TRACE is a documentary and celebratory project aiming to recognize the work and efforts of seven Black Canadians in diverse sectors including business, entrepreneur, academic, arts and culture, history and philanthropy, as well as front-line workers and more, who have impacted the community with their great accomplishments.
The documentary was executive produced by African Women Acting (AWA) & Saimy’s Art, and produced and directed by Sonia Aimy, and co-produced by Kennedy Seed Obioha

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Educational Film"
"Best Director Debut"

► Directed by:Sonia Oduwa Aimiumu

• tracedocumentary@gmail.com
• Official Website

A boy haunted by the memory of the ex-girlfriend who abandoned him without a trace sees her figure again in a young student who looks frighteningly like her. He will therefore begin to stalk her, losing himself in a spiral of madness from which he cannot escape.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Thriller"

► Directed by: Giorgio Martina

• giorgiomartina.90@gmail.com

A young drug dealer sells a new drug to his customers without knowing that the product has side effects that no one has ever seen before.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Editing"
"Best Thriller"

► Directed by:Sebastian Groß

• sebastian.m.gross@posteo.net
• Official Website

After tragedy causes a young girl's world to go song-less and blue, she soon finds herself trapped in a radio full of wonder and color.

"Best Student Film"

► Directed by: Delaney Hoffman

• hoffmand6237@my.uwstout.edu
• Official Facebook

After four young drug dealers obsessed with
space accidentally kill the niece of a
dangerous and eccentric mobster, they
must decide what to do before he arrives,
but little do they know that the real danger
lurks in front of their eyes.

"Best Student Film"
"Best Dark Comedy"

► Directed by:Kevin Mainenti

• mainentikevin@gmail.com
• Official Website

Stevie becomes the new night clerk at a motel with a "No Questions" check-in policy.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Student Film"
"Best Cinematography"

► Directed by: Ashton Sasse

• sasseashton@gmail.com
• Official Website

After years of estrangement, Nancy reconnects with her son Daniel in a long overdue attempt to lay the ghosts of the past to rest. Concerned for his Mother, who still lives in the house he grew up in, Daniel tries to forge a relationship as he has life-changing news to share with her. However, a choice Nancy made long ago threatens to consume all she holds dear.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Composer"
"Best Actress"
"Best Supporting Actor"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Horror"

► Directed by: Christopher Suffield

• lu@jellyfielders.tv
• Official Website

In the mystical land of suburbia, nine young individuals learn that friendship always prevails... but at what cost?

"Best Comedy"
"Best Original Screenplay"
"Best Fantasy"
"Best Poster"
"Best Young Director"

► Directed by: Nicolas James

• nicolas.james@loop.colum.edu
• Official Website

Two misfits, One a spinner the other a nerd
Need each others services to help them fit in...
She needs his driving school skills to get a drivers licence, so she can join the best car spinning team.He needs to transform into a roughneck to bag an 'it' girl to flex on his ex who cheated on him for being too soft. Will their goal to fit in be achieved
or will life send them crashing to each other?
Kleva-ish is a coming-of-age comedy/drama about a by the book university geek who turns to the neighbourhood bad girl to learn how to be a tough guy after he was dumped by his long-time girlfriend, who cheated on him for being too soft. Dimakatso is an aspiring spinner, she has a chance to join the best spinning crew in town. However to the join the crew, she needs a drivers license and no driving school will take her as she is too rough on the cars, they call her ‘Klutch Killer’.
Thulani, whose father owns a driving school, sees how rough Dimakatso is when his father rejects her from his driving school and he offers her some back door driving lesson and a guarantee to get her licensed. Armed with his new mentor “roughneck”, Dimakatso, and bad advice from his friend Pule, Thulani adopts a roughneck identity of Maleather, who is actually a real person and the baddest gangster in Soshanguve. His efforts to get the IT Girl also make him a target of the most notorious gangster in town. It takesa bad boy transformation to make Thulani realise that “being yourself is actually not a bad idea”.

