WINNERS
May the Force be with you!
Talk as I can feel
"Best Short Film"
Synopsis
A good looking drunk man. An apparently deaf boy. They meet, almost clash, in an impersonal and cold setting. The characters and their interaction seems stifled and suffocated by the grey tones of this nondescript space. Communication is stunted and escalates rapidly into a paradoxical dynamic alternating between revelation and misunderstanding.
Directed by:
Idria Niosi
If I Could Ride
"Best Feature Film", "Best Actress", "Best Young Actress", "Best Drama", "Best Editing"
Synopsis
The story is about two teenage girls with totally different backgrounds. Jodie Davis was born with a physical disability. She lives with her mother and grandfather on a dilapidated old farm. After the recent passing of her dad, Jodie`s mom Sandy works two jobs to make ends meet. Jodie`s first love is to someday ride horses and eventually compete in horse shows. But physical disabilities and financial problems make this vision quite impossible.
Bridgett Van Heusen lives a complete opposite life. She resides on a beautiful farm and has a championship horse, as well as a talented horse trainer named Jimmy. She is very spoiled and wants for nothing. Both of her parents are involved in everything but their daughters love. Bridgett is an extremely talented rider.
Witness how fate brings together these two distinctly different young girls. See the magnificence of unconditional love that transcends physical and emotional trials throughout the film. A roller coaster of emotions will consume the viewer. A family film with many of life`s lessons that can be enjoyed by the entire family
Bridgett Van Heusen lives a complete opposite life. She resides on a beautiful farm and has a championship horse, as well as a talented horse trainer named Jimmy. She is very spoiled and wants for nothing. Both of her parents are involved in everything but their daughters love. Bridgett is an extremely talented rider.
Witness how fate brings together these two distinctly different young girls. See the magnificence of unconditional love that transcends physical and emotional trials throughout the film. A roller coaster of emotions will consume the viewer. A family film with many of life`s lessons that can be enjoyed by the entire family
Directed by:
Shawn Welling
Nursery Crimes Part One: The Ominous Overture
"Best Animation"
Synopsis
Classic English nursery crimes are reimagined with macabre flair in the first of this three-part animated short film series.
Directed by:
Charles Kline
Voice of The Great
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Educational Film"
Synopsis
The film "Voice of The Great" reveals The Museum of Literature and Art of The Republic of Armenia with the help of several exhibits, which are introduced via best artists of nowadays Armenia. It tells about the great cultural heritage of Armenian history, traditions, which are preserved and kept by The Museum of Literature and Art. Famous figures of literature, church, music, theatre and cinema tell about some great points in Armenian culture that had developed the Armenian nation as a civilized society. The film is dedicated to the museum's 100th anniversary, it also introduces 5 branches of the museum in different corners of the country, as well as shows connections and interactions between all these museums and their impact on Armenian culture.
Directed by:
Razmik Grigoryan
Pat Walsh The Life And Legacy Of An Irish Revolutionary
"Best Feature Documentary", "Best Cinematography"
Synopsis
Pat Walsh died on the 18th May 1921 following an altercation between the combined Flying Columns of Ned Aylward and Seán Hogan with British Military Forces at Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny.
Pat was one of the driving forces in Kilkenny behind a cultural revival that was sweeping across Ireland. Indeed Pat typified a new breed of Irish Nationalist emerging from the ashes of the 1916 Rising.
To this day Pat is fondly remembered in his local community and he has become one of the best known and most proudly commemorated of the Kilkenny Volunteers to die during War of Independence in Kilkenny. This Documentary uncovers his life and explore the legacy of this Irish Revolutionary.
Pat was one of the driving forces in Kilkenny behind a cultural revival that was sweeping across Ireland. Indeed Pat typified a new breed of Irish Nationalist emerging from the ashes of the 1916 Rising.
To this day Pat is fondly remembered in his local community and he has become one of the best known and most proudly commemorated of the Kilkenny Volunteers to die during War of Independence in Kilkenny. This Documentary uncovers his life and explore the legacy of this Irish Revolutionary.
Directed by:
Michael Benson
Guérisseur-Héros (Healer-Hero)
"Best Short Screenplay"
Synopsis
During World War 2 after an horrific battle in France, a British Medic - who has taken up refuge with his remaining comrades in a solitary church - makes the tough decision to head out alone behind enemy lines to try and find supplies in an effort to save his friends. But after a hard decision he heads back to the safety of the church to see that all is not as it was..
Written by:
Danny Cotton
A S Y L U M
"Best Feature Screenplay"
Synopsis
A former secret agent finds himself in an insane asylum in the present day. He befriends a nurse and attempts to unravel the mystery of his past and why he has been placed there before his time runs out to prevent the deka bombings.
Written by:
Ty Caudle
Waves
"Best Music Video"
Synopsis
WAVES is the 19th shortfilm of the Series Body&Sound about the relationship betweeen musicians and their musical instruments.
Directed by:
Alberto Nacci
A Feast That Never Comes
"Best Dance Video", "Best Experimental Film", "Best Original Soundtrack", "Best Producer", "Best LGBTQ+ Film"
Synopsis
Four characters inhabit cycles within cycles of contentment, discontentment, inertia, movement, desire, and betrayal. A story emerges—told through the marriage of music (Ex-Fiancée) and dance (ChrisMastersDance)—functioning as a set of nesting dolls, inviting you to uncover as many layers as you wish. Directed by Maria Juranic.
Directed by:
Maria Juranic
My Own Worst Enemy
"Best Student Film"
Synopsis
A comic book writer on a deadline has become insecure due to recent reviews and wishes his creation to write the comic for him but this ends up causing a terrifying disaster.
