NOMINATIONS 2020
(winners will be announced at festival live in June 2021)
Some categories are To Be Announced
FEATURE FILMS
BEST PICTURE
Repossession
Threshold
Alien Addiction
A Cambodian Winter
E. 14
Green Flake
Swindler
Your Color
Beyond Methuselah
Stealing Chaplin
One Night In Tehran
FIRST TIME DIRECTOR AWARD
GREENFLAKE – Mauli Junior Bonner
YOUR COLOR (Deine Farbe) – Maria Diane Ventura
DAYTIME NIGHTMARE – Katrina Grey
TAKING THE FALL – Josh Marble
T= E/x2 – Andreas Z Simon
THIS WAS AMERICA - Jamie Bailey
SEXUAL ANIMALS – Patrick Mack
REPOSSESION – Goh Ming Siu and Scott C. Hillyard
CUTLASS – Burri-Taka Bolalima
BEST DIRECTOR
Patrick R Young, Powell Robinson – Threshold
Shae Sterling – Alien Addiction
Forest Wise – A Cambodian Winter
Rafael Flores – E.14
Swindler – Dongwhan Yi
Beyond Methuselah – Craig Jessen, Jamie Renee Smith
Stealing Chaplin – Paul Tanter
One Night in Tehran – Farhad Najafi
That is All – Mark Weeden
Tabernacle 101 – Colm O’ Murchu
Depth of Pyaar – Mukesh Asopa
The Nights Before Christmas – Paul Tanter
Olympic Dream – Don Hoe
Some Night – Enrico Banson
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Repossession
Alien Addiction
A Cambodian Winter
Depth of Pyaar
E. 14
Green Flake
That is All
Daytime Nightmare
The Haunted Hotel
Threshold
The Nights Before Christmas
T = Ex2
BEST EDITING
Threshold
Alien Addiction
A Cambodian Winter
E. 14
Green Flake
Swindler
Your Color
Beyond Methuselah
Tabernacle 101
T=E/x2
The Haunted Hotel
Daytime Nightmare
The Nights Before Christmas
Repossession
One Night in Tehran
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Tabernacle 101
Green Flake
The Haunted Hotel
Your Color
Threshold
The Nights Before Christmas
A Cambodian Winter
One Night in Tehran
T = E/x2
Alien Addiction
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Repossession
A Cambodian Winter
The Haunted Hotel
Green Flake
Your Color
Threshold
The Nights Before Christmas
One Night in Tehran
Beyond Methuselah
T = E/x2
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Invincible” – “Green Flake”
“Cyclone” – “Daytime Nightmare”
(MORE TBD)
BEST WARDROBE
Green Flake
The Haunted Hotel
The Nights Before Christmas
Alien Addiction
Tabernacle 101
Swindler
T = E/x2
BEST MAKEUP DESIGN
Tabernacle 101
Repossession
The Nights Before Christams
T = E/x2
Alien Addiction
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Tabernacle 101
Green Flake
The Haunted Hotel
The Nights Before Christams
A Cambodian Winter
Alien Addiction
T = E/x2
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Tabernacle 101
The Haunted Hotel
Daytime Nightmare
The Nights Before Christmas
A Cambodian Winter
Repossession
T = E/x2
Alien Addiction
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING MALE
David Hov as Frank Bonetti “Tabernacle 101”
Yahosh Bonner as Green Flake “Green Flake”
Nyamandi Adrian as Albert “Your Color”
Joey Millin as Leo “Threshold”
Yoo Hyun Jun as Do-jin "Swindler"
Simon Philips as Santa “The Nights Before Christmas”
Joel Ballanger as Ryan “That is All”
Jon Wierenga as Adam “Sexual Animals”
Gerald Chew as Jim “Repossession”
Munro Chambers as Tyler “Taking The Fall”
Mario Ganss as Marlin “T = E/x2”
Jimi Jackson as Riko “Alien Addiction”
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING FEMALE
Katrina Grey as Lucy “Daytime Nightmare”
Madison West as Virginia “Threshold”
