June, 2015
Winners, Nominees & Official Selections
Winners, Nominees & Official Selections
Winners
Best Picture
Duality
Germany
Runtime12:00
Director: Daniel Ruczko
Duality
Germany
Runtime12:00
Director: Daniel Ruczko
Best Drama: Pretty Boy - Director: Cameron Thrower, CA, USA
Best Student Drama: Idéar - Director: Nadine Ibrahim, UK
Best Comedy/Dramedy: Lucky Day - Director: Janine Sides, CA, USA
Best Comedy/Dramedy Student
The Virus - Director: Ethan Murray, CA, USA
Best Animation: Dubai LoveScape - Director: Arkus, United Arab Emirates
Best Animation Student: Leonid in Space - Director: Kendra Williford, USA
Best Web-series/New Media: Point Society - Director: Jon Russell Cring, Jack Skyyler, Alex Zinzopoulos & Beth Konrad Brown USA
Best Music Video: The Empty House - Director: Anna Zlokovic, USA
Best Time-Lapse: Seen By My Eyes, Hong Kong - Director: Francis So, Hong Kong
Best Travel Film: Krusing America - Director: Linda Kruse, CA, USA
Best Nature Film: Ecliptic - Director: Lachlan Turczan, USA
Best Foreign Film: Tortoise (Foreign Film): Director: Noviandra Santosa, Indonesia/USA
Best Action Thriller: MANIPURA - Director: Kelly Lynn Warren, CA, USA
Best Horror: Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Cultural Film: Celine and Simon - Director: Julia Elihu, Erin Bentel, Danny Sandler, Daria Miller, CA, USA
Best Experimental Film: The Veteran Hour - Director: Hamlet Sarkissian Donatella Gomelsky-Guchard, CA, USA
Best Documentary Short: Parables of War - Director: Nina Gilden Seavey, USA
Best Foreign Documentary: Lepakshi - Director: Rajendra Vinod, India
Best Documentary Feature: ONE HUNDRED MULES WALKING THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT - Director: Bruce Dickson, CA, USA
Best Sci-Fi: Little Thieves - Director: Conrad Faraj, CA, USA
Best Director Documentary: South Beach On Heels - Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
Best Feature Film: 37 - Director: Chris Brügge, Germany
Best Cinematography: Cold, I Am: Ballad of the Bark Eater - DOP: Jim Powers, USA
Best Editing: Against Night - Edior: Shayar Bhansali, CA, USA
Best Sound Design: Duality - Sound Designed by: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Original Music/Score: Cusp (Drama): Director: Oliver Warren, UK
Best Director: Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Jury mention: She Rides Bulls - Director: Cody Broadway, USA
Best Ensemble Cast: Against Night - Director: Stefan Kubicki, CA, USA
Best Actress: Ella Purnell: WILDLIKE
Best Actor: Bruce Greenwood: WILDLIKE
Screenplay
(Feature)
1st Place Winner: The Connect by Katherine Ann Roe Sainz
2nd Place Winner: All she wrote by Niki Iliev
3rd Place Winner: USNB-22 by Warren R Hull 4th Place Winner: H-TOWN by Reggie Roux
(Short)
1st Place Winner: 42nd and Bombay by Mansi Nirmal Jain
2nd Place Winner: When We Wait by Taylor Albertson
Best Student Drama: Idéar - Director: Nadine Ibrahim, UK
Best Comedy/Dramedy: Lucky Day - Director: Janine Sides, CA, USA
Best Comedy/Dramedy Student
The Virus - Director: Ethan Murray, CA, USA
Best Animation: Dubai LoveScape - Director: Arkus, United Arab Emirates
Best Animation Student: Leonid in Space - Director: Kendra Williford, USA
Best Web-series/New Media: Point Society - Director: Jon Russell Cring, Jack Skyyler, Alex Zinzopoulos & Beth Konrad Brown USA
Best Music Video: The Empty House - Director: Anna Zlokovic, USA
Best Time-Lapse: Seen By My Eyes, Hong Kong - Director: Francis So, Hong Kong
Best Travel Film: Krusing America - Director: Linda Kruse, CA, USA
Best Nature Film: Ecliptic - Director: Lachlan Turczan, USA
Best Foreign Film: Tortoise (Foreign Film): Director: Noviandra Santosa, Indonesia/USA
Best Action Thriller: MANIPURA - Director: Kelly Lynn Warren, CA, USA
Best Horror: Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Cultural Film: Celine and Simon - Director: Julia Elihu, Erin Bentel, Danny Sandler, Daria Miller, CA, USA
Best Experimental Film: The Veteran Hour - Director: Hamlet Sarkissian Donatella Gomelsky-Guchard, CA, USA