"Best Feature Film"

► Directed by: Thabang Malebogo Masanabo and Ntshepe George Nkosi

• thabang@thapemedia.com

A young private is called in with his unit to cross a river for reinforcement in a battle, where they know and about to predict their deaths, as almost all of their comrades from the other troops who have crossed the river to aid in the battle the other nights, never come back.
Phan Co Gang - a first class private of Unit 303, a brave soldier who seems to stay as a cold-blood and a weirdo in his peer's eyes as he always keeps himself out of circle. When Captain Trung rushes to call out a command unexpectedly that all of them is called in for reinforcement in Quang Tri Citadel battle in urgent as they lose far many men, leaving them only 15 minutes to get ready and move. Gang and his squad all know that they may face their deaths as for the past nights, everyday there would be a big troop with hundreds of soldier being called in to cross Thach Han river to aid in the battle in Citadel. Unfortunately, almost none of them would come back.
While others are in hurry preparing their belongings, Gang chooses to zone out in a separated corner and write his mom the seem-to-be-the-last-letter, same time flashing back all his trauma that has haunted him day by day from inside, seeing casualties of his friends and fellows in front of him but to give up on their bodies. He even makes tally marks in his book daily counting the people who have come to his life and gone forever. The pain from war is brutal and too real. Gang always seeks for a way out in his life but the reality and his self-esteem being a proud soldier always stops him. At the end, not follow his squad to cross the river, Gang decides to end his life with a combat knife by that point when he finishes the farewell letter to mom, as he would not want to see any other close one facing death.
In the night when the troop carries on their duty of passing Thach Han river, they are constantly bombarded by the opposing force to prevent their crossing. Thach Han river - the only route that runs along the wall of Quang Tri Citadel, is full of bombs, artillery shells and bloods of sacrificed soldiers. The battle has gone down as one of the fiercest and bloodiest in Vietnam’s long history of independence struggles against foreign invaders. Unexpectedly, a piece of floating farewell letter from Private Gang before he breathes his last with one more line being added at the end reveals the truth about his last duty.

"Best War Film"

► Directed by: Thuy Vu

• vuthuthuy1992@gmail.com
• Official Instagram

When his granddaughter is kidnapped and her family is gunned down, former outlaw John Williams is forced to reunite with ex-partner Everett Stolls in hopes of tracking down the killers and saving her life before it's too late.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Action Movie"
"Best Drama"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Color Editing"
"Best Producer"
"Best Costume Design"
"Best Scenography"
"Best Poster"

► Directed by: Tyler Smith

• jefybalproductions@gmail.com
• Official Website

A bullied black sheep finds a bullied black wolf, and tries to become friends with him

"Best Animation"
"Best Director Debut"
"Best Student Film"
"Best No-Dialogue Film"
"Best Original Score"

► Directed by: Marlene Garcia

• marlynwolf49@gmail.com
• Official Website

Many years ago, while my father was working on his Bonsai plants in the garden, my mother said to me "He made my life a Bonsai" The result, decades later was this extremely personal work intertwining the technically brutal creation of the beautiful bonsai tree with the life of my mother.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Leslie Yusuke Watanabe

• lwatan33@gmail.com
• Official Website

Filmed in May 2021 to a sold out audience at the fully refurbished Christchurch Town Hall, Tiki Taane captures an emotional and explosive performance with - Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. Stunningly shot and superbly mixed, Tiki has raised the bar with what can be achieved when collaborating with a 50 piece orchestra. The genre bending, live looping performances makes for an extremely unique and original experience, solidifying Tiki as one of the most diverse artists from Aotearoa (New Zealand).

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Original Score"
"Best Sound Design"

► Directed by: Tiki Taane

• tiki@tikidub.com
• Official Website

On Valentine’s night, two couples in adjacent hotel rooms uncover emotions, truths and reach a romantic reckoning.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Mobile Film"
"Best Poster"

► Directed by: Harry J Wormald

• harryjwormald@gmail.com
• Official Website

This music video is a puppet animation featuring a lonely man who feels redundant as he reminisces on better days. Alternating between uplifting rhythms and melancholic lyrics, the
character takes us through nostalgic encounters between himself and his friends, dancing and
musing, blurring the lines of reality. The journey becomes increasingly surreal, though culminates
on a hopeful note.
Because Jacob Bellens` song “Everybody Needs Some Loving” references the Backstreet Boys hit “Everybody”, the music video
has elements from the Backstreet Boys video implemented, and gives a nod of acknowledgment to their video too.

