PRISMA ANNUAL 2018-2019 SEMI-FINALISTS

PRISMA ANNUAL 2018-2019 SEMI-FINALISTS

When we started Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards, we never imagined that it would result in such a successful competition. In this year, we came across so many great films that we were almost overwhelmed by how the competition was growing. From independent filmmakers from countries with a low audiovisual capacity to Oscar Nominated short films, we really had the chance to see and to compare thousands of shorts from all levels and from all around the world. We personally wanted to thank each and everyone of you for your efforts, for your films, for the beauty you have created.

A year has passed, and now it is time for the last of all the competitions of this cycle: our annual awards. Today, the last competition starts. It will see the greatest winner, the first among all the works we have received.

Here’s the list of all the monthly award winning films, divided by category. They’re the semi-finalists of the annual competition.

This is the list of the films that are going to compete for the annual award in their category.

BEST SHORT FILM ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Still water by Dagne Gumbreviciute
Nel ritrovo del silenzio by Antonio La Camera
River Flows By by Yin Song
May Day by Olivier Magis and Fedrik De Beul
Perfect Love by Darius Etemadieh
Ruffians by Alexandre Jallali
The Wolf by Jamie Knox
Adaptation by Bartosz Kruhlik
Buffet by Santa De Santis and Alessandro D’Ambrosi
Empty lot by Kim Sung Kyu
Kopi-O by Kent Tan

BEST FEATURE FILM ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Tunguska Butterfly by Akira Nobi
Tales From The Rabbit Hole by Tiago Durão
Folie à deux by Fabrian Schneeberg
Sincerely, Brenda by Kenneth R. Nelson Jr
The Radio by Akiyoshi Koba
November 10th (Battle of Surabaya) by Aryanto Yuniawan and M Suyanto
Lines by Vassilis Mazomenos
TOLET by Ra chezhian
The Iron Orchard by Ty Roberts
The History of Everything Circa 1993 to the Present Formerly Known as Kissy Cousins Monster Babies and Morphing Elvis by Wayne Keeley
Staring at the sun by Harry Greenberger

BEST SHORT DOC ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Let us be Heroes by Rebecca Cappelli and Abhi Anchliya
Kani Spi by Khesrew Heme Kerim
A Voice Above Nature by Annie Moir
Red Glory by Marcelle Abela
Sound Bath by Agnieszka Kocinska
130 by Lorenzo Magnozzi
Rojava – A Call to Arms by Edoardo Richard Grasselli-Moyse
Nuova Zita by Antonio Di Biase
WHERE IS EUROPE? by Valentina Signorelli
Claudio Fasoli’s Innersounds by Angelo Poli
Oro bianco by Damiano Monaco

BEST FEATURE DOC ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Jaguar: Going Electrict by Ben Lawrie
Sedae by Daniel Smukalla
The White Arrow by Jim Kroft
Bill Evans: Time Remembered, by Bruce Spiegel
Myanmarket by Eva Knopf
Balkan Triangle by Stef Brok
Yugen by Rafael Pease
A Century of Coal by Peter Williams
SHULUQ by Martina De Polo
Kalavrìa – the Calabrian Greeks land by Davide Carbone
La Flor Settlers by Florencia Bothlingk

BEST ANIMATION FILM ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Anacronte by Raùl Koler and Emiliano Sette
Elixir by Jinghan Zhang
The Blues Crab by Ari Rubenstein
Grandma’s Pie by Ricardo San Emeterio and Camilo Castro
Soaring by Pier Paolo L Piccoli
Chronosync by Sofia Laszlovszky
Mascarpone by Jonas Riemer
The mind of an artist by Xinning Liu
Barbara Kruger on Photography by Asheila Amara
Big PASTA by Charles Mandracchia
Cuerdas by Pedro Solis Garcia

BEST WEB SERIES ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Mercs Moonsamy by Michael Morris
Rudi by Piernicola Arena and Lillo Venezia
Pineapple by Jane Chow
Grandma’s House by Malachi Johnson
Hustle by Antonio Jefferson
Battledream Chronicles: A new beginning by Alain Bidard
Damaged by Richard Rotter
The Grimoire Champters: Rem by Michael Davis
Nemausus by Quentin Uriel
The Jersey Connection by Tim Firtion
Blackbetty by Marco North

BEST MUSIC VIDEO ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Ka Ka Ka Ka by Xueou Yu
Princess by Egor Rodionov
Mongol by Hao Zheng
ODDKO – Disobey by Giovanni Bucci
Cello by Alberto Nacci
1960 by Carlos López
Twalking by Lorenzo Gonnelli
Spanish Onion by Brian Neong San
Corridor by Cassandre Émanuel
Houses by Antonio La Camera

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Baby in the basement by David-Matthew Barnes
Feast of the goat by Saeed Zamanian
RABBIT STILL HIDING by Hakan Ünal
Twenty-Nineteen by Paul Zambrano
German be cray-cray by Mark Allard-Will
Panic in underground by Álex Bandeira
Herculean Task by Mark Allard-Will
Witch inside the bitch by sumeet rajpurohit
Thug by Anthony Assad
Showdown in paradise by Jamon Holmes
Roommate wanted for the end of the world by Stephen Osborne

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Rebel Tides by Andrea Gibson
The sunrise man by Ben Fiore and Altenir Silva
ZAPP by Justin Hayward and James A. Allen
Port Metro by Jackson Chow
In the Quiet of the evening by Ben Fiore and Raymond Izaac
Skull Hunter by Steven Murphy
Surfmen of the Pacific by Derek Quick
The Deception of Kathryn Vask by Mark Steensland
Diu by Haritrushi Purohit
Horse Up a Tree by Terry Lynam
Dr. Dredd’s Wagon of Wonders by Landon Williams and John Stansifer

