APRIL 2021

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FINALISTS

BEST SHORT FILM

 

Always Be Green by Hu Yudi
Before It Melts by Elson Chan Tsz Yan
Essence by Baptiste Chabot 
Hear! Hear! by Kye Benjamin Stone
Henry by James Stone
How to Drown a Waterlily by Michele Rossetti
Leaks in Exposure by Katharina Nesterowa
Marbles by Sagtens Film Collective
Moonlight Catches Fire by Etelle Ebner
Nobody’s Crowd by Manoel Fernandes Neto
Once Upon a Revolution by Soha Shukayr
Sami by Alicia Lopez
Scarlet by Lisa Ranran Hu
Skilleveien by Peter Bjerre Salling
The Edited by Adam Choit
The Hanging Garden by Tang Xiaohu
The Shore by Lisa Fuchs
The Speech by Haohao Yan
Verity by Marian de Pontes
Wave by Buket Coskuner

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Honour by Tamás Bori
I Eye Aye by Richard Philpott
Our Country’s beauty by Leandra Marie Hoffmann
Ramesses by Kevin Austra
STAND UP! Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places by Timo Jacobs
The Music Island by Cosmin P. Zaharia

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Artificial Dreams by Steve Conway
ENPA Latiano: A Story of Animal Love by Paola Ghislieri
Finding My Roots: Tale of Two Carries by Carrie Bernans and 35 Miles
Fluffypunk by Thomas Harman
Saving Earth: Turkey’s Taurus Mountains by Abed Ahmed
The Disparity by Kasey Flynn
The Mechanics by Christoph Janetzko
Voices: Between memories and pandemic by Elena Della Giustina and Anna Trevisiol

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Architecture of RA by Kyle Weyburne
Burgers, Fries & Family Ties by David W. King
La Alameda 2018 by Rocío Huertas
Headin’ Home by Silvio Laccetti
The Unlost Homeland by Eftychia Fragou
To Have Or To Have Not by Alba Morín
When The Roads End by Lorenzo Borghini

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Broken Heart by Stephan Könneker Orellana
Coffin by Y. Cai, N. Crabot, H. Huang, M. Janiw, M. Lebon and T. Tran Ngoc
Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate by Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia and Christina Teenz Tan
Revenge by Mikhail Somov
The Reset by Samuel Thompson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

6 a.m. by Kalle Saarinen
Devotion by Carrie Chen and Ingram Mao
Dreams I Recall by Vasco Ayala
HereAfter by Julian Morales
The Caretaker by Emil Engesnes Bråthen
What If by Hao Zhenjia
Wild Will by Alan King

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Astronauts by Pauline Moreau
Beatpolarism by Roberto Pili
Don’t Fit by Sergi Merchan
No More Pipeline Blues by Keri Pickett
Past & Present by Juliette Balthazard
Remember by Chris Angel Walker
Schwimm by Felix Pitscheneder

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Not a great month for web series and tv pilots, see you the next one!

BEST POSTER

 

Always Be Green by Hu Yudi
Before It Melts by Elson Chan Tsz Yan
Once Upon a Revolution by Soha Shukayr
Scarlet by Lisa Ranran Hu
The Hanging Garden by Tang Xiaohu
Wild Will by Alan King

BEST TRAILER

 

Coffin by Y. Cai, N. Crabot, H. Huang, M. Janiw, M. Lebon and T. Tran Ngoc
Headin’ Home by Silvio Laccetti
Once Upon a Revolution by Soha Shukayr
STAND UP! Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places by Timo Jacobs
When The Roads End by Lorenzo Borghini
Wild Will by Alan King

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

Four on the Mantle by Rachel Jacob
I’m in love with a serial killer by Matthew Fearney
Knitting out by C. S. César
Mute by Stephanie Zachariadis
Oscar by Chris Fell
Sorry for my loss by Jared Becker

BEST FEATURE/TV SCREENPLAY

 

A Bridge to Water by Anthony Colombini
Colony of Ants by Isaac Ballesteros Barba
Dying for the suburbs by Rick Purdy
Ingenue by Desiree Stone
Red Sequin by Erik Sudberg
The Red Clot by Bo Svenson