2021 AWARDS NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
Awards Ceremony was streamed on Facebook Live on Sunday November 21st at 8pm EST
BEST FEATURE FILM
Christmas In July
The New Abolitionists
River Road
Spiral Farm
Tuscaloosa - WINNER
BEST SHORT FILM
In Orbit
Javelina Run
Now You See Us
Push The Point
Rumori - WINNER
Side Step
BEST GEORGIA FILM
Gatito
Instalife
It’s a 74 - WINNER
Life Binder
Me vs You
Toomsboro
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Abe’s Story
Eva Kor - The Healing Power of Forgiveness - WINNER
Jitterbugs
The Moon’s Not That Great
The Morning Bake
BEST HORROR SHORT
Accept
Every 75 Minutes - WINNER
Koreatown Ghost Story
Love Bite
Smiley Death Face
Willa
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Dark Side of Green Energies
Galapagos: Secrets of the Ocean Giants
Love Reaches Everywhere - WINNER
The River That Flows Both Ways
The Roads Most Traveled
Salvage
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT
Boje
Rruga/The Path
Rumori
The Wick
Without Saying Goodbye - WINNER
BEST DRAMA SHORT
Anna
Can’t Help But Run
Flight of the Dodo - WINNER
Guilt
Retirement Day
Silences
BEST COMEDY SHORT
Compartmentalization Storage Facility
Dodgy
Masterpiece - WINNER
Mom’s Dinner
Sparky & Butch
Vanity Disasters
BEST STUDENT SHORT
Land of Pyrite/Land of Gold - WINNER
Midnight Marathon
Oasis
Tight Spot
What If
BEST SCI-FI & FANTASY FILM
Encounters
Family Tree
In Orbit - WINNER
Popped Culture
Take Me To The Stars
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
El Amor Remix
Major Moment - The Flood - WINNER
Mountain
They Don’t Know About Us
BEST MICRO-SHORT FILM
8x8
Peace
Routine
Stains - WINNER
Too Late
Umbra
BEST DIRECTOR - FEATURE FILM
Scott Hansen, Desiree Connell (Bad Candy)
Myles Matsuno (Christmas In July)
Carlisle Kellam (Comfort Farms)
Christina Zorich (The New Abolitionists) - WINNER
Philip Harder (Tuscaloosa)
BEST DIRECTOR - SHORT FILM
Sean Bloomfield (Love Reaches Everywhere)
José Luis López (Paula's Clock)
Cedric Thomas Smith (Retirement Day)
Natasha Straley (Side Step) - WINNER
Annette Reilly (A Typical Fairytale)
BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
Andreas Cordes, Robert Köhler (Boje)
Rebecca Rajadnya (Bookends)
Nathaniel Jackson (Mad Lonely)
Chris Danuser (Pap's Manifesto) - WINNER
Andrew Simonian (The Take Out Move)
Paul Ménagé (Without Saying Goodbye)
BEST ACTOR
Mark Hampton (Acceptance)
Arya Haeri (Guilt) - WINNER
Sam Ashby (Learning To Fly)
David Tortosa (Minor Key)
Andrea Arcangeli (Rumori)
Stephane Monpetit (Without Saying Goodbye)
BEST ACTRESS
Svetlana Barandich (Anna)
Layla Koshnoudi (Bookends)
Yessenia Hernandez (Dead Winter)
Barbara Miluski (Now You See Us) - WINNER
Caroline Ryburn (Now You See Us)
Kimberly Hauser (Sincerely and Literally Yours)
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Calf Rope
Christmas In July - WINNER
Forfeit
It's a 74
River Road
Tuscaloosa
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Boje (Lukas Jung, Patrick Wegener)
Flight of the Dodo (Leonardo Harim)
Galapagos: Secrets of the Ocean Giants (Jeffrey Garriock)
Tuscaloosa (Theo Stanley)
Without Saying Goodbye (Lewis Martin Soucy) - WINNER
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Calf Rope (Ellie Brooke, Bradley Hawkins) - WINNER
Every 75 Minutes (Pablo Cervantes)
In Orbit (Emer Kinsella)
Javelina Run (Steffen Schmidt)
Rumori (Julia Kent)
BEST SOUND
Bad Candy - WINNER
Every 75 Minutes
Hanger's Limb
Pap's Manifesto
Stains
BEST SCREENPLAY - FEATURE/PILOT
Brook Farm (Alexander Wake)
Dead Heir (David Emanuel Faria, Ken Bernardo)
Destiny’s Grace (Kirby Freeman)
Letters to Stephanie (Jo-Ann Bierer Wilhelm)
Little Things Mean A Lot (Michael Monteith)
Necropolis (Caledonia Hanson)
The Orchestra (Curtis Matzke)
Schatzi (Dorothy St. Louis)
Searching For Michael (David Earle) - WINNER
The Waltz (Ava Davis)
BEST SCREENPLAY - SHORT
AIM! (John Piotrowski)
Downballot (John Goshorn)
February (Petros Georgiadis)
Ei8thy-Ei8ht (Doug Maguire)
Guilt (Calvin Walker, Cedric Thomas Smith) - WINNER
In Your Dreams (Arteta Stephane)
Kill Me If You Can (Xintong Han)
Las Nogas (Catya Plate)
The Marrow (Troy Greenwood)
One (Joanna Brooks)
TheoMORPHIS (Sam Moony)