BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Bitter Pill – (Denmark) Drama RT 15:21
Director William Stahl
Lucas is suffering from an existential crisis – and the spoiled, whiny creative professionals in his neighborhood are not exactly improving on the situation. When a somewhat unorthodox psychiatrist advises him to stare death in the face in order to feel truly alive, Lucas opts to do a high-wire walk between two residential buildings in downtown Copenhagen. But his exploits might have unexpected consequences…
Nominations:
Bitter Pill
UnderGod
No Where, No One – Erin Collett
Catch
Antoine
BEST WEB SERIES
Deja Vu Web Series – (Columbia) Sci-Fi,Action RT 7:06 and 4:58
Director Juan Francisco Pérez Villalba
Deja Vu, tells the story of Sebastian, a young man who can see tragedies before they happen and therefore has the opportunity to change them.
Nominations:
Deja Vu Web Series – Director Juan Francisco Pérez Villalba
Undead Survival – Director Michael Fitzer
Destroy the Alpha Gammas – Director: Scott Brown
Research. – A web series – Director Adam Hall
Darwin – Director Carrie Preston
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Entrance exam – (China) Animation, RT 7:00
Director: Boqing Tang
3D computer animation about three little mice struggle to get through the entrance exam of a Taoism school .
Nominations:
Entrance exam – Boqing Tang
The Mega Plush – Matt Burniston
The Snow – Sung Im Kim
Une balade a la mer – Damien Stein
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
My Revolutionary Mother – (USA) Documentary RT 25:00
Director Jethro Patalinghug
In his need for self-identity, Jethro Patalinghug, a filmmaker, confronts his mother Virginia Patalinghug, a former political activist in the Philippines, about his feelings of abandonment as a child.
Nominations:
My Revolutionary Mother
Heartbeats of Fiji
Box Girl
BEST ACTRESS – WEB SERIES
Leah McKendrick for Destroy the Alpha Gammas
Destroy the Alpha Gammas (USA) Comedy, RT 14:08
Director: Scott Brown
Driven by today’s biggest pop hits, the not so popular Delta Pi house vows to take down the Alpha Gammas who have terrorized them for years.
This isn’t glee club. This is Greek warfare.
Nominations:
Destroy the Alpha Gammas- Leah McKendrick
Undead Survival – Sarah East
Research. – A web series- Autumn Hurlbert
Darwin – Celia Keenan-Bolger
Kam Kardashian – Fawzia Mirza
BEST ACTOR – WEB SERIES
Christopher Gerson for Darwin the Web Series
Darwin: The Web Series– (USA) Comedy, RT 14:43
Director Carrie Preston
Leo Darwin is a life coach whose life is falling apart.
Nominations:
Darwin – Christopher Gerson
Undead Survival – Andy Pyle
Deja Vu Web Series – Julian Trujillo
Research. – A web series – Gabriel Diani
Devil’s Couriers – Tim Aslin
BEST WEB SERIES SCREENPLAY
Undead Survival – (USA) Comedy,Sci-Fi, Horror, RT 11:20
Director Michael Fitzer
Reality is dead when an ex-Special Forces survivalist, a has-been producer and an incompetent network television crew produce a weekly reality program in a world overrun by zombies and cannibalistic TV executives.
Nominations:
Undead Survival – Michael Fitzer
Deja Vu Web Series – Juan Francisco Pérez Villalba & Edwin Herrera Ruiz
Research. – A web series – Adam Hall and Kahle McCann
Louie LaFleur’s Night Terrors – The Potion – Louie LaFleur
Exchanging Confidences – Silvio Nacucchi
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC – WEB SERIES
Research. – A web series – (USA) Comedy, RT 8:14
Director Adam Hall
An idiot wins the MacArthur Genius Grant and uses the money to open a research and testing facility.
Nominations:
Research. – A web Series – Kenny Wood
Undead Survival
Destroy the Alpha Gammas – Gionna Ostinelli
Devil’s Couriers
Exchanging Confidences
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – WEB SERIES
Destroy the Alpha Gammas (USA) Comedy, RT 14:08
Director: Scott Brown
Driven by today’s biggest pop hits, the not so popular Delta Pi house vows to take down the Alpha Gammas who have terrorized them for years.
This isn’t glee club. This is Greek warfare.
Nominations:
Destroy the Alpha Gammas – Boa Simon
Undead Survival – Michael “Goat” Goatley
Research. – A web series – Ryan Weeda
Devil’s Couriers- Alex Simon
Louie LaFleur’s Night Terrors – The Potion – John Mackin
BEST EDITING – WEB SERIES
The World Cup Project- (USA) Sports, Reality, RT 11:42
Director: Jason Sarrey
People all over the world use soccer as a tool for social development and change. In this pilot episode, we see how one man uses the power of soccer to help children play and write poetry.
Nominations:
The World Cup Project
Destroy the Alpha Gammas
Devil’s Couriers
Darwin: The Web Series
Law of the Land
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC – Documentary
Heartbeats of Fiji – (USA) Documentary short, RT 10:00
Director: Jon Kasbe
From separate islands, yet connected through music, Ben and Masi cross paths at Fiji’s Beat Making Lab. By building studios around the world, the Beat Making Lab believes music can transform individuals and communities.
Nominations:
Heartbeats of Fiji
Box Girl
The Story of an Egg
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Documentary
Eunoto – (USA) Documentary Short RT 7:40
Director: Matt Goldman
Deep in the Loita hills of remote Kenya, the people of the Masai tribe mark a warrior’s passage to manhood with a sacred ceremony called Eunoto. Only a tiny handful of foreigners have or will ever see Eunoto with their own eyes, until now…
With stunning cinematography and a cutting edge original score, Sundance alumni Matt Goldman and renowned photographer Liz Gilbert have created a visceral and poetic portrait of the participants and esoteric rituals of this vanishing tradition.
Nominations:
Eunoto
My Revolutionary Mother
Heartbeats of Fiji
BEST EDITING – DOCUMENTARY
The Story of an Egg – (USA) Documentary short, RT 5:59
Director: Douglas Gayeton
Can learning the meaning of a single term actually help change the food system? Local poultry farmers explain the real story behind such terms as “free range” and how they have been hijacked from their initial purpose to protect the consumer’s choice.
Nominations:
The Story of an Egg
Heartbeats of Fiji
Eunoto
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – ANIMATION
Humanexus – (Taiwan) Animated Short RT 5:45
Director: Ying-Fang Shen
Tools and technologies have made interpersonal connections easier to reach out and share ideas, but each presents a new, unforeseen challenge. We must always ask: “Is this what we want? What do we want?”
Nominations:
Humanexus – Ying-Fang Shen
Entrance exam – Boqing Tang
The Snow – Sung Im Kim
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC – ANIMATION
A Ride Towards The Sea – (France) Animation, RT 3:26
Director: Damien Stein
A small animated character crosses town to free his goldfish
Nominations:
Une balade a la mer – Damien Stein
Humanexus
Entrance exam
The Mega Plush
BEST ACTOR – NARRATIVE SHORT
UnderGod – Chris Labrum
UnderGod – (USA) Drama RT 20:13
Director Shaan Dimri
Deep within enemy territory, on assignment to locate and destroy a high level militia training compound, a group of 3 U.S. soldiers will test their loyalty, sanity, and endurance before they face life or death.
Nominations:
UnderGod – Chris Labrum
Bitter Pill – Anders Heinrichsen
Inside Eye – Ankush Agarwal
No Where, No One –Abed Landy
Antoine – Max Putz
BEST ACTRESS – NARRATIVE SHORT
Stop – Lisa Kay
Stop– (UK) Drama RT 13:30
Director Paul Murphy
A chance bus stop encounter between Karen, a shy, introverted woman and Niki, a loud, over-confident teenage girl takes a deeper turn, when personal secrets are inadvertently revealed, and confessions take the place of pleasantries.
Nominations:
Stop – Lisa Kay
Vanished – Cameron Richardson
Sticks and Stones- Madison Pettis
Antoine – Annette Schiechter
The Wood House – Amandine Thomas
Katya & The Scarlet Sails – Anamaria Marinca
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – NARRATIVE SHORT
Fished Out: The Truth Behind Lionfish Addiction – (Puerto Rico) Mocumentary RT 18:42 -Director Anthony Dooley
In an attempt to expose a deadly underground drug addiction in the Caribbean, ‘Fished Out’ follows one user through his progressive downfall of using lionfish spines as an injection drug.Shot on location on the West Coast of Puerto Rico, the ‘documentary’ contains interviews with the area’s colorful characters, while aiming to bring awareness to the lionfish addiction epidemic.
Nominations:
Fished Out: The Truth Behind Lionfish Addiction
Fuck you Lucy Pickens
00c6
No Where, No One
Bitter Pill
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC – NARRATIVE SHORT
Lenny Lump – (Sweden) Horror, Comedy RT 2:43
Director: Per von Koch
Based on a 200 year old Swedish nursery rhyme that we tell our kids. The rhyme has only 19 words and is about a man that somehow looses his toe in the woods. This film goes explains it all.
Nominations:
Lenny Lump
No Where, No One
Slap
Bitter Pill
Catch
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – NARRATIVE SHORT
Katya & The Scarlet Sails – (USA) Fantasy, Romance, RT 12:58
Director: Vika Evdokimenko
After years of bad luck in love Katya realises the source of her problems might be her favourite Soviet film, a tale about the perils of being an old fashioned romantic…
Nominations:
Katya & The Scarlet Sails- Matthew Mendelson
Bitter Pill – Niels Reedtz Johansen
Lenny Lump – Per von Koch
No Where, No One – Joshua Dang
Catch – Woody James
BEST EDITING – NARRATIVE SHORT
No Where, No One – (Australia) Drama, Alternative, RT 8:32
Director: Erin Collett
No Where, No One’ is a film that relives the final moments of a dying man whose loss and isolation have driven him to commit the crime that will ultimately cost him his life.
Nominations:
No Where, No One
Slap
Thank you Bradley Cooper
Girl at the Door
The Inside Eye