WINNERS 2019
FEATURE FILMS
LOVE POSSIBLY - Best Romance-Comedy Feature, Michael Boccalini, Che Grant
ASPIRE TO THE SKY: THE WILSHIRE GRAND STORY - Best Inspirational Feature Documentary, Dilip Khatri
FORBIDDEN POWER - Best Sci-Fiction Feature, Paul Kyriazi
BOB FREEMAN: EXTERMINATOR FOR HIRE - Best Horror Comedy Feature, Jonathan Moss
TAKE YOUR DREAM - Best Foreign Documentary, E. W. Helmick
TAKE CARE OF EMILY - Best Women Theme Feature, Nicholas Rapuano, Corinne Britti
SHORT FILMS
MY FATHER'S FABULOUS FUNERAL - Best Short Story, Judy Copeland
WITHIN AND WITHOUT - Best Short Film, Frank S. Petrilli
OPEN - Best Short Script, Ilaria Malvezzi
AVENGEMENT - Best Short Action, Edward V. Turner, Edgar Jimz
TRIANGLE BELOW CANAL STREET - Best Short Drama Student, Nicholas Kennedy
MY FATHER'S FABULOUS FUNERAL - Best Short Comedy, Mark Stolzenberg
COMPARTMENTALIZATION STORAGE FACILITY - Best Short Fantasy, Eliaz Rodriguez
THE CHART - Best Short Romance, Kimberley Hellen, Mario Candelaria, Tara Cannistraci
ARCH-RIVAL - Best Short Animation Story, Liu Qiang
THE SPIRIT SEAM - Best Short Animation, Ashley Gerst
MIMI MEETS BOOKS - Best Foreign Short Animation, Yih-Fen Chou
STAMENIGMA - Best SciFi / Futuristic Short, Joey Angerone
WHEN THE DUST CLEARS - Best Historical Short Drama, Joshua Williams
THE NOTHING - Best Short Horror, Alex Torres
FATE ALCHEMY - Best Short Dark Comedy, Ace Blankenship
HEROIC - Best High School Student Film, Gabe Schmidt
PLAY - Best Foreign Short Student, Piotr Sulkowski
LIP - Best Youth Short, Nathaniel Potvin, Raymond Cham Jr.
WHEN I LOVED HER - First Short Film Award, Andrea Lynn Nash
DOCUMENTARIES & EXPERIMENTALS
THE RETURN - Best Short Documentary, Jon Fish
WHO SAID YOU CAN'T DANCE - Best Short inspirational Documentary, David Block
WE WERE HARDLY MORE THAN CHILDREN - Best Short Documentary: Women Rights Subject, Cecelia Condit
THE HYERS SISTERS' DREAM & LEGACY - Best Historical Documentary Short, Susheel Bibbs
Young & Naive - Best Experimental / Social subject, Tuesday Conner, Phil Tyler
DREAM NO.37,091 - Best Experimental Short Student, Jon Reitzel
LOVE LIVES IN A VOID - Best Experimental Short, Johnny Zito
WEBISODE / NEW MEDIA
The Odyssey of the AOR - Best TV Short / Web & New Media, Joshua Burdick, Jimmy Chelta
TRAILER PARK WORLD - BLIND DATE - Best LGBT Short Web / New Media, Luis Garcia
MEZZA MORTA PREQUEL - Best Short Web / New Media, Jo Anna Van Thuyne
GAME OF SOULS - Best Foreign Short Web / New Media, Max Körner
NONUNION GIRL - Best Comedy Webisode, Darby Puckett
TV / MUSIC VIDEO
WEAPONIZED - Best Music Video Story, James O'Brien
THERAPY - Best Experimental Music Video, Lindsay Guion, Dame Pierre II
THE SUN IS RISING - Best Documentarial Music Video, Lloyd Frost
AnoMiC - Best Trailer, Hugo Teugels
COMIC OOPS TONIC - Best TV Pilot, Grigoriy Mironova
THE MAGIC SHED - Best Television Short Director, Andrew Carnwath
SCREENPLAYS
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH - Best Horror Feature Screenplay, Samuel Taylor
bGONE - Best Sci-Fiction Feature Screenplay, Scott Marshall Taylor
LAJJAWATI - Best Feature Screenplay, Sumathy Ram, Charles Leopardo
PAD 41 - Best Historical Feature Screenplay, John Choate
JACKIE RAE - Best LGBT Drama Screenplay, Kip Pearson
PLATFORMS: USING YOUR PAGEANTRY VOICE FOR A CAUSE - Best First Time Screenwriter, Ricardo Soto
UBE BUBOG: SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS - Best Action Feature Screenplay, Sway Stagall
A LADY OF VASSAR - Best Short Web / New Media Screenplay, Anthony Cortez Fernandez
WHAT’S TO COME - Best Short TV Screenplay, Jake Hunter & April Wright
THE SQUIRRELS IN THE ATTIC - Best Short Screenplay, Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid
ALWAYS HOPE - Best Inspirational Short Screenplay, Janice Walker
CAST & ACTING
WITHIN AND WITHOUT - Best Actor in Short Film, Robert J. Sciglimpaglia
LIP - Best Youth Actors in Short Film, Nathaniel Potvin, Raymond Cham Jr.