Best Documentary Short: Parables of War - Director: Nina Gilden Seavey, USA
Best Foreign Documentary: Lepakshi - Director: Rajendra Vinod, India
Best Documentary Feature: ONE HUNDRED MULES WALKING THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT - Director: Bruce Dickson, CA, USA
Best Sci-Fi: Little Thieves - Director: Conrad Faraj, CA, USA
Best Director Documentary: South Beach On Heels - Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
Best Feature Film: 37 - Director: Chris Brügge, Germany
Best Cinematography: Cold, I Am: Ballad of the Bark Eater - DOP: Jim Powers, USA
Best Editing: Against Night - Edior: Shayar Bhansali, CA, USA
Best Sound Design: Duality - Sound Designed by: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Original Music/Score: Cusp (Drama): Director: Oliver Warren, UK
Best Director: Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Jury mention: She Rides Bulls - Director: Cody Broadway, USA
Best Ensemble Cast: Against Night - Director: Stefan Kubicki, CA, USA
Best Actress: Ella Purnell: WILDLIKE
Best Actor: Bruce Greenwood: WILDLIKE
Screenplay
(Feature)
1st Place Winner: The Connect by Katherine Ann Roe Sainz
2nd Place Winner: All she wrote by Niki Iliev
3rd Place Winner: USNB-22 by Warren R Hull 4th Place Winner: H-TOWN by Reggie Roux
(Short)
1st Place Winner: 42nd and Bombay by Mansi Nirmal Jain
2nd Place Winner: When We Wait by Taylor Albertson
Nominees
Best Picture
Duality (Horror): Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
WILDLIKE (Feature Film All Genres): Director: Frank Hall Green, USA
Pretty Boy (Drama): Director: Cameron Thrower, CA, USA
Best Drama
Against Night (Drama): Director: Stefan Kubicki, CA, USA
Adverse Effects (Drama): Director: Spencer Sharp, USA
Trona (Drama Short): Director: Daniel Cotreau, CA, USA
Grey's Lot (Drama): Director: Jan Bucknole, CA, USA
All's Well (Drama): Director: Christian Kinde, UK
Come Away With Me (Drama): Director: Ellen Gerstein, CA, USA
The Convicted (Drama): Director: Josh Mitchell, USA
Pretty Boy (Drama): Director: Cameron Thrower, CA, USA
Jermaine (Drama): Director: Angela Dugan, CA, USA
Best Drama Student
The Lovage Bundle (Drama Student): Director: Armine Vosganian, Romania
Harmony (Drama Student): Director: Enrique Rico Diaz, CA, USA
Lunch Lady (Drama Student): Director: Mansi Nirmal Jain, USA
Forgive Me Father (Drama Student): Director: Major Gloria A. Downey, CA, USA
Idéar (Drama Student): Director: Nadine Ibrahim, UK
Best Comedy/Dramedy
TURKEY (Comedy/Dramedy)Director: Erik Linthorst, USA
Lucky Day (Comedy/Dramedy): Director: Janine Sides, CA, USA
Best Comedy/Dramedy Student
Sweeter Than My Drink (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Nien Han-Wen, Taiwan
The Translator (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Graham Burrell, USA
The Virus (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Ethan Murray, CA, USA
Best Animation
Dubai LoveScape (Animation): Director: Arkus, United Arab Emirates
El Mano vs. Japanese Zombie (Animation): Director: Kirt Burdick, CA, USA
Best Animation Student
1519 (Animation Student): Director: Diego Lozano, CA, USA
Leonid in Space (Animation Student): Director: Kendra Williford, USA
Hi-Score (Animation Short Student): Director: Mary Jane Whiting, USA
Best Web-series/New Media
Point Society (Drama Short, Web series/New Media) Director: Jon Russell Cring, Jack Skyyler, Alex Zinzopoulos & Beth Konrad Brown USA
Doing a Dunham (Web series/New Media): Director: Sara Mornell, CA, USA
Hipsters Anonymous (Web series/New Media): Director: Rocco Ambrosio, USA
High Falls (Web series/New Media): Director: Amanda Cole, USA
Best Music Video
4 Whispers (Music Video): Director: Dhiyaa Alshikh, Syrian Arab Republic
Tu Y YO (Music Video): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
The Empty House (Music Video): Director: Anna Zlokovic, USA
We'll Work It Out (Music Video): Director: Richard Hall, UK
Best Time-lapse