"Best Music Video"

► Directed by: Sara Nanna Jørgensen

• mail@sarananna.dk
• Official Website

Lucero loses her mother, but a little miracle is about to happen.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Drama"
"Best Actress"

► Directed by: Gerardo Tellez

• byloveventas@outlook.com

Zoya returns from shopping to her grandmother's house. There she comes across one of the most natural and sure parts of life, which, however, always catches us unprepared. How will she react? A story about one of the thousands possible encounters with HER, the outcome of which is always unique.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Vilma Kartalska

• vilmu6ka@abv.bg

"Once means forever" is short animated film, which shows us, without delusion, story of young women. Girl who could be any other women. Looking by her's eyes, we will be troubled by her one day. The day which will change her life forever.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Katarzyna Bińko

• kachna.animuje@gmail.com
• Official Instagram

Heartbeat (Vienna Shorts 2023 Official Selection) is an ode to (new) life. Inspired by the sound of the violin that revives me. Heartbeat is about moving on and how making music is precious and should be cherished. As a disabled artist I have firsthand knowledge of the fragility of life. As a female artist, I intuitively express the themes of womanhood, the experience of womanhood, birth and the creation of life in this film. I value making music and elevating life from the grey nothingness and pain. My creative process has always been driven by colors, forms and images. Inspired by my classical roots with Heartbeat I feel that I’ve managed to consolidate and interlace the audiovisual aspects of my work for the first time. This animated 2d film was created using mixed digital methods. I feel my narratives have finally merged into a complete story.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Kim Spierenburg

• kimspierenburg@gmail.com

A young man lives under the same roof as his parents but feels isolated. Unable to bear the loneliness, he commits suicide despite his family’s presence at home.
His parents, who struggle to empathize with their son, take a long time to realize he’s gone. The story is based on a newly emerging social issue in Korea called the lonely death phenomenon.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: KIM yonggi

• anristudio@naver.com

A multi-genre experimental film depicting a tragedy, disguised as a comedy, disguised as a horror film. This is a story about age-old loneliness, unquenched thirst and waning abilities to sustain life.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Mansoor Ahmed

• mansoorahmed5355@gmail.com

When a young girl's father is unexpectedly absent from her solo ballet performance, she reflects on her relationship with him and his alcoholism.
It isn't until she returns home with her mother, that she discovers there is more to her father's absence than meets the eye.

"Best Animation"
"Best Student Film"
"Best Composer"

► Directed by: Rachael Britton

• rachebritton@gmail.com

A youth's life falls into chaos following the breaking of his beloved lighter: his lover leaves him and he loses his job. The youth desperately seeks for a way to fix his lighter as a way to mend his ruined life, but in the process ends up losing the lighter itself. He tells his troubles to a foreign child, yet the child only wonders whether or not a certain bird in the sky is named Alice. One speaks English and the other Chinese, and the two end up speaking for quite some time despite not being able to understand each other.
When the youth finally sees his lighter again, he already has a newly born child, yet seeing the lighter in the hands of a stranger causes the youth to take desperate action ...
This is a film that explores the relationship between modern people and objects. When people create objects (commodities), they also become slaves of the objects, and even alienate themselves into the objects themselves-the plot where the heroine plays the model in the window accurately interprets this idea. And the actor finally disappeared in the chase of the items ...
So this movie is also a parable about the city.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Composer"

► Directed by: Zhao Gang

• zolan@126.com
• Official Instagram

Roadkill Jamboree is a stop-motion/ 2D hybrid music video about how roads and drivers affect animals, featuring music from the ska-punk band Suburban Legends. This grim yet humorous story centers around a band of five undead animals encompassing various species along Interstate Highway 5. Each animal in the band represents a different type of creature native to California while embodying different reasons why roadkill happens.

"Best Student Film"
"Best ECO work"
"Best Original Score"

► Directed by: Meghan G Graham

• meghangrahamcrackers@gmail.com
• Official Instagram

Ecce Mater tells of a mother and her love, as powerful as that of the Ecce Homo, the Christ in front of Pontius Pilate before being left to the crowd; a love capable of restoring confidence, warmth and 'normality' in a situation in which life itself is severely tested by an unpredictable and uncontrollable event such as an earthquake. A love made of small gestures, words of comfort, closeness, which will guide little Emma towards re-birth. A love capable of working miracles.

