WINNERS

MONTH OF JULY

Them

A woman who has been a victim of gender violence for years decides to end this labyrinth with no way out from which she thought she could not escape.

Best Screenplay (Under 40min) - Oscar Guzmán

Pink Rose Ballet

The dance of the pink rose... what could be more beautiful... Especially if it's ballet.

Special Jury Award For Experimental Motion Picture Work By Kostiantyn Mishchenko

The Exorcism of Isabella Ramirez

A mysterious man is hired to help a girl who once encountered a demon as a child, who is experiencing "Post Exorcism syndrome".

Best Emerging Filmmaker - Kevin Ruiz

RIft

"RIFT" A middle-aged woman is raising her little daughter alone in orderly financial circumstances. A child in a broken family is subjected to severe physical and mental abuse, and the girl’s mother will be the victim of murder. The mysterious figure of the father does not reveal for a long time what role he plays in the story. During the action of the film, the tension grows, the dramatic turns keep the viewer in uncertainty.

Lead Cast -Female (Under 40 min) - Riana Emma Balla

Not The Child I Raised

A trail of violence in Chicago leads to the doorstep of Julene Taylor, forcing her to face everything that comes along with it.

Best Short Film on African Americans, natives & visible minorities - Directed By Michelle D. Ivy

Neither a Girl Nor a Woman

Neither a girl nor a woman is a feature length documentary which contemplates, observes and plays along with ideas of what it means to be a girl or a woman in contemporary times.
This documentary observes the spectrum of womanhood via three female artists on three levels.
A formal space of interview, an intimate space of poetry and a collective space of choreographic gestures.
These contemplations are gentle whispering questions.
Because questioning is important for evolution.

Best Documentary Film (Above 40min) - Directed by Anjali Patil

My One and Only

A single woman, a married man and a stalker. This is a love triangle of obsession, played out
in our modern world of constant communication.

Best Film (Above 40min) - Directed by Jonathan Albert Murphy

Best Producer - Natasha Murphy

Best Lead Female - Melissa Woodbridge

I’ll Tell You About Your Father

An "old glory" of Italian TV from the 1980s, during a journey by sea between the waves of the Mediterranean and the curves of memory, tries to tell about himself to his severely autistic son Emanuele, hoping that one day he too will understand his words , its history, its choices, its hopes and its dreams.

Best Documentary (Under 40 min) Directed By Daniele Gangemi

Lion

An isolated chalet in a snowy forest... A man blinded by alcohol... A woman unable to rebel... And an 8-year-old child troubled and dark... The silent night is broken with cries... the start of a terrible nightmare!
"Man's biggest fear has risen again!"

Best Emerging Film Maker - Davide Melini
Best Support Cast ( Male) - Michael Segal
Best Support Cast (Female) - Tania Mercader

HAGAR

Through lines of poetry and psychological dance hagar tries to persuade her partner out of the closet

Best Emerging Filmmaker - Avi Ludmir

Duplicitous Minds

This film is a crime thriller/drama about the mysterious world of magic, a journey of hypnotism, heists, illusions and fun with many thrilling twists and turns. The entire film is structured like a long form magic trick with hidden clues, symbols and meanings. The theme of the movie is the choice between love (The Queen of Hearts) and power (The Ace). The dichotomy of one man’s lust for power (Ace of Spades) and one man’s loyalty to love (Queen of Hearts) propels our lead into a labyrinth of traversing a heart torn in two. It's a battle between traditional magic vs digital magic as a Magician and the Artist (a crooked businessman) team up for a heist that turns into a magic trick and an illusion onto itself.

Best Director (Under40 min) - Robert Rippberger

Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight - The 95th Anniversary

Best Emerging Filmmaker (Documentary Under 40 min ) - Brittan Kirk

Dance of Joy

Egwu ọṅụ (Dance of joy) is a symbolic representation based on the undying love between a mother and her daughter.

These things have become tradition and will be passed down to generations after us.

Best Producer (Under40 min) - Toluwani Lydia Olusola

Contrition

The short film titled 'Contrition', tells the story of a down-on-his-luck father reconciling the mistakes of his past with his son. Told through an Asian lens.

Best Film (Under 40 min) Directed By Joshua Thomas Iza

Wherever You Are, Wherever I Am

This film follows a pair of Two-Spirit Métis-Chinese youth softening a deer hide together. An experimental film about belonging and honoring your full self and ancestry, no matter where you are.

Special Jury Award - Reflecting native values -Kay Chan

Adoptive Land

A lost visitor, without land or country, arrives at a lost village
in the distant and scorching mountains, and discovers a blackened people, truth, which appeals to the soul of the earth and the strength of the pines and still look at the sky, worship the sun, discover saints and glimpse miracles.
He discovers one day that he was born there and adopted this village making it his own, singing the roar of the river and streams, when still on pure granite and broken slates, there were no roads or thirsty wanderers, just small paths and weeds along the paths.
He still thought he was born there by right, as if he had given birth to in that destination and that he would tell everyone these stories, so that the future don't miss them.
This is not a fictional story.

Special Jury Award - Carlos Pires Silveira's commitment and extensive work on cultural heritage and history.