1st Period Awards
June – September 2023

1st Period Awards
June – September 2023

MAIN CATEGORIES
BEST FILM - The One Note Man - George C. Siougas – United Kindom 
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM – Harvey - Aaron Carroll – Australia 
BEST ITALIAN FILM – La ballata dei Miserabili - Giovanni Suriano - Italy
BEST EUROPEAN FILM – The Winning Ticket - Benoît Belvans - France
BEST MICRO SHORT (UNDER 5 MINUTES) – MacGuffin - ZONG-YI SIE - Taiwan
BEST SUPER SHORT (BETWEEN 5 AND 10 MINUTES) - The Packages - Kevin Reeves - Canada
BEST ORIGINAL IDEA – Don’t Pick Up - Melanie Kaklamanis - Canada
BEST LOW BUDGET - The CoffeePot - Jared Groenewegen - Canada
BEST HORROR - Swipe Right - Lucy Turner - USA
BEST CRIME/ACTION - Mr. Mimoto - Govind Chandran – United Kindom
BEST THRILLER - Just Call me Jenny - Eva Louis - USA
BEST SCI-FY/FANTASY – BEHIND - WUN-WEI WU, YAN JHU, CHONG-YAN CHEN, YUAN-FEI WANG – Taiwan 
BEST DOCUMENTARY - Down In Flames; The True Story of Tony 'Volcano' Valenci - William Joseph Stribling - USA

COMEDY AWARDS
Best Parody – Bottom Shelf Wine Connoisseurs – Brenden Davis, Meagan Johnson- USA
Best Dark Comedy –2 Truths & A Lie – Brandon Haynes – USA
Best Satire – B for Art– Anna Douare – France
Best Tragicomic Film – Best of Three– Katherine Press – United Kindom
Best Cringe Comedy – Love Hurts– Søren Bregendal, Hannah Madeleine- Denmark
Best Mockumentary – Dad Bod Dale– Carly Fawcett – Canada
Best Stereotype Comedy – Bitter Sun– Joseph Rossi – Canada
Best Physical Comedy – The Writer’s Room– Diego Ramos – USA
Best Laughing out loud Film – A funny joke – Anthony Seto – Canada
Best Experimental Comedy – Capricieux’s Quest – C.A. Nicola – USA
Best Animated Comedy – Hide Out – PIN-CHEN LIOU, KAI-YING FANG, CI-YUN CAI, HAN-NA CAI – Taiwan

TECHNICAL AWARDS
BEST DIRECTOR – The colour of her eyes – Daniel Blunck – Usa
BEST EDITING –Resolution – CIAN-HUA HUANG – Taiwan
BEST SCREENPLAY – Connor’s Cake – Chris Carpenter – USA
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Eureka – CI-LUN SYU – Taiwan
BEST SOUNDTRACK – Gun of a preacher man – Ray Brady – United Kindom
BEST VFX – Vital Tech – Matias Luge – Germany
BEST TITLE – DRINK IN THE PAIN – E.J. Acosta, Josh Graydon, Jake Graydon, Rob Graydon, USA
BEST ACTOR – Girl Talk! – Kyle Riggs – USA
BEST ACTRESS – Men Only – Louise Mardenborough – United Kindom
BEST POSTER – NeRDMAN or (The Unexplainable Imagination of Reece Fisher) –
Erica Sherwood, Jason Lupish – Canada

SCREENPLAY
BEST SCREENPLAY [SCRIPT] – Overdue – Janna Jones – USA
BEST EUROPEAN SCREENPLAY [SCRIPT] – Birth of a Demon – the Tale of George, Groom of the Stool –
Mark A. C. Brown – United Kindom
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY (under 10 pages) [SCRIPT] – Chatter -Catherine Stanley – USA

HONORABLE MENTION
The Painter – Kevin Reeves – Canada
Under Offer – Vincenzo Pellegrino – United Kingdom
Six pieds sous terre – Matthieu Haag – France
Great Style – Martin Strange-Hansen – Denmark
Death by King Cake – Janssen Swent, David Luck – Usa
Bitter Brownies – James Carman – Usa
Who Killed The Unicorn – YU-TING LIOU – Taiwan
Train to Varanasi – Said Tulyaganov – Uzbekistan
Real Estate – Laurence Rosier Staines – Australia
Space Eye – Kevin Mainenti – Croatia