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CATEGORY AWARD NOMINEES
1:00-5:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation Canada SowPhia Rises - Dir. by Rosmary C. Moya (Canada) Childe Roland in The Court of the Yellow King - Dir. by Stephen Kildare Favell (Canada) Moey and Pouffy Meet the Covid Bug - Dir. by Allison Stevens (Canada) Underqualified - Dir. by Marwan Zeid (Canada) Old Man's World - Dir. by Robert David Duncan (Canada)
Nominees for Best Animation International How to Save a Baby from a Snake Attack - Dir. by Christopher Bennett (USA) Pest - Dir. by Zoe Ferrier (UK) The 7th Night: MaoMao Revisits - Dir. by ahLoong (Malaysia) 2009 January 19th - Dir. by Liucija Vaisiunaite (UK) Under The Bed - Dir. by Jeremy Sladdin (UK) Dalton's Choice - Dir. by Weiheng Kong (China) HOME. - Dir. by Mark Bernard (Australia)
Nominees for Best Comedy That is the Mission! - Dir. by Matthieu Kassimo (France) Searching for Soul Mate - Dir. by Shihyun Wang, Mohan Das (Taiwan) Who's On Top - Dir. by Kristy Hasen, Greg Ainsworth (USA) Underqualified - Dir. by Marwan Zeid (Canada)
Nominees for Best Documentary Prom - Dir. by Timothy Richardson (USA) Rock of Ages - Dir. by Ian Johnston (Canada) Kuinerraq - Dir. by Magnus Shipe (USA) Amsterdam, Vermeer and Keukenhof - Dir. by Milena Stoykova (Bulgaria)
Nominees for Best Drama Accident - Dir. by Giuseppe Abba (UK) Inside - Dir. by Angelina Phoenix, Paul Pence (USA) Fante di Coppe - Dir. by Fabio Ravioli (Italy) Last Night Stand - Dir. by Larry Rosen (USA)
Nominees for Best Experimental Robin's House - Dir. by Emily-Anne Fraser (Canada) Game Over - Dir. by Kate Ryan (USA) Old Man's World - Dir. by Robert David Duncan (Canada) Spirit Of The Tree - Dir. by Ysabelle Taylor (UK) Transformation of Hats - Dir. by Kal Rai (Canada) Electric Shhock - Dir. by Naveen Gundamraj Venkat (UK) Passion - Dir. by Vladyslav Kovtun (Ukraine)
Nominees for Best Music Video Dejavu - Noa Kirel - Dir. by Roman Buchatsky (Israel) The Balloon & The Tack - Dir. by Laura Malatos (USA) Drainpipe Diamond - Dir. by Joe Byrne (Ireland) Wishing You Were Here - Dir. by James Chen (Taiwan)
Nominees for Best Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Umbilical Tether - Dir. by Paul Tirado (Canada) Come Back - Dir. by Nikki Carmela Peters (USA) Do Not Close Anything - Dir. by Antonin Domage (France) Tagged - Dir. by Varun Mohan (Australia) Deathflow - Dir. by Christian Schoug, Brendan Schoug, Natalie Schoug (Canada)
Nominees for Best Student Film Canada Rejected Again - Dir. by Radleigh Naidoo (Canada) Choose Your Death - Dir. by Peta Huang (Canada) Little Girls Past - Dir. by Meighan West (Canada) Signs of Absence - Dir. by Daniel Laurin (Canada)
Nominees for Best Student Film USA Echos of Yesterday - Dir. by Carter Aaron Wakefield (USA) Breathe - Dir. by Elger Ogoc (USA) Winter Romance - Dir. by Junyi Huang (USA)
Nominees for Best First-Time Filmmaker Deen Ayodeji - Ayah (Bulgaria) Maria Leshchenko - One Day of Life (Ukraine) Veronica Bergr - I Love You Not (Canada) Catherine Côté-Moïsescu, Jeremy Glavac, Le Zoo Cinema - Serial Encounters (Canada) Anthony William Irawan - The Bottle (Indonesia)
Nominees for Best Actor Sebastian Seidl - Macgaffin (Austria) Addy Prakash - Rejected Again (Canada) Matthias Falvai - Umbilical Tether (Canada) Conrad Fara - Phantom (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress Isabelle Pauze - Signs of Absence (Canada) Mélanie Lemaire - Do Not Close Anything (France) Prebhjot Janda - Choose Your Death (Canada) Elisha Stanley - Drainpipe Diamond (Ireland)
