May 2020 Winners

May 2020 Winners

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

FIRST BORN

Directed by Justin Bruce Lee

(USA)

BEST COMEDY SHORT

MOCKU MURDERS

Directed by Mel Sneath & Marc Hamill

(UK)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

THE KIMBERLEY MAN

Directed by Jeremy Thomson

(AUSTRALIA)


 

BEST DRAMA SHORT

COUNTLESS SHEEP

Directed by Riley Robbins

(USA)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT

REAM

Directed by Jacob Minor

(USA)

BEST HORROR SHORT

BLACK HEART, RED HANDS

Directed by Russell Southam

(AUSTRALIA)


 

BEST STUDENT SHORT

PAST AM

Directed by Krystal Butterworth

(AUSTRALIA)

BEST TRAILER

FIRST SIGNAL

Directed by Mark Lund

(USA)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

EXPOSURE

Directed by Michael Probert & Marcus Aldred-Traynor

(AUSTRALIA)


 

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

THIS SUNDAY

Written by Anna Weinstein

(USA)

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

NEXT, PLEASE

Written by Diego Trovarelli

(ITALY)


 

May 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. 

7_minutos | Christian Schneider (BRAZIL/PORTUGAL)

46 Years Later | Lealani Siaosi (NEW ZEALAND)

Alex | Jean Pierre Addinall (AUSTRALIA)

Athena | Ritu Chhina (AUSTRALIA)

Choker | Orson Cornick (UK)

Deal With Dice | Dean Harakas (USA)

Dehlight | Indresh Singh & Rishabh Nayan (AUSTRALIA/INDIA)

DM'd | Joshua Shub (AUSTRALIA)

Lux Clara | Vukasin Zivaljevic (SERBIA)

The Shepard |Yiannis Stravolaimos (GREECE)

The Wetland | Dušan Davidov (SLOVAKIA)


 

May 2020 Semi-Finalists

A Very Special Christmas Gift | Kimberly B. Flores (USA)

Anagnorisis | Arturo Dueñas Herrero (SPAIN)

Androphobia | Jacqueline Bennett (AUSTRALIA)

Barbie Dream House | Susan Kouguell (USA)

Birds of a Feather | Patrick Kevin Gamble (AUSTRALIA)

Frangipani Rain | Les McDiarmid (AUSTRALIA)

It's a Round Round World | Qiyao Lin (USA)

I Should Have Told You | Heather Straley (USA)

Light | Jim Winton Porter (AUSTRALIA)

Momma? | Kate Harbert (USA)

Music Lives Here | Polina Stepanova (RUSSIA)

One In A Trillion - Escape | Marven Likness (CANADA)

Protector of the Emerald City | Kevin J. Howard (USA)

Sad, but true | Lutz P. Kayser (GERMANY)

Tessellation |Yang Liu, Yuning Su & Yichi Chen (USA)

The Choice | Kevin He (AUSTRALIA)

The Game Was On | Rebecca Carpenter (USA)

The Road to Success | Fernando García-Pliego (SPAIN)