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Best Actor

Winner
Karel Roden
Promlceno
DonArt Production

Best Actor- December

Winner
Brett Cousins(actor)
Habitat

Best Actress

Winner
Mònica Almirall
Coda
Pirrax
Winner
Janet Etuk(actor)
Cold
Open Sky Productions
Winner
Teisha Lowry(actress)
Habitat
Winner
Liz Bishop
Swimming with Stones
Winner
Katie Boland(actress)
We're All in This Together
BrancSeater Productions

Best Animation

Winner
Delivery
Hsin Ting Lin
Glad you Candy
Susanne Deeken

Best Cinematographer

Winner
J1S
6.4 (16)
Mathias Rozpendowski
First Word Tree Productions
Winner
Swimming with Stones
Amber Yang

Best Comedy

Winner
Party Favors
7.4 (6)
Matt Canon
Trip Aces Media

Best Composer

Winner
The Jewels of the Salton Sea
Steven Vitali
Hollywood Dark Castle Film Production
Winner
Legend of the Forest
Alan Williams
As It Is
Arema Arega(composer)
The Two Kingdoms - soundtrack of the short Animation "As it is"

Best Director

Winner
Woody Woodhall
Contact High
Allied Media
Winner
Lama Naamneh(director)
Cigarette
Kawaliss The House of Theater and Cinema
Winner
Dylan Grey Martin
Eddie.

Best Editor

Winner
Cold
Flaura Atkinson(editor)
Open Sky Productions
Stitch

Best Experimental

Winner
Psyche Obscura
Craig Oty
Robby DeFrain
Kim Canazzi
Unborn
Sasha Marie Speer(director)
Sawübona

Best Experimental Film

Winner
Gentile
Adrian Tizoc Marshall

Best Female Director

Winner
Monica McCarthy
Survival Job
Survival Job
Winner
Olga Boiko(director)
Marat
Winner
Emily Dhue(writer, director)
Blitz
Sasha Marie Speer
Unborn
Sawübona

Best Horror

Winner
MAYA the Sacrifice (Teaser)
Paolo Bertola(director)
Zatori Films

Best Independent Film

Winner
Emily or Oscar
7.4 (15)
Chris M. Allport
Ismael Lotz
Robert J. MacColl
Alpha Command Unit
de FilmMakerij
Winner
Sunflower
Jiarui Guo
Mingjie Tang
United States
Winner
Il Malego
Valerio Vena

Best International Documentary Feature

Best International Narrative Feature

Winner
Cold
Claire Coache(writer/director)
Lisle Turner(writer/director)
Open Sky Productions
Winner
Stoyan
5.1 (70)
Roberto Ruiz Céspedes(director)
Hache Producciones
Gold Tower Producciones
American Road Films
Ad hoc studios
Winner
Fall
7.9 (15)
Bissacco Federico(director)
Mattia Poppa(director of photography)
Paolo Mazzini(actor)
Shottime Videoproductions
Winner
We're All in This Together
4.9 (92)
Katie Boland(director)
BrancSeater Productions

Best Music Video

Winner
You Don't Need a Reason
Anders Michael
Angel Estrada Fuentes
Tesoro Audiovisual
Weirdo Music Forever
"You Don't Need a Reason" is an original song by Creative Audio Laboratory (CAL) with a video featuring CAL, directed by Angel Estrada Fuentes. Produced by Tesoro Audiovisual and Weirdo Music Forever
Winner
You Don't Need a Reason
Angel Estrada Fuentes(director)
Anders Michael(Actor)
Tesoro Audiovisual
Weirdo Music Forever
Winner
Abandon
Jeff Hilliard

Best Narrative Feature

Winner
After Masks
2.9 (1.4K)

Best Producer

Winner
Eyes Upon Waking
8.2 (43)
Jennifer Scott
Open Eyes Productions
Winner
Contact High
Woody Woodhall
Wendy Woodhall
Allied Media

