documentary |
USA Ivor Pyres |
Merit Award of Exceptional Merit: Original Song |
| Finding
Your Fairytale |
Documentary |
USA Angela Kupper |
Merit Award Of Exceptional Merit: Vierwer Impact: Inspirational |
| Fragments |
Zero Budget Loose shorts |
UK Laura Dorn |
Merit BOTH Award Of Exceptional Merit: Direction, Laura Dorn Award Of Exceptional Merit: Original Score |
| High Tide |
Student |
USA Lindsay Vitale Director |
Merit |
| Josepha's
Story |
Documentary |
USA Ozlem Ayse Ozgur |
Merit |
| Mokum Aleph |
Documentary |
Netherlands Berenike Rozgonyi: Director |
Merit |
| Mommy Mafia |
TV Show |
USA Laura Sweeney Writer Jeremiah Kipp Director |
Merit |
| Mountain
Man |
Documentary |
USA Lauren Catts |
Merit |
| Nyla
Helper Lakota Medicine Woman: Through Trauma to Triumph |
Documentary |
USA Leslye Abbey |
Merit |
| PENDULUM |
Tight
Shorts |
USA |
Merit Award Of Merit: Lead actress, Jordyn Torres |
| Play Date |
USA |
USA Herb Cremer & Joe Cremer: directors Theresa Labreglio: Producer |
Merit |
| Run |
Art-house Film |
Netherlands
|
Merit |
| Short: Mother's Day: The
Forgotten Victims of Death Row |
Documentary |
USA |
Merit |
| Sisterhood |
Documentary |
Italy Domiziana De Fulvio |
Merit |
| Take it Outside |
Student |
USA Claire Dejarnett |
Merit |
| Tenderness |
Tight
Shorts |
Russian
Federation |
Merit |
| The Little Black Dress |
Tight Shorts |
USA
Maggie Meiners
Director |
Merit |
| The Lovers |
Student |
USA Eily Jones |
Merit |
| THE
MAGIC ARTIST - DOCUMENTARY |
Documentary |
Serbia Mira Film |
Merit |
| The Note |
Student |
USA Danielle DellaPorta |
Merit |
| The Power of Art: Women's Voices
in Africa |
Documentary |
Claudine
Pommier |
Merit |
| The
Seeming Space Between Us |
Tight
Shorts |
USA May Kesler |
Merit |
| Three
Objects Spoke to Me |
Tight
Shorts |
USA Diane Kaufman |
Merit |
| Three Women |
Documentary |
USA Anthony Rizzo: Director Linda Tate: Writer |
Merit |
| Wanderings
By The Sea |
Art-house
Film |
USA Lynn Bianchi |
Merit |
| Witch
Hunt |
Students |
USA Emmanuel Adu Poku |
Merit |
| Within
Our Reach |
Inspirational |
Thailand Nattasuda Anusonadisai |
Merit |
| Anamorphosis |
Art-house
Film |
UK Christopher Galt |
Kudos |
| Halitosis |
LGBT |
USA Dre Sanford Lucretia T. Knight |
Kudos |
| Haven |
Students |
USA Danu Mudannayake |
Kudos |
| Pills |
Comedy |
USA Mary Riestenberg |
Kudos |
| The
Conversion |
Zero
Budget |
Austria Katrin Butt |
Kudos |
| A
Revolutionary Friendship |
Sound
Editing |
Award
Of Exceptional Merit: Sound editing |
| FEMINAM |
SFX:
Animation |
Award
of Exceptional Merit: SFX:Animation |
| Foxy |
Inspirational |
Award
Of Excellence: Inspirational |
| NO WAR |
Costume
Design |
Award Of Exceptional Merit: Viktoriia Vlasenko |
| Prufrock |
Original
Song |
Award
Of Excellence: Original Song |
| The Captains Secrets - A Cadet's
Confession |
Original Concept |
Award Of Outstanding Excellence:
Original Concept |
| The
Faith Report |
Voice-Over
Talent |
Award
Of Exceptional Merit: Voive Over Talent |
| Women
of the WorldS |
SFX:
Animation |
Award
Of Exceptional Merit: SFX: Animation |