Nominees for Best Cast That's Game! - Dir. by Joseph Louis Booth (USA) TP Tango - Dir. by Anoop Pillai (Canada) Inside - Dir. by Angelina Phoenix, Paul Pence (USA) Who's On Top - Dir. by Kristy Hasen, Greg Ainsworth (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography Ramiro Cantu - Who's On Top (USA) Milena Stoykova - Amsterdam, Vermeer and Keukenhof (Bulgaria) Dan Brink - The Balloon & The Tack (USA) Brendan Schoug - Deathflow (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer Catherine Côté-Moïsescu, Jeremy Glavac - Serial Encounters (Canada) Radleigh Naidoo - Rejected Again (Canada) Emily-anne Fraser - Robin's House (Canada) Hannah Siden - Water Wings (Canada)
Nominees for Best Director Donal O'Dea - Skinny Dip (Ireland) Rupert Huber - Macgaffin (Austria) Anoop Pillai - TP Tango (Canada) Conrad Faraj - Phantom (USA)
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Nominees for Best Comedy Canada Irene - Dir. by Alicia Krawchuk (Canada) Strings Attached - Dir. by Paul Urrutia (Canada) Begin Again - Dir. by Gabriel Venneri (Canada) I Can Explain - Dir. by Emorphia Margaritis (Canada)
Nominees for Best Comedy USA Bixwad at the Wing - Dir. by Al Julian, Rob Underhill (USA) SirCooly's Dank Trip - Dir. by Nolan Schmidt (USA) Puppetitis - Dir. by Philip Snyder, Robert M. Snyder (USA) Bad Steps to Rock Stardom - Dir. by Sullyman The Third (USA)
Nominees for Best Comedy International Workout - Dir. by Nicolás Girgenti (Ireland) Tales of The Forest Hopper - Dir. by Kevin Gabor (Sweden) Hags - Dir. by Maria Besko (UK)
Nominees for Best Documentary Tropical Mind - Dir. by Bryce Mackie (USA) I Was There - Dir. by Chi Jang Yin (USA) Bad Steps to Rock Stardom - Dir. by Sullyman The Third (USA) Better Bites with Bugs - Dir. by Kimberly Kartman Best (USA)
Nominees for Best Drama Clarity - Dir. by Bryce Mackie (USA) Visiting - Dir. by Piero Cannata (Italy) The Rothschild Necklace - Dir. by Christopher Tait (USA) Living in Couple - Dir. by Antonio Orbe (Spain) Lady at Number 16 - Dir. by James Newhook (Canada)
Nominees for Best Experimental Dreamer - Dir. by Clinton Robert Siegle, Dylan Cole - (Bolivia) I Was There - Dir. by Chi Jang Yin (USA) Dancing With My Mother - Dir. by Richard de Carvalho (Australia)
Nominees for Best Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Kill the Headlights - Dir. by Eddie Pinelli (Canada) A Clown Comes Knocking - Dir. by David Nguyen (Canada) Pandora - Dir. by Renee Cox (Canada) Lucid - Dir. by Dessy Velikova (Bulgaria) Tin Gods - Dir. by Q Edwards (USA)
Nominees for Best Romance What a Coincidence - Dir. by Olivia Rugg (USA) Don't Mind Me - Dir. by Jacob St. John (USA) Always & Forever - Dir. by Luciano Ivanov (Bulgaria) Disconnect - Dir. by Riley Wadden (Canada)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supernatural The Parable Of The Tenants - Dir. by Andrew Pengilley (UK) A Multitude of Uses - Dir. by Alvin Sloan (USA) Tales of The Forest Hopper - Dir. by Kevin Gabor (Sweden)
Nominees for Best Student Film Canada The Last Leg - Dir. by Nathan Makse (Canada) Light & Heavy - Dir. by Mayan William Correia (Canada) Jade & Konni - Dir. by Oaklee Dumont (Canada) Sisters Don't Fight - Dir. by Clementine Lesley (Canada)
Nominees for Best Student Film International Psychiatric - Dir. by Brianna Black (USA) Happy Meal - Dir. by Avia Makovsky, Yuval Shatz (Israel) Closed Case - Dir. by Adi Bar-Hai (Israel) End of My Rope - Dir. by Andrew Spencer (USA) Baby Blue - Dir. by Lex Garcia (USA)
Nominees for Best First-Time Filmmaker Lana Schreier - Spotless (USA) Asaf Rahamim - Who Lost a Dream? (Canada) Farshad Modir - His Idiotic Actions (Canada) Sureya Melkonian - Somewhere in Glendale (USA)
Nominees for Best Actor Laith Benhammou - End of My Rope (USA) Raphael Stompe - #backtonature (Austria) Alexandros Yiasemi - Always & Forever (Bulgaria) Joshua Bishop - I Can Explain (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actress María Zabala - Living in Couple (Spain) Maria Luce Bondì - Visiting (Italy) Abigail Hamilton - Irene (Canada) Yael Folman - Closed Case (Israel)
