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Winners - Bi-Monthly Competition - March/April 2021




Best Feature Film:
Diamond Awards:
Shellfish (Dir. Hunter Hopewell)
Driftless (Dir. Harper Philbin)

Platinum Awards:
Who are we ? (Dir. A.Hassan Keivan)
Orson Rehearsed (Dir. Daron Hagen)

Gold Award: After the Night with Valerie (Dir. Alex M. Garnett)
Silver Award: To Be You (Dir. Chad Eddy)
Bronze Award: Exchange Eternal (Dir. PAINT VK)

Best Short Film:

Diamond Awards:
OUT OF TIME (Dir. DELPHINE MONTAIGNE)
Remembrance (Dir. Shane Joseph Willis)
Stay Calm (Dir. Sam Quinn & Connor McLean)
A NEW YORK STORY (Dir. Paul Schwartz)
Tikkun Olam (Dir. Bob Ahmed)
Hunger (Dir. Mark Dollard)

Platinum Awards:
Perdition (Dir. Paul N Foster)
INSECURITY (Dir. Joshua Caleb Horton)
Sophie's Choices (Dir. Lily Narbonne & Phil Serzo)
Surrendering Nina (Dir. Jeremy Jung)
Take Me With You (Dir. Gary Memi)
Death Scene (Dir. Mando Franco)

Gold Awards:
Rubber and Glue (Dir. Cat Dale)
The Fix (Dir. Glenn Robert Ford)
Wheel Gone Kid (Dir. Wayne Kelly)
Falafel (Dir. NIKITA HATTANGADY)
A TATTOO for Christmas (Dir. Lee Ryan Coston)
Permafrost (Dir. Aeryn Lee)

Silver Awards:
The Confined (Dir. Christopher Picone)
Boy Wanted (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Wash Hands, Save Lives? (Dir. Stephen A. Schrum)
Assassinators: Into The Night (Dir. Amrik Singh Pabla & Javier Schialer)
Pandora's Box (Dir. Alex Rowan Cattell)

Bronze Awards:
LIFE (Dir. Amrik S. Pabla)
Blue Horizon (Dir. Tom Beaver)
Father's Day (Dir. Justin Rose)
The War after the War (Dir. Stone J Mason)
PERFECT TEN (Dir. Felicia Mead)

Best Documentary Feature:
Diamond Award: Jean-Marc Brignot and the things of Sado (Dir. Francoise Desbois)

Best Documentary Short:
Diamond Awards:
As Organism (Dir. Moe Taylor & Kathryn E F Taylor)
What happens in Mexico stays in Mexico (Dir. Shihyun Wang)

Platinum Award: Fighters in an invisible battle (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Gold Award: A guide on what not to do in Taiwan (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Silver Award: Covid Mystery - What happened in Mexico? (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Bronze Award: Thuggin' A New Generation (Dir. Downy Doxey-Marshall)

Best Animation Short:
Diamond Award: On / Off (Dir. Nicolas P. Villarreal)
Platinum Award: Graveyard Spiral (Dir. Evelyn Lee)

Best Experimental Short:
Diamond Award: That Eyelash (Dir. Irene Pantelis)
Platinum Award: Meeting A PS5 Scalper (Dir. Caleb Kurowski)
Gold Award: Hijack: Parkour (Dir. Jason Snellman)

Best New Mexico Short:
Diamond Award: Conductor (Dir. Royce Leii)
Platinum Award: Strand Castle (Dir. Keziah Anderson)
Gold Award: Permafrost (Dir. Aeryn Lee)
Silver Award: By The Tracks (Dir. Lanre Obisesan)

Best Pilot / Web Series:
Diamond Award: Daddydelphia (Dir. Harold Eric)
Platinum Award: Soiled Shorts: THE SERIES (Dir. Giles Sander)

Best Feature Script:
Diamond Award: Perfect World (Emil Faithe)
Platinum Award: Ballad of the Blood Moon Queen (Lawrence DeGala)

Best Music Video:
Diamond Award: I bow to thee O Mother (Dir. Aashish Rego)
Platinum Award: Darkside (Dir. John K.D. Graham)
Gold Award: GEORGE FLOYD: SAY THEIR NAMES (Dir. Christopher R. Owens & Alyssa Dann)
Silver Award: Poem by the stream - 水調歌頭 (Dir. Shihyun Wang)

Best Trailer:
Diamond Award: Perdition (Dir. Paul N Foster)
Platinum Award: Permafrost (Dir. Aeryn Lee)

@Home COVID-19 Categories
Projects created at home during COVID-19 quarantine

Best @Home COVID-19 Short Film:
Diamond Awards:
Blue Eyes (Dir. Peter Gould)
Covid Tales: House Party (Dir. Mike Spence)

Platinum Awards:
Face Time (Dir. Trey Murphy)
Divine Intervention (Dir. Peter Gould)

Gold Awards:
Q Mommas (Dir. Ashna Sharan)
Alter Ego Interviews (Dir. Kolbe Jackson)

Silver Award: Putland Road Dreamin' (Dir. Vince Breheny)

Bronze Award: Worshipped As Gods (Dir. Alex Rowan Cattell)

Best @Home COVID-19 Documentary Short:
Diamond Award: Another Father (Dir. Joe Lueben)
Platinum Award: Until We Live Again (Dir. Mathias Falcone)

Best @Home COVID-19 Experimental Short:
Diamond Award: The Pandemic Artist (Dir. Bob Belinoff)
Platinum Award: Zooming - Pandemic Dance No. 2 (Dir. Richard Daniels)
Gold Award: Pandora's Box (Dir. Alex Rowan Cattell)

Best Director:
Diamond Award: Daron Hagen (Orson Rehearsed)
Platinum Award: Paul Foster (Perdition)
Gold Award: Mando Franco (Death Scene)
Silver Award: Alex Rowan Cattell (Pandora's Box)

Best Screenplay:
Diamond Award: DELPHINE MONTAIGNE (OUT OF TIME)
Platinum Award: Paul Schwartz (A NEW YORK STORY)

Best Actor:
Diamond Awards:
Sam Stinson (After the Night with Valerie)
Micah Lyons (Perdition)

Platinum Award: Gentry Lee (Permafrost)
Gold Award: Thomas J. O'Brien (The Confined)
Silver Award: Vernon Reed (The War after the War)
Bronze Award: Kolbe Jackson (Alter Ego Interviews)

Best Actress:
Diamond Awards:
Monique Candelaria (Driftless)
Carly Christopher (After the Night with Valerie)

Platinum Award: Brooke Lyons (Perdition)
Gold Award: Naomi Lindh (Sophie's Choices)
Silver Award: Rita Jagpal-Mohan (Wheel Gone Kid)
Bronze Award: Meghan McNeil (Permafrost)

Best Supporting Actor:
Diamond Award: Bill Foster (Perdition)
Platinum Award: Reece Jagpal-Mohan (Wheel Gone Kid)

Best Editing:
Diamond Award: Paul Foster (Perdition)

Best Cinematography:
Diamond Award: Tye Jackson (Perdition)

Best Original Score:
Diamond Award: New Mercury Collective (Orson Rehearsed)
Platinum Award: Jeremy Jung (Surrendering Nina)
Gold Award: Christopher R. Owens (GEORGE FLOYD: SAY THEIR NAMES)
Silver Award: Cody Read (Permafrost)

Best Sound Design:
Diamond Award: Jeffery Alan Jones (Graveyard Spiral)
Platinum Award: Daron Hagen (Orson Rehearsed)
Gold Award: Jeremy Jung (Surrendering Nina)
Silver Award: Cody Read (Permafrost)



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