Best Student Film

Winner
Mountain Spirits
Qiwei Li(director)
Zishan Huang(co-director)
Yin Fu(co-director)
Yuxuan Fu(co-director)
Communication University of China
Winner
Best Student Film with the film Kumaru directed by Bruno Maravilha, Patricia Santos and Tânia Teixeira
Winner
Kumaru
8.8 (8)
Bruno Maravilha(director)
Patrícia Santos(director)
Tânia Teixeira(director)
Winner
The Trobie
Phynley Joel
Winner
Forgetting Chloe
Maiqi Zuo
Winner
The Archetypes
Lisa Drupsteen

Best TV Series-Web-Pilot

Winner
Three for the Road
Linda Collins(actor)
Sandra Lucas(actor)
Eve Austin(actor)
David Patrick Wilson(director)
Willy-Gilly Productions
Winner
Hey, I'm the Doorguy!
8.5 (7)
Kevin Williams(actor/writer/director/producer)
Sapphire
Lacy McClory
Stacey Marbrey
Persevero Productions
Angel Dust
6.4 (58)
Chrystal Snow(producer)
Mark Hemstock(director)
Break The Chain Productions

Best Trailer

Winner
MAYA the Sacrifice (Teaser)
Winner
MAYA the Sacrifice (Teaser)
Paolo Bertola(director)
Zatori Films

Best US Documentary Feature

Winner
It Came from Aquarius Records
7.1 (36)
Kenneth Thomas(director)
Breaking Three Hours: Trailblazing African American Women Marathoners
9.3 (8)
Anthony Renard Reed
Free to Run Productions

Best US Narrative Feature

Winner
Harper
6.4 (63)
Kate Bohan
Kayla Movie

Best US Short Documentary

Winner
Chira
Tela Moss(Director)
Winner
Kalliope's from Fear to Freedom
The Last Queen!
Genevieve Sulway
Kaye Tuckerman
Jeri Nicolas
Ben McHugh

Best Unproduced Screenplay

Winner
Fitting Descriptions
Dave Reidy(writer)
The Grizzly
Sid Kramer
Straw on the Camel
Lacye A Brown

Best VFX

Winner
Maya and the Three
8.0 (5.5K)
Paolo Bertola(VFX Designer)
Zatori Films

Best Youth Actor

Winner
Luca Mitchell Parenti
The 2020 Kid
Winner
Orlando Walter
The Unexpected Expectant Father
Keeley Gainey Films

Best Youth Actress

Winners
Kaye Tuckerman
Amelia Wray
Lliane Clarke
Sally Paridis
Laura Patinkin
Otgadahe Whitman-Fox
Isolation in Lockdown
Voices of Women

Best student film

Winner
Otthon
9.8 (7)
Laura Strausz
Jenõ Hódi
CinePartners Entertainment

International Documentary Short

Winner
Our Mob
Brenda Saunders
Kaye Tuckerman
Lliane Clarke
Sally Paridis
Laura Patinkin
Otgadahe Whitman-Fox
Voices of Women

Script Honorable Mention

Winner
Eine alltagstypische Leiche
Christoph Gross(writer)

Sound Design Honorable Mention

Winner
MAYA the Sacrifice (Teaser)
Paolo Bertola(Director)
Zatori Films

U.S Documentary Feature

Winner
The Jewels of the Salton Sea
Steven Vitali
Grace Yang Vitali
Michael Madsen
Hollywood Dark Castle Film Production

Best Narrative Short

Ghostlove
8.0 (7)
Susanne Palm(writer, director, producer)

Best Script

Dorisville
Bo Svenson
MagicQuest Entertainment

Director Short Film

Sometimes

U.S. Documentary Feature

What Do We Know About Refugees?
9.6 (23)
Sara Alavi
Lisa Alavi
Margaret Phipps
Sara Alavi

Jury Prize

Best Actress

Vidushi Chadha
Neckline

Best Narrative Short

Neckline
Vidushi Chadha
Rashi Jain
Kurt Leitner
Joint winner: Likun Jing
Neckline
Likun Jing

Honorable Mention

Best U.S. Narrative Short

Winner
The Missed
Entanglement
5.8 (63)
Dan T. Hall
Vizmo Films

Best Independent Film

Echo
Gizem Özmen
Pin Production

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