FEBRUARY 2021

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FINALISTS

BEST SHORT FILM

 

Aquatic Bird by Nan Zhang
A New York Story by Paul Schwartz
Beat the Waves by Lucas Lehmann
Bloody Mary by Hamé Raeen
Daily Bread by Ruby Challenger
Disconnected by Nard van Vrijaldenhoven
Fading Scar by Huang Hanxiang
Five Minutes by Genesis Lence
Go Girls! by Colin Huang
It’s So Charming by Svend Colding
Morsure by Léonore Calles
Nafas by Robert Mesnil
One Last Job by Sophia Vester
Pas A Dos by Valèria Cuní
Rosa by Jean-Michel Gervais
The Corner by Qiongyuan Wu
The Speech by Haohao Yan
The Stage of Golden Beach by Xiang Tiange
Venus in the Fog by Yusuf Olmez
Wander Light by Dong Mengwei

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Ascension Chronicles by Danny Cotton
Beautiful Lure by Hiroshi Akabane
Beijing 120 by Yu Yiping
Dong Baek by Jun Young Shin
From Where There Is Nothing by Tylor Myers
Squilibrio by Luca Rabotti
The Alpines by Dante Aubain

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Asphalt Roses by Daiane Cortes
Before I Die by Nakul Dev
Bergman’s Hollywood by Martin Sundahl
Leni Riefenstahl: an Artist’s War by Zach White
Odd Man Out by Antonio Donato
Personae by Maartje Bakers
Samma by Davide Catena and Alessandro Truffa
The Unseen Evolution by Hussein Al Khayat

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Between Heaven and Earth by Zenon Kristen
Cajun Evolution by Martyn Thompson and Kelly Richard
Candidato 34 by Ryan Marley
Dam(ned) Lifes by Cid Faria
Free Play by Ivan Torres
The Saviour: Brig. Pritam Singh by Paramjeet Singh Kattu
Welcome to Monterey by Lauren Z. Ray

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Chocolate by Lili Zhang
Desert Racers by Aleksandar Vuksanovic
Finite Soil by Isidro Jiménez Gómez and Mariola Olcina Alvarado
Hope by Abdulla Al-Janahi
Love and Core by Hermann Kayode
On / Off by Nicolas P. Villarreal
Orixis by Aiden Michaux
Sebastiana by Claudio Martins
Shift Simmers Slips by Lars Nagler

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

2125 by Sean Ian
Keyhole Gaze by Ruben Garcia
Maps by Alex Barrera
My Morning Routine by Georgina Cowan-Turner
Safeguard Mode by Tommaso Iaquinta
The Secret Walls by Anne Charrin, Lise Charrin, Aude Charrin and Jean-Marie Gatin
The Song of Songs by André Goldberg
The Veil by Aaron Richardson
Vincenzo Vela: The Dream of Matter by Adriano Kestenholz

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

All I Had by Julie Rohart
All Of Us Is One by Xavier Zahra
Anything but science fiction by Filippo Giovagnoni, Francesco Ronchi and Giovanni Baracchi
Bimba Mia by Paolo Tresoldi
L’Autre by Jérémie Brochu-Dufour and Samuel Wilde
Open Heart Surgery by Valeria Cocco
People Think by Andreia Pereira da Silva
Yamakasi by Egor Tarasov and Vladimir Ivanov

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

B&B by Monty Dickson
Fish on a Stick by Jan Linhart
Never Been Here by James Sinclair
The Nitwits by Jan Linhart
The Psychic Serum by Martin Sommerdag

BEST POSTER

 

Aquatic Bird by Nan Zhang
Disconnected by Nard van Vrijaldenhoven
Fading Scar by Huang Hanxiang
It’s So Charming by Svend Colding
Morsure by Léonore Calles
Rosa by Jean-Michel Gervais

BEST TRAILER

 

Aquatic Bird by Nan Zhang
Chocolate by Lili Zhang
Disconnected by Nard van Vrijaldenhoven
From Where There Is Nothing by Tylor Myers
Rabbitsnake by Jonny Stranger
Wander Light by Dong Mengwei

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

By the Sea by Rona Castrioti
Dust by Marco Balzano
Mancha by Don DiPetta, Nicole Mejia, Xochitl Portillo
Tainted by Caner Kaldı
To tell or not to tell by Shanelle Monique
Be my eyes by David Barbeschi, Saurin B. Shah

BEST FEATURE/TV SCREENPLAY

 

Death loves Fish&Chips by Dylan Nicolas Zarrella
Lucky Phil by Christopher Swider
Thieves in the Night by Maximilian Feurstein, Ted Dontchev
At the Flash by Sean Chandler, David Leeper
Hardwood Heroes by Austin Lauer, Colin Kissel
Muffin Club by Charles Petrilla