November, 2015
Winners, Nominees & Official Selections
Winners, Nominees & Official Selections
Winners
Best Picture
DUMBBELLS
US
Best Picture
Producers:
Travus Pope,
Josh Goldstein,
Hoyt Richards
Brian Drolet
DUMBBELLS
US
Best Picture
Producers:
Travus Pope,
Josh Goldstein,
Hoyt Richards
Brian Drolet
Best Drama Student: Hush - Director: Whitney Clinkscales, USA
Best Drama: I KNOW YOU - Director: Colin Gerrard, Netherlands
Best Comedy/Dramedy Student: A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Best Comedy/Dramedy: Hard Money - Director: Armin Siljkovicm, USA
Best Feature All Genres: Billion Star Hotel - Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania
Best Foreign Short: Making A Killing - Director: Justin Head, South Africa
Best Foreign Feature: Ambiguity: Crónica De Un Sueño Americano - Director: Grisel Wilson, Guatemala
Best Documentary Student: Julian - Director: Julia Furer, Switzerland
Best Feature Documentary: Charlie Gemora: Uncredited - Director: Jason Barnett, USA
Best Short Documentary: High Signs - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
Best Time-Lapse: Eastern Skies - Director: Mike Zorger, USA
Best Action: Valor's Dawn - Directors: Reed Clare & Mike Donis, Canada
Best Thriller: PANCAKE CASTLE - Director: Simon Roel, USA
Best SCI-FI: Orpheize - Director: Pedro Jaén R., Spain
Best Horror: Inhabiter - Director: Daniel R. Palacio, Philippines
Best Animation: Misiek and Eve from outer space - Director: Marianna Mankowska, Poland
Best Trailer: Icthus - Director: Ragüel Cremades, Spain
Best Music Video: You Know - Director: Igor Possewnin, Spain
Best Web Series / New Media: Her Story (Episode 1) - Director: Sydney Freeland,USA
Best Original Music/Score: The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Best Sound Design: Billion Star Hotel - Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania
Best Editing: Making A Killing - Director: Justin Head, South Africa
Best Director Student: A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Jury Award of Recognition: Dark Red Blood - Director: Domi Cutrona, Italy
Jury Special Mention: Permission - Director: Jun Kuang, USA
Best Director: The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Best Ensemble Cast: The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Best Actress: Rebecca Mueller: YOU ARE BACK, Germany
Best Actor: Hoyt Richards: DUMBBELLS, USA
Screenplay
(Feature)
1st Place Winner: The Mary Jane Girls by Heidi Kozak
2nd Place Winner: A Burial at Sea by C. Jeffery Evans
3rd Place Winner: Within These Walls by Tracie Jules
4th Place Winner: and The Devil called! by Patricia Poulos
(Short/Web series)
1st Place Winner: One in a million by Anthony Liakopoulos
2nd Place Winner: A Fangirl by Diana Galimzyanova
(Television)
1st Place Winner: Mob Chick by Theodore Carl Soderberg
Best Drama: I KNOW YOU - Director: Colin Gerrard, Netherlands
Best Comedy/Dramedy Student: A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Best Comedy/Dramedy: Hard Money - Director: Armin Siljkovicm, USA
Best Feature All Genres: Billion Star Hotel - Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania
Best Foreign Short: Making A Killing - Director: Justin Head, South Africa
Best Foreign Feature: Ambiguity: Crónica De Un Sueño Americano - Director: Grisel Wilson, Guatemala
Best Documentary Student: Julian - Director: Julia Furer, Switzerland
Best Feature Documentary: Charlie Gemora: Uncredited - Director: Jason Barnett, USA
Best Short Documentary: High Signs - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
Best Time-Lapse: Eastern Skies - Director: Mike Zorger, USA
Best Action: Valor's Dawn - Directors: Reed Clare & Mike Donis, Canada
Best Thriller: PANCAKE CASTLE - Director: Simon Roel, USA
Best SCI-FI: Orpheize - Director: Pedro Jaén R., Spain
Best Horror: Inhabiter - Director: Daniel R. Palacio, Philippines
Best Animation: Misiek and Eve from outer space - Director: Marianna Mankowska, Poland
Best Trailer: Icthus - Director: Ragüel Cremades, Spain