"Best Young Actress"

► Directed by: Valentina Tomada

• casadioe2020@gmail.com
• Official Facebook

John is a cast member of the EMMY Award-winning “Bob’s Burgers” as matriarch Linda Belcher which landed him first EMMY nod in the category of “Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance”.
In 2017 Blondie tapped him to drop some lyrical fire on “Love Level” from their critically acclaimed chart-topper Pollinator. "Looking," a wild anthem produced by Big Black Delta, followed in 2019, marked his solo debut with remixes by Tensnake and Gerd Janson. The song—which landed at #19 on UK club charts--along with “Dirty Little Secrets” In 2022 Roberts released a full album of club bangers with legendary DJ Junior Sanchez featuring Beth Ditto and Debbie Harry as well as remixes by Harry Romero and Felix da Housecat.
John’s first release of 2023 is a return to pop with his single “Danger” a moody mid-tempo 80’s esq bop produced by Junior Sanchez offers an exciting musical landscape filled with pulsating sounds and throbbing rhythm as well as Roberts vibrant and signature vocal style that brings the music to life.

"Best Music Video"
"Best Original Song"

► Directed by: Ned Stresen-Reuter

• bunnyhopfilms@sbcglobal.net

Set in a small town convenience store (Colmado) in the Dominican Republic — this humorous and emotional story follows Julián Méndez-the friendly store owner- and a stubborn stray dog that mistakes Julian’s kindness for friendship. Subsequently, the dog oversteps his boundaries causing Julian to lose his temper. It isn’t until Julian’s life is threatened and it’s up to the dog to save him that he realizes that the strongest love comes from unexpected places.

"Best Animation"
"Best Young Director"

► Directed by: Denisse Rodriguez

• denisserodriguez3d@gmail.com

It is about the process of women's life from birth to death, despite all the problems ahead, especially in my society, Iran.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Shafigheh Asani

• animate2012@gmail.com

Mr. Jordan, played by Terence Knox, and his wife spent their life on the farm. Just three months after she dies, he's told he is cancer free and sent home with new medications. But Bokamoso, the African intern, questions whether parasites could be to blame for the cancer. Sadly, the doctors are stuck in The System.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Drama"
"Best Actor"

► Directed by: Bryan McGlothin

• bryan@bryanmcglothin.com
• Official Website

The story revolves around a zombie girl, Susan, who has fallen in love with a monster boy, Allen, who seems to pay no attention to her. When Susan finds out that Allen loves the girls on the magazine covers, she becomes determined to change herself to fit what Allen might like. She attaches a long blonde wig to her head, but Allen still ignores her. Susan goes to extreme lengths to alter her appearance, switching her eyeball, increasing the size of her chest with a skull, and even cutting her waist to make it thinner. However, none of these changes win Allen's attention, and Susan becomes increasingly sad and angry. She pounds on Allen's locker, causing the posters to fall down, revealing the last one with a message that reads "The Dumber the Better". Seeing this,Susan decides to throw away her brain. Unfortunately, her drastic action still does not earn Allen's attention, and in the process, Susan loses her sense of self.

"Best Animation"
"Best Student Film"

► Directed by: Mingyuan Ye

• mye@c.ringling.edu

British actor of 1825, who briefly succeeds in Charleston theaters; enters plantation society as a private tutor. Even though successful at first, later Edward finds himself in mortal danger after a series of threatening and mysteriously strange events. Then with the assistance of Annie Banjo and while traveling north with the Bailey Circus, eventually he becomes a famous circus entertainer and ringmaster. And yet, till the end, Edward will be haunted by his plantation experience, and must act upon it in the only way he knows how... with the help of his friend Annie Banjo.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

► Written by: Francis Longworth Billingsley

• billingsleyfrank9@gmail.com
• Official Instagram

A man is force to dual over a woman that may or may not love him.

"Best Thriller"
"Best Dark Comedy"
"Best Actor"

► Directed by: Michael Taylor

• dramamantaylor@gmail.com

Based on the story of 'Pandora's Box', a man runs from the dark news of his brother's fate until he can run no more.

"Best Young Director"
"Best Short Film"
"Best Original Score"
"Best Student Film"

► Directed by: Jacob Sommer

• jaybobsommer@gmail.com
• Official Website

Inspired by the popular Mandela Catalogue web series by Alex Kister, BEINGS is an analog horror short about a trainee being inducted into a test of life and death.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Horror"

► Directed by: Garrett Russell

• garrettrussell264@gmail.com
• Official Website

People always have bad days from time to time, there’s no way to escape that. But for him, every day is a bad day.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Ilan Gregory Presman

• Presmanilan@gmail.com
• Official Website

Both a spoof and critique of modern science; in particular the notion that the Earth is round.