Seen By My Eyes, Hong Kong(Time-Lapse): Director: Francis So, Hong Kong
Desert Wildflowers | A Journey Through Joshua Tree National Park (Time-Lapse): Director: Casey Kiernan, CA, USA
Best Travel/Nature Film
Lepakshi (Travel Film): Director: Rajendra Vinod, India
Krusing America (Short Travel Film): Director: Linda Kruse, CA, USA
Ecliptic (Nature Film): Director: Lachlan Turczan, USA
Best Foreign Film
The Two Rickies (Foreign Film): Director: Juan Diego Ramirez, CA, USA
Tortoise (Foreign Film): Director: Noviandra Santosa, Indonesia/USA
The Lady in Red (Foreign Film): Director: Mikhail Uchitelev, Germany
The Stranger (Foreign Film): Director: Olivier Polia, France
VICTOR (Foreign Film): Director: Paul Menville, France
Best Action Thriller/Horror
MANIPURA (Action/Thriller): Director: Kelly Lynn Warren, CA, USA
Wartorn (Action/Thriller): Directors: Harold Fisch, DeRae Logan & David Lopez, USA
Duality (Horror): Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Sci-Fi
Mining Moon (Sci-Fi): Director: Brian Morelan, Canada
Little Thieves (Sci-Fi): Director: Conrad Faraj, CA, USA
Best Experimental/Cultural Film
Celine and Simon (Cultural Student Film): Director: Julia Elihu, Erin Bentel, Danny Sandler, Daria Miller, CA, USA
THE REGRET (Experimental): Director: Mariana Cobra, Brazil
Pursuance (Experimental): Director: Stefan Kubicki, USA
The Veteran Hour (Experimental): Director: Hamlet Sarkissian Donatella Gomelsky-Guchard, CA, USA
Best Documentary Feature
NaZha (Documentary Feature): Directors: 林欣怡 LIN, Hsin-I, Taiwan
ONE HUNDRED MULES WALKING THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT (Feature Documentary): Director: Bruce Dickson, CA, USA
South Beach On Heels (Feature Documentary): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
Best Documentary Short
Parables of War (Documentary Short): Director: Nina Gilden Seavey, USA
The Art House (Documentary Short): Director: Laura P. Valtorta, USA
Best Foreign Documentary
STAFF BENDA BILILI (Foreign Documentary): Director: Devrin Usta, Turkey
Lepakshi (Travel Film): Director: Rajendra Vinod, India
Best Director Documentary
NaZha (Documentary Feature): Directors: 林欣怡 LIN, Hsin-I, Taiwan
South Beach On Heels (Feature Documentary): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
Best Feature Film
THE WORLD IT IS... (Feature Films All Genres): Director: Biswajeet Bora, India
Rocks, Paper, Scissors (Feature Films All Genres):Director: Gregory Nalbandian, USA
Afua's Diary (Feature Films All Genres): Director: Ben Owusu & Bibi Owusu Shadbolt, UK
WILDLIKE (Feature Film All Genres): Director: Frank Hall Green, USA
37 (Foreign Feature): Director: Chris Brügge, Germany
Best Cinematography
She Rides Bulls (Sports Film): Director: Cody Broadway, USA
Cusp (Drama): Director: Oliver Warren, UK
Duality (Horror): Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Cold, I Am: Ballad of the Bark Eater (Drama): Director: Jim Powers & Steve Powers, USA
MANIPURA (Action/Thriller): Director: Kelly Lynn Warren, CA, USA
Best Editing
Against Night - Director: Stefan Kubicki, CA, USA
She Rides Bulls - Director: Cody Broadway, USA
MANIPURA - Director: Kelly Lynn Warren, CA, USA
Best Sound Design
Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
WILDLIKE - Director: Frank Hall Green, USA
Best Original Music
Point Society - Director: Jon Russell Cring, Jack Skyyler, Alex Zinzopoulos & Beth Konrad Brown USA
Cusp - Director: Oliver Warren, UK
Flying Steed - Director: PENG WANG, China
Araignee - Director: Jeremy Jensen
Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Director
Prostasia - Director: Kaarina Parker, Australia
Cusp - Director: Oliver Warren, UK
She Rides Bulls - Director: Cody Broadway, USA
37 - Director: Chris Brügge, Germany
Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Ensemble Cast
Adverse Effects - Director: Spencer Sharp, USA
Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
The Veteran Hour - Director: Hamlet Sarkissian Donatella Gomelsky-Guchard, CA, USA