Best Music Video: You Know - Director: Igor Possewnin, Spain
Best Web Series / New Media: Her Story (Episode 1) - Director: Sydney Freeland,USA
Best Original Music/Score: The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Best Sound Design: Billion Star Hotel - Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania
Best Editing: Making A Killing - Director: Justin Head, South Africa
Best Director Student: A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Jury Award of Recognition: Dark Red Blood - Director: Domi Cutrona, Italy
Jury Special Mention: Permission - Director: Jun Kuang, USA
Best Director: The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Best Ensemble Cast: The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Best Actress: Rebecca Mueller: YOU ARE BACK, Germany
Best Actor: Hoyt Richards: DUMBBELLS, USA
Screenplay
(Feature)
1st Place Winner: The Mary Jane Girls by Heidi Kozak
2nd Place Winner: A Burial at Sea by C. Jeffery Evans
3rd Place Winner: Within These Walls by Tracie Jules
4th Place Winner: and The Devil called! by Patricia Poulos
(Short/Web series)
1st Place Winner: One in a million by Anthony Liakopoulos
2nd Place Winner: A Fangirl by Diana Galimzyanova
(Television)
1st Place Winner: Mob Chick by Theodore Carl Soderberg
Nominees
Best Picture
The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
DUMBBELLS - Director: Chris Livingston, USA
Best Drama Student
Soulitude - Director: Grit Komkrichwarakool, Andres Toro (Co-Director), Canada
Hush - Director: Whitney Clinkscales, USA
Vanished - Director: Bobak Afshari, USA
Best Drama
I KNOW YOU - Director: Colin Gerrard, Netherlands
YOU ARE BACK - Director: Igor Possewnin, Germany
Best Comedy/Dramedy Student
The Eyes - Director: Carlos Yasik, USA
Murphy's Law - Director: Brian Blum, USA
A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Best Comedy/Dramedy
A Haunting on Butterscotch Lane - Director: Ryan Nelson, USA
Hard Money - Director: Armin Siljkovicm, USA
Permission - Director: Jun Kuang, USA
The Thrill of Being Followed, Director: Mickey Newman, USA
Temporary - Director: Nasser Samara, USA
Best Feature All Genres
DisAssociationVille - Director: James Christopher, USA
Billion Star Hotel - Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania
Bethlehem - Director: Michael Malone, USADUMBBELLS - Director: Chris Livingston, USA
Best Foreign Nominee
In Ribbons - Director: Marie-Valerie Jeantelot, Ireland
Making A Killing - Director: Justin Head, South Africa
Best Foreign Feature
Medardo - Director: Nitsy Grau, Netherlands
LANGTO - Director: Sourish Dey, India
Ambiguity: Crónica De Un Sueño Americano - Director: Grisel Wilson, Guatemala
Best Documentary Student
Julian - Director: Julia Furer, Switzerland
Los Angeles Call to Prayer - Director: Omer Bayrakdar, USA
Best Feature/Short Documentary
Charlie Gemora: Uncredited - Director: Jason Barnett, USA
High Signs - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
To Russia for Love - Director; Geoff Poister, USA
Best (Experimental/Travel Films/Time-Lapse)
Time - Director: Patrick Cheung, Hong Kong
Eastern Skies - Director: Mike Zorger, USA
The Third Eye. A Blinding Moroccan Experience - Director: Kamil Piechowiak, Poland
Best Action/Thriller/SCI-FI/Horror
Valor's Dawn - Directors: Reed Clare & Mike Donis, Canada
PANCAKE CASTLE - Director: Simon Roel, USA
Orpheize - Director: Pedro Jaén R., Spain
Dark Red Blood - Director: Domi Cutrona, Italy
Inhabiter - Director: Daniel R. Palacio, Philippines
Best Animation
Battle Deadline - Director: John Kim, USA
Misiek and Eve from outer space - Director: Marianna Mankowska, Poland
Best Trailer
El Piñatero: The Legend of Simon Alejandro De La Peña
Icthus - Director: Ragüel Cremades, Spain
Best Music Video
Through My Street - Director: Piet Baumgartner, Switzerland
You Know - Director: Igor Possewnin, Spain
Best Webseris/New Media
Her Story (Episode 1) - Director: Sydney Freeland,USA
The Unearthly (Episode 2) - Director: Mark Fukae, USA