"Best Feature Documentaryr"

► Directed by: Paul May

• paul.may2@proton.me

In the short film For The Woods, two creatures who live in the woods observe humans as they experience the pandemic. From their behavior, we understand that they are magical creatures: they communicate without speaking, they're eternal, they have magic powers.
They love their natural environment and are an integral part of it.
Upset at human's damaging interference with nature, they wonder what the pandemic will mean for their beloved woods.
They have to decide whether they should help humans get over the pandemic, or let them be in the hope the human race disappears for the sake of nature.


"Best Covid-19 Film"

► Directed by: Arabella von Arx

• contact@galleryparticulier.org
• Official Website

An annoyingly sweet couple goes to a hypnotist to quit smoking. The hypnotist has his own way of treatment.

"Best Comedy"

► Directed by: Seyfican Bilgic

• seyfican9@gmail.com

Ula sees her mom in her dream…and in the morning her front tooth filling fells off. She decides that it’s a sign for her to go to her hometown in Siberia to fix there her teeth...She grabs her kids, and family starts their journey which was suddenly interrupted

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Anna Sergeeva

• sergeeva4@gmail.com
• Official Website

In a small mountains town, four young people experience the most horrendous moments of their lives. Three of them are held captive, and the fourth - Corina - has the mission to find and rescue them

"Best Television Script"

► Written by: Andrei Ion

• pentruandreiion@gmail.com

Filippo Zoi is a 24-year-old with autism. Gifted with a remarkable artistic sensitivity which takes up most of his energy, every year he draws thousands of comic strips and illustrates the children’s stories that his father writes, with two successful books to his credit. But what seems to be the catalyst for all his inner effort are doors and gates, which from childhood Filippo has catalogued in his mind, both to “touch” and to draw. Periodically he feels the need to list to his parents all the gates he has seen from when he was a child until now. This ritual seems anchored in reality as well affording him a pleasure all of his own. Intimate and impenetrable like autism itself.

"Best Feature Documentary"

► Directed by: Adamo Antonacci

• alessandro.salaorni@larione10.it
• Official Facebook

Rene and his old friends Josh and Jim are set on enjoying a Halloween weekend somewhere spooky and memorable. Up north in the woods of Port Hope there are legends of disappearances and murders that have taken place near a historic cemetery on a lonely stretch of dirt road said to be haunted. The guys set out there nonchalantly with rabbit ears on their head for Halloween costumes. But when the road becomes too potholed for driving, they decide to walk to the rumored "Phantom Farm" at its end.
Then strange sounds grab their attention. Rene charges ahead to see while the others lag behind, and so the horror begins!

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Jim Granda

• jimgra@rogers.com
• Official Website

Findings is a film about a young woman's process of finding herself. She no longer fits into her own home, she literally grows out of it. But she cannot find a new home and loses herself in the search for it ...

"Best No-Dialogue Film"
"Best Experimental Film"

► Directed by: Kristina Schippling

•  info@kristina-schippling.de
• Official Website

"Best Short Screenplay"

► Directed by: Francis Billingsley

• billingsleyfrank9@gmail.com

Arthur, a young man in his twenties who has been struggling with nightmares all his life, has finally got the chance to see April, a recently hired regression psychologist therapist, to try and help him and look into what is going on inside his mind. After a couple of visits, April feels that Arthur is finally ready to go through regression therapy to help him see what is happening inside his consciousness or past lives that could be affecting him.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Omar Sandoval

•  omarsandovall1829@gmail.com
• Official Instagram

A conspiracy theorist subjects his home to a drastic transformation. Made with a one-man crew and over 400 m2 of tin foil.

"Best Scenography"

► Directed by: Ruari Barratt

• ruaribarratt@gmail.com

Broken Worlds: The Island is a feature documentary that explores the contrasts and challenges of life on the tiny island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. The film takes place during Hurricane Maria and its aftermath, revealing the beauty and danger of a place with a complicated history. Vieques was once used as a bombing range by the US military, making it one of the largest superfund sites on Earth. Despite this, the island is also home to the brightest bioluminescent bay on Earth, making it a popular tourist destination.