Mina Vahid as Leyla “One Night in Tehran”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Hugh Fraser as Tim “The Haunted Hotel”
Jannik Schumann as Karl “Your Color”
Peace Fidele as Sam Swindler
Doug Phillips as Terry “Stealing Chaplin”
Al Braatz as Sam “That is All”
Evan Joelle as Terell “E. 14”
Roland Buck III as Justin “Taking the Fall”
Harry Summerfield as Rabbit “Alien Addiction”
Ken MacFarlane as Simon "Beyond Methuselah"
Kamal Nandi as Gajendra Munshi "Depth of Pyaar"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Elly Hiraani Clapin as Sarah “Tabernacle 101”
Clotile Farkas as Biddy Mason “Green Flake”
Mel Winning as Mrs. Jones “The Haunted Hotel”
Christiana Chaiwanna as Sara “Daytime Nightmare”
Sayla De Geode as Mrs. Claus “The Nights Before Christmas”
Lee Gyu Jeong as Yoon Hee “Swindler”
Caylin Turner as Violet “This Was America”
Netta Brooks as Liberty Washington “E. 14”
Jasmin Wagner as Ava “T = E/x2
JoJo Waaka as Jacinta “Alien Addiction”
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A FEATURE
Tabernacle 101
The Haunted Hotel
Some Night
Green Flake
Stealing Chaplin
Sexual Animals
Alien Addiction
E. 14
Taking the Fall
Swindler
RISING STAR AWARD (FOR CHILD ACTOR)
Annabelle Tan – Olympic Dream
Akshay Asopa – Depth of Pyaar
Matthew Loo – Repossession
Pim Chan - A Cambodian Winter
Rees Laird - Tabernacle 101
Malachi Bonner – Young Green
BEST COMEDY PERFORMANCE
Jacob Ben-Shmuel as “Charlie” Some Night
Miles Jovian as “Bob” The Haunted Hotel
Yoo Hyung Jun as Do-jin “Swindler”
Spencer Perrenoud as Bill “Sexual Animals”
Jimi Jackson as Riko “Alien Addiction”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Tabernacle 101
Green Flake
The Haunted Hotel
Daytime Nightmare
Your Color
The Nights Before Christmas
Stealing Chaplin
That Is All
Sexual Animals
Repossession
One Night in Tehran
Beyond Methuselah
E.14
T = E/x2
Alien Addiction
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Swindler
One Night in Tehran
Your Color
A Cambodian Winter
Cutlass
T = E/X2
Olympic Dream
Depth of Pyaar
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Alaska Long Hunters
Ask No Questions
Talking to the Wind
SHORT FILMS
BEST NARRATIVE (DOMESTIC / US)
Skin
Sin Cielo
The Speed of Time
5 years gone
Carol Crawford
Buffalo and Trout
Rent’s Due
Holy Hell! Or: A profound tale of Evil and Wickedness
They Came and Left
The Hostess
The Big Nobody
The Greatest Horror Film Ever Made
Delete
Something Safe
Relentless
Shortcut
Fortune in Gold
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Dark Web
Unsealed Prophit
BEST NARRATIVE (FOREIGN / NON US)
Deus Otiosus (The Idle God) UK
Sticker – Macedonia
Da Yie – Ghana
November 1st – UK
Limbo - Iran
Sticker – Macedonia
Guise – Iran
Henet Ward – Egypt
Inhale – Iran
Grabadora Sound – Italy
Intense – Iran
For Sale – United Kingdom
Punishment - Iran
Mermaid – Iran
Black Bear – UK
Control – Iran
Socks and Robbers – UK
The Barber – Ukraine
The Last Composition – Iran
Stray Dog – UK
Deat Offers Life: Last Moments of Vincent Van Gogh – India
Wait a Moment – Iran
Terror from the light – China
Bad News – UK
Stop Invasion! – Italy
The Other - Iran
Seeing – Australia
The Ferals – UK
Quit – Iran
A Dilemma – China
Gel Douche – Canada
A Roofless House - Iran
BEST MICROSHORT
Village of the Gramned
Backbeat
Try your call again
In traction
Cruel Shoes
Balance
Robert the Robot
BEST HORROR / THRILLER / SUSPENSE
Carol Crawford
For Sale
Stop invasion!
