BEST SHORT EXPERIMENTAL
SECOND ILLUSION
By Katariina Räty & Mia Jaatinen
(FINLAND)
BEST SHORT ANIMATION
DON'T FEED THESE ANIMALS
By Guilherme Afonso & Miguel Madaíl de Freitas
(PORTUGAL)
BEST STUDENT SHORT
BADLAND
By Drew Phillips
(USA)
BEST WEB SERIES
IMPACT
By Bas Goossens
(NETHERLANDS)
BEST FEATURE (FICTION)
BEFORE I FORGET
By Tiago Arakilian
(BRAZIL)
BEST FEATURE (DOCUMENTARY)
CATCHING GIANTS
By Ashley Scott Davison
(SOUTH AFRICA/USA)
BEST TRAILER
VIKINGS NOW
By Gemma Laurelle & Adrian Castro
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
BEING THE CASE OF THE FEMINIST ROBOTICIST
By David Hearne
(AUSTRALIA)
January 2019 Finalists
Monthly Finalists will be re-watched in October 2019 before our Live Event in November. ONE short film, feature film, web series, and screenplay will be chosen as our Wild Card Winners and will be screened in November alongside our Annual Winners and be made eligible for our Special Awards.
22 Bones, the Adventures of Yorick, a Skull | Deb Ethier (CANADA)
A Will To Live | Joseph Harding (AUSTRALIA)
A Voice Above Nature | Annie Moir (UK) 
Abhiyog | Aaditya Bhardwaj (INDIA)
Anderson and the Jinn | Rogier van Beeck Calkoen (SPAIN)
Antonio Norales: Garifuna Guardian | Walker Simon (USA)
Back in Time for a Doughnut | David Hearne (AUSTRALIA)
Beautified | Emily Haigh (UK)
Bid Day | Nicholas S. Massey (USA)
Bonsai Dream | Jimmie Chiverelli (CANADA)
Diagnosis | James Hyams & Josh Reid (AUSTRALIA)
Egress | Stephanie James (USA)
Fairy Bread | Zac Hardaker (AUSTRALIA)
Farewell Happy Fields | Kyle William McDonnell (AUSTRALIA)
Fatimah | Omar Rammal (JORDAN)
For Her | Mariana Gomez (MEXICO)
Give and Take | Armand Hamouth (CANADA)
Hell Followed With Him | Dallas Gibson (USA)
Hua-Yu Walker | Tsai Tsai (TAIWAN)
Humdingers | Alex Campbell (AUSTRALIA)
Jack the Ripper: Then and Now | Haemin Ko (UK)
Life of a Mosquito | Hannah Simicic (NEW ZEALAND)
Light & Dark | Aswin Alex (AUSTRALIA)
Mr. Hugo | François Le Guen (FRANCE)
One | Handuo Zhang (CANADA)
One Breath | Seth Cunningham (USA)
Paper Love | José Antonio Valero (SPAIN)
Pick A Number | Işıl Reina (TURKEY)
Playing Frisbee in North Korea | Savanna Washington (USA)
Public Toilets of Auckland | Phoebe Driver (NEW ZEALAND)
Sare Jahan Se Accha | Gurprasad Singh (INDIA)
Search Engines | Russell Brown (USA)
Shades of Tree | Seth Cunningham (USA)
Siege | Deeptanshu Sinha (INDIA)
Something to Live for | Adva Reichman (ISRAEL/USA)
Strays | Nicholas Muecke (AUSTRALIA)
Stealth | Astor Stark (USA)
Teacher Sofi | Suffian Zain (SINGAPORE)
Tempo | Oscar Michel (CANADA)
The Co-Op | Cameron S. Mitchell (USA)
The Day Off | Carter Zhao (USA)
The Greens | Robyn Fairbairn (AUSTRALIA)
The Jump | Dean Hollis & Nat Johnston (AUSTRALIA)
The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything | The Church of Almighty God (SOUTH KOREA)
The Reeves | Lavern Spruill (USA)
The Reapers | Regina Wills Walker (USA)
The Shadows | Tengku Adrian Ismail (MALAYSIA)
The Summoning | Marion McDowell (NORTHERN IRELAND)
The Queens | Mark Saxenmeyer (USA)
Timbo | Peiman Zekavat (UK/BRAZIL)
Underdogs | Teo Frank (FRANCE/USA)
