Spring 2021 Winners 
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Best Picture
Picture
Better Now
Runtime 26:29
Producers: Tara Alexis & AJ Vargas
Dir: Tara Alexis
Best Drama Student Short
Picture
Paper Airplane 
Runtime 19:58
Dir: Mingjie Tang
Best Comedy/Dramedy Student Short
Picture
​JAMES BONG - The Super High Secret Spy
Runtime 2:50
Dir:  Daniel Cox
Best Comedy/Dramedy Short
Picture
Call (The) Girl
Runtime 30:40
​Dir: Hee chul Kwon
Best Foreign Student Short
Picture
Singing Alone With A Farewell
Runtime 17:02
Dir:  Yi Xiong
Best Foreign Short
Picture
Barrier
Runtime 8:56
​Dir:  Niels Bourgonje
Best Feature All Genre 
Picture
Introducing Jodea
Runtime 01:43:59
​Dir: J.D Cohen
Best Horror Short
Picture
Familiar​
Runtime10:00
​Dir: David J. Ellison
Best Experimental Short
Picture
HOPE
Runtime 2:50
​Dir: Paulo Ferreira
Best Travel/Time-Lapse Short
Picture
Norway. Seasons.
Runtime 5:26
​Dir: Sven-Erik Knoff
Best Animation Short Student
Picture
Black Meta
Runtime 4:56
​Dir:  Riley Street
​Best Animation Short 
Picture
MY BABUSHKA SMOKES A PIPE​
​Runtime 2:58
​Dir:  Ivan Pavlov
Best Web Series/New Media
Picture
What We See
Runtime 56:44
​Dir: James Bogle
Best Documentary Short
Picture
Finding My Roots: Tale of Two Carries
Runtime 15:50
Dir: Carrie Bernans, 35 Miles
Best Documentary Feature 
Picture
Max Steiner Maestro of Movie Music
Runtime 02:00:00
​Dir: Diana Friedberg
Best Trailer/Promo
Picture
Better Now
​​Dir: Tara Alexis
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Best Music Video
Picture
S Ø M Ø S
Runtime 5:25
​Dir: Gina Wong
Best Original Music Score
Picture
Wendell Yuponce & Lisle Leste
​Stroke of Luck​
​Runtime 01:20:06
Best Produced Screenplay Feature
Picture
Another Yesterday
Writer: Steven Heil
Producers: Douglas Heil & Diane Vlajcic Heil
​​Runtime 01:37:54
Best Cinematography
Picture
Andrew Percival
​Stroke of Luck​
Runtime 01:20:06
Best Editing
Picture
Sky Gewant
​Stroke of Luck​ 
Runtime01:20:06
Best First Time Filmmaker
Picture
Yutong Lu
Volcano
Runtime 15:44
Best Woman Filmmaker
Picture
Emily Bridges
Acting: The First Six Lessons
Runtime 01:32:12
Best Producer
Picture
Mark Farrell
Stroke of Luck​
Runtime 01:20:06
Best Director Animation Short
Picture
Death is Smoking My Cigars
​Runtime 2:51
​Dir:  AJ Leon
Best Director Documentary Feature
Picture
Josh Tickell & Rebecca Tickell
The Revolution Generation​
Runtime 01:20:00
Best Director Student
​Short
Picture
Amber Rose Jones
​Blue Orchid
​Runtime 6:00
Best Director Short
Picture
Caroline Wloka
​Crocodile
Runtime 26:20
Best Director- Animation Feature
Picture
Anna Gerasimova
The Breath of Life 
Runtime 02:00:00
Best Director Feature
Picture
Christian Frelinghuysen
Stroke of Luck 
Runtime 01:20:06
Best Actress
Picture
Rachel Alig
Better Now
Best Actor
Picture
Pourya Rahbar
Better Now
Best Screenplay
A long way home
1st Place Winner
​Best Screenplay Feature
​by
​Steven Bogart

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Egofree
2nd Place Winner   
Best Screenplay Feature
by
SAMIR RAEES


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Alex the Changeling
1st  Place Winner 
Best Screenplay Short
by Zachary sherry










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Last Years Tomorrow
2nd Place Winner 
Best Screenplay Short
by
​Steven Heil
Toothsake
3rd Place Winner 
Best Screenplay Short
by
​Anna Morrison