Pretty Boy - Director: Cameron Thrower, CA, USA
Cusp - Director: Oliver Warren, UK
THE WORLD IT IS... - Director: Biswajeet Bora, India
37 - Director: Chris Brügge, Germany
TURKEY - Director: Erik Linthorst, USA
Best Actress
Ella Purnell: WILDLIKE
Megan Davis: Adverse Effect
Jodi Lynn Thomas: Duality
Whitney Morgan Cox: The Veteran Hour
Best Actor
Bruce Greenwood: WILDLIKE
Nick Eversman: Pretty Boy
David O'Hara: The Veteran Hour
Screenplay
The Connect (Screenplay Feature) by Katherine Ann Roe Sainz
USNB-22 (Screenplay Feature) by Warren R Hull
Adoption (Screenplay Feature) by David Klausner
All she wrote (Screenplay Feature) by Niki Iliev
H-TOWN (Screenplay Feature) by Reggie Roux
When We Wait (Screenplay Short) by Taylor Albertson
42nd and Bombay (Screenplay Short) by Mansi Nirmal Jain
Duality (Horror): Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
WILDLIKE (Feature Film All Genres): Director: Frank Hall Green, USA
Pretty Boy (Drama): Director: Cameron Thrower, CA, USA
Best Drama
Against Night (Drama): Director: Stefan Kubicki, CA, USA
Adverse Effects (Drama): Director: Spencer Sharp, USA
Trona (Drama Short): Director: Daniel Cotreau, CA, USA
Grey's Lot (Drama): Director: Jan Bucknole, CA, USA
All's Well (Drama): Director: Christian Kinde, UK
Come Away With Me (Drama): Director: Ellen Gerstein, CA, USA
The Convicted (Drama): Director: Josh Mitchell, USA
Pretty Boy (Drama): Director: Cameron Thrower, CA, USA
Jermaine (Drama): Director: Angela Dugan, CA, USA
Best Drama Student
The Lovage Bundle (Drama Student): Director: Armine Vosganian, Romania
Harmony (Drama Student): Director: Enrique Rico Diaz, CA, USA
Lunch Lady (Drama Student): Director: Mansi Nirmal Jain, USA
Forgive Me Father (Drama Student): Director: Major Gloria A. Downey, CA, USA
Idéar (Drama Student): Director: Nadine Ibrahim, UK
Best Comedy/Dramedy
TURKEY (Comedy/Dramedy)Director: Erik Linthorst, USA
Lucky Day (Comedy/Dramedy): Director: Janine Sides, CA, USA
Best Comedy/Dramedy Student
Sweeter Than My Drink (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Nien Han-Wen, Taiwan
The Translator (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Graham Burrell, USA
The Virus (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Ethan Murray, CA, USA
Best Animation
Dubai LoveScape (Animation): Director: Arkus, United Arab Emirates
El Mano vs. Japanese Zombie (Animation): Director: Kirt Burdick, CA, USA
Best Animation Student
1519 (Animation Student): Director: Diego Lozano, CA, USA
Leonid in Space (Animation Student): Director: Kendra Williford, USA
Hi-Score (Animation Short Student): Director: Mary Jane Whiting, USA
Best Web-series/New Media
Point Society (Drama Short, Web series/New Media) Director: Jon Russell Cring, Jack Skyyler, Alex Zinzopoulos & Beth Konrad Brown USA
Doing a Dunham (Web series/New Media): Director: Sara Mornell, CA, USA
Hipsters Anonymous (Web series/New Media): Director: Rocco Ambrosio, USA
High Falls (Web series/New Media): Director: Amanda Cole, USA
Best Music Video
4 Whispers (Music Video): Director: Dhiyaa Alshikh, Syrian Arab Republic
Tu Y YO (Music Video): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
The Empty House (Music Video): Director: Anna Zlokovic, USA
We'll Work It Out (Music Video): Director: Richard Hall, UK
Best Time-lapse
Seen By My Eyes, Hong Kong(Time-Lapse): Director: Francis So, Hong Kong
Desert Wildflowers | A Journey Through Joshua Tree National Park (Time-Lapse): Director: Casey Kiernan, CA, USA
Best Travel/Nature Film
Lepakshi (Travel Film): Director: Rajendra Vinod, India
Krusing America (Short Travel Film): Director: Linda Kruse, CA, USA
Ecliptic (Nature Film): Director: Lachlan Turczan, USA
Best Foreign Film
The Two Rickies (Foreign Film): Director: Juan Diego Ramirez, CA, USA
Tortoise (Foreign Film): Director: Noviandra Santosa, Indonesia/USA
The Lady in Red (Foreign Film): Director: Mikhail Uchitelev, Germany
The Stranger (Foreign Film): Director: Olivier Polia, France
