BEST ANIMATED SHORT
FIRST BORN
Directed by Justin Bruce Lee
(USA)
BEST COMEDY SHORT
MOCKU MURDERS
Directed by Mel Sneath & Marc Hamill
(UK)
BEST DRAMA SHORT
COUNTLESS SHEEP
Directed by Riley Robbins
(USA)
BEST HORROR SHORT
BLACK HEART, RED HANDS
Directed by Russell Southam
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST TRAILER
FIRST SIGNAL
Directed by Mark Lund
(USA)
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)
