Winners Dec 2023 - Apr 2024
⭐️Star of Venice: Feature Film (includes 6 Nominations)
DARKING WAY
Zsolt Pozsgai
UNION
Whitney Hamilton
Run Baby Run
Toni Andújar
⭐️Star of Venice: Short Film (includes 6 Nominations)
The Seal of Death 2
Harris Josey
DATING AUDREY
Dan Hertzog
Youth, Sweet Old Age...
Diana Stefanescu
⭐️Star of Venice: Feature Documentary (includes Nominations)
A Refugee's Guide to Rome
Ted Efremoff
Stromboli – as long as the heart beats
Hanspeter Aliesch
Sky So Blue
Michael J. Finnegan, David L. Trapasso Jr., Tim Oliver
⭐️Star of Venice: Short Documentary (includes 5 Nominations)
RISE LIKE A PHOENIX
Carl Hunter
Life without a Heartbeat
Wolfgang Christoph Schmiedt, Lutz Hofmann
Enfield Is Prayer - Mystery of the Palm Leaf Library
Pavi Lustig
⭐️Star of Venice: Feature Experimental Film (includes 5 Nominations)
Playground 2013-14
Erdogan Bulut
A Matter of Perspective
Gerda Leopold
Night From the 4th to 5th
Isabelle Bartkowiak
⭐️Star of Venice: Short Experimental Film (includes 5 Nominations)
Doodle
Mo Caicedo
Lose me not
Desmond Hudson, Nina Zogg
Seventh Capital Day
Nicola Barsottelli
⭐️Star of Venice: Feature script (includes 3 Nominations)
The Secret Codex
Kevin Pike, Hans Sluijter
Mon Meilleur Ami
Bruce Robert Notman
Alta California
Lynn H. Elliott
⭐️Star of Venice: Short script (includes 3 Nominations)
THE DIVINE
Clemente Esparza, II
when skies are grey
Lucas Ruderman
The making of 'Uncle Payback'
Daniel Bodenmann
⭐️Best Feature Film
PASSACAGLIA
Ryosuke Handa
ISOLATED PEOPLE
Jun Wang
Tom and Luce
Muxel Paule
⭐️Best Director Feature Film
The Vanishing Algorithm
Emily Harrington
Mambo Man
Mo Fini, Edesio Alejandro
PASSACAGLIA
Ryosuke Handa
⭐️Best Short Film
Bitter Brownies
James Carman
LOVERS
Joe Paul Kienast
gEARS, a factory fairy tale
Carlo Magrì
Displaced
Rob Hart
Just A Minute/Chwila Moment/一瞬の出来事
Maciej Szkonter
Gjurmë (Trails)
Gentian Doda, Dimo Kirilov Milev
⭐️Best Director Short Film
Bruce
Jake Ronnow, Kiyah Henson
The Eve - Short film 2015
Luca Machnich
HELP
Lesley Manning
⭐️Best Feature Documentary
Nafkot - Yearning
Malka Shabtay
Wielding the soul
Arantxa Vela
Arkadaşloch - Nobody's Problem
Nilay Kılınç, Markus Bauer, Alexander Brugger
Genghis Heroes
Bia Chuluun
System Change - A story of growing resistance
Klaus Sparwasser
Kim Kahana: The Man who changed Hollywood
Frank Sollecito
⭐️Best Director Feature Documentary
Wielding the soul
Arantxa Vela
Nafkot - Yearning
Malka Shabtay
⭐️Best Short Documentary
#WAY_Aurelio
Alan Rexroth
Ladakh India
Martin Zalba
CaSSIS. Mars Demystified
Tatiana Keller
the sky is the limit
Mirka Anderson
The Year of the Robot
GELLIE YVES
Skull Crack - Covid Safe Domestic Violence By The State, Chapter III
Mark A Tarrant
⭐️Best Director Short Documentary
Welcome to Watertown
Kat Dubrow
⭐️Best Experimental Film
The Stix
Adam Marley
THE RED HOUR
Juan Carlos Díaz Amaya
Switch
Desiree Faust, Stefana D. Brancastle
HEARTWORK
Benjamin Filinson
The Seventh Seal
Jacek Krawczyk
Santa Guerra
Samantha Casella
Soldier Island
Charly Santagado
⭐️Best Director Experimental Film
Eicha: The Book of Lumenations
Adeena Michelle Karasick
Santa Guerra
Samantha Casella
⭐️Best Inspirational Film
Youth, Sweet Old Age...
