SEPTEMBER 2021

NOMINEES

BEST OF FEST

 

 

Cognition by Ravi Ajit Chopra
Eternal Void by Pavaret Udompatthanakit
Last Cigarette by Jiacun Li
Live by Baggio Jiang
Macker’d by Jax RF McAtee
Operation Berlin: The Children who fought War in Colombia by Mat Charles

BEST SHORT FILM

 

Cognition by Ravi Ajit Chopra
Fire Ants by Katerina Philippou-Curtis
Live by Baggio Jiang

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Djagassa by Hyacinthe Hounsou
Once Upon a Time in Iran by Gholam Reza Jafari
Undone by a Touch by Rina Naganuma

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Eternal Void by Pavaret Udompatthanakit
Traded by Harshit Bawa and Simran Arora
Wolf in his Belly by Oluwaseyi Thomas

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

#KidsOnTech by Paul Zehrer
Niños Maya by Veronica Succi
Operation Berlin: The Children who fought War in Colombia by Mat Charles

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Ixestum by Kipp T. Jarden
Last Cigarette by Jiacun Li
On / Off by Nicolas P. Villarreal

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Elle s’appelle Beyrouth by Richard Sammour
Macker’d by Jax RF McAtee
The Purple Thanaka of the Angels by Borit Yannick

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

L’ultima fila – Contro di me by Pierluigi Braca
No Plexus – Manicurism by Roel Wouters
Space Chaser – Remnants of Technology by Lucas Fiederling

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

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

BEST TRAILER

 

Eternal Void by Pavaret Udompatthanakit
Cognition by Ravi Ajit Chopra
Operation Berlin: The Children who fought War in Colombia by Mat Charles

BEST POSTER

 

Eternal Void by Pavaret Udompatthanakit
Live by Baggio Jiang
The Wind and the Whimpering by Laurence McManus

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

A place by Silvia Estella Ondina Sanna, Andrea Barni
Bau Bau Tu by Federico Pieri
The Neighbor by Piper Gaul

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

Eve on Trial by Alla Turovskaya
Heart of Glass by Carla Celia Cristina Pekander
Ropers by Seppe Van Beneden

BEST DIRECTOR

 

Baggio Jiang for Live
Jiacun Li for Last Cigarette
Pavaret Udompatthanakit for Eternal Void

BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Baggio Jiang for Live
Katerina Philippou-Curtis for Fire Ants
Pavaret Udompatthanakit for Eternal Void

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Jax RF McAtee and Leo Lam for Macker’d
Jesse Zhao for Live
Simon Rowling for Cognition

 

 

 

BEST EDITING

 

Huifeng Zhao for Live
Jax RF McAtee for Macker’d
Pavaret Udompatthanakit for Eternal Void

BEST SOUND

 

Jiacun Li for Last Cigarette
Jiaxuan Du, Wenjie Wei and Zhiyuan Yin for Live
Stuart McCowan, Thomas Jaine, Craig Irving and Harry Jones for Cognition

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Kipp T. Jarden for Ixestum
Samuel Karl Bohn for Cognition
Theerapat Wongpaisarnkit for Eternal Void

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Heidi Miller for Cognition
Sarah Yeoman for All In Good Time
Sergey Yordanov for The Big French Robbery

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Ailish Castillo Symons for Journey
Jingru Zheng for Live
Nonglak Samakkhatekit for Eternal Void

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Andrew Scott for Cognition
Hans Han for Live
Prayoon Chaiyate for Eternal Void

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Daria Kashirina for Climate Change Is Going to Kill Us All
Jane Asher for Fire Ants
Lucy Russell for Cognition

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Jiahui He for Live
Martin Vladimirov for The Big French Robbery
Milo Panni for Cognition