BEST ANIMATED SHORT
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
Directed by Deb Ethier
(CANADA)
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
SMALL FISH
Directed by Quentin Lestienne
(FRANCE)
BEST DRAMA SHORT
ACUITZERAMO
Directed by Miguel Angel Caballero
(MEXICO/USA)
BEST HORROR SHORT
A NIGHTMARE OF A NIGHT
Directed by Darius Valentine
(USA)
BEST SCIFI SHORT
AFTER_LIFE
Directed by Perry Lam
(SINGAPORE)
BEST STUDENT SHORT
Q: GHOSTLY REMOTE EFFECT
Directed by Marcus Hanisch
(GERMANY)
BEST TRAILER
LAST ONE LEFT
Directed by Wendell Blankenship
(USA)
BEST WEB SERIES
RELATIONSHIT
Directed by Linda G. Wells
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
SOCKEYE SALMON. RED FISH
Directed by Dmitriy Shpilenok & Vladislav Grishin
(RUSSIA)
April 2020 Finalists
Monthly Finalists will be re-watched in October 2020 before our Live Event in November. ONE short form film, long form film, and a short and feature length 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.
A Jag in the Duplex System | Valerie Knill (GERMANY)
Accio Love | Joel Stephen Fleming & Melanie Hayward (AUSTRALIA)
Calibre | Daniel Cugola (AUSTRALIA)
Little Boy | Clément Papillon (FRANCE)
Mum | Indy Davies (AUSTRALIA)
Nobody Cries For Me | Victor Xavier (BRAZIL)
Perform | Fareed Kairon (FRANCE)
Sycamore | Mehmet Tığlı (TURKEY)
The Bottom of the Ocean | Abigail Tulenko & Sohni Kaur (USA)
Typing | Ronghao Wang (AUSTRALIA/CHINA)
April 2020 Semi-Finalists
A Drivers Tale | Demarcus Brown (USA) 
A Savage Credo | Ezekiel J. Walker (USA)
Advice | Pat Battistini (USA)
Bus Stop | Beau Carter (AUSTRALIA)
Dandelion Wishes | Sammy Kistell (UK
Finding Filman | Kevin Anglin (USA)
Hello, my sweet boy | Raphaël Dirani (USA)
Identity Check | Patrick Devaney (USA)
Pretty Much Dead Already | Victoria Boult (AUSTRALIA)
Stories from the Smoke | Daniel Merson (AUSTRALIA)
terrorist, The | Kesari Bhattacharya (AUSTRALIA)
The Electric Eel Club | Andrew Thelander (AUSTRALIA)
The Red Fashion House | Liu Zhuo-Xuan (UK)
The Unsuperheros |Caitlynn Silvius (USA)
Timeless | Les McDiarmid (AUSTRALIA)
