Winners - Bi-Monthly Competition - July 2020

Best Feature Film:
Diamond Award: Hunger (Dir. Manu Herrera)
Platinum Award: Blanche (Dir. Twila LaBar)
Gold Award: Berlin, Connecticut (Dir. Tristan St Germain)
Silver Award: Chantage (Dir. Richard J. Arens)

Best Short Film:

Diamond Awards:
Sycamore (Dir. Mehmet Tığlı)
Luminous (Dir. Than Niles)
The Widow (Dir. Brendan Young)
What We Become (Dir. Stephen P. Davis)

Platinum Awards:
In Your Arms Tonight (Dir. Jonathan Gonzales)
Making History (Dir. Yann Mokhtari)
INVERTED (Dir. Edwin Escobar)
CIRCLES (Dir. Jerry Keys)

Gold Awards:
Doors (Dir. Caleb Harris)
Once Upon A Place (Dir. Anthony Hollis & Juan Felipe)
Sorry, mommy is on the phone (Dir. Shihyun Wang)

Silver Awards:
Somewhere Alive (Dir. Tyler Johnson)
Rest Stop (Dir. Joshua Lozano)
MIDDLEMAN (Edwin Escobar)

Bronze Award:
Who is the daddy? (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Propaganda (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
MOMMY INTERN (Dir. Shihyun Wang)

Best Documentary Feature:
Diamond Award: A CONVERSATION WITH AMERICA (Dir. Jim Kroft)
Platinum Award: Return To Life (Dir. Doug Dearth)
Gold Award: Nostradamus on Plague - warned, ignored and fulfilled (Dir. Shihyun Wang)

Best Documentary Short:

Diamond Awards:
Tumbling Towards Home (Dir. Imelda O'Reilly)
The warrior in my family (Dir. Shihyun Wang)

Platinum Award: Flood in Ancient Prophecies (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Gold Award: Pole Shift? Ice cracking? Virus Spreading? What else is in these five 2020 crop circles (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Silver Award: 2020's first crop circle message (Dir. Shihyun Wang)
Bronze Award: Marilyn (Dir. Shihyun Wang)

Best Animation Short:
Diamond Award: The Mandrake (Dir. Quincy William Baltes)
Platinum Award: The Chair (Dir. Ronnie Cramer)
Gold Award: Sana, Sana... Un Dicho (Dir. Diego Romero)

Best Experimental Short:
Diamond Award: CLOSED (Dir. Maximilian hillmer)
Platinum Award: From Kyoto, with love (Dir. Yann Carpentier)

Best New Mexico Feature:
Diamond Award: Return To Life (Dir. Doug Dearth)

Best New Mexico Short:
Diamond Award: Holy Water (Dir. Noor-un-nisa Touchon)
Platinum Award: Art (Dir. Arturo Anzures)

Best Pilot / Web Series:
Diamond Award: Brazzy Jazzy (Dir. Steve Becker)

Best Feature Script:
Diamond Award: Protector of the Emerald City (Kevin J. Howard)
Platinum Award: Pizza Dough (George Massimillo)
Gold Award: The Seedling (Kevin J. Howard)
Silver Award: Totah (Kevin Goss)
Bronze Award: Faithful Shadow (Kevin J. Howard)

Best Short Film Script:
Diamond Award: Come Along, Harry Higgins (Kevin Machate)
Platinum Award: Guérisseur-Héros (Healer-Hero) (Danny Cotton)

Best Music Video:
Diamond Award: Holy Water (Dir. Noor-un-nisa Touchon)
Platinum Award: Doter Sweetly - Baby Boy (Dir. Peter Phillips)

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

Best @Home COVID-19 Short Film:

Diamond Awards:
The Killing of Time (Dir. Neil Murphy)
And finally searching in time (Dir. Giulia Maffei & Giorgia Arena)

Platinum Awards:
flycatcher (Dir. guillermo trujillo accini)
I See You Now (Dir. Tara Gadomski)

Gold Awards:
Day One (Dir. Ryan Cervasio)
Rest Stop (Dir. Joshua Lozano)

Silver Awards:
Chicken Soup (Dir. Taylor Gates)
Dystopian Snow Globe (Dir. Charlotte Wincott)

Bronze Award: Realms of Dreams (Dir. Shihyun Wang)

Best @Home COVID-19 Documentary Short/Music Video:
Diamond Award: "World Premiere Video" - The Music Video that survived after Music Television didn't (Dir. Mike J. Nichols)
Platinum Award: And the People (Dir. Marion Bergin & Julia Ngeow)

Best @Home COVID-19 Experimental Short:
Diamond Award: Q di Q (Dir. Gianmarco Donaggio)
Platinum Award: REPRISE (Dir. Özümcan Akın)

Best Director:

Diamond Awards:
Brendan Young (The Widow)
Stephen P. Davis (What We Become)

Platinum Award: Jonathan Gonzales (In Your Arms Tonight)
Gold Award: Caleb Harris (Doors)
Silver Award: Joshua Lozano (Rest Stop)
Bronze Award: Charlotte Wincott (Dystopian Snow Globe)

Best Screenplay:
Diamond Award: Jonathan Gonzales (In Your Arms Tonight)
Platinum Award: Richard J. Arens (Chantage)
Gold Award: Joshua Lozano (Rest Stop)

Best Actor:
Diamond Award: Mahmut Gökgöz (Sycamore)
Platinum Award: Steve Bastoni (The Widow)
Gold Award: Mike Callahan (I See You Now)
Silver Award: Hector Dez (In Your Arms Tonight)
Bronze Award: Jeff Wincott (Dystopian Snow Globe)

Best Actress:
Diamond Award: Daniela Farinacci (The Widow)
Platinum Award: Amy Russ (I See You Now)
Gold Award: Patricia Montes (In Your Arms Tonight)
Silver Award: Nina Vivaci (Chantage)

Best Supporting Actor:
Diamond Award: Ivan Orozco (In Your Arms Tonight)
Platinum Award: Wolfgang Wincott (Dystopian Snow Globe)

Best Supporting Actress:
Diamond Award: Veronica Perez-Torres (In Your Arms Tonight)

Best Editing:
Diamond Award: Jonathan Gonzales (In Your Arms Tonight)
Platinum Award: Richard J. Arens (Chantage)

Best Cinematography:
Diamond Award: Erkan Șimșir-Gokhan Deniz (Sycamore)
Platinum Award: Maximilian Hillmer (CLOSED)
Gold Award: Diego Davila (In Your Arms Tonight)
Silver Award: Edwin Escobar (INVERTED)
Bronze Award: Luis Moreno Ramirez (Rest Stop)

Best Original Score:
Diamond Award: Catherine McQuade (The Widow)
Platinum Award: Enrique Ponce (In Your Arms Tonight)
Gold Award: Annessa Hernandez (Rest Stop)

Best Visual FX:
Diamond Award: Jarrod Davis (Luminous)

Best Narrator:
Diamond Award: Brian Cox (A CASTLE IN BROOKLYN, KING ARTHUR)

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