Wednesday, June 04, 2025

MAY 2025 - WINNERS

We are extremely proud to announce the winners for the May contest (in alphabetical order).
Congratulations!!!

 

Best Original Screenplay

Beat of your own drum

Nicholas P. Runfolo

USA

 

Best Original Screenplay

Chained to your ghost

Amanda Lemberg

Hungary

 

Best Action

Best Trailer

Best Director

Best Cinematography (Rodrigo Moran)

Children of the order

Daniel Harrington

USA 

 

Best Romantic

Best Producers (Deborah Hadfield, Jessica Deborah Brooks)

Best Ensemble (Jonathan Bremner, Rose Muirhead, Arlow White, Howard Davey, John Mason, Dave Wong)

Best Sound Design (Phil Cape)

Best VFX (Simon Wilkinson)

Best Costume Design (Julie Chambers)

Best Production Design (Adele Hill)

Chinese whispers

Deborah Hadfield

USA


Best Drama

Best Producers (Curt Samlaska, Tyler Marcus)

Best Director

Best Actor (Ken Phillips)

Best Actress (Chelsey Queeley)

Best Supporting Actor (Edward Bachir Karam)

Best Supporting Actress (Jasmine Freeman)

Best Young Actor (Ryan Sandberg)

Best Original Score

Best Special Makeup (Maria-Aurelia Ramon)

Forgiving retribution

Curt Samlaska

USA


Best Horror

Intus dark

Denise Sganzerla

Brazil


Best Original Screenplay

Invasion of the Brewery Slugs

William Curley

USA


Best Feature

Best First Time Director

Best Duo (Rita Rusciano, Alessandra Persi)

Best Cinematography (Jheison Garcia)

Best Editing (Jessica Beltramello)

It happens in one night - Succede in una notte

Emiliano Canova

Italy

 

Best Original Screenplay

It's open

Doug Maguire

USA

 

Best Photography

Le portrait

Manav Menon

France

 

Best Comedy

Best First Time Director

Best Ensemble (Bonnie Rose, Charlie Solis, Timothy R. Boyce, Jonathan Casillas, Jordan Waller, Joseph Collins, Stephen Moscatello, Rami Wahid, Marta Rapa)

Best Sound Design (Joseph Hellow)

Best Costume Design (Donna Maloney)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Vera Stromsted, Agnes Blah)

Living with grandma

Finise Avery

USA

 

Best Documentary Short

Best First Time Director

Nado

Daniele Farina

Italy

 

Best Thriller

Best Poster

Best Producers (J. G. Clarke, David Lightfoot)

Best First Time Director

Best Actor (Jeremy Piven)

Best Actress (Marielle Intveld)

Best Supporting Actor (Brad McCarthy)

Best Supporting Actress (Arwen Diamond)

Best Cinematography (Maxx Corkindale)

Best Editing (Cleland Jones)

Best Sound Design (Mark D'Angelo, Paul van Nimwegen)

Best Original Score (Mark D'Angelo)

Best Costume Design (Callum Royce)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Bec Cochrane)

Numbered Lives

J. G. Clarke

Australia 

 

Best Thriller

Best Director

Best Actor (Jake Waring)

Best Actress (Nicole Evans)

Best Supporting Actor (Grahame Edwards)

Best Supporting Actress (Ruchika Jain)

Best Duo (Jake Waring, Nicole Evans)

Best Editing (Christina Morris)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Lauren Clare)

Orchid moon

Lewis William Robinson

UK

 

Best Feature

Best Director

Best Ensemble (Agi Gubik, Tibor Szervet, Miklos Szekely B., Franciska Farkas, Bela Meszaros, Zoltan Mucsi)

Best Cinematography (Balázs Dobóczi, Gábor Szabó)

Best Original Score (Arthur Valentin Grósz)

Skating on the Razor's Edge

Jeno Hodi

Hungary

 

Best Original Screenplay

The connecting betrayal

Vivianne Rosenberg

USA

 

Best Feature

The Exterminator

William Thomas Curley

USA

 

Best Fantasy

Best First Time Director

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Original Score

Best Production Design

The last dollhouse

Alastair Romãno

Greece

 

Best Mystery

Best Director

Best Ensemble (Yessenia Bailey, Dan Farrell, Juan Carlos Flores, Andrés Luna, Vianney Martínez, Sabrina Millán)

The shoe - El zapato

Mauricio De la Maza-Benignos, Sofía Alejandra Díaz Garza

Mexico

 

Best Documentary Feature

Best Poster

The truth and the seeker

Mark Christopher Hemstock

Canada


Best Documentary Featurette

Thriving over thrauma - Healing journeys

Max de Bruin

Netherlands

 

Best Experimental

Vinespiration

Stephen John Vineburg

USA

 

Best Experimental

Wildfire smoke - Sky swallower

Rodolfo Pérez-Luna

Chile

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