June 2020 Winners

June 2020 Winners

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

MY TAGALONG

Directed by Jerry Wang

(CANADA)

BEST COMEDY SHORT

STICKER

Directed by Georgi M. Unkovski

(MACEDONIA)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

KIA KAHA

Directed by Sam Siversson

(AUSTRALIA)


 

BEST DRAMA SHORT

HARBOR

Directed by Paul Marques Duarte

(FRANCE)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT

I CALL IT HOME

Directed by Leila Ahang

(IRAN)

BEST HORROR SHORT

LAUGH CLUB

Directed by Jindřich Vosecký

(CZECH REPUBLIC)


 

BEST SCIFI SHORT

BETTER THAN NEIL ARMSTRONG

Directed by Alireza Ghasemi

(IRAN)

BEST STUDENT SHORT

BABBLE BUBBLE

Directed by Richan Li

(USA)

BEST WEB SERIES

SEPTO

Directed by Victor Ciriaco, Vitoria Real, Tereza Duarte, Andre Santos & Helio Ronyvon

(BRAZIL)


 

BEST TRAILER

ARCTIC DRIVE

By Kamil Piechowiak

(POLAND)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

SZOLGALELKŰ ÓRIÁSOK (GIANT SLAVES)

Directed by Andras Csapo, & Andras Matai

(HUNGARY)

BEST FICTION FEATURE

STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

Directed by Harvard John

(UK)


 

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

BITUMEN CLOSE

Written by Angus George

(AUSTRALIA)

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

A WEEK BETWEEN US

Written by Rayia Banjar & Asim Altokhais

(SAUDI ARABIA)


 

June 2020 Finalists

Monthly Finalists will be re-watched in October 2020 before our Annual Festival in November. Films and screenplays selected as Wild Card Winners in October will be notified in November and be made eligible for our annual awards.  

After Nightfall: Season Two | Wayne Tunks (AUSTRALIA)

Anna | Dekel Berenson (UK/UKRAINE)

Ashmina | Dekel Berenson (UK)

Barcode | Hüseyin Urçuk (TURKEY)

Breaking Barriers | Hannah Brochocki (UK)

Da Yie | Anthony Nti (GHANA)

Delete | Mason Greer (USA)

Do You Love Me? | Maison Kwame & KC SImms (USA)

Gone | William Jackson (AUSTRALIA)

Him | Rebecca Ann Bentley (AUSTRALIA)

I Am Eva | Nata Zverovich (USA)

Malinchista | Flora Rees-Arredondo (USA)

November 1st | Charlie Manton (UK)

Primary | Eleanor Calder (NEW ZEALAND)

Raksha | Narayana Malladi (AUSTRALIA)

Rash Decision | John Cavallaro (AUSTRALIA)

Script | Piero Cannata (ITALY)

Sin Cielo | Jianna Maarten (USA)

Strange | Cameron Carr (UK)

Upsold | Angela Blake (AUSTRALIA)

Yet; | Chin Ying Xuan Ivy (SINGAPORE)


 

June 2020 Semi-Finalists

12:34 | Bahman Herati (IRAN)

Absolution | Federico Canal Santiangeli (SPAIN)

Amy's Victory Dance | Brian Thomas (USA)

Bambiland | Danilo Stanimirović (SERBIA)

Cell 364 | Mathilde Babo & Zoé Rossion (FRANCE)

Close Friends | john Cavallaro (AUSTRALIA)

Collision | Tiffany Rhodes (USA)

Couchsurfer | Sara Mousavi (TURKEY)

Eternity | Gunter H. Sanderson (USA)

First Contact | Nils Witt (GERMANY)

Frozen Moments | Baeley Amalfi (AUSTRALIA)

Greetings From Sarajevo | Melissa Skirboll (USA)

Headspace | Jack Latham (UK)

Henet Ward | Morad Mostafa (EGYPT)

Last Hurrah | Zachary Miller (AUSTRALIA)

Mayhem | Jason Anthony Fisher (USA)

Nothing Beats Oldies | Clarklouis Sanchez (PHILIPPINES)

Pretty Lie | Mohanraj VJ (AUSTRALIA)

Recursion | Maedeh Rafiei (IRAN)

Road 721 | Lucinda Luvaas (USA)

Sea Birds | Ash Ball (AUSTRALIA)

Seeing | Patrick Smart (AUSTRALIA)

Soul Veil | Alaa Al Sehnawi (SYRIA)

Spotted | Shranjay Arora (USA)

The Abnorms | Les Zig (AUSTRALIA)

The Body | Adam Weber (AUSTRALIA)

The Call | Ondřej Burda (CZECH REPUBLIC)

The Gay Mafia | Michael Yip (USA)

The Highlighter Games | Karina Topolovec (AUSTRALIA)

The Threat | Sébastien Recchia (FRANCE)

The Truth | Monika Peczeli, Zsolt Kelemen & Szabolcs Mate (HUNGARY)