The Barber
The Greatest Horror Film Ever Made
Terror From the Light
Delete
Bad News
Seeing
The Ferals
DeadMe
The Dark Web
Run, Hide, Pray
Black Bear
Unsealed Prophit
BEST SCI FI / FANTASY
Deus Otiosus (The Idle God)
The Speed of Time
Carol Crawford
For Sale
Stop Invasion!
They Came and Left
Seeing
Shortcut
Subject Six-Alpha Two
BEST COMEDY
Sticker
The Speed of Time
Rent’s Due
The Big Nobody
For Sale
Holy Hell: or: a profound Tale of Evil and Wickedness
They came and Left
Socks and Robbers
The Greatest Horror Film Ever Made
Bad News
I Love you Moocho
Gel Douche
You Feel Me
1 Minute to Midnight
BEST ROMANCE
Grabadora Sound
Backbeat
The Leap
A Dilemma
BEST ACTION / ADVENTURE
The Speed of Time
Buffalo & Trout
Socks and Robbers
The Ferals
Shortcut
BEST DRAMA
Sticker
Limbo
Sin Cielo
Skin
November 1st
Guise
5 Years Gone
Henet Ward
Inhale
Intense
Mermaid
Control
The Hostess
Death Offers Life: The last moments of Vincent Van Gogh
Wait a Moment
Something Safe
A Dilemma
Quit
In Traction
The other
A Roofless House
Black Bear
BEST INSPIRATIONAL
Little Treasures
Fortune in Gold
I am Invisible
A place less cold
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Cruel Shoes
Malakout
Robert the Robot
Balance
Genesis
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Cell 364
You’re Looking at Me
SFUMATO
Senior Sisters: Never too Grey
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Porno Slut
Highland Home
Nice Shoes
Perfect Storm
Girls Like Me
BEST SERIES
Artista Obscura
The Void Rebooted
Thumb Runner
In the Land of Fruits and Nuts
Fuzz & Malloy
Val
Mrs. Hunter is Dead
The Anomalous
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
The Velvet Abstract
The Myth of Winter
The Hands
Volcano Girls
Try your call again
The Tell-Tale Heart
1 Minute to Midnight
BEST LGBTQIA+ FILM
Making Men
In the Land of Fruits and Nuts
The Leap
Rent’s Due
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Da Yie
Relentless
Bridging Over Adolescence
Happy Birthday to Us
Eve Before the Funeral
Munich 1936
Aquarium
Midnight Movie: Magnum Opus
Denver To Boston
Hope
1 Minute to Midnight
Gay as in Happy: A Queer Anti – Tragedy
The Journey of Story Float
Senior Sisters: Never too Grey
BEST ACTOR IN A SHORT FILM (DOMESTIC / US)
Artista Obscura – John Ennis
Skin – Jonathan Tucker
The Speed of Time – John Hennigan
Holy Hell – JB Chen
The Tell Tale Heart – Danny Ashkenasi
The Big Nobobdy – Jamiel St. Rose
The Dark Web - Ervin Musabelliu
Something Safe - Eric Urbiztondo
BEST ACTOR IN A SHORT FILM (FOREIGN / NON US)
Deus Otiosus (The Idle God) – Christopher Fairbank
Sticker – Sashko Kocev
Da Yie – Goua Robert Grovogui
Limbo – Levon Haftvan
Intense – Behzad KHalaj
For Sale – Randall Paul
Mermaid – Mehrali Ghazvini
Black Bear – Andrew Joshi
Stray Dog – Lewis Gribben
Inhale – Mehrdad Bakhshki
BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT FILM (DOMESTIC / US)
Artista Obscura – Betsy Sodaro
Skin – Danielle Macdonald
5 years gone – Aly Trasher
Buffalo & Trout – Brooke Coleman
The Hostess – Rosalie Alspach
The Big Nobody – Ogla Elliot
They Came and Left – Renee Lawless
BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT FILM (FOREIGN / NON US)
Guise – Faezeh Bakhtiar
Deus Otiosus (The Idle God) – Severine Howell-Meri
November 1st – Lindsay Duncan
November 1st – Sophia Myles
Henet Ward - Halima
For Sale – Octavia Gilmore
STOP INVASION! – Ludovica Di Donato
Inhale – Neda Asadi
The Last Composition – Sama Ranjabi
Intense – Fatemeh Nyshabori
A Dilemma - Sheng Yitong
DIRECTOR SHORT FILM (USA)
Artista Obsucra – Rhyan Schwartz
Skin – Guy Nattiv
The Speed of Time – William J. Stribling
5 years Gone – Katie Cleese
Carol Crawford – Brandon Haynes
Buffalo & Trout – Presley Paras
Rent’s Due – Kaitlin Kemp
Holy Hell – Nicholas W. Callais
They Came and Left – Franklin Fuentes
The Hostess – Rosalie Alspach
The Big Nobody – Jono Robertson
The Greatest Horror Film Ever Made – Brandon Jordon
The Dark Web - Andres Di Bono
Something Safe - Shaun Lupton
DIRECTOR SHORT FILM (INTERNATIONAL)
Deus Otiosus (The Idle God) – Mat Braddy
Sticker – Georgi M. Unkovski
Da Yie – Anthony Nti
Malakout – Farnoosh Abedi
Limbo – Ghasideh Golmakani
November 1st – Charlie Manton
Sin Cielo – Jianna Maarten
Guise – Ali Jalali
Henet Ward – Morad Mostafa
Inhale – Nasser Zamiri
Grabadora Sound – Cristiano Neila
Socks and Robbers – David Lilley
Intense - Shirin Sabour
Mermaid - Saber Mostafapour
Control - Mohsen Habibi
A Dilemma - Sam Lam
ENSEMBLE CAST SHORT FILM
Artista Obscura
Deus Otiosus (The Idle God)
Da Yie
Skin
The Speed of Time
Holy Hell! Or: a Profound Tale of Evil and Satanic Wickedness
Socks and Robbers
FEMALE DRIVEN SHORT FILM
5 years gone
Rent’s Due
Buffalo & Trout
The Hostess
The Big Nobody
Volcano Girls
Intense
BEST YOUTH TALENT IN A SHORT FILM
Da Yie
Skin
Control
Relentless
Sin Cielo
The Dark Web
FIRST TIME FILMMAKER FOR A SHORT FILM
Henet ward – Morad Mostafa
Deus Otiosus (The Idle God) – Mat Braddy
Artista Obscura – Rhyan Schwartz
Grabadora Sound – Cristiano Neila
Carol Crawford – Brandon Haynes
Buffalo & Trout – Presley Paras
Relentless – Dasani Nunez
YOUTH FILM AWARD
Dasani Nunez for outstanding achievement - Relentless
SPECIAL CATEGORIES TO BE ANNOUNCED LIVE AT FESTIVAL
FEATURE / SHORT FILM
BEST FIGHT SCENE
BEST COSTUME DESIGN SHORT FILM
BEST MAKEUP DESIGN SHORT FILM
INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD
BEST KISS
POWERFUL STATEMENT IN A FILM
BEST PLOT TWIST
BEST MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
BEST POSTER
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY SHORT FILM
BEST EDITING SHORT FILM
BEST CREDITS SEQUENCE
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY