Winners - Bi-Monthly Competition - August 2018

Best Feature Film:
Diamond Award: Bent On Somnolence (Timothy McCarthy)
Platinum Award: Gregoire (Cody Bown)

Gold Awards:
If I Could Run (Shawn Welling)
Henry VIII and his queens (Shihyun Wang)

Silver Award: Aliens With Knives (Struan Sutherland)
Bronze Award: The History of Everything Circa 1993 to the Present F/K/A Kissy Cousins Monster Babies and Morphing Elvis (Wayne Keeley)

Best Short Film:

Diamond Awards:
Chemistry 101 (Mike Reft)
RISK (Tina Novak)
Killing Adam (Dino Sardella)
Memory Box (Karl Shefelman)
Showcase (Deniz Baser)
The Film Festival (Brian Kennington)

Platinum Awards:
On the Fence (Luciana Caplan)
戲長夢多 - Opera and Opera performers in Taiwan (Shihyun Wang)
Silent Love Stories-II (Amr Al-Hariri)
15 Feet (Adielenah J Perez)
A Date With Shillelagh (Jeff Stewart)

Gold Awards:
Dream Builder - The Hansen Chu Story (Shihyun Wang)
The Assassin's Apprentice (Russ Emanuel)
I LOVE YOU TRULY (Ian Woodward)
Henry VIII's First Wife- Catherine of Aragon (Shihyun Wang)
Sweet Tears - Fight against Diabetes (Shihyun Wang)

Silver Awards:
The Accused Mother (Shihyun Wang)
Prime Suspects (Shihyun Wang)
The Accused Brother (Shihyun Wang)
Don't steal my heart! (Shihyun Wang)
Henry 8th's 5th wife - Queen Catherine Howard (Shihyun Wang)

Bronze Awards:
Henry 8th's 6th wife - Queen Katherine Parr (Shihyun Wang)
The Lottery (Robert Butler)
Tudor Tales - Queen Jane Seymour (Shihyun Wang)
Henry 8th's Second Wife - Anne Boleyn (Shihyun Wang)
Henry 8th's 4th wife -Anne of Cleves (Shihyun Wang)

Best Documentary Feature:
Diamond Award: Blood & Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club (Michael Maniglia)

Platinum Awards:
Decode 2018 crop circle messages (Shihyun Wang)
"The Reality Behind What We See" ~The Poet, Yoshimasu Gozo, in Kyoto~ (HARUO INOUE)

Gold Award: Journey to Hope (Anita Kruse)
Silver Award: The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything (The Church of Almighty God)
Bronze Award: Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists (John L Potash)

Best Documentary Short:

Diamond Awards:
2018 LA - One Hit Wonder (Shihyun Wang)
Cause of Death - Kate & Anthony (Shihyun Wang)

Platinum Awards:
PASSENGER (Dana Beasley)
Budget Travel for Dummies (Shihyun Wang)

Gold Awards:
I got robbed! - But they said it was my fault (Shihyun Wang)
Corps in fields with troubles from above - Crop circle July 2 - July 8, 2018 (Shihyun Wang)

Silver Awards:
The journey of our souls (Shihyun Wang)
Spiral and Wave - Two July 14, 2018 crop circles (Shihyun Wang)

Bronze Award: 4 Crop circle messages you don't want to miss (Shihyun Wang)

Best Animation Short:
Diamond Award: Fake News (Joachim Weber)
Platinum Award: Where the Jungle Ends (Joe Stucky)
Gold Award: Not Your Panda (Tigris Alt Sakda)
Silver Award: Icons (Ronnie Cramer)

Best New Mexico Short:
Diamond Award: Slasher (Nicholas Kerekes)

Best Pilot / Web Series:
Diamond Award: Silent Love Stories-II (Amr Al-Hariri)
Platinum Award: CALL ME - Episode 12 - We Are Done (Arek Zasowski)

Best Feature Script:
Diamond Award: The Hero of the World (Staci Greason & Linda Hill)
Platinum Award: WHITE WOLF, BLACK WOLF (FLORENCE NAHON)
Gold Award: THE COLOR OF EVIL (Connie Corcoran Wilson, M.S.)

Best Music Video:
Diamond Award: The Waxidermist - The Snow (PIERRE JAMPY)
Platinum Award: Unhappy Holiday (Anna Haas)
Gold Award: Long time (Cassandre Émanuel)
Silver Award: Silent Love Stories-II (Amr Al-Hariri)

Best Trailer:
Diamond Award: On the Fence (Luciana Caplan)
Platinum Award: Sweetest Taboo (Kathryn L. Scurry)

Best Director:

Diamond Awards:
Dino Sardella (Killing Adam)
Shawn Welling (If I Could Run)
Haruo Inoue ("The Reality Behind What We See" ~The Poet, Yoshimasu Gozo, in Kyoto~)

Platinum Awards:
Luciana Caplan (On the Fence)
Shihyunn Wang (戲長夢多 - Opera and Opera performers in Taiwan)
Amr Al-Hariri (Silent Love Stories-II)

Gold Awards:
Shihyun Wang (Dream Builder - The Hansen Chu Story)
Ian Woodward (I LOVE YOU TRULY)

Silver Awards:
Shihyun Wang (Sweet Tears - Fight against Diabetes)
Shihyun Wang (Prime Suspects)

Bronze Awards:
Shihyun Wang (Henry VIII and his queens)
Shihyun Wang (Don't steal my heart!)

