JULY 2021

FINALISTS

BEST SHORT FILM

 

10:45 by George Gogichaishvili
About Us by King Cao
All That Roams Below by Fabien Legeron and Estelle Faye
Bete Noir by Jeremy Trellu
Crazy Guys by Guan Lichen
Gates by Josh Pickup
Helpless by Julian Wolf and Julian Heinke
Holy Hen by Tanne Sommer
Homework by Li Zexin
Lamb by Pollyanna Popermajer
Leave Work by Hyolim Lee
Lifeline by Jason Delane Lee and Leah Cohen-Mays
Long Live The People! by Nicolás Torres Payán
Montage Life by Hsieh I Shan
One-Hit Wonder by Amanda Dow
Quite On Set by Jessica Teixeira and Natasha Luttjeboer
Sculptures by Yimeng Xia
The Harvest by Omer Faruk Yardimci
The Ocean of Loneliness by Lau Tin Yam
Zephir by Théo Deprez

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Come niente by Davide Como
Magamuni by Santhakumar
One Day At A Time by Vortre Williams
Seven Seas by Marcelo Adrián Sánchez
The Flag Guardian by Yufei Qiao
The Promise on the Bridge by Amir Rezazadeh

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Be Yourself: A Drag Queen in Shanghai by Jingheng Lin
Becoming Black Lawyers by Evangeline M. Mitchell
Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion by Arturo Dueñas
Deliverance: A Women’s Revolt by Ziad Haggag
Malagente by Flavia Incitti
My Gypsy Road by Vilma Kartalska
Purge: The Day We Did Not Back Down by Anthony George Kirkwood
Standing with Standing Rock by Bob Yothers

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

We didn’t get enough meaningful feature docs this month, see you next one!

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

A Journey to the Moon by Jack Getschman
Dante. Beatrice by Irina Kodyukova
Flumina by Antonello Matarazzo
Hopper’s Day by Jingqi Zhang
Justin and the Werloobee by Ken Yoffe & Ellen Weisberg, John Vo
On / Off by Nicolas P. Villarreal
Pumpkin Pal by Suh Woo Choi

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Briar by Brianna Woo 
Duyiqingjing by Lingxi Yuan
Fading by Pietro Dossena
How Soon Is Now? by Ella Mosseri
My Lavender Room by Elaine Artemieff
Neferika’s Heart by Elaine Artemieff
Port de Bras by Roman Villevoye
The Death of An Artist by Songhuan Li
The Goldfinch (After Fabritius) by John Woodman

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Artico – Meglio di così by Ari Takahashi
Ben Bailey – Lately by Jeremy Vella
Blazer Boccle – Frank by Miroslav Kiss
Danna Paola – Calla Tú by Antonio Roma and Danna Paola
Ilam – Dodo by Jean-Vital Joliat
Owca – notWe by Patrycja Korol
Vias – To Me by Lee Dae Han
Wu Qingfeng – Outsider by Ying Chih Chen

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

A long road ahead by Bernhard Riedhammer
Fading Out by Laura Winter
Girls are scary by Tim Schilling
Half Cowboys by Seppe Van Beneden
Janine by Janine Stewart and Robert Kelly
Our Boys by Hala Habache

BEST FEATURE/TV SCREENPLAY

 

Citizen Swiatlo Proposal & Episode 1 by Christopher Swider
Death in Laralay by Mark Steensland
Mali Ya Mungu by Kirmi Kiage, Teddy Gitau
Ralph – Son of Forest by Ümit Çonay 
Riding on Duke’s Train – DDD by Ken Kimmelman/Mick Carlon
The Greek Passage by Lorenzo Guarnieri

 

BEST WEB-SERIE / TV PILOT

 

Not a great month for web series and tv pilots, let’s wait for the next one!