VICTOR (Foreign Film): Director: Paul Menville, France
Best Action Thriller/Horror
MANIPURA (Action/Thriller): Director: Kelly Lynn Warren, CA, USA
Wartorn (Action/Thriller): Directors: Harold Fisch, DeRae Logan & David Lopez, USA
Duality (Horror): Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Sci-Fi
Mining Moon (Sci-Fi): Director: Brian Morelan, Canada
Little Thieves (Sci-Fi): Director: Conrad Faraj, CA, USA
Best Experimental/Cultural Film
Celine and Simon (Cultural Student Film): Director: Julia Elihu, Erin Bentel, Danny Sandler, Daria Miller, CA, USA
THE REGRET (Experimental): Director: Mariana Cobra, Brazil
Pursuance (Experimental): Director: Stefan Kubicki, USA
The Veteran Hour (Experimental): Director: Hamlet Sarkissian Donatella Gomelsky-Guchard, CA, USA
Best Documentary Feature
NaZha (Documentary Feature): Directors: 林欣怡 LIN, Hsin-I, Taiwan
ONE HUNDRED MULES WALKING THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT (Feature Documentary): Director: Bruce Dickson, CA, USA
South Beach On Heels (Feature Documentary): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
Best Documentary Short
Parables of War (Documentary Short): Director: Nina Gilden Seavey, USA
The Art House (Documentary Short): Director: Laura P. Valtorta, USA
Best Foreign Documentary
STAFF BENDA BILILI (Foreign Documentary): Director: Devrin Usta, Turkey
Lepakshi (Travel Film): Director: Rajendra Vinod, India
Best Director Documentary
NaZha (Documentary Feature): Directors: 林欣怡 LIN, Hsin-I, Taiwan
South Beach On Heels (Feature Documentary): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
Best Feature Film
THE WORLD IT IS... (Feature Films All Genres): Director: Biswajeet Bora, India
Rocks, Paper, Scissors (Feature Films All Genres):Director: Gregory Nalbandian, USA
Afua's Diary (Feature Films All Genres): Director: Ben Owusu & Bibi Owusu Shadbolt, UK
WILDLIKE (Feature Film All Genres): Director: Frank Hall Green, USA
37 (Foreign Feature): Director: Chris Brügge, Germany
Best Cinematography
She Rides Bulls (Sports Film): Director: Cody Broadway, USA
Cusp (Drama): Director: Oliver Warren, UK
Duality (Horror): Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Cold, I Am: Ballad of the Bark Eater (Drama): Director: Jim Powers & Steve Powers, USA
MANIPURA (Action/Thriller): Director: Kelly Lynn Warren, CA, USA
Best Editing
Against Night - Director: Stefan Kubicki, CA, USA
She Rides Bulls - Director: Cody Broadway, USA
MANIPURA - Director: Kelly Lynn Warren, CA, USA
Best Sound Design
Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
WILDLIKE - Director: Frank Hall Green, USA
Best Original Music
Point Society - Director: Jon Russell Cring, Jack Skyyler, Alex Zinzopoulos & Beth Konrad Brown USA
Cusp - Director: Oliver Warren, UK
Flying Steed - Director: PENG WANG, China
Araignee - Director: Jeremy Jensen
Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Director
Prostasia - Director: Kaarina Parker, Australia
Cusp - Director: Oliver Warren, UK
She Rides Bulls - Director: Cody Broadway, USA
37 - Director: Chris Brügge, Germany
Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Best Ensemble Cast
Adverse Effects - Director: Spencer Sharp, USA
Duality - Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
The Veteran Hour - Director: Hamlet Sarkissian Donatella Gomelsky-Guchard, CA, USA
Pretty Boy - Director: Cameron Thrower, CA, USA
Cusp - Director: Oliver Warren, UK
THE WORLD IT IS... - Director: Biswajeet Bora, India
37 - Director: Chris Brügge, Germany
TURKEY - Director: Erik Linthorst, USA
Best Actress
Ella Purnell: WILDLIKE
Megan Davis: Adverse Effect
Jodi Lynn Thomas: Duality
Whitney Morgan Cox: The Veteran Hour
Best Actor
Bruce Greenwood: WILDLIKE
Nick Eversman: Pretty Boy
David O'Hara: The Veteran Hour
Screenplay
The Connect (Screenplay Feature) by Katherine Ann Roe Sainz
USNB-22 (Screenplay Feature) by Warren R Hull
Adoption (Screenplay Feature) by David Klausner
All she wrote (Screenplay Feature) by Niki Iliev
H-TOWN (Screenplay Feature) by Reggie Roux
