January 2020 Winners

January 2020 Winners

BEST DRAMA SHORT

INDIMENTICABILE

By Gianluca Santoni

(ITALY)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT

NIGHT DRIFTER

By Ruben Zaccaroni

(USA)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

THE ODYSSEY OF CLEAVE EATON

By Kevin Webb

(USA)


 

BEST COMEDY SHORT

HARD CORE PONG

By Peter William Francis

(AUSTRALIA)

BEST HORROR SHORT

MAX

By mr. Bouhaïk

(FRANCE)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

THEN COMES THE EVENING

By Maja Novaković

(SERBIA)


 

BEST STUDENT SHORT

DEPARTURE

By Ting Wei Chen

(TAIWAN)

BEST WEB SERIES

THE Y THEORY (SEASON 2)

By Caroline Taillet & Martin Landmeters

(BELGIUM)

BEST TRAILER

OUT OUR WINDOWS

By Prakash Gandhi Natarajan

(USA)


 

BEST FICTION FEATURE

EVENING SHADOWS

By Sridhar Rangayan

(INDIA)

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

PREPARE THE WAY

By Tommy Britt

(USA)

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

A CHRISTMAS WITHOUT SNOW

By Robert Cox

(USA)


 

January 2020 Finalists

Monthly Finalists will be re-watched in October 2020 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 Bonus Awards.

Bamboo--the Tradition of the Future | Johan Granberg (QATAR)

Death Offers Life: last moments of Vincent Van Gogh | Saheer Abbas (INDIA)

Gay as in Happy: A Queer Anti-Tragedy | Jordana Valerie Allen-Shim (CANADA)

Happy Birthday, Grace | Subin Kim & Jihye Lee (SOUTH KOREA)

Happy Birthday or Felicidades | Jared Jacobsen (MEXICO)

Lab Partners | Tommy Britt (USA)

Lenny | Richard de Carvalho (AUSTRALIA)

Misadventures of a Pacific Professional | Reina Va'ai (NEW ZEALAND)

Sunny Days | Jiangshui Mao (AUSTRALIA)

The Confession | Diego Trovarellii (ITALY)

The Slot Machine Effect | Benjamin Evans (AUSTRALIA)


 

January 2020 Semi Finalists

A Moment | Molly Haddon (AUSTRALIA)

A Second Husband | Tommy Britt (USA)

Ashlee Knows | Tommy Britt (USA)

Becoming Masina | Veronica Maitre (NEW ZEALAND)

Bridesmaid | Tzu-Ting Shen (TAIWAN)

Braggin Right | Jakob Kennedy (AUSTRALIA)

Compos Mentis | Joseph Harry Savva (AUSTRALIA)

Eddyct | Jiten Mehta (AUSTRALIA)

Green Screen | Mangesh Sapkal (AUSTRALIA/INDIA)

Fractured Minds | David O' Rourke (UK)

Family First | James Meagher (AUSTRALIA)

Icons | Ronnie Cramer (USA)

In The Game | Jason A Fisher (USA)

Jealousy | Daniel Dahl Jensen (DENMARK)

Kill Me | David Keogh (UK)

Perfect Match | Gab Salvo & Amy Wharton (AUSTRALIA)

Short Cuts from a Town | Thomas Perathoner (ITALY)

The Day The Books Were Burnt | Kale McQuade (AUSTRALIA)

The Death of Isaac | Fábio Silva (PORTUGAL)

The Invisibles: Lost in Berlin | Zlila Helman (GERMANY/ISRAEL)

The Sanctuary | Allen Kool (CANADA)

To Love the Sea | Jared Jacobsen (MEXICO/USA)

Un Nuevo Capítulo (A New Chapter) | Deanna Schultz (USA)