Winners October 2020
BEST PICTURE
Shibil (Bulgaria)
Dir: Nikola Bozadzhiev
BEST FEATURE FILM
Shibil (Bulgaria)
Dir: Nikola Bozadzhiev
BEST FOREIGN FEATURE
Awauta (Japan)
Dir: Mile Nagaoka
BEST BRITISH FEATURE
Paracide (UK)
Dir: Paul Heron
BEST SHORT FILM
Then Came Thunder (Belgium)
Dir: Alexandra Kukoljac
BEST FOREIGN SHORT
Umoya (USA)
Dir: Jason Sterling
BEST ACTION/CRIME SHORT
Umoya (USA)
Dir: Jason Sterling
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
A Walk in the Forest (Canada)
Dir: Johanne Chagnon
BEST ANIMATION SHORT
Rescue Master Tang (Taiwan)
Dir: Adam Juang
BEST STUDENT FILM
The Sound of Stars (Japan)
Dir: Ijichi Takuro
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Start Your Impossible – 42 Impossible Kilometers (Turkey)
Dir: Muammer Koçak
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Romey Lynchings: A Story of Lebanese Immigrants (USA)
Dir: Josh Sabey
BEST WEB SERIES/TV PILOT
The Corona Dialogues (USA)
Dir: Dylan Brody
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY FEATURE
On Par
by Paul G. Andrews, Beth Kates
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT
After the Monsoon
by Richard Wilby
BEST TV PILOT SCRIPT
Imagination Park – The Audition
by Barry J. Smith
BEST FIRST TIME SCREENWRITER
Indian Summer
by Madhu Powar Garg
BEST DIRECTOR FEATURE
Nikola Bozadzhiev
‘Shibil’
BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
Paul Heron
‘Paracide’
BEST DIRECTOR SHORT
Dylan Brody
‘The Corona Dialogues’
BEST ACTRESS
Kate Orsini
‘The Corona Dialogues’
BEST CHILD/YOUNG ACTRESS
Erin Addison
‘Waiting Games’
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Steve Conway
‘Electrician’
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Ben Mowat & Joe Galuszka
‘The Firekeepers of Kakadu’
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
When the Bloom Has Left the Rose (Australia)
Dir: Brendan Young
BEST TRAILER
Umoya (USA)
Dir: Jason Sterling