When We Wait (Screenplay Short) by Taylor Albertson
42nd and Bombay (Screenplay Short) by Mansi Nirmal Jain
Official Selection
Hi-Score (Animation Short Student): Director: Mary Jane Whiting, USA
The Little Scarecrow (Animation Short Student): Director: Brendan Latran, USA
NaZha (Documentary Feature): Directors: 林欣怡 LIN, Hsin-I, Taiwan
The Virus (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Ethan Murray, CA, USA
The Translator (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Graham Burrell, USA
Trona (Drama Short): Director: Daniel Cotreau, CA, USA
Doing a Dunham (Web series/New Media): Director: Sara Mornell, CA, USA
Desert Wildflowers | A Journey Through Joshua Tree National Park (Time-Lapse): Director: Casey Kiernan, CA, USA
Lepakshi (Travel Film): Director: Rajendra Vinod, India
Filial Piety Award (Foreign Short Student): Director: Chen Jian-zhang, Taiwan
Lunch Lady (Drama Student): Director: Mansi Nirmal Jain, USA
Duality (Horror): Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Flying Steed (Trailer/Promo): Director: PENG WANG, China
Krusing America (Short Travel Film): Director: Linda Kruse, CA, USA
She Rides Bulls (Sports Film): Director: Cody Broadway, USA
Point Society (Drama Short, Web series/New Media) Director: Jon Russell Cring, Jack Skyyler, Alex Zinzopoulos & Beth Konrad Brown USA
Tu Y YO (Music Video): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
Wartorn (Action/Thriller): Directors: Harold Fisch, DeRae Logan & David Lopez, USA
1519 (Animation Student): Director: Diego Lozano, CA, USA
The face of a soul (Foreign Film): Director: Denise Dacquì, Italy
Moses (Drama): Director: Mike Biondo, USA
The Empty House (Music Video): Director: Anna Zlokovic, USA
Ecliptic (Nature Film): Director: Lachlan Turczan, USA
Cusp (Drama): Director: Oliver Warren, UK
Leonid in Space (Animation Student): Director: Kendra Williford, USA
The Two Rickies (Foreign Film): Director: Juan Diego Ramirez, CA, USA
ONE LAST TRY (Drama): Director: Mona J. Hoel, Norway
WILDLIKE (Feature Film All Genres): Director: Frank Hall Green, USA
The Lady in Red (Foreign Film): Director: Mikhail Uchitelev, Germany
4 Whispers (Music Video): Director: Dhiyaa Alshikh, Syrian Arab Republic
MANIPURA (Action/Thriller): Director: Kelly Lynn Warren, CA, USA
STAFF BENDA BILILI (Foreign Documentary): Director: Devrin Usta, Turkey
Mining Moon (Sci-Fi): Director: Brian Morelan, Canada
Harmony (Drama Student): Director: Enrique Rico Diaz, CA, USA
Seen By My Eyes, Hong Kong(Time-Lapse): Director: Francis So, Hong Kong
Come Away With Me (Drama): Director: Ellen Gerstein, CA, USA
Jermaine (Drama): Director: Angela Dugan, CA, USA
Celine and Simon (Cultural Student Film): Director: Julia Elihu, Erin Bentel, Danny Sandler, Daria Miller, CA, USA
Hipsters Anonymous (Web series/New Media): Director: Rocco Ambrosio, USA
The Veteran Hour (Experimental): Director: Hamlet Sarkissian Donatella Gomelsky-Guchard, CA, USA
Aurora keeps an eye on you (Drama): Director: Sara Margrethe Oskal, Norway
THE REGRET (Experimental): Director: Mariana Cobra, Brazil
The Convicted (Drama): Director: Josh Mitchell, USA
Little Thieves (Sci-Fi): Director: Conrad Faraj, CA, USA
Adverse Effects (Drama): Director: Spencer Sharp, USA
TURKEY (Comedy/Dramedy): Director: Erik Linthorst, USA
The Lovage Bundle (Drama Student): Director: Armine Vosganian, Romania
Time's Spiral (Foreign Film): Director: Fabio Yamada, Brazil
Prostasia (Drama): Director: Kaarina Parker, Australia
Tortoise (Foreign Film): Director: Noviandra Santosa, Indonesia/USA
The Passage (Drama Student): Director: Noel Nunez, USA
VICTOR (Foreign Film): Director: Paul Menville, France
The Art House (Documentary Short): Director: Laura P. Valtorta, USA
El Mano vs. Japanese Zombie (Animation): Director: Kirt Burdick, CA, USA
THE WORLD IT IS... (Feature Films All Genres): Director: Biswajeet Bora, India
ONE HUNDRED MULES WALKING THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT (Feature Documentary): Director: Bruce Dickson, CA, USA