BEST DIRECTOR ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Reema Sengupta for Counterfeit Kunkoo
Antonio La Camera for Nel Ritrovo del Silenzio
Dagne Gumbreviciute for Still water
Yin Song for River Flows By
Darius Etemadieh for Perfect Love
Alexandre Jallali for Ruffians
Jamie Knox for The Wolf
Klaudija Matvejevaite for Last Day
Alessandro D’Ambrosi e Santa De Santis for Buffet
Anar Azimov for Birthday
Antonio La Camera for Houses

BEST SCREENWRITER ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Xingyu Zhao for Neverland
Lorenzo Bianchi for The little one
Yin Song, Hu Qinxuan and Lin Yusheng for River Flows By
Olivier Magis, Fedrik De Beul and Javier Lopez for May Day
Darius Etemadieh for Perfect Love
Alexandre Jallali for Ruffians
Yudhajit Basu and Prithvijoy Ganguly for The Outsider
Jesse Cook and Mike Testa for Neapolitan
Roman Khrushch for Pechorin
Andrew Kotatko for Whoever was using this bed
Mikael Holmstrom and Jonas Gramming for Out of the darkness

BEST EDITING ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Antonio La Camera for Nel Ritrovo del Silenzio
Elina Oikari for Govadas
Alexander Linder for In the Shadow of an Oak
Fever
Cesare Bedogne for The Last step of an acrobat
Francesca Calvelli and Annalisa Forgione for Fino alla fine
Holger Bùck, Martin Herold, Jonas Riemer for Mascarpone
Cesare Bedogne for Maria’s Silence
Alessandro D’Ambrosi and Santa De Santis for Buffet
Shaun and Jay Perry for The Intentions of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Antonio La Camera for Houses

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Harshvir Oberai for Counterfeit Kunkoo
Rick Yang for Neverland
Carlos Hernández for YOVER
Alex Gasparetto for Sincerely, Brenda
Cesare Bedogne for The Last step of an acrobat
Olivier Gallois for Ruffians
Marc De Acetis for The Wolf
Odeta Riškute for Last Day
Daniele Ciprì for Buffet
Kim Sung Kyu for Empty Lot
Kopi-O

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Nick McCarthy and Sebastian Kellig for L’immobilità trafigge
Pekka Aikio for Govadas
Ivan Urchenko and Olga Glazova for Just Married
Etienne Perrone for Gloom // Bloom
Konstantine Kemnitz for Irgendwer
Nikolay Babukhin and Daniel Tsovin for MOTIVES
Raymond Goudy for The Wolf
Guy Renardeau for Hirofumi’s Suitcase
Andrea Remini for Buffet
Asher Goldschimidt for The Little Dictator
Sebastian Chenut for Burning Shadow

BEST LEADING ACTOR ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Thierry Hellin for May Day
Sofian Khammes for Acide
Jared Carter for Lemons
Rico Bruce for Sincerely, Brenda
Frank Genser for Perfect Love
Geoffrey Carpiaux for Ruffians
Raju Pradhan Himanshu for The Outsider
Arnaud Prechac for Mazeppa
Ciro Scalera for Buffet
Emanuel Cohn for The Little Dictator
Rafael Haider for The Victory of Charity

BEST LEADING ACTRESS ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Kani Kusruti for Counterfeit Kunkoo
Aislinn De’Ath for Miracle
Maud Wyler for Acide
Magdalena Laubish for Julie
Audrey Hui for Wonderland
Julia Gratens for The Shroud
Joya Jabbour for Rüya
Florence Monge for Blessed Days
Emma Battini for Uncle Ivon
Radha Mitchell for Whoever was using this bed
Dang Bee for Kopi-O

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Zhen Fei Chen for Fever
Shatrovski for Miracle
Lorenzo Lefebvre for Aurore
Sean-Vaughn for Sincerely, Brenda
Oscar Axelrod-Naumann for Perfect Love
Lino Musella for Fino alla fine
Nagy Zsolt for Love me not
Ivan Korotyshev for 100 Rubles for a Dream by Ivan Artemov
Austin Nichols for The Iron Orchard
Because of a Little Apple
Josh Lacy for Tag, You’re it

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Gaite Jansen for Skògafoss
Rainko Ma for Neverland
Sylvie Batby for Green army
Michaela Weingartner for Julie
Joan Chen for Wonderland
Lola Destercq for Ruffians
Daphne Wellens for Úrs
Inga Maskarina for Last day
Catherine Deneuve for Rise of a star
Valeria Cavalli for Departures
Lova Schildt for Out of the darkness

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Surekha Sengupta and Swapna Pradhan for Counterfeit Kunkoo
Lemons
Maria Nazarova for Reflections
Ge Jia for Song of the Wanderer
Isabel Theissen for Perfect Love
Mélanie Fuchs for The Shroud
Yudi Jiang for When Darkness Falls
Beth Wooton for Khrustalev by Reuben Esson-Parkes
Ryan Ford for The Iron Orchard
Shir Glanz for The Little Dictator
Davide Grassi for Oro Bianco

BEST OF THE FEST ANNUAL SEMI-FINALISTS

Still water by Dagne Gumbreviciute
Nel ritrovo del silenzio by Antonio La Camera
May Day by Olivier Magis and Fedrik De Beul
Adaptation by Bartosz Kruhlik
Buffet by Santa De Santis and Alessandro D’Ambrosi
Empty lot by Kim Sung Kyu
Sincerely, Brenda by Kenneth R. Nelson Jr
Nuova Zita by Antonio Di Biase
Anacronte by Raùl Koler and Emiliano Sette
Mascarpone by Jonas Riemer
Houses by Antonio La Camera