DECEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 20, 2024

Best Actress

WINNER
Flipping Charleston by LISA GRANT

Best Animated Film

WINNER
10 x 10 – I just want to ride alongside by Vision Desire

Outstanding Achievement

24 by Ekaterina Chatski Chatskaia

Competing Nominee

On / Off by Nicolas P. Villarreal

Best Comedy

WINNER
Spells Before Destiny – from the musical “This is Love”- by AKISAI M

Best Director

WINNER
On / Off by Nicolas P. Villarreal

Outstanding Achievement

Awakenings of Rock by Abhinav Chhabra

Best Documentary (Feature Length)

WINNER
Resistance – They Fought Back by Paula S Apsell, Kirk Wolfinger
Outstanding Achievement

Walking Up to the Ocean | A California Route Film by Andrew Pike

Competing Nominee

One Day by Geir Fredriksen

Panther People by Dale Roossien, Jarrod Stark

 

Best Documentary (Short)

WINNER
Before the Oil by Roel Swierenga
Outstanding Achievement

INVISIBLE CAGE by Zhiqian Zhang

Competing Nominee

Planet Ocean Blues by Michael Buckley

Best Editor

WINNER
Silence by Julia Shlenskaya

Best Experimental Film

WINNER
Psalm by Mark Xie
Competing Nominee

i 2 aye by Richard Philpott

On / Off by Nicolas P. Villarreal

Wool and Water by Oona Grimes

Best Feature Script

WINNER
The Acquaintances by Mehmet Atamen

Best First Time Filmmaker

WINNER
One Day by Geir Fredriksen
Outstanding Achievement

Summer Past by Qiao Ru Zhang

Competing Nominee

Flipping Charleston by LISA GRANT

COMMONHEART. From a childish mind. by Arild Remmereit

Sunday’s Child by Vanessa Nicholson

FOLLOW THE ARROW by marc saez

10 x 10 – I just want to ride alongside by Vision Desire

Best International Feature Film

WINNER
The Trekker, the Wolf and the Monkey King by Zhi Zhao
Outstanding Achievement

ALLURE by Junji Hanadou

Competing Nominee

Art Thief by Arthur Bjorn Egeli

 

 

Best International Short Film

WINNER
Ibadat by anu vaidyanathan
Outstanding Achievement

Bestia by Niklas Hermansson

The Corpse by Juliana Lucia Rodriguez

 

Competing Nominee

The Pathos of Hamlet by Sean Gregory Tansey

FOLLOW THE ARROW by marc saez

Pulzaar by Miki Háromöthét

 

Best LGBTQ+ Narrative

Best Micro Film

WINNER
No Flies On Me by Lars Magnus Holmgren

Best Music Video

WINNER
The Signal And The Noise by Jim Hannah

Best Original Music

WINNER
Spells Before Destiny – from the musical “This is Love”- by AKISAI M

Best Original Score

WINNER
COMMONHEART. From a childish mind. by Arild Remmereit

Best Pilot Script (Web series / TV / Stand up Comedy)

WINNER
WordLotto by Johnny Baca
Competing Nominee

Cloak by Chelsea Cassio, Chelsea Cassio

Best Romance

WINNER
FOLLOW THE ARROW by marc saez

Best Short Drama

WINNER
Secrets are for best friends only by Jonas Moberg

Best Short Script

WINNER
The Chance by Terry Luke Podnar

Competing Nominee

Glitch by Darren Lee Murphy

Mimmi and Mo by Ayan Salh

Best Student Film

Best Thriller

WINNER
FOLLOW THE ARROW by marc saez

Best Unproduced Screenplay

WINNER
The Vagrant by FRANK P MANCUSO, Christhopher J Adams

Outstanding Achievement

She’s Never Coming Back by Jesse Dorian

Rodeo by Lynn Elliott

Competing Nominee

Marwood by William Turner Brett

Best Web Series Pilot

WINNER
doran the mystic warrior by Doran Eccel

Best Women's Film

WINNER
Playing Old by Charlotte Berglin

Competing Nominee

Help Me Rise by Frank Juarez