"Best Feature Documentary"

► Directed by: Robyn Flanery

•  robyn@getitgirlproduction.com
• Official Facebook

Bonnie thinks someone has poisoned her birthday cake, when she receives a mysterious invitation. Since she is so curious, she decides to attend to the party anyways. It is here that her suspicions become real, and a strange girl kidnaps her. In the process we see how Bonnie loses her sanity, is what is happening to her real, or is it her delusional mind?

"Best Student Film"

► Directed by: Eugenia Teller Ríos

• eteller@students.kcai.edu
• Official Instagram

‘Stan & Sven’ tells the story of two best friends, Stan a robot and Sven a fun loving alien. Sven is on a mission to cheer up his buddy Stan who has been walking around with a frown for far too long. Sven soon realises that this is going to be harder than first thought.

"Best Student Film"

► Directed by: Amber Stacey

•  amberstacey86@gmail.com
• Official Website

The world's first Animated Comedy Genocide Musical Film.
What if your survival relied on a band from Te Kūiti?
We are all going to Die...

"Best Dark Comedy"

► Directed by: William Sasha Perry

• wheroblack@gmail.com
• Official Website

Out of a magical tree a blue girl is born. A handcrafted fantasy world comes to life through stop-motion animation. The girl goes on an intuitive journey where she is meets a mysterious creature, flies on the back of a giant fly and has to confront her own fate. The story references old fairy tales in a naive way. Eyes and plants are reoccurring symbols for the process of life and death in the film's dreamlike reality.

"Best Fantasy"
"Best Symbolic Film"
"Best Student Film"

► Directed by: Alda Ægisdóttir

•  alda.aegisdottirr@gmail.com
• Official Website

Trying to run away from the mad dog,little cat finds a statue of a Gryphon, where she hides. Surprisingly, Gryphon becomes alive to protect young lady and show her all the beauty of Saint-Petersburg.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Julia Lis

• bugs_bunny_wabbit@bk.ru
• Official Instagram

Jessica Alami successfully trained ballet as a child. She later enrolled in the school of fashiondance, having the unique support of her mother Evelyn. She dreams of one day being a fire-breathing samba.
Meanwhile, Stephen Carls becomes the leader of a motorcycle group called the "Riders of Death." On one occasion at a dance competition in Las Vegas, he accidentally meets the beautiful Jessica. As he breaks up with a girl named Tracy, he decides to seduce this beautiful young girl. He introduces her to Greg, who is opening a club and an Alden hotel. This is where Jessica finds a job as a fire samba dancer. Meanwhile, the "Masked Jokers" a motorcycle group ravaging are returning to the city. They're killing some members of the "Horsemen of Death." One night they decided to kill leader Stephen Carls by themselves.
The four of them – Otto Frog, White Snake, Raymond aka Black Abraham, and Frederick Drenick storm Stephen's house. They beat up and kill Stephen and then rape Jessica and leave her tied to die. They didn't know that she survived. She manages to break free and during the night, no one knows, she hides and burys Stephen's body in the yard. Jessica decides to take revenge on her tormentors. 

"Best Feature Screenplay"

► Written by: Dianna Diverno

•  divernodajana@gmail.com
• Official Website

"Best Short Screenplay"

► Written by: Yankee Zhou Yanz

• office@memorycountry.onmicrosoft.com

The Path of The Knight is a 5 minutes 3D animated short film set in the 15th century. Society is suffering from wars, poverty, and diseases. Wanting to hold on to power, the church announces that the disasters are not due to God’s will, but blames an easy target: witches. The audience follows a knight where he abandons his duties for self-recognition during this time of persecution. 

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Yexin Chai, Yuan Cao, Yifei Jin

• PathKnight2023@gmail.com
• Official Instagram

My movie is about self-confidence. An ostrich was not confident in herself in her appearance and abilities, until she entered another world similar to her original world, and she saw herself after ten years from today, and this helped her a lot to accept herself and gave her encouragement and determination.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Sara Samer Abu amara

• saraabu.amara@yahoo.com
• Official Website

On a planet that hangs from a balloon, preventing it from falling into a giant monster, a boy intends to destroy the balloon before a strange character, a girl holding lots of balloons, changes his mind, trying to cheer him up by giving them to him to hang from the earth. As the planet gets more balloons to hang from, it is pulled away from the depressing aura of the monster. The boy, now in better shape mentally, is thankful to the girl. He can now see the people living on the planet and goes to them. The monster is gone and he has the will to let himself live.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: William Marty Charest Léveillée

