Winners
Season 2023 - 2024
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Best Short Film
A Love Worth Fighting For
Directed by: Toby Fountaine
A Love Worth Fighting For is set in the opening month of the First World War, August 1914. But it is not a war film, rather an anti-war film, and a love story. It is meticulously researched and historically accurate.

Just after every major European power has been drawn into a conflict they do not know how to fight, politicians and generals are sleepwalking their way towards unimaginable catastrophe with all the arrogance that defined the Edwardian age. The conflict will become enormous, the scale of destruction almost inconceivable.

A Love Worth Fighting For
"Best Short Film"
Best Feature Film
Good Guy With A Gun
Directed by: John Mossman
Will Greenwood, a Chicago teenager forced to come to terms with his father's violent death, visits a small town and finds solace in a group of local kids. When the town bully threatens Will’s new friend, how far will he go to protect him...especially with a gun? It is a coming of age drama where young men and guns come crashing together….

Good Guy With A Gun
"Best Feature Film"
Best Director
Wish You Well
Directed by: Nadia Guo
The Boy and the Girl were in love. They led a plain yet loving life, sharing profound resonance with each other. The Girl loved the sea and they made a deal to travel to the sea someday. However, a sudden illness took the Girl's life. Before the Girl died, she had told the boy that the shadows of the two who are in love will move for one another, even when they are not physically together; and one’s longing for the loved one would send one’s shadow to the other.

After the Girl was gone, the Boy was overwhelmed with longing and sadness. When brushing his teeth, he hears the juicer play a sad love song. When having breakfast, he sees the Girl crying silently in the clouds. When passing by a lake, he sees the Girl smiling in the water; As he lays in bed, he remembers what the Girl had told him before she left. He remembers that the Girl liked to have him scratch her back while they were in bed, so he scratches his back as well on the countless sleepless nights.

Wish You Well
"Best Director"
Best Actor - Al Nazemian
For I Am Dead
Directed by: Patricia Delso Lucas
In late 1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived an extravagant life in a chateau, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.

For I Am Dead
"Best Actor" - Al Nazemian
Best Actress - Jennifer Scott
Eyes Upon Waking
Directed by: Timothy Zwica
A troubled woman must come to terms with her suicide attempts while spending several days in a holding facility. Inspired by the true story of one person's struggle to find purpose in her own existence.

The story follows a very distressed woman into a mental health facility following two attempts to end her life, and examines her growth into a still-troubled person content to continue living. In this incredibly true story, Taren Foley survives her second suicide attempt within a week, and is sent from the ER to a holding facility for three days of observation and analysis. Quickly realizing she has no intention of taking her life in the future, Taren alienates herself from the patients and staff, biding her time until she can be released. When circumstances force her to remain locked up all weekend, a compassionate Taren makes an effort to help her fellow patients with their issues, unaware she still neglects her own. By the time she is released on Monday, Taren has yet to feel better about her life, but there is hope that one day, she might.

Eyes Upon Waking
"Best Actress" - Jennifer Scott
Best Editing
Uncle Marx / Marx Amca
Directed by: VEDAT SEZGİN
9-year-old boy, named Oğuz, is entrusted to his great-uncle Kemal. In a sudden, the portrait of Karl Marx on the wall, draws Oğuz’s attention. The question,"Who is this?" creates developments that will reveal dreams and also, disappointments.

9 yaşındaki Oğuz, büyük amcası Kemal'e emanet edilir. Duvardaki Marx tablosu Oğuz'un dikkatini çeker. "Bu kim?" sorusu hayalleri ve hayal kırıklıklarını ortaya çıkaracak gelişmeleri var eder.

Uncle Marx / Marx Amca
"Best Editing"
Best Supporting Actor - David Heacock
Boneyard Racers
Directed by: David Heacock
When a teen couple accidentally stumbles upon a ghoulish party on Halloween night, they’re challenged to a supernatural drag race with the highest stakes.

Boneyard Racers
"Best Supporting Actor" - Ryley Shandro
Best Supporting Actress - Agnes Persson
Yule Cat
Directed by: Albin Glasell
The night before Christmas, an Icelandic family is struck by an evil that lurks in the dark.

Yule Cat
"Best Supporting Actress" - Agnes Persson
Best Original Screenplay - Alexandru Ranta Gheorghe
Zeda The Hunter
Written by: Alexandru Ranta Gheorghe
Winter 2047. Dave climbs the mountains to hunt in a restricted area. Following a wolf in the depths of forest he discovers an ancient ruin, a few menhirs which form a gate. Fascinated, Dave walks throught the gate and enters a mysterious land. Here he will face his alter-ego: an old man named Zeda, a hunter from an ancient time. From hunter Dave becomes hunted ...and he will receive a new identity. Dave starts a new life in the wilderness of mountains.

Zeda The Hunter
"Best Original Screenplay"
Best Animation
Ailin On The Moon
Directed by: Claudia Ruiz
Work, do the shopping, cooking, cleaning, ironing, taking care of Ailín: that is the routine of Vilma, mother of 40 years, overwhelmed by fatigue and skin intolerance. Ailín (4), just looking to play and demand the attention of a restless girl, one day causes the emotional outbreak of the mother. The routine that led them away must be broken to meet again.

Ailin On The Moon
"Best Animation"
Best Original Score
Julia
Directed by: Víctor Muñoz
"Julia" is a little story about loss and loneliness, told only with images and music.

Julia
"Best Original Score"
Best Cinematography
For I Am Dead
Directed by: Patricia Delso Lucas
In late 1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived an extravagant life in a chateau, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.

For I Am Dead
"Best Cinematography"
ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES
Best Short Documentary
Bravo Marcel - The Century Climber
Directed by: Hannes Tell
Still climbing on the sharp end of the rope at 99 years of age, Marcel Remy is a truly unique climbing super hero of our time that shows us in an incredible way that you are really never too old to achieve your goals in climbing and lead an inspiring life.

Learning how to skateboard at 90 years of age, still climbing a 450m multipitch at 95, still lead climbing at nearly 100 years of age. Those incredible feats of Marcel Remy seem as inspiring as they can be daunting for everyone who might be afraid of aging. Narrated by Claude Remy, our uncanny super hero Marcel takes us along in a slow but steady pace film as we can witness what effect this stone old climber has on his environment and peers. Being the father of the infamous Remy Brothers who are true legends on their own for establishing hallmark first ascents in climbing, we start to understand how their character (and lastly modern sport climbing alike) was shaped by necessity and tenacity.

We are meeting Marcel's friends along the way to learn about how he affected their lives, like 84 year old mountain guide George Payot and befriended Nini Grangier with Swiss climbing legend François Nicole. After successfully climbing a lead route on his 99th birthday, celebrated by all his close friends, he even accomplishes a meeting of the superlatives: Marcel Remy and Adam Ondra meet for a historic climb together. As we see the oldest and the strongest climber celebrating together an ascent that should become known as his Marcel's last one.

Climb in Peace, Marcel.

Bravo Marcel - The Century Climber
"Best Short Documentary"
Best Feature Documentary
Seven Thousand Souls
Directed by: Sanjin Miric
Serbia alone had lost a third of its entire population in the Great War, almost half its men.
This film talks about those that never returned home from the two biggest Austria-Hungarian prisoner camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic - Jindřichovice and Broumov.
A film that I owed to my nation.
SEVEN THOUSAND SOULS is a documentary - a feature film about the suffering of Serbian and Russian soldiers and interned civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic, Jindrihovice and Broumov. The camps had about 500 facilities where there were about 60,000 prisoners of war.

Seven Thousand Souls
"Best Feature Documentary"
Best Music Video
In a Tamasic World
Directed by: Camilla Martini
A dreamlike symbolic journey into the modern world. Anima – the human soul – is threatened by dark forces, who besiege her as hooded strangers. Hyperion – the mad sage, and Clotho – the Moira seamstress of fate who spins the thread of human life, measure up against infinity and fate. Maya – queen of fire and illusion, evokes the lifeforces needed to sustain Anima in the confrontation that awaits her. On the chessboard of good and evil, where the struggle is being fought with tamasic forces, Anima appears to capitulate – but the immortal current of life will prove stronger than everything else.

In a Tamasic World
"Best Music Video"
Best Experimental Film
30 Second Thoughts: Volume One
Directed by: David Baeumler
A commercial break from another dimension.

The four shorts in Volume One include: “Attack the System”, a blessing for your enemies; “Zabrinor”, the ultimate drug for the modern world; “We Shall Overcoat”, an argument over a revolutionary rainbow; and “Evil Man”, a study of why bad things happen.

30 Second Thoughts: Volume One
"Best Experimental Film"
Best Student Film
Rue
Directed by: Casey Eldridge
A middle-aged daughter deals with the aftermath of her traumatic childhood.

THE LIGHTHOUSE INITIATIVE INC will publish this film on Amazon Prime Video.

Rue
"Best Student Film"
Best Director Debut
Double Rainbow
Directed by: Stefania Montesolaro
Serena Alston Guerini's married life had been uneventful.
Living on her family's idyllic Tuscan wine estate, she devoted herself to her only child and to the piano, allowing her husband Massimo to occupy the limelight. The platonic love she received from an old school friend, Claudio, consoled her as Massimo grew more and more distant, focused entirely on the business and local politics.
As Serena's ambition to become a professional pianist develops, her life explodes. Massimo becomes fiercely resentful and violent.
When Claudio reveals his duplicity, Serena is truly alone, with no one left to trust. She is at a crossroads, suddenly aware that her future lies in her own hands.
Her life is in pieces.
Should she preserve all that matters to her, or start living the life she wants? She has to make a difficult choice. Or, is there perhaps a third option?

Double Rainbow
"Best Director Debut"
Best Adapted Screenplay
Lunimetarius
Written by: Paola Fabiani
On the night of May 10, 1944, Pietro, a literature professor and communist partisan, escapes from the Germans and fascists who are raking the Marsiliana scrub by taking refuge in a frantic run inside a ruin: it is what remains of the ancient Stachilagi fortress , immersed and hidden for centuries in the dark green of the Tuscan Maremma. There the protagonist finds a parchment, written in Latin and dating back to eight hundred years earlier. In it a friar recounts his unhappy fate of having been unjustly accused of heresy and for this reason walled up alive in the basement of a medieval abbey. The religious, friar Sabino, asks anyone who finds his writing to discover the truth about his miserable end. Peter will have to decipher his mysterious words: “Die plenae lunae, miser monachus monasterii Selvae, sub antiquo olivae arbore lacrimans, stabat in spelunca in conspectum Domini ante Cathedralis Sovanae Crucem”. And so, in a land that has just been freed from the Nazi-fascist delirium, while the wounded hearts of men try to heal with courage, the protagonist will walk backwards into the abyss of time. An ancient book that speaks of a Benedictine abbey and the eight friars who lived there; a painting hidden and forgotten under the dust of the centuries; and then others
unforeseen events: all this will forcefully creep into Pietro's simple daily life, between the classrooms and the house where he now lives alone with his mother Norina. From the library of the town of Manciano to the darkness of the crypt of the church of Santa Fiora, from the austere cathedral of Sovana to the mighty tuff wall of Pitigliano: in the frame of the seasons that mark the days with their colours, each stage will add a tile to a mosaic paradoxically increasingly obscure. We will have to wait for the last piece so that the disturbing truth of Friar Sabino is finally revealed to the world, together with his tragic fate.

Lunimetarius
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
Best Producer - Vanessa Soredjo, Seneca Robinson, Bryan Kennedy
An evening with the Tailor
Directed by: Seneca Robinson, Jarvis Garvin

An evening with the Tailor
"Best Producer" - Vanessa Soredjo, Seneca Robinson, Bryan Kennedy
Best Composer - Alessandro Orlandi
In a Tamasic World
Composed by: Alessandro Orlandi
A dreamlike symbolic journey into the modern world. Anima – the human soul – is threatened by dark forces, who besiege her as hooded strangers. Hyperion – the mad sage, and Clotho – the Moira seamstress of fate who spins the thread of human life, measure up against infinity and fate. Maya – queen of fire and illusion, evokes the lifeforces needed to sustain Anima in the confrontation that awaits her. On the chessboard of good and evil, where the struggle is being fought with tamasic forces, Anima appears to capitulate – but the immortal current of life will prove stronger than everything else.

In a Tamasic World
"Best Composer" - Alessandro Orlandi
Best Color Editing
A Love Worth Fighting For
Directed by: Toby Fountaine
A Love Worth Fighting For is set in the opening month of the First World War, August 1914. But it is not a war film, rather an anti-war film, and a love story. It is meticulously researched and historically accurate.

Just after every major European power has been drawn into a conflict they do not know how to fight, politicians and generals are sleepwalking their way towards unimaginable catastrophe with all the arrogance that defined the Edwardian age. The conflict will become enormous, the scale of destruction almost inconceivable.

A Love Worth Fighting For
"Best Color Editing"
Best Sound Design
A Love Worth Fighting For
Directed by: Toby Fountaine
A Love Worth Fighting For is set in the opening month of the First World War, August 1914. But it is not a war film, rather an anti-war film, and a love story. It is meticulously researched and historically accurate.

