
23rd Edition
Summer Season
June 2023
Best Narrative Film
Mother
Director: Salomon Ligthelm
Best Documentary
To Kyiv and Back
Director: Ricardo Daniel Kauffmann Lee
Best Indie Short
Everyday Shit
Director: Lorena E. Gonzalez
Best Director
Fog of War
Director: Steven Lundgren
Best First Time Filmmaker
Vadder
Director: Dário Coelho
Best Actress
Kate Hardy
Clingy
Best Actor
Bary Del Sherman
Best Experimental
Who is God?
Director: Oscar Adan Lopez Parres
Best Animation
The Brave Locomotive
Director: Andrew Pierce Chesworth
Best Web/TV Pilot-Series
Gemini
Director: Tadeu Vieira Marinho
Best LGBTQ
Like Son, Like Father
Director: Mark Bethea
Best Thriller
A Call
Director: Chengyu Guo
Best Science Fiction
DARK CELL
Director: Jean-Michel Tari
Best Music video
Yar (friend)
Director: Fran Menchon
Best Horror
Eye Catcher
Director: Jeremy Shipp
Best Comedy
Insufferable Breakup
Director: Aiden Troy Weber
Best Producer
Lorena E. Gonzalez & Cristina Castro
Everyday Shit
Best Cinematographer
Chris Van Valey
Best Editor
Rob Kraut
ZIB
Best Composer
Marcel Alexander Barsotti
La Línea Imaginaria
Best Youth Actor/Actress
Sophia Nesterova
Receding
Best Student Film
The Grassland Whisper
Director: Jiaqing Lin
Best Student Animation
A Paw Over Dark
Directors: Dorian Saisse, Marisa Molson
Best Female Director
Tracy Spottiswoode
Sally Leapt Out of A Window Last Night
Best Screenplay (Produced)
Christina Connerton
The Recruit
Best Unproduced Script
Family Trust
Writer: Christina Macaulay
Honorable Mention Documentary
Bleed for Me: Art of the DeathMatch
Director: Matthew L Lenz
Honorable Mention Actor
Shadow C. LaValley
Honorable Mention Actress
Desiree Coleman Jackson
Honorable Mention Debut Short
Cupcakes
Director: Brit Morgan
Honorable Mention Sci-Fi
Foreign Planetary
Director: Tiffany Lin
Honorable Mention Student Script
Chrysanthemums
Writer: Samantha Mendelsohn
Honorable Mention Student Film
Fili
Director: Peter Filimaua
Honorable Mention Music Video
Time - Ariel Levine
Director: Antonio D Gamboa