MAY 2021

SEMI/

FINALISTS

BEST SHORT FILM

 

A Boat Heading for the Desert by Zhaoke
Abusive Behaviors by Maël Caradec
Astronauts by Mariano Cabaco
Caress by Sitoh Ortega
Carried Away by Joshua Hinkson
El tango del Diez by Tullio Imperatore
Floating on the Sea by Li Guozhen
Godforsaken by Olga Makarova and Eva Gir
Hábitat by Edinson Cuello
Huckleberry Jerry by Matthew Coonis
Last Day by Aurélien Abd El Fattah
Mist and Blood by Roland Collin
Native Speaker by Alex Ochman
Pipa by Lucia Ceracchi
Servus Karl by Thomas Bischof
Some Supreme Expression of Love by Revel Tarigan
Sunday Poem by Aaron Markus Graf
The Last Goodbye by Tymoteusz Kutz
Trust by Delara Rasouli
When the Tide Rises by Alex Jiang

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Atoms Orbit by Scott Hellon
External by Jonathan and Leandro Taub
Items of Interest by Scott Hellon
One Last Time by Olympe de G.
Paul Keller by Axel Loh
Raindrops from the Sun by Tomonao Sakurayashiki
The Last Page by Mano Ve Kannathasan
Until the Night Arrives by Richard Thornéus

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Āmra by Imri Agmon
Dancing Alone and Reuniting in Times of Pandemic by Carl Eneroth
Edmond Wysinger Documentary by William Youngquist
Il buio oltre il risparmio by Fabrizio Rizzi
In a Whole New Way by Jonathan Fisher
It Gets In Your Blood by Ed Hartman
Mimmo by Matthew Bell
World Without Boundaries by Gisela Arantes

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

And Crying Out I’m Going To Die by Luis Bruzón Delgado
Making an Exoneree by Rob and Cindy Dorfmann
Spanish Olive Grove by Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada
The Filmer by Daniele Mantione
The Great Suppression by Deborah Wright
Women From The XX by Milagros Cazorla

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Chasing Light by Gloria Fish
Final Deathtination by Marika Tamura
Forget Me Not by Courtney LeBlanc and Saige Guevara
Knatataar by Deepayan Purkait
Lost Time by Melinda Szabó-Nyulász
Mothboy by Lyanne Rodriguez
Self by Yixin Wang
The Elevated Ground by Aleksandra Ferentc
The Promise by Boris Bubnov

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

A Castle in Spain by Max Belmessieri
Anietié, and the Sky will be there by Teymour Tehrani
Birth of A Muse by Michal Karczewski
In Remembrance by Hali Traina
Mantra by James Autery
Peter, Shirley and Louis by Lol Sargent
Return to Zero by Qin Jijing
The Seaside is our Home by Chantal Lorang

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

20 Years by Félix Simard-Tanguay
Dive, Dive, Dive by Dong Sub Kim
Hand of Time by Lejla Subasic
Let It Out by Ben Woolf
Messiah Moon by Roberto Serrini
Mutant by Parker Shen
The Isle of Ailynn by Edward Platero

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Not a great month for web series and tv pilots, see you the next one!

BEST POSTER

 

A Boat Heading for the Desert by Zhaoke
Astronauts by Mariano Cabaco
Birth of A Muse by Michal Karczewski
Return to Zero by Qin Jijing
Servus Karl by Thomas Bischof
Sunday Poem by Aaron Markus Graf
The Last Page by Mano Ve Kannathasan
When the Tide Rises by Alex Jiang

BEST TRAILER

 

Anietié, and the Sky will be there by Teymour Tehrani
Astronauts by Mariano Cabaco
External by Jonathan and Leandro Taub
Mantra by James Autery
Raindrops from the Sun by Tomonao Sakurayashiki
Servus Karl by Thomas Bischof

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

Casablanca by Dale Hogarth and Giorgio La Rosa
Dust by Marco Balzano
Frayda by Raffaele Paolo O’Neill
Never Too Cold for Ice Cream by Steven E. Savage and Aina Swartz
One More California by Dean H Huh
Ripple by Rory Tasker

BEST FEATURE/TV SCREENPLAY

 

Oreb&Zeeb by Giacomo Seca
Rewriter by Tomek P. Chenczke
River’s Fall by Steven Howard
Southern Gothic by John Budge and Adam Davenport
Still Waters by James Everett