• williamcharest@icloud.com
• Official Instagram

AI short film inspired by the wonderful surreal world of Salvador Dali. Create with Runway Gen-2.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Massimo Casu

• maxcasu76@gmail.com
• Official Website

In a world where large giants lives in packs. one Gianett, too small to live with the others, is looking for a place to call home

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Rotem Halfon

• rotemhalfon1995@gmail.com

Dr. Dawn Menge has won thirty-four international literary awards as the author of the Queen Vernita educational series. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, a master's degree and a Credential in moderate/severe disabilities, and a bachelor's degree in human development. Dr. Menge has been teaching students with severe cognitive delays for twenty-years. She has three children and five beautiful grandchildren and lives in Southern California.

"Best Short Screenplay"

► Directed by: Dawn Menge

• dawnmenge@hotmail.com
• Official Website

A fox is preparing to meet an opponent for a boxing match. But he will have a surprise.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Animation"
"Best Comedy"
"Best Sport Film"
"Best No-Dialogue Film"

► Directed by: Antoine Priou

• rpriou.antoine@gmail.com
• Official Instagram

A Christmas Special!! Who doesnt love a christmas special? Well this one touches your heart and introduces you to the characters a little bit more..

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: David Cleveland

• djdmc425@msn.com

Two convict robots are exiled to deep space

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: John Johnson

• 2snares@gmail.com

A super computer manipulates the characters in a frame animation film for its own designs.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: John Johnson

• 2snares@gmail.com

Romantic Coming of Age Screenplay of Asian American Students set at Michigan State University. The college experience with an eccentric Professor of Psychology aka Dr. Love. "Wabi Sabi" is the japanese distinction of finding the perfect inside the Imperfect world. Love is a high frequency wave relationship. Written by Nelson Beltran

"Best Feature Screenplay"

► Written by: Nelson Beltran

• gowithvelocity@gmail.com
• Official Website

Our national politics, a laugh a minute.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Kate Ryan

• katerose777@gmail.com
• Official Website

The hypnotic world of video sports that keeps players inside.

"Best Experimental Film"

► Directed by: Kate Ryan

• katerose777@gmail.com

Inspired by Elvis, a girl exacts revenge on her father by plotting his demise as well as the cop assigned to manager her welfare case.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

► Written by:Leslie Flannery

• generalflannery@gmail.com

Love & Monsters meets A Quiet Place, in which a group of millennials converging on a secluded research lab during a FOMO-inspired live social network event unwittingly release a few dozen legendary Yeti creatures that then terrorize a mountain town in the Sierra Nevada.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

► Written by: Tom Morgan

• thos.morgan.writes@gmail.com

This documentary explores how teens' mental health is negatively affected by active shooter drills, and how nonchalantly they are handled in school environments.

"Best Student Film"

► Directed by:Violet Dempsey

• ultravioletj@icloud.com

a dialogue, sometimes conflicting, between living and colorful bodies, and dead, gray stone. there's no winner.... diffent stories, short and intense meeting

"Best Dance Video"

► Directed by: Marika Vannuzzi

• marikavannuzzi@gmail.com
• Official Website

Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years, is released to the custody of his daughter, Lucie Manette. On the ferry from Calais to Dover, the French emigrant Charles Darnay, a young man with secret ties to French aristocracy, befriends them. Set up to be tried for treason against the English Crown by his uncle, the Marquis St Evremonde of France, Darnay is pronounced innocent based on his remarkable likeness to Sydney Carton, his dissolute lawyer. In his fervor to face off with his uncle by renouncing the privileges and abuses of the class to which he was born, Darnay unwittingly springs a trap set by the vengeful Madame Defarge, a trap with grave consequences for himself and the Manettes.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

► Written  by: Michael O'Rourke

• sfxfilms@gmail.com

SYNOPSIS of the film "Dior Lover", genre drama, comedy: Dior Lover works for a gourmet factory, yet she also draws Dior Fashion sketches hoping to work for Dior one day. And she receives a precious Dior item she can only dream of, and she is forced to confront a business person to prove it's hers. Soon she faces an emotional journey, not knowing that her personality is admirable. Audience: Everybody who loves the beauty of life.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Director"
"Best Producer"

► Directed by: Natasa Lanieri Shakespeare

• natasashakespeare@gmail.com
• Official Website

one week centers around a young teens first break up and how he deals with it in the first week

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Devin Noonan

• devinoonan22@gmail.com
• Official Website

"Best Music Video"

► Directed by: gil Stefan basarab, ido berlad

• gilbasarab@gmail.com

The life of a couple with the disease of endometriosis, she will have to make a choice, but which one?
Do you really know the disease?
do you know who she is and what she does?
Passionate about dance, the disease takes a big place, what is the fight she will lead?
And what would be your choice?
the end is up to you...