Best Original Music/Score
In The BlinK - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Best Sound Design
High Signs - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
Billion Star Hotel - Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania
Best Editing
A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Making A Killing - Director: Justin Head, South Africa
Best Director Student
Hush - Director: Whitney Clinkscales, USA
Murphy's Law - Director: Brian Blum, USA
A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Best Director
The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Orpheize - Director: Pedro Jaén R., Spain
I KNOW YOU - Director: Colin Gerrard, Netherlands
Best Ensemble Cast
Bethlehem - Director: Michael Malone, USA
DUMBBELLS - Director: Chris Livingston, USA
The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Best Actress
Rebecca Mueller: YOU ARE BACK, Germany
Snezhina Petrova: The Sinking of Sozopol, Bulgaria
Best Actor
Julio Ortega: Medardo, Netherlands
Dean Donkov: The Sinking of Sozopol, Bulgaria
Hoyt Richards: DUMBBELLS, USA
Screenplay
Within These Walls by Tracie Jules
Mystic Stranger by Gerald Berns & David Morse
A Burial at Sea by C. Jeffery Evans
A Fangirl by Diana Galimzyanova
The Mary Jane Girls by Heidi Kozak
A Black by Anthony Bardes
Jeff by Justin Elias
One in a million by Anthony Liakopoulos
and The Devil called! by Patricia Poulos
Mob Chick by Theodore Carl Soderberg
The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
DUMBBELLS - Director: Chris Livingston, USA
Best Drama Student
Soulitude - Director: Grit Komkrichwarakool, Andres Toro (Co-Director), Canada
Hush - Director: Whitney Clinkscales, USA
Vanished - Director: Bobak Afshari, USA
Best Drama
I KNOW YOU - Director: Colin Gerrard, Netherlands
YOU ARE BACK - Director: Igor Possewnin, Germany
Best Comedy/Dramedy Student
The Eyes - Director: Carlos Yasik, USA
Murphy's Law - Director: Brian Blum, USA
A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Best Comedy/Dramedy
A Haunting on Butterscotch Lane - Director: Ryan Nelson, USA
Hard Money - Director: Armin Siljkovicm, USA
Permission - Director: Jun Kuang, USA
The Thrill of Being Followed, Director: Mickey Newman, USA
Temporary - Director: Nasser Samara, USA
Best Feature All Genres
DisAssociationVille - Director: James Christopher, USA
Billion Star Hotel - Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania
Bethlehem - Director: Michael Malone, USADUMBBELLS - Director: Chris Livingston, USA
Best Foreign Nominee
In Ribbons - Director: Marie-Valerie Jeantelot, Ireland
Making A Killing - Director: Justin Head, South Africa
Best Foreign Feature
Medardo - Director: Nitsy Grau, Netherlands
LANGTO - Director: Sourish Dey, India
Ambiguity: Crónica De Un Sueño Americano - Director: Grisel Wilson, Guatemala
Best Documentary Student
Julian - Director: Julia Furer, Switzerland
Los Angeles Call to Prayer - Director: Omer Bayrakdar, USA
Best Feature/Short Documentary
Charlie Gemora: Uncredited - Director: Jason Barnett, USA
High Signs - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
To Russia for Love - Director; Geoff Poister, USA
Best (Experimental/Travel Films/Time-Lapse)
Time - Director: Patrick Cheung, Hong Kong
Eastern Skies - Director: Mike Zorger, USA
The Third Eye. A Blinding Moroccan Experience - Director: Kamil Piechowiak, Poland
Best Action/Thriller/SCI-FI/Horror
Valor's Dawn - Directors: Reed Clare & Mike Donis, Canada
PANCAKE CASTLE - Director: Simon Roel, USA
Orpheize - Director: Pedro Jaén R., Spain
Dark Red Blood - Director: Domi Cutrona, Italy
Inhabiter - Director: Daniel R. Palacio, Philippines
Best Animation
Battle Deadline - Director: John Kim, USA
Misiek and Eve from outer space - Director: Marianna Mankowska, Poland
Best Trailer
El Piñatero: The Legend of Simon Alejandro De La Peña
Icthus - Director: Ragüel Cremades, Spain
Best Music Video
Through My Street - Director: Piet Baumgartner, Switzerland