Best Screenplay:

Diamond Awards:
Mike Reft (Chemistry 101)
Dino Sardella (Killing Adam)
Shihyun Wang (Cause of Death - Kate & Anthony)

Platinum Awards:
Luciana Caplan & Melanie Caplan (On the Fence)
Shihyunn Wang (戲長夢多 - Opera and Opera performers in Taiwan)
Carol Younkin (Journey to Hope)

Gold Awards:
Shihyun Wang & Sean Chen (I got robbed! - But they said it was my fault)
Shihyun Wang (Dream Builder - The Hansen Chu Story)
Shihyun Wang (Sweet Tears - Fight against Diabetes)

Silver Awards:
John L Potash (Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists)
Shihyun Wang (Prime Suspects)

Bronze Awards:
Shihyun Wang (Henry VIII and his queens)
Shihyun Wang (Don't Steal My Heart!)

Best Actor:

Diamond Awards:
Antonio Lujack (Silent Love Stories-II)
Michael Mantone (On the Fence)

Platinum Award: Hansen Chu (Dream Builder - The Hansen Chu Story)
Gold Award: Rhett Gundling (The Accused Brother)
Silver Award: Robert Krueger (Henry VIII and His Queens)
Bronze Award: Arthur Cartwright (The Lottery)

Best Actress:

Diamond Awards:
Holly Stevens (Aliens With Knives)
Preslee Tucker (If I Could Run)
Kelly Cunningham (Silent Love Stories-II)

Platinum Awards:
Jill Galbraith (On the Fence)
Yulin Zheng (戲長夢多 - Opera and Opera performers in Taiwan)
Eleanor Burke (A Date With Shillelagh)

Gold Awards:
Brit Stiles (Tudor Tales - Queen Jane Seymour)
Joanne Shen (Sweet Tears - Fight against Diabetes)
Barbara Wilder (The Accused Mother)

Silver Awards:
Haley Hudson (Don't steal my heart!)
Christina Evans (Henry 8th's 5th wife - Queen Catherine Howard)
Katherine Pegova (Henry 8th's 6th wife - Queen Katherine Parr)

Bronze Awards:
Barbara Wilder (Henry VIII's First Wife- Catherine of Aragon)
Sophie Hoffman (Henry 8th's Second Wife - Anne Boleyn)
Charlie Parker (Henry 8th's 4th wife -Anne of Cleves)

Best Supporting Actress:
Diamond Award: Sayaka Vera (Silent Love Stories-II)

Best Editing:

Diamond Awards:
Shawn Welling (If I Could Run)
Erik Sanchez (Journey to Hope)

Platinum Awards:
Sophano Van (On the Fence)
Shihyun Wang (Prime Suspects)

Gold Award: Amr Al-Hariri (Silent Love Stories-II)
Silver Award: Patryk Czekalski (A Date With Shillelagh)
Bronze Award: Brent Hannigan (Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists)

Best Cinematography:

Diamond Awards:
Nicola De Prato (Killing Adam)
Shawn Welling (If I Could Run)

Platinum Awards:
Sophano Van (On the Fence)
Jerry Dupree, Brett Sacks, Shihyun Wang, James Chen (Henry VIII and His Queens)

Gold Award: Amr Al-Hariri (Silent Love Stories-II)
Silver Award: Erik Sanchez (Journey to Hope)
Bronze Award: Hansen Chu (Dream Builder - The Hansen Chu Story)

Best Original Score:

Diamond Awards:
Santiago Velarde (Killing Adam)
Don Miller (If I Could Run)

Platinum Awards:
Phillip Hall & Anita Kruse (Journey to Hope)
Kaden Hariri & Deanna Delore (Silent Love Stories-II)

Gold Awards:
Composer-Derek Fiechter, lyrics-Shihyun Wang, vocals-Hansen Chu (Dream Builder - The Hansen Chu Story)
Derek & Brandon Fiechter and Shihyun Wang (Don't Steal My Heart!)

Silver Award: Casey David Ward (Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists)
Bronze Award: Jeremy Atkins & Nykko Lazar (The Lottery)

Best Visual FX:
Diamond Award: Shihyun Wang (Prime Suspects)
Platinum Award: Booster Mostyn (The Lottery)

Best Narrator:
Diamond Award: Timothy McCarthy (Bent On Somnolence)

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