BEST SHORT ANIMATION
THE MOST MAGNIFICENT THING
By Arna Selznick
(CANADA)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
KEEPERS OF THE FOREST
By Roxy Rogan
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST SHORT COMEDY
SHE'S NOT YOUR TYPE
By Matt Vella
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST SHORT THRILLER/HORROR
KARMA
By Armando del Río
(SPAIN)
BEST STUDENT SHORT
LOUDER THAN WORDS
By Rachel Larkin
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST WEB SERIES
LA FESTA TRISTE (THE SAD PARTY)
By Mattia Marcucci
(ITALY)
BEST FEATURE (DOCUMENTARY)
MY FARMLAND
By Diana Dai
(CANADA)
BEST TRAILER
BARK
By Anthony Penney
(USA)
February 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.
ABEO | Brenda Lopez (CANADA)
Above | Jjay Krishnan (TANZANIA/CANADA)
an ODYSSEY: RUNNING SCARED | Mason Hubbard (AUSTRALIA)
Armoured | Kourosh Mashhadi (IRAN)
Asylum | Jefta Varwijk & Jaap van Heusden (NETHERLANDS)
Bleeding Backs | Matt Vella (AUSTRALIA)
Blessings and Vows | Katerina Zacharia (USA/GREECE)
Blue Rose | Riley Maguire (AUSTRALIA)
Boombats | Matt Birman, Bryan Kowalsky, & Ron Lea (CANADA)
Breaking the Sound Barrier | Eric Limarenko & Patty Williamson (USA)
Bubblegum Pop | Natalia Stawyskyj (AUSTRALIA)
Bucky | Geoffrey Gould (USA)
Chances Equality | Lane Forbes (FRANCE)
Elephantbird | Masoud Soheili (AFGHANISTAN)
Every Ghost Has An Orchestra | Shayna Connelly (USA)
Girl in the Purgatorium | K. Mitchell (AUSTRALIA)
Greater Evil | Mike Wlodarczyk & William P Cook (USA)
I'm Moshanty. Do You Love Me? | Tim Wolff (PAPUA NEW GUINEA/USA)
I'll Fix That Beetle Yet | Felipe Ferreira (BRAZIL)
I Am Zal | Hooman Naderi (IRAN)
I, Dear | Fern Mei Sim (AUSTRALIA)
Kennedy | Domanique Cummings (USA)
Life Interrupted | Paula A Mozen (USA)
Listen | Jake Graf (UK)
Mirchi Cafe | Mehkansh Kathuria (INDIA)
Mockingbird | Jason Ledford (USA)
More Than A Number | Vicki O'Neill (AUSTRALIA)
Moving On | Nyasha Hatendi (USA)
Paige | Lark Lee (AUSTRALIA)
Parvaz Mahiha | Mohammad Towrivarian (IRAN)
Pinkish | Zoe Papatheohari (AUSTRALIA)
Prey | Sam Price (AUSTRALIA)
Rally ON/OFF | Aleksandra Artemeva (RUSSIA)
Rebel Tides | Andrea Gibson (USA)
Roake | Joan Cobos (UK/SPAIN)
Saint Montang | Kyron Beaton (CANADA)
Shifting Gears II | Kyle Prater (USA)
Sluggish Life | Mohsen Mehri Deravi (IRAN)
Stari Grad (Old Town) | Jack Beck (USA/CROATIA)
Starvation | Zahra Rostampour (IRAN)
Swap | Andre Gaumond (CANADA)
Tank Man | Robert Anthony Peters (USA)
The Box | Renata Jesion (BRAZIL)
The Feast of the Goat | Saeed Zamanian (IRAN)
The Passport | Olivier Hero Dressen (CHINA)
The Thursday Whaler | Damien Mulvany (USA)
The Waltz of Grey Years | Ali Hosseini & Rahil Bustani (IRAN)
Watching You Die | Jackie Dallas (USA)
What Made Me | Sahvannah Henry (USA)
Where We Began | Benno Thiel (AUSTRALIA)
Voices | Matthew Smith (AUSTRALIA)
YOU or ME | Yana Zinov (USA)