You Know - Director: Igor Possewnin, Spain
Best Webseris/New Media
Her Story (Episode 1) - Director: Sydney Freeland,USA
The Unearthly (Episode 2) - Director: Mark Fukae, USA
Best Original Music/Score
In The BlinK - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Best Sound Design
High Signs - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
Billion Star Hotel - Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania
Best Editing
A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Making A Killing - Director: Justin Head, South Africa
Best Director Student
Hush - Director: Whitney Clinkscales, USA
Murphy's Law - Director: Brian Blum, USA
A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Best Director
The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Orpheize - Director: Pedro Jaén R., Spain
I KNOW YOU - Director: Colin Gerrard, Netherlands
Best Ensemble Cast
Bethlehem - Director: Michael Malone, USA
DUMBBELLS - Director: Chris Livingston, USA
The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Best Actress
Rebecca Mueller: YOU ARE BACK, Germany
Snezhina Petrova: The Sinking of Sozopol, Bulgaria
Best Actor
Julio Ortega: Medardo, Netherlands
Dean Donkov: The Sinking of Sozopol, Bulgaria
Hoyt Richards: DUMBBELLS, USA
Screenplay
Within These Walls by Tracie Jules
Mystic Stranger by Gerald Berns & David Morse
A Burial at Sea by C. Jeffery Evans
A Fangirl by Diana Galimzyanova
The Mary Jane Girls by Heidi Kozak
A Black by Anthony Bardes
Jeff by Justin Elias
One in a million by Anthony Liakopoulos
and The Devil called! by Patricia Poulos
Mob Chick by Theodore Carl Soderberg
Official Selection
Films
Valor's Dawn - Directors: Reed Clare & Mike Donis, Canada
The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Murphy's Law - Director: Brian Blum, USA
Yin & Yang - Director: Markus Graves, USA
Misiek and Eve from outer space - Director: Marianna Mankowska, Poland
Charlie Gemora: Uncredited - Director: Jason Barnett, USA
DUMBBELLS - Director: Chris Livingston, USA
Inhabiter - Director: Daniel R. Palacio, Philippines
El Piñatero: The Legend of Simon Alejandro De La Peña
Vanished - Director: Bobak Afshari, USA
Eastern Skies - Director: Mike Zorger, USA
High Signs - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
Temporary - Director: Nasser Samara, USA
The Thrill of Being Followed, Director: Mickey Newman, USA
Time - Director: Patrick Cheung, Hong Kong
In The BlinK - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
The Third Eye. A Blinding Moroccan Experience - Director: Kamil Piechowiak, Poland
To Russia for Love - Director; Geoff Poister, USA
Save my soul - Director: MINYU LIN, USA
DisAssociationVille - Director: James Christopher, USA
Walking in the Spirit - Director: Darlene Tina Batten, USA
Making A Killing - Director: Justin Head, South Africa
Catrina - Director: Carlos Yasik, USA
The Eyes - Director: Carlos Yasik, USA
PANCAKE CASTLE - Director: Simon Roel, USA
A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Julian - Director: Julia Furer, Switzerland
AKULA DREAM - Director: GEORGE BARBER,UK
Dark Red Blood - Director: Domi Cutrona, Italy
Battle Deadline - Director: John Kim, USA
Icthus - Director: Ragüel Cremades, Spain
In Ribbons - Director: Marie-Valerie Jeantelot, Ireland
Vent - Director: Gabriela Bueno, USA
Billion Star Hotel - Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania
La Liberacion de AlEXIS / The Discovery of Santos - Director: Joe De La Fuente, USA
Hard Money - Director: Armin Siljkovicm, USA
YOU ARE BACK - Director: Igor Possewnin, Germany
Medardo - Director: Nitsy Grau, Netherlands
A Haunting on Butterscotch Lane - Director: Ryan Nelson, USA
Bethlehem - Director: Michael Malone, USA
Ambiguity: Crónica De Un Sueño Americano - Director: Grisel Wilson, Guatemala
Orpheize - Director: Pedro Jaén R., Spain
Permission - Director: Jun Kuang, USA
VIOLATION - Director: Ray DiZazzo,USA
Through My Street - Director: Piet Baumgartner, Switzerland
I KNOW YOU - Director: Colin Gerrard, Netherlands
LANGTO - Director: Sourish Dey, India
Soulitude - Director: Grit Komkrichwarakool, Andres Toro (Co-Director), Canada
Her Story (Episode 1) - Director: Sydney Freeland,USA
Los Angeles Call to Prayer - Director: Omer Bayrakdar, USA
Here in the East - Director: Walter Perez, USA
The Bench - Director: Tom Lazarus, USA
You Know - Director: Igor Possewnin, Spain
The Unearthly (Episode 2) - Director: Mark Fukae, USA
Screenplay
A Black by Anthony Bardes
and The Devil called! by Patricia Poulos
Mob Chick by Theodore Carl Soderberg
A Burial at Sea by C. Jeffery Evans
A Fangirl by Diana Galimzyanova
Within These Walls by Tracie Jules
The Mary Jane Girls by Heidi Kozak
Jeff by Justin Elias
Mystic Stranger by Gerald Berns & David Morse
Breaking Skin by Anthony Bardes
One in a million by Anthony Liakopoulos
Valor's Dawn - Directors: Reed Clare & Mike Donis, Canada
The sinking of Sozopol - Director: Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria
Murphy's Law - Director: Brian Blum, USA
Yin & Yang - Director: Markus Graves, USA
Misiek and Eve from outer space - Director: Marianna Mankowska, Poland
Charlie Gemora: Uncredited - Director: Jason Barnett, USA
DUMBBELLS - Director: Chris Livingston, USA
Inhabiter - Director: Daniel R. Palacio, Philippines
El Piñatero: The Legend of Simon Alejandro De La Peña
Vanished - Director: Bobak Afshari, USA
Eastern Skies - Director: Mike Zorger, USA
High Signs - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
Temporary - Director: Nasser Samara, USA
The Thrill of Being Followed, Director: Mickey Newman, USA
Time - Director: Patrick Cheung, Hong Kong
In The BlinK - Director: Damien Patrik, USA
The Third Eye. A Blinding Moroccan Experience - Director: Kamil Piechowiak, Poland
To Russia for Love - Director; Geoff Poister, USA
Save my soul - Director: MINYU LIN, USA
DisAssociationVille - Director: James Christopher, USA
Walking in the Spirit - Director: Darlene Tina Batten, USA
Making A Killing - Director: Justin Head, South Africa
Catrina - Director: Carlos Yasik, USA
The Eyes - Director: Carlos Yasik, USA
PANCAKE CASTLE - Director: Simon Roel, USA
A Film. - Director: Alvie Hurt, USA
Julian - Director: Julia Furer, Switzerland
AKULA DREAM - Director: GEORGE BARBER,UK
Dark Red Blood - Director: Domi Cutrona, Italy
Battle Deadline - Director: John Kim, USA
Icthus - Director: Ragüel Cremades, Spain
In Ribbons - Director: Marie-Valerie Jeantelot, Ireland
Vent - Director: Gabriela Bueno, USA
Billion Star Hotel - Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania
La Liberacion de AlEXIS / The Discovery of Santos - Director: Joe De La Fuente, USA
Hard Money - Director: Armin Siljkovicm, USA
YOU ARE BACK - Director: Igor Possewnin, Germany
Medardo - Director: Nitsy Grau, Netherlands
A Haunting on Butterscotch Lane - Director: Ryan Nelson, USA
Bethlehem - Director: Michael Malone, USA
Ambiguity: Crónica De Un Sueño Americano - Director: Grisel Wilson, Guatemala
Orpheize - Director: Pedro Jaén R., Spain
Permission - Director: Jun Kuang, USA
VIOLATION - Director: Ray DiZazzo,USA
Through My Street - Director: Piet Baumgartner, Switzerland
I KNOW YOU - Director: Colin Gerrard, Netherlands
LANGTO - Director: Sourish Dey, India
Soulitude - Director: Grit Komkrichwarakool, Andres Toro (Co-Director), Canada
Her Story (Episode 1) - Director: Sydney Freeland,USA
Los Angeles Call to Prayer - Director: Omer Bayrakdar, USA
Here in the East - Director: Walter Perez, USA
The Bench - Director: Tom Lazarus, USA
You Know - Director: Igor Possewnin, Spain
The Unearthly (Episode 2) - Director: Mark Fukae, USA
Screenplay
A Black by Anthony Bardes
and The Devil called! by Patricia Poulos
Mob Chick by Theodore Carl Soderberg
A Burial at Sea by C. Jeffery Evans
A Fangirl by Diana Galimzyanova
Within These Walls by Tracie Jules
The Mary Jane Girls by Heidi Kozak
Jeff by Justin Elias
Mystic Stranger by Gerald Berns & David Morse
Breaking Skin by Anthony Bardes
One in a million by Anthony Liakopoulos