These are the winners of awards of JUNE – JULY 2024
STANDARD CATEGORIES
Best Film: Kim – Daniel Reid – United Kingdom
Best International Film
WINNER: Marvelous Gift – Danna Galeano, German Acuña – Colombia
HONORABLE MENTION: Winda – Gabriela Anna Dzięgielewska – Poland
Best European Film
WINNER: Strings – Ava Pearson, Eleanor Smith, Nina Zandvliet – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: The herd – Tomasz Gąsiorowski – Poland
Best Asian Film
WINNER: Ladies Coffee – Amal Al-Agroobi – United Arab Emirates
HONORABLE MENTION: ロイヤル劇場の夢 – The Royal Theater – Japan
Best American Film
WINNER: Four Episodes from 1984 – Marshall Peterson – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Munchies – Michael Calderon – Usa
Best Italian Film
WINNER: Transdermico – Valerio Pitorri – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Olivia – Byron Rink – Italy
Best Lombard film
WINNER: Cardiorama – Giulia Ravelli – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Bildung – Federico Magni – Italy
Best Micro Short (under 5 min)
WINNER: King – Filip Harm – Croatia
HONORABLE MENTION: Ben Zombie – Ernest Keen – Usa
Best Super Short (under 15 minutes)
WINNER: Big black labrador – Candace Herring – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Bānzol/Āzmān – Thomas Wagensommerer, Louise Linsenbolz – Austria
Best Medium Lenght (under 60 min)
WINNER: Ben & Gary: Streaming – Jayme Cole, Ben Hilzer – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: The mirror Parajanov – Jérôme Amimer – France
Best Low Budget Film
WINNER: N – Iacopo Di Girolamo – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Le Bateau de M. Benoìt – Cloè Chabert, Luca Galliano, Domenico Matteo Orlando, Claudio Santagostini – Italy
Best Original Idea
WINNER: La mente fracturada – Francisco de la Reguera – Mexico
HONORABLE MENTION: Troglodyke – Ernest Keen – Usa
Best AI Film
WINNER: Conexión Invisible: Entre Sueños y Nouns – Luis Betancourt Nuñez – Mexico
ABSURD AWARDS
Best Wannabe Absurd (we know reality can be absurd)
WINNER: Priest Hunter – Skip Shea – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Airbed – Pip Barclay – United Kingdom
Best You’re lucky
WINNER: Dance what you are – Aliki Švandere – Norway
HONORABLE MENTION: Witching Hour Woes – Duncan Kinzie – Usa
Best You have a good pusher
WINNER: Portti – Tuomas Järvenpää – Finland
HONORABLE MENTION:
Butter fiction – Jean Christophe Defranoux – France
Thunder Woman – Federica Palmarin – Italy
Best It deserved an award so we created one
WINNER: Road of Lux – Chia-Hsun Wu – Taiwan
HONORABLE MENTION: Corporeal – Michael Gearheart – Usa
Best Font
WINNER: Catastropizza – Casey Lieu – Singapore
HONORABLE MENTION: Memento Mori – Fabio Servullo – Brazil
Best Plot twist
WINNER: Sketchy Characters – Jacob French – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Goblin.mp4 – Huei-Shin Tsai – Taiwan
Best Villain
WINNER: 31 Under – Suden – New Zealand
HONORABLE MENTION: Yule Have Revenge – David DeRienzo – Usa
Best Lie
WINNER: PollyWog – Clint J Green – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Re:Place – Jing-Xiang Chang, Jia-Cheng – Taiwan
Best Don’t watch it when you’re eating
WINNER: Dinner Date – Darcy Fehr – Canada
HONORABLE MENTION: Stiff’s – Ryan Neil Butler – Australia
Best It should be porn
WINNER: Personal Time – Leonardo Candidi – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Ye Ole Glorya – Jeffrey R Kazanjian – Usa
FILM STYLE AWARDS
Best Wes Anderson
WINNER: Alienated – Benjamin Adnams – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: In Complete Privacy – Anthony Pelé – France
Best Ken Loach
WINNER: The Burger – Nathan R. Smith – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Damp – Xuan Liu, Ru-Sin Chang – Taiwan
Best Stanley Kubrick
WINNER: Squeeze – Alfred M Hernandez – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: The Code Becomes War – Paul Hart-Wilden – Usa
Best Quentin Tarantino
WINNER: Zugzwang – Geneviève Lowe – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: We have a cat – Dane Helg – Australia
Best Federico Fellini
WINNER: Logos – Enrico Musmeci – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: The Giant Goofball Sketch – Matteo Ghisleri – Italy
Best Hayao Miyazaki
WINNER: Stone Free – Bo-Wei Wang – Taiwan
