OCTOBER 2023

NOMINEES

BEST OF FEST

 

Empty Heights, Moonlit Night by Canghai Lu
From Peak to Valley by Gianfranco Pellegrini
Game, Interrupted by Ilayda Iseri
Ice Merchants by João Gonzalez
Mist by Xin Ai
Scale by Joseph Pierce

 







BEST SHORT FILM

 

Empty Heights, Moonlit Night by Canghai Lu
From Peak to Valley by Gianfranco Pellegrini
Game, Interrupted by Ilayda Iseri

 







BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Mist by Xin Ai
Velvet & by Alexandre Asparuh
What Rhymes With Reason by Kyle William Roberts







BEST SHORT DOC

 

Maleth, Meaning Shelter by Martin Girardi
The Sowing by Jacek Redźko
Void by Lorenzo Prattico

 





BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams by Robin Greenberg
SOGNI DI CARTA (PAPER DREAMS) by Claudio D’Elia
This is Edik: A Tale of a Gifted and Stolen Childhood by Ivan Proskuryakov

 





BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Ice Merchants by João Gonzalez
Scale by Joseph Pierce
White Crow by JIA-SYUAN WEI







BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Painful Flavours by Julian Hand
Psalm by XIE BAI
Ymor by JULIEN LAHMI

 







BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

House Party Music Video by Roberto Rivera, Class Vee
Volcan by Rafael Andres Russo
ego by Adam Lukowski

 







BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

We haven’t received enough projects in this section this month, see you at the next one!







BEST POSTER

 

From Peak to Valley by Gianfranco Pellegrini
Game, Interrupted by Ilayda Iseri
Psalm by XIE BAI




BEST TRAILER

 

We haven’t received enough projects in this section this month, see you at the next one!







BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

贺礼 GIFT by Zhuojie Wang
Grandma Böse by Alicia Hayes
ÒPIDE by Kevin Vescera



BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

Fugazi by Jeff E Kimball
Hattie’s House by Dewane Alexander
The Light Under The Door by Robert LoBianco







BEST DIRECTOR

 

João Gonzalez for Ice Merchants
Canghai Lu for Empty Heights, Moonlit Night
Joseph Pierce for Scale







BEST SCREENWRITER

 

João Gonzalez for Ice Merchants
Joseph Pierce, Nicolas Pleskof for Scale
Xinran Ke for Me? Your Mom!







BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Bunyamin Karair for Game, Interrupted
Francesco Galaverni for From Peak to Valley
Xin Ai for Mist

 







BEST EDITING

 

Ai Xin for Mist
João Gonzalez for Ice Merchants
Robbie Morrison for Scale







BEST SOUND

 

Andrea Corvaglia for From Peak to Valley
Huang JingXiu for Mist
Dominic Fitzgerald for Scale

 







BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Alfonso Corte-Real for Velvet &
Seckin Caliskan, Ilayda Iseri for Game, Interrupted
Xiao Yang for Mist







BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Ahmed Riad for Roaring in the Darkness
Gianfranco Pellegrini, Giulia Bellandi for From Peak to Valley
Reysam Balkan for Game, Interrupted







BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Bin Li for Empty Heights, Moonlit Night
Gattlin Griffith for What Rhymes With Reason
Mustafa Enis Bilir for Game, Interrupted





BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Bahar Sare Vural for Game, Interrupted
Natasha Bentivoglio for Velvet &
Yang Liu for Me? Your mom!





BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Benoît Finschi for Velvet &
Empty Heights, Moonlit Night
Enzo Giraldo for Six Days Of Life







BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Giselle Torres for What Rhymes With Reason
Vicky Sirera for Smoking with Tony del Verde
Yuwei Tian for Whirl Bus