BEST ANIMATED SHORT
FELT LOVE
Directed by Angeline Vu and Arlene Bongco
(USA)
BEST COMEDY SHORT
STUNTBOT
Directed by Olivia Foa'i
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST DRAMA SHORT
CLOSE
Directed by Isabella Smith
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
FRAGMENTS OF RED
Directed by Arctic Qu
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST HORROR SHORT
FRAGMENTED
Directed by André Rodrigues
(PORTUGAL)
BEST SCIFI SHORT
FRAGMENTS
Directed by Andrea Ratti
(UK)
BEST STUDENT SHORT
ELECTRIC SPIRIT
Directed by Brandon Bonasera
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST WEB SERIES
AVOCADO TOAST
Directed by Sam Coyle
(CANADA)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
THE UNIVERSALITY OF IT ALL
Directed by Andres Bronnimann
(COSTA RICA)
BEST FICTION FEATURE
TWO AUTUMNS IN PARIS
Directed by Gibelys Coronado
(VENEZUELA)
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
SUGARCUBE
Written by Matthew McCracken
(AUSTRALIA)
July 2020 Finalists
Deciduous | Harry Sabulis (AUSTRALIA)
Grynszpan/Thompson | Hal LaCroix (USA)
Hideaway: Season 3 | Gabriela DiMello (BRAZIL)
Holestepper | Sergio Fernández Muñoz (PERU)
Magenta: Season 2 | Thaiane Soares (BRAZIL)
Manasanamaha | Deepak Reddy (INDIA)
McKenzie | Alex Meridy, Tony Carrington, Jr and Selah Green (USA)
Para Hiking | Fajrian (INDONESIA)
Patrick | Adam Swain Ferguson (USA)
The Human Scientist | Fraser McDonald (AUSTRALIA)
Sea Ya | Yani Sun (USA)
Soy No Soy | Frederik Paludan (DENMARK)
The Man Dressed in Orange | Elvir Ali (USA)
The Mandrake | Quincy William Baltes (USA)
The Postcard | Mike Sorrinni (USA)
July 2020 Semi-Finalists
Agora | Krister Persson (USA)
Before the Dawn | Ruth Boukhari (AUSTRALIA)
Black and White | Hasan Davarpanah (IRAN)
Bloody Buckley | Les McDiarmid (AUSTRALIA)
Death and the Maiden | Joal Taylor (AUSTRALIA)
Groan of the Ney | Mehdi Azadi Far (IRAN)
Gentil.le | Olivier Aufauvre and Lauréline Kuntz (FRANCE)
I Never Knew You | Top Tarasin (UK)
Inner Child | Kurihara Yasuyuki (JAPAN)
Jack's Big Idea | Rachel Bartel (USA)
Karma is a Beach | Deborah Williams (AUSTRALIA)
Lake Hart | Laurent Auclair (AUSTRALIA)
Lost in Direction | Raghu Raman Rajagopal (AUSTRALIA)
Love Conquers All | Casey Andrew (AUSTRALIA)
Lover | Mohammad Soraya (IRAN)
Organs of Business | Josh Bransgrove (UK)
Sacred Lamb | Zoe Garcia (USA)
Spiralling | Brandon Lindsay (AUSTRALIA)
Spirit of the Anzacs | Les McDiarmid (AUSTRALIA)
Stage | Amir Mohandesian (IRAN)
Suddenly Vulnerable: An Isolation Story | Christian Mushenko (AUSTRALIA)
Stromboli: As Long as the Heart Beats | Hanspeter Aliesch (SWITZERLAND)
SwICKed | Georgette Franklin (USA)
The Master with Woody Jones | Caio Cortonesi (UK)
The Match | Shayne Davis (USA)
The Mushrooms | Aref Vakiliand and Mehdi Moghaddasi (IRAN)
The Room | Vasanth Gangadharan (AUSTRALIA)
The Unforgettable Aerial Massacre: Chongqing Bombing | Camie Yuan and Acacia Yuan (USA)
Theory of EVAlution | Eva Justine Torkkola (AUSTRALIA)
Timmy's Christmas | Oscar Fairweather (AUSTRALIA)
Zero Year | Abdul Karim Saadatfar (IRAN)