HONORABLE MENTION: Odyssey express – Wei-Hsiang Hsieh, Chia-Tzu Sun – Taiwan
Best Sam Raimi
WINNER: What The Hell? – Adar Wadislavski – Israel
HONORABLE MENTION: Retribution – FrancJose Lopez – Usa
GENRE AWARDS
Best Absurd
WINNER: A regular Wednesday – Adrian Lungu – Hungary
HONORABLE MENTION: A Kulcs – Adrian Lungu – Hungary
Best Drama
WINNER: Tinman – Hudson Price – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: One man – Christian Holder – United Kingdom
Best Experimental
WINNER: El Observador – Gabriel Traversari – Nicaragua
HONORABLE MENTION: The Reflection Of Francisca Newman – Jon Frenkel Garcia – Usa
Best Comedy/Parody
WINNER: Changes – Tim Casper – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Gideon The Dinosaur – Neil Zemouli – United Kingdom
Best Horror/Mystery
WINNER: The song of the mad god – Sixtum – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Connessione – Mattia Però – Italy
Best Action/Thriller
WINNER: Make Me Murder – Rahel Peker – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Voucher – Adam Tulinski – Poland
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy
WINNER: Crève la Gueule Ouverte – Simon Biron – France
HONORABLE MENTION: Dopamining – Jyot Bhalla – Australia
Best Documentary
WINNER: Born To Hustle – Grace Anna Cardona – Australia
HONORABLE MENTION: Our Gift to the World – Rudolf Šmíd – Czech Republic
Best Animation
WINNER: The pet shop – Esther Forest – Australia
HONORABLE MENTION: Vine-Dine – Cullen McLane – Usa
Best War/Western/History
WINNER: Forza e Coraggio – Giovanni Merlini, Francesco Bovara – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Legend of the Cornpone Kid – Charlie Walden – Usa
Best Web/TV Pilot/Tv Series
WINNER: The kids table – Josh Kirk – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Okus Kero – Gustavo Garrafa – Italy
Best Music/Musical
WINNER: Pagoda playgirl – Maïté Hauser – France
HONORABLE MENTION: Rock vs Trap – Antonio Malfitano – Italy
Best Romance
WINNER: Lover – Ching-Wen Yang, Shao-hua Wang, Zhi-Kou Zhai – Taiwan
HONORABLE MENTION: Diego and Eva – Carmine Pariante – United Kingdom
Best Crime/Violence
WINNER: The Price of Blood – Casper Fourie – South Africa
HONORABLE MENTION: I girasoli di Pietra – Gabriele Ogiva – Italy
Best Sport/Inspirational
WINNER: Shaping Kulture – Joseph Vialpando – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Fugue for a spiritual life – Thomas Wohlmut – United Kingdom
Best Silent Film
WINNER: Ennui – Alberto Martín-Aragón – Spain
HONORABLE MENTION: Out of the Night – Skip Shea – Usa
Best LGBTQ+
WINNER: Abaddon – Geoffroy C. Dedenis – France
HONORABLE MENTION: Bakış – İdil Berk, Yasemin Şimşek Tüzün – Turkey
TECHNICAL AWARDS
Best Director
WINNER: Ali – Tina Khoder Chamsine – Lebanon
HONORABLE MENTION: Daydream – William Bruno O’Keefe – Usa
Best Young Director
WINNER: Ring – Vittorio Zizzari – Canada
HONORABLE MENTION: Missing the trailers – Max Walters – Usa
Best Soundtrack
WINNER: Beyond the Showers – Florian Rudolph – Germany
HONORABLE MENTION: The Sinistral – Lucie Turuban
Best Editing
WINNER: The Adventures of Grip Gaffer – Evan Burdett – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Reminders – Connor Kujawinski – Canada
Best Screenplay
WINNER: I love you – Rafael Maria Friebe – Germany
HONORABLE MENTION: Go West – Gabriel Boyer – France
Best Cinematography
WINNER: Engage – Phoenix Zito – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: A Perception of Prudence – Wayne Bradford – Canada
Best Vfx
WINNER: Amarga Escencia – Radar – Pablo Solís G – Costa Rica
HONORABLE MENTION: Core – Yu-hsiang Chen – Taiwan
Best Actor/Actress
WINNER: Geof – Cameron Bass – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: After Life Revenge – Agnes Artych – Usa
Best Producer
WINNER: Akadia – Mehr oder Weniger – Vesely Marek – Austria
HONORABLE MENTION: A Vampire’s Kiss – Mark Francis, Guillermo T. Ramos, Clifton Taylor – Usa
Best Makeup, Hairstyling or Costumes
WINNER: Sludge – Kate Wells – Canada
HONORABLE MENTION: Bile Viola – Chiara Rossi – Italy
Best Title
WINNER: La Vergine Bruna – Barbara Amoruso – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: A Brief Introduction to Wrath – Michael Gearheart – Usa
Best Movie Poster
WINNER: Open – Peter Jonathan Cameron – Canada
HONORABLE MENTION: Antis – Shi-ting Hong, Wei-ting Wu – Taiwan