Diana Stefanescu
The Esteemed Priority
Al Bohl
Dream of a Sedentary Traveler
Hans Werner Wuest
⭐️Best Student Film
The show ends twice
SHOTA KAMITANI
The Hound
Melissa Arcak
The Deep End
Andrew Gerstenblatt
⭐️Best Director Student Film
The Magician
Brielle S. Carroll
⭐️Best Directorial Debut (First-Time Director)
SHIRONAM
INDRANIL GHOSH
Coffee - a short movie
Micke Askernäs
Chef D'oeuvre Film D'art
Chris Armienti
⭐️Best Animation
A Little Story
Nada Serhan
Doodle
Mo Caicedo
No More Distracted Driving!
Kan Sasaki
Fireflies and Footprints
Jiwoo Park
Baroque Bodies (Ambient Portals)
Laura Splan
⭐️Best Director Animation
Idiot
Dušan Davidov
Doodle
Mo Caicedo
⭐️Best Independent Film
Like a GOD
Stefania Simoni, Giorgio Messina
Under Tension
Mireille Fiévet
WHERE IS IDA
Petra Zoepnek
⭐️Best Director Independent Film
C19 TRITTICO PANDEMICO
DANIELE MARCHIONI
⭐️Best Feature Script
The Deputy
Paul Corricelli
STAY WITH ME
Pozsgai Zsolt
Trail Of Tears
Hans Sluijter
Coal Dust Dreams
Barbara West
Jozefin Escapes
Pamela PerryGoulardt
Hellgate
Fiore DeRosa
⭐️Best Short Script
The Unseen
Naomi Beukes
At The Flash
Sean Chandler, David Leeper
A WRITER IN THE DARKNESS
GIUSEPPE DE VUONO
⭐️Best Original Concept
SIEMPRE
Felipe Ibáñez
Seahawks Throwback
Madeline Down
Lemonade of Love
Lars T Midthun
I Had an Affair, or did I?
Barbara Becker Holstein
Ancestors From the Stars
Joe McNeal
SACRED SUN
Michael Louis Gould
⭐️Best Author
The Seven
Igor Stefanovic
⭐️Best Pilot Series
Outcasts
Beck Bennion, Jess Faulstich
Hey, I’m The Doorguy!
Kevin Williams
THE PLEASURE GARDEN TV PILOT
Linda Pace Alexander
⭐️Best Web/Tv Series
MANAGE THIS! web series
Michael Monks, Tara OReilly
⭐️Best Music Video
Sunbeam
Alexandra Tahereh Kaucher, James Jenkins
Star Dance
Elvira Kalnik
My Whole Heart Is Blue
Robert Cook
⭐️Best LGBTQ
For I Am Dead
Patricia Delso Lucas
The Last Take
Brian Foyster
Glass Closets
Caitlin Reed
⭐️Best Cinematography
The Seal of Death 2
Harris Josey
The Stix
Adam Marley
⭐️Best Editing
The Eve - Short film 2015
Luca Machnich
⭐️Best Original Song
George Hobbs: Stick Figure Wisdom
Armin Nasseri
Without You
Al Friedman
Cascading Matter – Being in Between
Raphael Sommer
⭐️Best Sound Design
The Seal of Death 2
Harris Josey
Doodle
Mo Caicedo
Playground 2013-14
Erdogan Bulut
⭐️Best Production Design
Lemonade Party
Alexander Minas
The Eve - Short film 2015
Luca Machnich
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