July – September 2024 – 1st period Awards

These are the winners of awards of July – September 2024 – 1st period Awards

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Best Film: Marcello in the Branches – Stephan Bookas, Giorgia Amodio – Italy

Best International Film
WINNER: I’ll be back in spring – Kliment Tihhonov – Estonia
HONORABLE MENTION: The song of the mad god – Sixtum – Usa

Best Italian Film
WINNER: L’Immaginazione di un Bambino – Cesare Catania – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Daydream – Francesco Zarcone – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: E questo mi basta – Antonella Emilio – Italy

Best European Film
WINNER: Unborn biru – Inga Elin Marakatt – Norway
HONORABLE MENTION: (ECM) Electronic Crime Music – Charlotte Webb – United Kingdom

Best Asian Film
WINNER: Damp – Xuan Liu, Ru-Sin Chang – Taiwan
HONORABLE MENTION: Around U – Li-Wei Chou, Yong-Qing Zhang – Taiwan

Best American Film
WINNER: Homecoming – David R. Hardberger – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Small Things – Angela Andronache – Usa

Best Lombard film
WINNER: The Whispering Peak – Pietro Vaglieri – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Rubikon – Fabrizio Arrigo – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Operazione Madonnina – Emilio Emma – Italy

Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes)
WINNER: Make Money – I-Chieh Teng, Tzu-Chin Chou, Yu-Fen Chen – Taiwan
HONORABLE MENTION: Ennui – Tzu-Chi Tseng, Yi-Hsuan Huang, Gwo-Yueh Chin, Chiao-Yuan Wu, Yi-Syun Ciou – Taiwan

Best Super Short (between 5 and 10 minutes)
WINNER: Metal Flower – Seoyun Kim – Republic of Korea
HONORABLE MENTION – Antis – Shi-Ting Hong, Wei-Ting Wu – Taiwan

Best Standard Short (between 10 and 20 minutes)
WINNER: The Monopol – Gal Genossar – Israel
HONORABLE MENTION: Bail Out – Dennis O’Neill – Usa

Best Medium Lenght (under 60 min)
WINNER: A little prayer – Takashi Miwa – Japan
HONORABLE MENTION: The Eyes Of The World – Robert Monegan – Usa

Best Original Idea
WINNER: LEVEL 664 – to get rid of conscience – Gábor Klacsán – Hungary
HONORABLE MENTION: Keeper of the Night Sky – Karina Loerchner – Canada

Best Low Budget Film
WINNER: Nix’s Symphony – Karina Loerchner – Canada
HONORABLE MENTION: Bob the Builder Animated Parody 2 – Phil Rigby – United Kingdom

Best Nocturnal Film
WINNER: Core – Yu-Hsiang Chen – Taiwan
HONORABLE MENTION: Stone free – Bo-Wei Wang – Taiwan

Best Experimental
WINNER: Bile Viola – Chiara Rossi – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: This is This – Keith Sargent – United Kingdom

Best Silent Film
WINNER: Stay – Hsin-Yun Hseih, Chun-Hsiang Chang, Cai-Tong Yu – Taiwan
HONORABLE MENTION: Puzzle – You-Qing Wang, Yu-Wen Chen – Taiwan

Best Debut Film
WINNER: Make me murder – Rahel Peker – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Droplets Dance – Tsai-Yeah Liu, Yu-Tong Lee – Taiwan

NIGHT AWARDS

Best Parody
WINNER: Don’t Be A Pussy – Josh Block – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: News at 11 – VJ Maury – Usa

Best Dark Comedy
WINNER: Hit man – Jun Yoriko – Japan
HONORABLE MENTION: Autographed By God – Bill Doty – Usa

Best Satire
WINNER: Sting – Evan Rivard – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Fandemonium – Benjamin Suchman – Usa

Best Tragicomic Film
WINNER: The Widows of BirdLuck – Anwar Defrancesco – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Chondros – Iacopo Gattei – Italy

Best Mockumentary
WINNER: The Stone Window – Carlos Pires Silveira – Portugal
HONORABLE MENTION: Shaping Kulture – Joseph Vialpando – Usa

Best Documentary
WINNER: Axé, Salvador! – Domenico Rodolfo Grillone – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Sul Filo Dei Cento Anni – Armir Curo – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Anime nel fango – Ettore Zito – Italy

Best Dystopian Sci-Fi
WINNER: Dopamining – Jyot Bhalla – Australia
HONORABLE MENTION: Drone Runner II – Vincent Scuro – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: She Came From Outer Space! – Simon King – Usa

