7th Edition
April, 2021
Best Narrative Feature:
After the Night with Valerie
Dir: Alex M. Garnett
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Best Narrative Short:
Rules to Rule
Dir: G.C. Montgomery
Best Documentary Feature:
Sleeping Warrior
Dir: Janet Wells, Mwaura Timothy
Best Documentary short:
The Lens and Memory
Dir: Rubén Montiel Mendoza
Best Experimental:
Melody of War
Dir: Nadia Kal
Best Animation:
King of the House
Dir: Zige Zhang
Best Science Fiction:
Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate
Dir: Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan
Best Horror:
The Disturbance Call
Dir: Gregory Fisco, Lucas Lopez
Best Director:
Raúl Koler, Emiliano Sette Anacronte
Best Producer:
WAS I NEXT? THE SEAN CRIBBIN STORY
Dir: Craig Huckerby
Best Cinematography:
The Conservationist
Cinematographer: Blaine Dunkley
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Best Editor:
Edward Moreno for THE STOOGE
Best Actress:
Ashlynn Hideman for Until Our Last Breath
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Best Actor:
Rasheed Stephens for Between Forever
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Best Script:
The Great Hunger
Writer: Paul G. Andrews, Thomas Keneally, Meg Keneally, Roland Joffé
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Best Unproduced script:
Voices
Writer: Susan Klos
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Best TV Series/Pilot/Web:
Coasters
Dir: Sam Jacks
Best Comedy:
Therapist of the dead
Dir: Aleks Alifirenko Jr
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Best Student Film:
As We Are Planted
Dir: Anna Lee Ackermann
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Best Music Video:
Andreas Wolff-Solo
Dir: Sion R. Joseph
Best Thriller:
The dark side of the wall
Dir: Tiburce
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Best Trailer:
The Brazilian Templars Mystery
Dir: Next Anyextee, Neil Cabana
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Best Composer:
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change
Composers: Nathalie Bonin, Miriam Cutler, Anne-Kathrin Dern, Isolde Fair, Sharon Farber, Penka Kouneva, Starr Parodi and Lolita Ritmanis
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Best First Time Filmmaker:
Symphoria
Dir: Catherine Dao
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Best Female Filmmaker:
Losing Grace
Dir: Athena Mandis
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Best Indie Film:
Odota Minua
Dir: Patrick Shannon