Just after every major European power has been drawn into a conflict they do not know how to fight, politicians and generals are sleepwalking their way towards unimaginable catastrophe with all the arrogance that defined the Edwardian age. The conflict will become enormous, the scale of destruction almost inconceivable.

A Love Worth Fighting For
"Best Sound Design"
Best Scenography
A Love Worth Fighting For
Directed by: Toby Fountaine
A Love Worth Fighting For is set in the opening month of the First World War, August 1914. But it is not a war film, rather an anti-war film, and a love story. It is meticulously researched and historically accurate.

Just after every major European power has been drawn into a conflict they do not know how to fight, politicians and generals are sleepwalking their way towards unimaginable catastrophe with all the arrogance that defined the Edwardian age. The conflict will become enormous, the scale of destruction almost inconceivable.

A Love Worth Fighting For
"Best Scenography"
Best Original Soundtrack
A Love Worth Fighting For
Directed by: Toby Fountaine
A Love Worth Fighting For is set in the opening month of the First World War, August 1914. But it is not a war film, rather an anti-war film, and a love story. It is meticulously researched and historically accurate.

Just after every major European power has been drawn into a conflict they do not know how to fight, politicians and generals are sleepwalking their way towards unimaginable catastrophe with all the arrogance that defined the Edwardian age. The conflict will become enormous, the scale of destruction almost inconceivable.

A Love Worth Fighting For
"Best Original Soundtrack"
Best Makeup
A Love Worth Fighting For
Directed by: Toby Fountaine
A Love Worth Fighting For is set in the opening month of the First World War, August 1914. But it is not a war film, rather an anti-war film, and a love story. It is meticulously researched and historically accurate.

Just after every major European power has been drawn into a conflict they do not know how to fight, politicians and generals are sleepwalking their way towards unimaginable catastrophe with all the arrogance that defined the Edwardian age. The conflict will become enormous, the scale of destruction almost inconceivable.

A Love Worth Fighting For
"Best Makeup"
Best Costume Design
A Love Worth Fighting For
Directed by: Toby Fountaine
A Love Worth Fighting For is set in the opening month of the First World War, August 1914. But it is not a war film, rather an anti-war film, and a love story. It is meticulously researched and historically accurate.

Just after every major European power has been drawn into a conflict they do not know how to fight, politicians and generals are sleepwalking their way towards unimaginable catastrophe with all the arrogance that defined the Edwardian age. The conflict will become enormous, the scale of destruction almost inconceivable.

A Love Worth Fighting For
"Best Costume Design"
Best VFX
Yule Cat
Directed by: Albin Glasell
The night before Christmas, an Icelandic family is struck by an evil that lurks in the dark.

Yule Cat
"Best VFX"
Best Poster
Bad Love Tigers
Directed by: Kevin Schewe
It is New Year’s Eve, 1974, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the fun-loving and adventurous teens of the Bad Love Gang are ambushed by a Russian KGB agent. This propels them to use the White Hole Project Time Machine to time travel back to World War II. The gang meets with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who guides them on their mission to protect a mysterious alien spaceship and America’s top-secret Area 51.
On their perilous mission, the gang must deal with Russian, Chinese, and Indian espionage forces who stand in their path. Along the way, the gang encounters danger, intrigue, betrayal, and a little romance. Ultimately, the intrepid Bad Love Gang triumphs over their adversaries to protect the alien spaceship and maintain the security of Area 51. It's Stand by Me Meets Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Bad Love Tigers
"Best Poster"
Best Opening Credits
SURVIVING THE SILENCE: The Untold Story Of Two Women In Love Who Helped Change Military Policy
Directed by: Cindy L. Abel
Surviving the Silence tells the story of two women in love who played a part in changing military policy, shining light on the unknown history of how a closeted colonel forced to expel an Army hero for being lesbian did so in a way resulting in re-instatement via federal court.

Years before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Colonel Patsy Thompson presided over the review board that dismissed Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer for being a lesbian. Although she had been in tough spots over the course of her 28-year service, this was the toughest. Presiding over this case forced Patsy to confront her own moral dilemma and her own secret: she too was a lesbian.

SURVIVING THE SILENCE: The Untold Story Of Two Women In Love Who Helped Change Military Policy
"Best Opening Credits"
Best Closing Credits
Finding the End of the World
Directed by: Fabián Corres

Finding the End of the World
"Best Closing Credits"
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