Best Comedy Sci-Fi
WINNER: Transmission – Muy Lang Linda Ung – Australia
HONORABLE MENTION: HDA (Historias De Amor) – Javier Artigas – Spain

Best Philosophical Film
WINNER: Battle of the Bands – Roberta Rockwell – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: First Encounter – Marielle Madly Gonier – Australia

Best Existential Drama
WINNER: Ghosts in the Blood – Raphael Buisson Enlas – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION – Limbo – Giuseppe Fazio – Italy

Best Action Drama
WINNER: Daylight – Peter Cornwell – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Mea Culpa – Simone Carpi – Italy

Best Crime Drama
WINNER: Brothers – Dorian Goto Stone – Japan
HONORABLE MENTION: 125 – David Robert Hardberger – Usa

Best Noir
WINNER: Mermaid – Jun Yoriko – Japan

Best Drama Thriller
WINNER: Turning Tables – Dan Dockery, Jennifer Prettyman – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Who are you? – Szakács Szilvia – Hungary

Best Psychological Thriller
WINNER: Help – Claudio Landi – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Ultima – Thorsten Frenzel – Germany
HONORABLE MENTION: Disorders – Giovanni Margotto – Italy

Best Fantasy Drama
WINNER: Inspire – Jobin Kuruvilla George – Australia
HONORABLE MENTION: King – Filip Harm – Croatia

Best Historical Drama
WINNER: The price of tears – Nicolas Spanoudis – France
HONORABLE MENTION: The Stones of Rome – Sean Tansey – Greece

Best Romantic Drama
WINNER: Touching knees – Victoria Schultz – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: L’effet papillon – Noémie Céline Kleimann – France

Best Family
WINNER: Sobre su cabeza – Fernando Mol – Mexico
HONORABLE MENTION: Let’s roll – Sandra Cruze – Usa

Best Horror
WINNER: Brother – Myles McEwen, Ripley Stevens – Australia
HONORABLE MENTION

Best Surreal Film
WINNER: Northeastern Trees – Shane Joseph Hurley – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Abaddon – Geoffroy C. Dedenis – France

Best Animation
WINNER: Lover – Ching-Wen Yang, Sho-Hua Wang, Zhi-Kou Zhai – Taiwan
HONORABLE MENTION: Leef and Tadpol – Chase Eraina – United Kingdom

Best LGBTQ+
WINNER: What are you having? – Skyler Todd – Canada
HONORABLE MENTION: Gary and Randy – Lary Campbell – Usa

TECHNICAL AWARDS

Best Director
WINNER: The Dead Woman – Dianna Ippolito – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Dark room – Rogelio Robles – Usa

Best Young Director
WINNER: Bad dog – Daxton DiPiazza – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: The Method – Jackson Martini – Russia

Best Soundtrack
WINNER: Entre les autres – Marie Alice Falys – Belgium
HONORABLE MENTION: An Ever After Drama – Michelle Lynn – Usa

Best Editing
WINNER: Four Episodes from 1984 – Marshall Peterson – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: French Psych Ward – Logan Aldrich – France

Best Screenplay
WINNER: Drive – Robert Monegan – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: I love you – Rafael Maria Friebe – Germany

Best Cinematography
WINNER: Tempus Transit – Zoran Veljkovic – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Una seconda occasione – Andrea Di Bartolo – Italy

Best Vfx
WINNER: We have a cat – Dane Helg – Australia
HONORABLE MENTION: Window Frame: A Year of Poems to a Tree – Deborah Harford – Canada

Best Actor/Actress
WINNER: Boy meets boy – Mike Azevedo – Canada
HONORABLE MENTION: Zury – Milcania Diaz-Rojas – Canada

Best Producer
WINNER: I’m alive – Kliment Tihhonov – Estonia
HONORABLE MENTION: The Days of Knight – John P Martinez – Usa

Best Makeup, Hairstyling or Costumes
WINNER: The Mine – Alessandro Sivieri, Daniel Lama – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: E pur si muove – Antonio Malfitano – Italy

Best Title
WINNER: Boots on the Ground for Art – Kevin Hanzlik – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: But I Want to Leave the Party – Gilles Plouffe – Canada

Best Movie Poster
WINNER: Abbandonati – Fabrizio Speranza – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Paris-BreathlessWeekend – Neil Harvey, Jon Hammerbeck – Usa