August 2020 Winners

August 2020 Winners

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

WINTER

Directed by Guodong Yu (余國東)

(CHINA)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

HAPPINESS IS HERE AND NOW

Directed by Georgia Doan

(AUSTRALIA)

BEST DRAMA SHORT

DISPLAY HOME

Directed by Dan Walls

(AUSTRALIA)


 

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT

SEMPITERNAL

Directed by Maya Alfreds

(CANADA)

BEST HORROR SHORT

LOVERS LANE

Directed by Daffa Sudaryono

(AUSTRALIA)

BEST SCIFI SHORT

FINGER GUNS

Directed by Nikola Sreckovic

(AUSTRALIA)


 

BEST STUDENT SHORT

IN YOUR HANDS

Directed by Lorenzo Maria Chierici

(ITALY)

BEST WEB SERIES

S#*! TALK

Directed by Raquel Grela

(UK)

BEST TRAILER

CHARLIE & YIP

Directed by Alexander Williams

(UK/DENMARK)


 

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

BIRTH TIME

Directed by Zoe Naylor, Jerusha Sutton and Jo Hunter

(AUSTRALIA)

 

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

SISTERHOOD

Written by Nikola Sreckovic

(AUSTRALIA)

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

MILDLY DIFFERENT

Written by Anna Czarska

(IRELAND)


 

August 2020 Finalists

Alaska Long Hunters | Mark Rose (USA)  

Blurry Faces | Behzad Moloud (IRAN)

Calf Rope | Bradley Hawkins (USA) 

Creamy Borders | Soran Keyvanfar (IRAN)

Ends | Timothy Paul Coderre (CANADA)

Esports Ready | Vincent Furfaro (AUSTRALIA)

Faced | Dayoung Hwang (USA)

Her Place | Gustavo Garcia Solares (GUATEMALA)

It's Me | Vahid Aminifar (IRAN)

Made For This | Aaron Warwick (AUSTRALIA)   

Patron | Emily Haigh and Alon Young (UK)

The Act of Indemnity | James M. Perry (USA)   

The Cooper | Stuart Miller (AUSTRALIA)

The Engagement | Joseph Rossi and Anthony Calabrese (CANADA)

Tomorrow | Migrovegraphics (INDONESIA/USA)

When The Tide Sings | Ivan Lu (AUSTRALIA)


 

August 2020 Semi-Finalists

13 Reasons to Choose Life | Gracie Wakefield (USA)

abdolbasir | Vahid Aminifar (IRAN)

Becoming Brooklyn | Brooklyn Rose Scherer (USA)

Bernie | Fred Perry (USA)

Birthday | Oliver Bury (UK)

Blister | Morteza Shams (IRAN)

Breathing Through | Stan Adard (SWITZERLAND)

Cardboard Box | Bernhard Riedhammer (GERMANY)

Ciggies | Isabelle Laker (AUSTRALIA)

CrossTown | Jim Hall (USA)

Él & Elle | Sarah Barlondo, Pablo Domínguez, Migue Arenas, Kenneth Müller, Vanessa Palacios, Ricardo Perezgil, Fernando Perezgil, Luis Torrecilla and Cláudio Cardoso (MEXICO)

Extra(Terrestrial) | Ilana Finocchiaro (AUSTRALIA)

Gamble Rat | Ka Wai Lam (AUSTRALIA)

Home Doomed | Doğukan Özkılıç (TURKEY)

How Soon Autumn Came | Abolfazl Karimiasl (IRAN)

Hyper Active | Cory Reeder (USA)

La Vida De Las Mujeres | Thaiane Soares (BRAZIL)

My Sweet Buttercup | Bridget Pervalle (USA)

Occam's Razor | Nikola Sreckovic (AUSTRALIA)

Replacement | Mojtaba Tahal and Jalal Mahdavi (IRAN)

Seb and Isaac's Extraordinary Adventure | Isaac Andrews and Sebastian McBride (NEW ZEALAND)

Serendipity and Me | Tal Anderson (USA)

The Crossing | Fred Perry (USA)

The Dome | Nell Nakkan (AUSTRALIA)

The End Game | Nikola Sreckovic (AUSTRALIA)

The Fix | Glenn Ford (USA)

The Gap | Saeed Samavatian (IRAN)

There are no secrets | Reza Alipour (IRAN)

tx-reverse | Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich (AUSTRIA)

Wireless | Criss Gidas (AUSTRALIA)

Zero | Arghavan Kashani and Bahar Karimi (IRAN)