WINNERS

MONTH OF MAY

When Buying a Fine Murder

Ronald Raynolds is an art dealer, but it's just a cover up job - he's actually a professional hitman. His new contract has a particular ask: he has to kill himself. The client is Walter Brandi, a rich Italian and powerful real estate magnate with whom Ronald has no connection. Why does that man want him dead? Maybe it's his own wife, Helen, or the digital art he trades, or it's a personal matter he needs to discover. He must take the job - he needs to find out why someone wants to kill him.

Best Lead - Male(Under 40min) -Marco Quaglia

Best Film - Directed by Gabriele Tacchi

Best Cinematography - Marco Tomaselli

Valedictory

‘Valedictory’ tells the story of two contrasting secret agents - ‘Douglas’ and ‘Jonathan’ - who are on the run from a sinister life insurance company after an undercover mission at the facility resulted in their identities being discovered. The head of this organisation is a young, ruthless and sociopathic man named ‘Ryan’ who is doing everything in his power to make sure that they are captured and returned to him.

Best Director (Under 40min) - Graeme James Williamson

Best Producer - Nicolas Potus

Triple Take

A high school student sets out to find the truth in his generation and unveil the innermost problems surrounding them.

Honorable Mention

Still Hunting

A veteran turned hunter living in the city shoots coyotes for the local butcher until he has to turn his barrel on a new younger hunter intent on ruining his life.

Best Emerging Filmmaker (Under 40min)
- Chris Vinan

Bob Lanois: Snake Road

A man goes through nine different emotions and finally become ATMAN in this soul searching musical short

Best Producer (Over 40 min) Dave Conlon

Spoon

To escape from everyday life, it's very simple: you need a ladder and a spoon.

Best Animated Film (Under 40min) Directed By Arthur Chays

February's Dog

Working class colleagues stricken by sudden unemployment grapple with anxiety, depression, and isolation as they cope with the reality that the world they knew has changed. When all hope is fading, what will be their salvation?

Best Film (Over 40min) By Paul Jared Chinook, Candace Schmidt-Gonzalez

White Wolves – Ghosts Of The Arctic

At the very northern edge of Canada is Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the tundra, dipping temperatures to 40 below zero. Running through this shifting sea of snow and ice is one of the most hardened predators on the planet, the Arctic Wolf. But as the spring melt approaches, these roaming hunters must adapt to being tethered parents as new additions to the pack have just been born.
With never-before-seen footage of wolf family life, Ghosts of the Arctic is a dramatic and touching story of loyalty, companionship and devotion. It’s an epic true tale that reveals the struggles and triumphs of a family working to survive in one of the last great wildernesses on Earth.

Best Documentary (Over 40min) Directed by Oliver Goetzl

Sasha 2

Sasha a courier who works for the underground is sent away to Las Vegas to cool off while the smoke clears. But Sasha spends her entire time obsessed with one question "Who killed my parents?" It is this dangerous question that leads her on a journey from Las Vegas To Los Angeles to New York City. It is a question that others willing to kill for.

Best Emerging Filmmaker - Alex Fernandez

Marsh Clouds: The oysters Of Harris Neck

The Timmons family has been picking oysters in Harris Neck, GA for more than 100 years. The land they call home has a tragic history. Marsh Clouds tells a story of trauma and racism - and the perseverance to overcome against all odds.

Best Documentary (Under 40min) Directed By Kevin Mannens

Diabolical

4 Black men share a paralleled story of how they individually encountered racism at different times, on the same day.

Best Short Film on African Americans, natives & visible minorities - Directed By Peachanda DuBose

12 CM Di Tacco

A savage murder catered increasingly to the vogue for the fanciful and the bizarre.

Special Jury Award - Fabio Giovinazzo

A Perfect Family

Carole is tired of misbehaving kids and potential fathers that don't meet her standards.
She's going to take matters into her own hands, and make things exactly as she wants them.

Best Screenplay ( Under 40min) - Shawn Golden, Ranelle Golden

Best Lead- Female - Michelle Procopio

Arpeggio

When an authoritarian regime bans music, one man struggles with his sentimental connection to it.

Best emerging Filmmaker (Under 40 min) - Thomas Stahl

Atman

A man goes through nine different emotions and finally become ATMAN in this soul searching musical short

Best Emerging Filmmaker (Under40 min) - Hariharan Raju

Best Original Score - Ilaiyaraaja