October 2021 Monthly Winners
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
DRUMTALK
Directed by Magic Steven
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST COMEDY SHORT
BRIDGE
Directed by Vahid Hassanzadeh
(IRAN)
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
WORLDBUILDING
Directed by Shauna C. Murphy
(USA)
BEST DRAMA SHORT
BEAUTIFUL BEAR
Directed by Stuart Quinn
(UK)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
THE OVERWHELMED
Directed by Zach Diotte
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST HORROR SHORT
THRESHOLD
Directed by Mike Thompson
(USA)
BEST STUDENT SHORT
THE PAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Directed by Quinn Murphy
(AUSTRALIA)
BEST WEB SERIES
BALTHAZAR & SNIRT
Directed by Jim Patrick McCullough and Anthony Ladesich
(USA)
BEST TRAILER
LITTLE GIANT
Directed by Sean Foy
(USA)
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
END OF DAYS
Written by Danny Alex
(USA)
BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
LEGENDS
Written by Danny Alex
(USA)
October 2021 Bi-Annual Winners
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
A CENTURY OF DREAMS
Written by Ven Jemersic
(SLOVENIA)
BEST FICTION FEATURE
WE ALL LIE MY DARLING
Written by Pierre-Nicolas Panasci
(AUSTRALIA)
October 2021 Monthly Finalists
Abrupt Chaos | Wilkins Ho (AUSTRALIA)
Crossover | Sam Boe Nielsen (AUSTRALIA) 
Dinner Time | Hadi Yaghmaee and Matin Talebzadeh (IRAN)
Exit | Meghdad Hasannezhad (IRAN)
Far Away Portrait of a Woman | Hossein Khami (IRAN)
Lucid | Stephen Maddox (UK)
Naji | Hosein Torkjoosh (IRAN)
To.get.her | Andrea Vaccarelli (ITALY)
Unwanted | Massoud Mustafa Tabar (IRAN)
What is Australia Day? | Raymond Salomonn (AUSTRALIA)
October 2021 Bi-Annual Finalists
Buni | Robert Lin (TAIWAN)
Cry of the Forests – A Western Australian Story | Jane Hammond (AUSTRALIA) 
Love Birth Life | Mahatma Putra (AUSTRALIA)
OLEG | Nadia Tass (USA)
Madappally United | Ajay Govind (INDIA)
Scattered People | John Swatland (AUSTRALIA)
The Sako Tapes | Machiel van den Heuvel (NETHERLANDS)
Unwoven Threads of Kashi | Abhishek Singh (INDIA)
October 2021 Monthly Semi-Finalists
6:39 | Patrice Bonneyrat (USA)
A New Friendship | Nea Rivamonte (AUSTRALIA)
Curlew | Ian G Westley (AUSTRALIA)
Diamonds in His Eyes | Patrick Boyle (AUSTRALIA)
Heyjar | Behnam Kazemi (IRAN)
Hunger | Carlos Meléndez (MEXICO)
Journey | Panji Kaonga (UK)
Lost & Found Cowboy (Season 2) | Atsushi Ogata (JAPAN)
Only the Fall Can Understand the Tree | Omid Nikro (IRAN)
Pop-Up | Tanika Jones (AUSTRALIA)
Run The Gauntlet | Wendy Spencer (AUSTRALIA)
Showdown on the Brazos | Bill Foster (USA)
Spring in Autumn | Ghasideh Golmakani (RUSSIA)
Sydney 2078 | Brady O’Sullivan (AUSTRALIA)
The Canary | Emilie Lowe (USA)
The Girl and the Harvest Scroll | Marie-Claire Dean (AUSTRALIA)
Witness | Golestan Mansouri (IRAN)
October 2021 Bi-Annual Semi-Finalists
Ailleurs Partout | Isabelle Ingold and Vivianne Perelmuter (USA)
Collect Your Roadkill | Hugo Morgan and Alessio Mazza (AUSTRALIA)
Exchange Eternal | PAINT VK (USA)
Four Motherless Children | Ralph Isenberg (USA)
Lopon | Everardo González (MEXICO)
Maricarmen | Sergio Morkin (MEXICO)
Operation Berlin: The children who fought war in Colombia | Mat Charles (COLOMBIA)
Orders from Above | Vir Srinivas (AUSTRALIA)
Selection | Omid Niknam (IRAN)
SPY | Natalie Spence (AUSTRALIA)
The Choice | Mansoureh Radfar (IRAN)