"Best No-Dialogue Film"
"Best Symbolic Film"

► Directed by: Zabaldu Naraé

• naraeprod@gmail.com
• Official Instagram

In the tv show, What a Match, the old man and woman, seek to find an answer to their longing and hope for deep love! The blind date takes place in front of an enthusiastic live audience in this new successful show!

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Björn Granberg Ahlmark

• bwecko@hotmail.com

Logline: After a failed long distance relationship, Kaylee is pushed to go on a date, only to discover the true reason why she had been single since the break up.

"Best Student Film"

► Directed by: Lindsay Terzich, Sydney Strange

• jake0linn@gmail.com

THE FALLEN is a mesmerizing and ethereal real-time short short film that transports us to a breathtaking post-apocalyptic world. We witness the awakening of a city constructed within the bones of a long-forgotten creature, where nothing is quite as it seems, and danger lurks around every corner. Against this backdrop, a young girl becomes immersed in the chaos and sets out to chase the creatures, leading her on a journey of discovery and danger.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Sinew Zhang

• sinewzhang@gmail.com
• Official Website

"Best Original Score"

► Composed by: Samuel Safa

• samuelsafacompositeur@gmail.com
• Official Website

As light codes activate within us, our auric fields magnetize and we align with our own divinity. We are stardust, liquid light, etheric bodies, all in a cosmic dance within this galactic multiverse.

"Best Photography"

► Directed by: Leslie Brockett

• bunnyhopfilms@sbcglobal.net
• Official Instagram

This is a story inspired by true events, about a girl who moved out of Ukraine, because of the war in her country. Upon arriving to Poland, in the camp, she meets with an older guy, who seems helpful and responsible and caring and helps hosting her for a night before she travels to her friend to another city. As events unfold, they seem to have found a friend in each other. But his past troubled experiences with women, and his life experiences, let his male ego come into this new relationship, which eventually takes a turn and a friendship which could have done well for both to start a new life, comes to an end.

"Best Feature Film"

► Directed by: Mohinder Pal Singh Sobti

• mpssobti@yahoo.com
• Official Website

A young boy is saved by a hairy creature after he is attacked by three mysterious shadow monsters.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Brandon Manuel Werwa

• brandonwerwa.animation@gmail.com
• Official Website

I wondered what would it be like if regular objects had a foot like a human.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Saeho Oh

• saehooh0910@outlook.com
• Official Website

A pregnant woman comes to Spain to find the father of her unborn baby and tell that he will soon be a dad...

"Best Comedy"

► Directed by: Natalia Arjona

• nataliarjona@gmx.fr
• Official Instagram

A photographic journey through South India.

"Best Experimental Film"

► Directed by: JOEL LAWRENCE HOLZMAN

• joellawrence@ymail.com
• Official Website

A successful writer risks her life and career after accepting a proposition to seduce her client's husband in exchange for a kidney to save her dying mother.

"Best Drama'
"Best Actress"
"Best Original Screenplay"

► Directed by: Jonathan Daniel Williams, Qituwra Anderson

• qmanderson1@gmail.com
• Official Website

An art professor and her students apprentice with Kam minority artisans deep in the mountains of southwest China to learn early papermaking technology. The Kam have lived secluded from the rest of the world for centuries. Their papermaking tradition can be traced directly to the Chinese official Cai Lun, who is credited with inventing paper over 2000 years ago. Kam artisans adopted his technique after the addition of mulberry bark to the pulp mixture but before he invented the dipping method of forming paper. Their current practice takes us back two millennia the way no archaeological discovery can.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Marie Anna Lee

• marie.anna.lee@gmail.com
• Official Website

The treasure of templars of abbe Sauniere and of abbey Boudet of Rennes of Castle in France with the priory of Sion , the Graal of templars ,mediums and historical people against ennemy Brouillard society

"Best Feature Screenplay"

► Written by: Cazebon-Taveau Cazebon-Taveau Cazebon-Taveau

• cazbern33@hotmail.fr