Directed by:
Ian Baker
ROSE
"Best No-Dialogue Film"
Synopsis
Her passion for music is ENDLESS...
Fate plays with this woman. And she plays the piano.
Her passion is reflected in the music. And music is a source of her passion. It is an endless spiral. It is a vicious circle.
Could anything break it?
Fate plays with this woman. And she plays the piano.
Her passion is reflected in the music. And music is a source of her passion. It is an endless spiral. It is a vicious circle.
Could anything break it?
Directed by:
Gia Kereselidze
Floor 14 "Reprieve"
"Best Director", "Best Scenography", "Best Costume Design", "Best Black&White Film"
Synopsis
Documenting the fight of a cancer patient who for a brief time found relief in an unlikely caregiver.
Directed by:
Chuck Price
Children of Disease
"Best Young Director"
Synopsis
Feature length documentary telling the stories of healthy children who grow up with chronically ill parents.
Directed by:
Madison VanDerLinde
Reimagining Freedom West
"Best Director Debut"
Synopsis
In the heart of today’s tech boom epicenter an historic Black community living in San Francisco’s largest co-op Freedom West Homes must fight to keep their housing amidst encroaching gentrification.
Directed by:
Michelle Flowers-Taylor
Zeitgeist Maschine
"Best Composer"
Composed By:
Alex Lecce
Air Over New Skin
"Best Original Score"
Synopsis
Dance film utilizing tulle & industrial fans. The devolution of the elevated balletic movement to the grounded modern echoes the exposure and vulnerability of shedding old paradigms to build a new ideology.
Composed by:
Tae Young
Surveillance: A short thriller
"Best Color Editing"
Synopsis
A guard to a house gets more than he bargained for during a night of surveillance.
Directed by:
Devon Doyle
The Rising Of Dawn And Her Vampire Crew-Greed.
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
Synopsis
Greed starts out modern day, with Dawn the protagonist being contacted in her dreams by Lucifer (the devil). He explains that Dawn and her Crew of four other vampires including her soulmate Keith, her friend Greenie and her boyfriend Eli must stop a mock battle between God and Artemis. The reason being that Artemis (the goddess of hunting) is going to try and slay god with an arrow that is poisonous to him. The battle takes place with Dawn only letting God know about the arrow just before it is sent flying at him. If she tells god before the battle Artemis will escape. After being told about the arrow God disappears and it hits his essence causing a cosmic upset. Taraturus, a hell Jail run by hades wife Persephone, opens freeing a few demigods and some horrendous creatures that Dawn and her one less crew must hunt down and kill. You see, Persephone has taken and will kill Eli if they fail to kill all the creatures freed in the accidental opening of Taraturus.
Written by:
Brian Painter
Heavens Enemy
"Best VFX"
Synopsis
The history of the moon exploration is very interesting and exciting. But one of the most intriguing question is: Are there aliens on the moon? The most famous mission Apollo 11 makes more questions than answers.
Directed by:
Sergei Patlai
Under a Bad Moon
"Best Thriller"
Synopsis
A former sheriff deputy moves to the country after a breakdown following her partner's murder. The perpetrator is still at large when she awakens to the sound of a gunshot and distressing voices. She seeks out the source and finds a dead body, and three young men and a woman. She's forced to deal with her trauma so she can handle the situation at hand.
Directed by:
Stephen Franklin Blanton
Amethyst Girl Destiny
"Best Sci-Fi"
Synopsis
HBPT00486137AMETHYST GIRL Destiny: To save her country, A successful Black Dance and Wellness coach has 24hrs to realize her gifts and superpowers and use them to stop a deadly missile.
THE PROJECT: Haunted by lucid dreams from the fire evacuation and separation from family, Amethyst seeks therapy to help her find meaning to the dreams and find meaning for her life. A single Black woman living with a very secret history that most humans on Earth would not understand Overwhelms her. After one emergency therapy session, Amethyst goes to work, not knowing that on that day, in one instant, all the lucid dreams and everything she has felt scared and vulnerable about are all going to make sense.
THE PROJECT: Haunted by lucid dreams from the fire evacuation and separation from family, Amethyst seeks therapy to help her find meaning to the dreams and find meaning for her life. A single Black woman living with a very secret history that most humans on Earth would not understand Overwhelms her. After one emergency therapy session, Amethyst goes to work, not knowing that on that day, in one instant, all the lucid dreams and everything she has felt scared and vulnerable about are all going to make sense.
Directed by:
Reggie Gaskins
Don't Wake Up
"Best Comedy", "Best COVID-19 Film"
Synopsis
A man tries to dream away the troubles of 2020. But reality is catching on.
Directed by:
Steven Santoro
The Circle of Life
"Best ECO Work"
Synopsis
In Singapore the Oriental Pied Hornbill is so widespread, that it is hard to believe they only recolonised this tiny island city state recently. The popular hornbill is well adapted to the urban environment. Yet, the increasing reports of their nest predation behaviour are shifting the public perception of this urban icon.
Directed by:
Tim Plowden
A Survivor Amongst Survivors
"Best BLM Film"
Synopsis
'Fighting For His Life' - The Journey from an Advanced Prostate cancer survivor to Advocating for Fellow Cancer Survivors...
A documentary about Advanced Prostate Cancer examined through the eyes of a patient, carer and medical professionals...
A documentary about Advanced Prostate Cancer examined through the eyes of a patient, carer and medical professionals...
Directed by:
Alfred Samuels
The Jungle Gym
"Best Television Script"
Synopsis
In a college gym where insanity ensues, one man is responsible for it all. Join The Jungle Gym’s GM, Graham, as he navigates through a sea of dramatic co-workers, wacky patrons and strict managers.
Written by:
Tyler Feingold, Avi Garg