Best Documentary Feature

Curing the Incurable? - 🇺🇸
by Gary Null

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Best Drama Short

Kommando 1944 - 🇺🇸
by Derek Quick

 

Honorable Mention

Drama Short

Thiruvithamcore - 🇮🇳
by Jayakumar

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GFFA Special Mention

Drama Short

The Unicorn - 🇬🇵
by Johann Nertomb

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Best Thriller

9,8 m/s2 - 🇺🇸
by Michael Vaynberg

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Best Fantasy Short

Hauntings And Hallucinations: Three Tales Of Terror - 🇦🇺

By Joel Stephen Birnie

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Best Documentary

Untouched Liuwa - 🇬🇧

by Richard McEnery

 

GFFA Sp Mention

Best Documentary

Life's too Short to Hold Back - 🇦🇺

by Christina Parker

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Best Animated Short

Captain Kingsley - 🇳🇬

by kingsley nkan

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Best Short Noir

Le Grand Club des Voyeurs - 🇬🇧

by Christopher Beech

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Best LGBTQ+ Short

My Name Was January - 🇨🇦

by Elina Gress & Lenee Son

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Best Micro Short

Why - 🇺🇸

by Tim Austin

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Best experimental Short Film

Nirvana - 🇮🇳

by Ashray Dravidian

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Best Inspirational Short Film

Just a Plastic Bottle -  🇬🇧
By Marcia Thompson

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Honorable Mention

Best Inspirational Short Film

Untouched Liuwa - 🇬🇧

by Richard McEnery

 

Best Drama Web Series

Full Steam Punks - 🇧🇷

By Felipe Reis

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Best Comedy Web Series

THIS JUST IN! - 🇺🇸

By Evan Michael, Zak Johnson & Ken Gayton

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Best Series Pilot

Comic Oops Tonic - 🇨🇦

By Grigoriy Mironov

 

Best Music Video

The Four Loves - 🇺🇸

Performed by Stefan Meylaers & Lorenzo Quinn

Directed by Stefan Meylaers

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Honorable Mention

Best Music Video

If I Knew - 🇺🇸

Performed by Elizabeth Butler

Directed by Tyler Casper

 

GFFA Special Mention

Best Music Video

Wasted Time - 🇺🇸

Performed by Miko Foy

Directed by Grey Smoley

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Best Vr / 360 Film

I AM AZAI AKHAI - 🇺🇸

by Elena Vassilieva

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Best Indie Film

Upstate Story - 🇺🇸

by Shaun Rose

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Best Drama Student Film

Sunflower Soup - 🇺🇸

by Marissa A. Martinez

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Best thriller Student Film

Eight of Spades - 🇺🇸
by Melisande Bliss

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Best Drone Film

ODYSSEY - 🇯🇵

by Hiroki Ito

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Best Director

Derek Quick

Kommando 1944 - 🇺🇸

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Honorable Mention

Best Director

Michael Vaynberg

9,8 m/s2 - 🇺🇸

 

Best First Time Director

Daniel J. Egbert 

There's Something in 

the Trunk - 🇺🇸

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GFFA Special Mention

Best Director

Marissa A. Martinez

Sunflower Soup - 🇺🇸

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Best Indie Filmmaker

Johann Nertomb  

The Unicorn - 🇬🇵

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Honorable Mention

Best Indie Filmmaker

Shaun Rose

Upstate Story - 🇺🇸

 

Best Actress

 January Marie Lapuz 

My Name Was January - 🇨🇦

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Best Actor

Nithish Sridhara Murthy

Nirvana - 🇮🇳

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Best Ensemble Cast

Jeff Seid, Bejo Dohmen, Derek Quick, Daniel Joo, Louie Chapman, Aramis Merlin, Mike Bingaman, John Manahan, Bryan Navarro, Evan James Henderson, Brett Ian Edwards, Benjamin Schnau, Vincson Green

Kommando 1944 - 🇺🇸

 

Best Trailer

MMA - Never Surrender - 🇺🇸

By Gerald J. Godbout III

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Honorable Mention

Best Trailer

Mia Morris' Diary - 🇦🇺

By Sarah Stephenson

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Best Cinematography

Cesar Salazar

Sunflower Soup - 🇺🇸

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Honorable Mention

Best Cinematography

Christopher Kistan

Kommando 1944 - 🇺🇸

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Best Visual effects

Joel Stephen Birnie

Hauntings And Hallucinations: Three Tales Of Terror  -  🇦🇺

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Best Original Song

 Asana/Metamorphosis

Performed by Melentini Directed by Adam Csoka Keller  -  🇩🇪

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Best Original Score

Ahmed Arifin

Kommando 1944 - 🇺🇸

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Honorable Mention

Best Original Score

Joseph Earwicker

Sunflower Soup - 🇺🇸

 

Best Sound Design

VINKO LAOTOVIC 

TOMISLAVOV DNEVNIK - 🇧🇦/

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Honorable Mention

Best Sound Design

Alexander Verbitskiy

Kommando 1944 - 🇺🇸

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Best Editing

Olivia Tapia

Sunflower Soup - 🇺🇸

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Best Screenplay (produced)

Delphine Montaigne

DNA OF WILD BEASTS  -  🇫🇷

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Best Producer

Erin Valentina Mansel

Sunflower Soup - 🇺🇸

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Best Make-Up

 Cydney Sjostrom

Team Teenettes - 🇨🇦

 

Best Feature Film Screenplay

Surfmen Of The Pacific -  🇺🇸

By Derek Quick

"'A mixed native American young man is forced to serve in the U.S. Life saving service in the Treacherous waters of the pacific northwest to save his Chinook tribe from the concentration camp reservations, at the turn of the century. "

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Best Short Screenplay

Let Me Fall  - 🇺🇸

by William Fuentes & Abdul Malik

"'A disgruntled employee of a leading software company, who has a warped sense of reality and appetite, takes on the traditional office culture head on while trying to get the girl, get the promotion, and finally get some respect before he blows his fuse."

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Honorable Mention

Best Feature Film Screenplay  

One Over The Eight  - 🇺🇸

by Brock Young & Kirk Lansdon

"Rachel faces life on her own terms after the loss of loved ones in her life. She is loved despite her unlovable ways and is totally misunderstood. All the while, she is trying to hide a terrible secret."