WITHIN AND WITHOUT - Best Youth Actresses in Short Film, Gigi Cesare, Clio Contogenis
ENOPTROMANCY, or When We Meet As One - Best Ensemble Cast, Feature
AVENGEMENT- Best Ensemble Cast in Short Film
The Odyssey of the AOR - Best Ensemble Cast TV/ Web & New Media
SOCial MEDia MADness - Best Ensemble Team, Web & New Media
TAKE CARE OF EMILY - Best Actress in Feature Film, Corinne Britti
TAKE CARE OF EMILY - Best Supporting Actress in Feature Film, Samantha Mary Watkins
EDITING, CINEMATOGRAPHY, SOUND
ASPIRE TO THE SKY: THE WILSHIRE GRAND STORY - Best Editing Feature, Lauren Freedman, Alisa Khosrovschahi
WITHIN AND WITHOUT - Best Cinematography Short, Mario Garciduenas
TIME CRISIS - Best Editing Short, Zhenning Yang
DIRECTING & PRODUCING
ENOPTROMANCY, or When We Meet As One - Best Producer in Feature Film, Michael Seebold
FOR WHILE - Best Woman Filmmaker, Jessica Irish
MY NAME IS RICHARD - Best Woman filmmaker in Short Screenwriting, Mina Maniska
AVENGEMENT - Best Producer in Short Film, Edward V. Turner, Edgar Jimz
WITHIN AND WITHOUT - Best Director in Short Film, Frank S. Petrilli
Tei Tei - Best Young Filmmaker Short film, Mark Leschinsky
VIDEO ART
PROPHECY OF THE ENCOUNTER - Best Video Art, Ati Maier
SATURN RETURNS - Best Experimental Video Art, Daniel Siegelman
FOR WHILE - Best Video Art Animation, Jess Irish
DARE 2 DISTURB - Best Virtual Reality, Paul Rees
GRAND JURY AWARDS
1000 - THE SWORD IN THE STONE - Grand Jury Award, Feature Screenplay, Guido Maria Giordano
OFF POINT - Grand Jury Award, Woman Screenwriter in Short Film, Laura Frenzer
THE CHASE - Grand Jury Award, Short Screenplay, Jeffrey Morin
SNOW IN THE SUMMER - Grand Jury Award, Short Animation, Daun Han
GIFTS OF LIFE - Grand Jury Award, Short Documentary, Michael Drucker
In the Wake of the Cedar Tree - Grand Jury First Short Film Award, Towustasin Mycorrhiza
VICTOR!! – Grand Jury Award, Short Comedy, James Zeiss
UNDER THE WHALE - Grand Jury Award, Experimental Documentary, James Martin
SOCial MEDia MADness - Grand Jury Award, Web & New Media, Michael Delaney, Jeremy Gibson, Eric De Carvalho
LOVE LIVES IN A VOID - Grand Jury Award, Best Actor, Johnny Zito
LOVE LIVES IN A VOID - Grand Jury Award, Best Actress, Nannette Deasy
MY DREAM GOES ALL THE WAY TO IRAN - Grand Jury Award, Best Woman Director in Short Film,
Negar Mojtahedi
HONORABLE MENTIONS
ARe. - Honorable Mention, Feature Animation, Creation Chip
NEARFALL- Honorable Mention, Feature Screenplay, Ronny Jay
NO MAXIMAL DOSE - Honorable Mention, Feature Drama Suspense, Randy Ayres
IT’S GOOD TO BELIEVE IN GOD - Honorable Mention, Foreign Feature, GAO ZHI, XIAO AN
EVENING INSTALLATION - Honorable Mention, First Feature Film, Tatiana Sokolova
NIGHT OF THE RUMPUS - Honorable Mention, Horror Feature Film, Jorge Torres-Torres
INDIAN BILLY ICE - Honorable Mention, Screenplay, Jerry Ice
IF LIFE KICKS YOU - Honorable Mention, Short Screenplay, Iris May
Darshan - Blessings of Saints - Honorable Mention, Short Documentary, Burt Chojnowski
SHADOWLAND - Honorable Mention, Foreign Short Animation, bellopropello
FOR LILY - Honorable Mention, Short Thriller, Zane Morrow
EAVESDROPPING - Honorable Mention, Short Mystery Drama, George A. Velez
IN AN EMPTY WOOD - Honorable Mention, Short Animation, Chia-Hsin Lee
The Straight Man - Honorable Mention, Short Fiction, Paul Laudicano
COP-DOC - Honorable Mention, Short Action, Victor Verhaeghe, Doug Bost
THE PLAYER - Honorable Mention, Short Experimental, Justy G
STUCK - Honorable Mention, Short Romance, Youngbin Yang
KANPAI - Honorable Mention, Short Comedy, Haruko Fujimoto
UNTITLED (SANS TITRE) - Honorable Mention, Short Foreign Drama, Clément de Dadelsen
THAT GOOD NIGHT - Honorable Mention, Short Story, Robert Rosenbaum
I RESIGN - Honorable Mention, Short Drama, Jay Mohan
THE SPRINGS COUNTY PSYCHO - Honorable Mention, Short Horror, Christopher Stem
VISUAL CONCEPT ALBUM - Honorable Mention, Music Video, Kaia Kena
LOVER AND A GIVER - Honorable Mention, Music Video, Jordan Siwek, Sebastian Rivera
EASY - Honorable Mention, Student, Slav Velkov
Vladimir to Walter - Honorable Mention, Short Documentary, Aaron Kelly-Penso
THE FIRST RESPONDER , Honorable Mention, Producer, Ron Basci
THE FIRST RESPONDER , Honorable Mention, Actor, Chris Thompson
D'ART SANTA BARBARA - RANDOM EXPLORATIONS - Honorable Mention, Mid Length Documentary, Larry Nimmer
Attn: WINNERS 2019
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