WINNERS - SEPTEMBER 2023

Best Picture

Best Experimental Film

WHO IS GOD?

Oscar Adan Lopez Parres

Mexico

(alphabetical order by Film's title)

Silver Award - Animated Film

24

Ekaterina Chatski Chatskaia

Costa Rica

Best Feature Documentary

CIAO ANITA

Jacques Lipkau Goyard & Marco Kuveiller

Italy

Best Short Documentary

20 SHADES OF GREEN

Jim Ereaux

United States

Gold Award - Student Film

ABNORMAL ADORATION 

Mingyuan Ye

United States

Silver Award - Feature Script

ALCANZA EL SOL (REACH FOR THE SUN)

Written by Douglas May

United States

Honorable Mention

AS SCARED AS YOU

Written by Jesse Dorian

United States

Gold Award - Short Script

ASHERAH'S COLORS II

Written by Gary Mazeffa

United States

Gold Award - Feature Documentary

ASK THE SAND

Vittorio Bongiorno

Italy

Best Drama

AVE GRADIVA

yuri riklis

Israel

Best Music Video

BEDAAG ISHQ - AN UNSULLIED LOVE

Abhishek Basu

India

Gold Award - Animated Film

BEDTIME STORIES

Francesca Nobili

United States

Silver Award - Feature Documentary

BEYOND THE LIGHT BARRIER

Uga L Carlini

South Africa

Best Super Short Film

BREATHE ON

Kristina Schippling

Germany

Gold Award - Short Film

BURNING RAGE

Sam Yazdanpanna

Netherlands

Gold Award - Indie Short Film

Gold Award - Horror

Silver Award - Actor (Rupert Wynne-James)

BUSINESS CLASS

Ugo Melcore & Loris Melcore

France

Best Actor (Moustafa Elmeleigi)

CASTING FILM YOUSSEF SHAHEEN

mahmoud mahmoud mahmoud

United Arab Emirates

Gold Award - Sci-Fi

CHASING GIANTS

Randy Sage

United States

Best Indie Short Film

CHERZOSO THE SILENT FILM

Tracy Ann Chapel

United States

Silver Award - Drama

CLOAK OF HONORS THE TALE OF THE BOY AND THE OLD MEN

Rui Falcão

Portugal

Best Short Script

COLOSSEUM

Written by Adam Jay Crawford

United States

Honorable Mention

EIGHT

John Johnson

United States

Gold Award - Drama

Silver Award - Short Film

FRAGMENTS

Matthew Luppino

Canada

Best Inspirational Film

GEORGE & DOROTHY

A.P. Gonzalez

United States

Gold Award - Short Film

GNOTHI SEAUTON

Elodie Lorquet

France

Honorable Mention

GODFORSAKEN: A STORY OF THREE MARYS

Written by Kevin Michael Irvine

United States

Silver Award -Short Script

GRAB AND GO

Written by Janna Jones

United States

Silver Award - Feature Film

HALF DEAD FRED

Bron Theron

United States

Honorable Mention

HEIRS OF JUSTICE

Andrew Morales, Jeffrey Yarush & Manon Sullivan

United States

Gold Award - Actor

Silver Award - Super Short Film

Silver Award - Thriller

HILLTOP HIKE

Robert Cunniff

United States

Best Short Film

IL DUELLO

William Delli Quadri

Italy

Silver Award - Indie Short Film

JONAS AND JACINTA

Rich Whitby

United Kingdom

Gold Award - Inspirational Film

KINGDOM OF PEACE

Holger Klussmann

Germany

Best Animated Film

LE PAPILLON

Enrique Pilozo

United States

Best Short Documentary

LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY

Erik Jacobsen

United States

Gold Award - Thriller

LOST IN 24 (15 MINUTES SHORT FILM)

May Liu

United States

Gold Award - Original Song

LOVE IS MY GUN

Valerie Verseau

United States

Best Horror

MY BABY

John Dada

France

Best Student Film

ONLINE

Bianka Bereczky

Hungary

Honorable Mention

PROUD GIRLS

Written by Leslie Flannery

United States

Gold Award - Super Short Film

PSYCHO X XMAS SPECIAL

David Cleveland

United States

Honorable Mention

RED

Ashley Harper

United States

Gold Award - Indie Short Film

Gold Award - First Time Director

REQUIEM (WITH A SIDE OF FRIES)

Kiff VandenHeuvel

United States

Gold Award - Short Documentary

ROOTS IN UNITY

TerryLee Whetstone 

United States

Gold Award - Inspirational Film

SARAS

Jude Peter Damian

India

Best Feature Script

SHATTERED DREAMS

Written by Daphne Matthews, Michael F Williams, Di Storm

United States

Best Sci-Fi

SPIKE GAME

Philippe Létang

France

Best Original Song (Julian Daniel)

Silver Award - Music Video

SUGAR

Luca Cianfarani

Canada

Silver Award - Comedy

THE AUDITION

David Wenzel

United States

Honorable Mention

THE CHRISTMAS MAN

Written by Elizabeth Stevens & James Bruner

United States

Silver Award - Experimental Film

THE DANCE

Romain Claris

France

Honorable Mention

THE FOAM AND THE LION

Cláudio Jordão

Portugal

Best First Time Director

THE MARKED (SHORT FILM)

Reggie Austin

United States

Best Thriller

THE METHOD

Isaac Ballesteros Barba

United States

Best Feature Film

THE MIDNIGHT GAG

Luc Ziann

Canada

Gold Award - Feature Script

THE SECRET CODEX

Written by Kevin Pike & Hans Sluijter

Netherlands

Silver Award - Horror

THIS IS MY BODY

Kristina Schippling

Germany

Silver Award - Student Film

TO THE RESCUE

Cynthia Ellen Gall

United States

Best Comedy

TRAVELING PUTZ

Dean Morgan

United States

Gold Award - Feature Film

VESSEL

Sheldon A Woodson

United States

Gold Award - Experimental Film

WAVES OF INFORMED DELUSION

Robert Scott MacLeay

Brazil

Gold Award - Comedy

WHAT NOW?

Jason Seth Estes

United States

Gold Award - Music Video

WILDLIFE CAMERAMAN (SUMMER FARM)

Erentia Bedeker

United Kingdom