SEPTEMBER 2020

NOMINEES

BEST OF FEST

 

Blue Hour by Sam Ip Siu Chung
Haute Cuisine by Merryl Roche
Lemon Milk by Wylie Chan Wai Yee
The Day After by Lisa Carletta
The Gift of All by Marco Q Wu and Joe Lee
Pathfinder by Adam Rubin and Dan Lior

BEST SHORT FILM

 

Blue Hour by Sam Ip Siu Chung
Haute Cuisine by Merryl Roche
The Gift of All by Marco Q Wu and Joe Lee

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Alice and the Land that Wonders by Giulia Grandinetti
Past by Kiran Kondamadugula
Senior Citizen by Marinos Kartikkis

BEST SHORT DOC

 

From Ring to Ring by Badianseke Ruddy
Kite by Yumeng He
Pathfinder by Adam Rubin and Dan Lior

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Amori by Stefano Ceccarelli and Gabriele Anastasio
Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickle and Rebecca Tickell
The Aviator of Sky Polaris by Jamie Jumaquio

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Hostess by Alexander Bubnov
Minus One by Ronen Dachnevsky
Super Generic by Di Lu

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Continents by Darius Favreau and Jim Vieille
Niobe by Christopher Allen
The Mermaid & the Artist by Ruby Phelan

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Hey Boy by MissMe
Hostess by Alexander Bubnov
Something New by Yuchi Tian

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Check please! by Elea Clair
London Lockdown by Valentina Signorelli
Zonians by Henry Abrego

BEST POSTER

 

Haute Cuisine by Merryl Roche
Pathfinder by Adam Rubin and Dan Lior
Safe by Long Chiu

BEST TRAILER

 

Blood is Thicker by Jordan Goldstein
Pathfinder by Adam Rubin and Dan Lior
The Gift of All by Marco Q Wu and Joe Lee

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

I Wouldn’t Touch That by Meik V. Fischer
Raised by Amélie Leclerc
The Choice by Bahri Baykal

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

Black by Alexander Penn and Michael Tapakoudes
Guns & God: “Lines in the Sand” by Rain Story
The Llandudno File by Stephen D Floyd

BEST DIRECTOR

 

Li Yunrui for Peacock
Merryl Roche for Haute Cuisine
Wylie Chan Wai Yee for LemonMilk

BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Christopher Holt for 3 Sleeps
Merryl Roche for Haute Cuisine
Wylie Chan Wai Yee for Lemon Milk

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Faraz Alam for Nocebo
Kuan-Kai Chen for The Gift of All
Vadim Kalatsey for Possibility

BEST EDITING

 

Ellie Gravitte and Kenny Neal Shults for Cyclone
Éric Pinéda for Anna
GS for Past

BEST SOUND

 

Fabrizio Cecchinelli for The Day After
Kwok Ka Ki, Chan Chi Fung and Fung Yiu Tong for Lemon Milk
Valerio Tedone, Giandomenico Petillo, Adriano Alampi, Alessandro Bonfanti, Alessandro Fusaroli, Boris Riccardo D’Agostino and Mauro Eusepi for Alice and the Land that Wonders

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Antony Baryshevsky for Possibility
Dvir Golan for Minus One
Ludovico Schilling for The Day After

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Dinalva Barros and Giuseppe Iaconis for The Day After
Kristen Gair and Lynn Lukiyanova for Children of Chronos
Peter Sparke for One War

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Bhargava Poludasu for Past
Fan Yiheng for Peacock
Nathan Au Yeung for Blue Hour

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Crawford M. Collins for Blood is thicker
Jessica Marie Garcia for How to Get $100 Million
Mollie Cowen for 3 Sleeps

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Christian Knight for Safe
Jonathan Stoddard for The Interview
Philippe Résimont and Sébastien Houbani for Haute Cuisine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Ayçe Abana for Rom An
Laura Bellomo, Kahli Williams, Bianca Clare and Jessica Greenall for Reality Cheque
Marina Argyridou for Senior Citizen