Nominees for Best Cast Rats - Dir. by Alexis Caro (France) What Found Me In The Woods On A Night Like Tonight - Dir. by Kelton Walsh White (USA) Tales of The Forest Hopper - Dir. by Kevin Gabor (Sweden) Stranger From The South - Dir. by David Botros (Canada)
Nominees for Best Cinematography Grayson Owens - The Brawler (USA) Bakhos Najm - Stranger From The South (Canada) Richard de Carvalho - Dancing With My Mother (Australia) Bakhos Najm - Stranger From The South (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer Aliki Bitsakakis - These Hands Are Not Mine (Canada) Minh Nguyen - The Brawler (USA) Keira Uriarte - Jade & Konni (Canada) Alex Coelho - Disconnect (Canada)
Nominees for Best Director Ramon Mayol - The Legend (Spain) Kelton Walsh White - What Found Me In The Woods On A Night Like Tonight (USA) Al Julian, Rob Underhill - Bixwad at the Wing (USA) Miguel Barrera - The Missing Canvas (Canada)
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Nominees for Best Long Short Film Death's a Toast - Dir. by Sam Blais (USA) A Note About Greed - Dir. by Sullyman The Third (USA) Static in the Ether - Dir. by Matt Jenkins (USA) You Smell Like Pilaf - Dir. by Margherita Kharkovskaya (Russia) Jackpot - Dir. by Rebecca Lamure (Canada) Rubber Bullets - Dir. by Michael Jeffrey Joiner (USA)
Nominees for Best Actor Sullyman The Third - A Note About Greed (USA) Michael Joiner - Rubber Bullets (USA) Sandeep Novel - Into the Light (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actress Courtney Gaines - I Can Do All Things (USA) Emma Christmann - Death's a Toast (USA) Heather Gilbert - Static in the Ether (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast Death's a Toast - Dir. by Sam Blais (USA) It's John - Dir. by Victor Hampson (UK) Les Nouveaux Sauvages - Dir. by Maximus Aggenberg Barsati (France)
Nominees for Best Cinematography Ivan Frolov - You Smell Like Pilaf (Russia) Taylor Brown, Brittany Whittern - Return to Sender (USA) Hwanjoe Yu - How TO: Handle With Care (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer Srinivas Kasturi - Run (Canada) Victor Hampson - It's John (UK) Andrew Kouropoulos - The Battle of Lake George (USA)
Nominees for Best Director Hwanjoe Yu - How TO: Handle With Care (Canada) Brian Kennington, Ajay Kumar - Into the Light (Canada) Michael Buckley - Planet Ocean Blues (Canada)
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Nominees for Best Feature Film Trans Runaways - Dir. by Zha Babaieva (Ukraine) Auteur - Dir. by Jisan Haque (USA) In the Gaze of a Second - Dir. by Lap Zhing Yeung (Hong Kong)
Nominees for Best Actor Wing Hong Tang - In the Gaze of a Second (Hong Kong) Alex Wood - Pitchfork Man (USA) Jisan Haque - Auteur (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress Hei Tung Wong - In the Gaze of a Second (Hong Kong) Yunchi He - In the Gaze of a Second (Hong Kong) Nicole Diramier - Auteur (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast The Red Hour - Dir. by Juan Carlos Díaz Amaya (Peru) Of the Comics - The Pilot: Being a Comedian - Dir. by Pat Treuer (USA) Pitchfork Man - Dir. by William Stancik (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography Juan Carlos Díaz Amaya - The Red Hour (Peru) Tsz Man Tse - In the Gaze of a Second (Hong Kong) Jisan Haque - Auteur (USA)
Nominees for Best Writer William Stancik - Pitchfork Man (USA) Ryan Poulin, Jisan Haque - Auteur (USA) Juan Carlos Díaz Amaya - The Red Hour (Peru)
Nominees for Best Director Pat Treuer - Of the Comics - The Pilot: Being a Comedian (USA) Zha Babaieva - Trans Runaways (Ukraine) William Stancik - Pitchfork Man (USA)
15-Second Story
Nominees for Best 15-Second Story Where is Daisy - Dir. by Dmitry Koturanov (Ukraine) Busted! - Dir. by Gino Terrell (USA) Three Inverted Triangles - Dir. by Kevin Lucero Less (USA) The Agency - Dir. by Daniel Stephenson Mirror Mask - Dir. by Vincenzo De Sio (USA)