Rocks, Paper, Scissors (Feature Films All Genres):Director: Gregory Nalbandian, USA
Afua's Diary (Feature Films All Genres): Director: Ben Owusu & Bibi Owusu Shadbolt, UK
South Beach On Heels (Feature Documentary): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
37 (Foreign Feature): Director: Chris Brügge, Germany
Won't Pipe Down (Documentary Student): Director: Marley McDonald, USA
Parables of War (Documentary Short): Director: Nina Gilden Seavey, USA
Pretty Boy (Drama): Director: Cameron Thrower, CA, USA
Dubai LoveScape (Animation): Director: Arkus, United Arab Emirates
Forgive Me Father (Drama Student): Director: Major Gloria A. Downey, CA, USA
Against Night (Drama): Director: Stefan Kubicki, CA, USA
Idéar (Drama Student): Director: Nadine Ibrahim, UK
The Stranger (Foreign Film): Director: Olivier Polia, France
Araignee (Animation): Director: Jeremy Jensen
Grey's Lot (Drama): Director: Jan Bucknole, CA, USA
We'll Work It Out (Music Video): Director: Richard Hall, UK
High Falls (Web series/New Media): Director: Amanda Cole, USA
All's Well (Drama): Director: Christian Kinde, UK
DEATH BY CHOCOLATE (Drama): Director: Robin Veret & Dimitri Gochgarian, Canada
Sweeter Than My Drink (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Nien Han-Wen, Taiwan
Lucky Day (Comedy/Dramedy): Director: Janine Sides, CA, USA
Perfect Night (Music Video): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
Pursuance (Experimental): Director: Stefan Kubicki, USA
Made For Each Other (Fantasy): Director: Bo Svenson, CA, USA
Cold, I Am: Ballad of the Bark Eater (Drama): Director: Jim Powers & Steve Powers, USA
Screenplay
The Connect (Screenplay Feature) by Katherine Ann Roe Sainz
Waterloo (Screenplay Television) by Chuck Griffith
USNB-22 (Screenplay Feature) by Warren R Hull
42nd and Bombay (Screenplay Short) by Mansi Nirmal Jain
When We Wait (Screenplay Short) by Taylor Albertson
All she wrote (Screenplay Feature) by Niki Iliev
Adoption (Screenplay Feature) by David Klausner
Absurdity is Normal (Screenplay Feature) by Kenneth Thomas
H-TOWN (Screenplay Feature) by Reggie Roux
The Little Scarecrow (Animation Short Student): Director: Brendan Latran, USA
NaZha (Documentary Feature): Directors: 林欣怡 LIN, Hsin-I, Taiwan
The Virus (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Ethan Murray, CA, USA
The Translator (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Graham Burrell, USA
Trona (Drama Short): Director: Daniel Cotreau, CA, USA
Doing a Dunham (Web series/New Media): Director: Sara Mornell, CA, USA
Desert Wildflowers | A Journey Through Joshua Tree National Park (Time-Lapse): Director: Casey Kiernan, CA, USA
Lepakshi (Travel Film): Director: Rajendra Vinod, India
Filial Piety Award (Foreign Short Student): Director: Chen Jian-zhang, Taiwan
Lunch Lady (Drama Student): Director: Mansi Nirmal Jain, USA
Duality (Horror): Director: Daniel Ruczko, USA
Flying Steed (Trailer/Promo): Director: PENG WANG, China
Krusing America (Short Travel Film): Director: Linda Kruse, CA, USA
She Rides Bulls (Sports Film): Director: Cody Broadway, USA
Point Society (Drama Short, Web series/New Media) Director: Jon Russell Cring, Jack Skyyler, Alex Zinzopoulos & Beth Konrad Brown USA
Tu Y YO (Music Video): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
Wartorn (Action/Thriller): Directors: Harold Fisch, DeRae Logan & David Lopez, USA
1519 (Animation Student): Director: Diego Lozano, CA, USA
The face of a soul (Foreign Film): Director: Denise Dacquì, Italy
Moses (Drama): Director: Mike Biondo, USA
The Empty House (Music Video): Director: Anna Zlokovic, USA
Ecliptic (Nature Film): Director: Lachlan Turczan, USA
Cusp (Drama): Director: Oliver Warren, UK
Leonid in Space (Animation Student): Director: Kendra Williford, USA
The Two Rickies (Foreign Film): Director: Juan Diego Ramirez, CA, USA
ONE LAST TRY (Drama): Director: Mona J. Hoel, Norway
WILDLIKE (Feature Film All Genres): Director: Frank Hall Green, USA
The Lady in Red (Foreign Film): Director: Mikhail Uchitelev, Germany
4 Whispers (Music Video): Director: Dhiyaa Alshikh, Syrian Arab Republic
MANIPURA (Action/Thriller): Director: Kelly Lynn Warren, CA, USA
STAFF BENDA BILILI (Foreign Documentary): Director: Devrin Usta, Turkey
Mining Moon (Sci-Fi): Director: Brian Morelan, Canada
Harmony (Drama Student): Director: Enrique Rico Diaz, CA, USA
Seen By My Eyes, Hong Kong(Time-Lapse): Director: Francis So, Hong Kong
Come Away With Me (Drama): Director: Ellen Gerstein, CA, USA
Jermaine (Drama): Director: Angela Dugan, CA, USA
Celine and Simon (Cultural Student Film): Director: Julia Elihu, Erin Bentel, Danny Sandler, Daria Miller, CA, USA
Hipsters Anonymous (Web series/New Media): Director: Rocco Ambrosio, USA
The Veteran Hour (Experimental): Director: Hamlet Sarkissian Donatella Gomelsky-Guchard, CA, USA
Aurora keeps an eye on you (Drama): Director: Sara Margrethe Oskal, Norway
THE REGRET (Experimental): Director: Mariana Cobra, Brazil
The Convicted (Drama): Director: Josh Mitchell, USA
Little Thieves (Sci-Fi): Director: Conrad Faraj, CA, USA
Adverse Effects (Drama): Director: Spencer Sharp, USA
TURKEY (Comedy/Dramedy): Director: Erik Linthorst, USA
The Lovage Bundle (Drama Student): Director: Armine Vosganian, Romania
Time's Spiral (Foreign Film): Director: Fabio Yamada, Brazil
Prostasia (Drama): Director: Kaarina Parker, Australia
Tortoise (Foreign Film): Director: Noviandra Santosa, Indonesia/USA
The Passage (Drama Student): Director: Noel Nunez, USA
VICTOR (Foreign Film): Director: Paul Menville, France
The Art House (Documentary Short): Director: Laura P. Valtorta, USA
El Mano vs. Japanese Zombie (Animation): Director: Kirt Burdick, CA, USA
THE WORLD IT IS... (Feature Films All Genres): Director: Biswajeet Bora, India
ONE HUNDRED MULES WALKING THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT (Feature Documentary): Director: Bruce Dickson, CA, USA
Rocks, Paper, Scissors (Feature Films All Genres):Director: Gregory Nalbandian, USA
Afua's Diary (Feature Films All Genres): Director: Ben Owusu & Bibi Owusu Shadbolt, UK
South Beach On Heels (Feature Documentary): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
37 (Foreign Feature): Director: Chris Brügge, Germany
Won't Pipe Down (Documentary Student): Director: Marley McDonald, USA
Parables of War (Documentary Short): Director: Nina Gilden Seavey, USA
Pretty Boy (Drama): Director: Cameron Thrower, CA, USA
Dubai LoveScape (Animation): Director: Arkus, United Arab Emirates
Forgive Me Father (Drama Student): Director: Major Gloria A. Downey, CA, USA
Against Night (Drama): Director: Stefan Kubicki, CA, USA
Idéar (Drama Student): Director: Nadine Ibrahim, UK
The Stranger (Foreign Film): Director: Olivier Polia, France
Araignee (Animation): Director: Jeremy Jensen
Grey's Lot (Drama): Director: Jan Bucknole, CA, USA
We'll Work It Out (Music Video): Director: Richard Hall, UK
High Falls (Web series/New Media): Director: Amanda Cole, USA
All's Well (Drama): Director: Christian Kinde, UK
DEATH BY CHOCOLATE (Drama): Director: Robin Veret & Dimitri Gochgarian, Canada
Sweeter Than My Drink (Comedy/Dramedy Student): Director: Nien Han-Wen, Taiwan
Lucky Day (Comedy/Dramedy): Director: Janine Sides, CA, USA
Perfect Night (Music Video): Director: Dmitry Zhitov, USA
Pursuance (Experimental): Director: Stefan Kubicki, USA
Made For Each Other (Fantasy): Director: Bo Svenson, CA, USA
Cold, I Am: Ballad of the Bark Eater (Drama): Director: Jim Powers & Steve Powers, USA
Screenplay
The Connect (Screenplay Feature) by Katherine Ann Roe Sainz
Waterloo (Screenplay Television) by Chuck Griffith
USNB-22 (Screenplay Feature) by Warren R Hull
42nd and Bombay (Screenplay Short) by Mansi Nirmal Jain
When We Wait (Screenplay Short) by Taylor Albertson
All she wrote (Screenplay Feature) by Niki Iliev
Adoption (Screenplay Feature) by David Klausner
Absurdity is Normal (Screenplay Feature) by Kenneth Thomas
H-TOWN (Screenplay Feature) by Reggie Roux