May2016

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Here are results for May 2016 Edition.
Here is a Winners List.

BEST SHORT
No Child (44m, U S A) drama
Directed by Rob Underhill.
No Child is about growing up, and the power of growing together. It explores our inner passions, becoming inspired to be responsible, and the ability in us all to overcome our disadvantages... and our demons.
Trailer Link: https://vimeo.com/147748917

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
I want To Be Afsaneh (38m) documentary
Directed by Selma Nayebi.
At the age of thirteen, Afsaneh is forced to marry, because of her mother’s behavior that she discriminated she suffered compared to her borthers. After a few years under the traditional mentality and severity of her husband and his family she tries to find a way of…
WATCH HERE
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2KFYk4pcnQONWZNbEpkMVVfa28

BEST EPISODE / NEW MEDIA
F**kin' Actors (9m, U S A) new media comedy.
Directed by Halstan Williams, created by Ashton Bingham, Gian Keys and Art Kulik.
Follow Chase and Ryan through a comedic journey of chasing a dream.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiizcw0Bem8
Pilot Episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl1TIJnTtt0

BEST TRAILER
Final Cassette (18m, U S A) short film.
Directed by Lianghong Deng.
WATCH TRAILER NOW: https://vimeo.com/165983178
A bookstore owner, Norman, who is held back by the memory of his high school sweetheart, Elena.
Ten years after her unanswered disappearance, he has essentially collected all of Elena’s cassettes from her high school radio show: except the final cassette.

BEST FEATURE
Exit Thread (97m, Canada) feature drama.
Directed by Paul Andrew Kimball.
WATCH TRAILER NOW Tom is a small-town pastor who struggles with a continuing attraction to Abby, a former lover, even as he falls hard for Laura, a college professor and Abby's friend and mentor. Observing all of
this at a distance is Rev.
The link to the trailer is: https://vimeo.com/169971600

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
When Droplets Become Rain (77m, SP)
feature documentary.
Directed by José Gayà.
When the rich get richer and the poor poorer. When Governments rescue banks and evict people. When they want to shed human rights to the dustbin of history, then people organize and take to the streets.
WATCH HERE (Documentary+ENG Subtitles)
https://vimeo.com/149306358

BEST STUDENT
His Emily (24m, U S A) short drama
Directed by Marco A. Elorreaga
When Desmond attempts suicide, he and his family struggle with how to deal with it.
Link to film: https://youtu.be/IN-tvL3-Vxs

BEST ANIMATION
A Sweet Dream (4m, U S A) animated short.
Directed by Tooba Rezaei.
A bitter-sweet allegorical look at the desires of little girl
who wants the world to see her talents shine through
the difficulties of her life.
WATCH HERE
https://vimeo.com/164847204

BEST EXPERIMENTAL
WAR SCARRED BERLIN (5 m, Germany) experimental, short, art video.
Directed by Roland Fuhrmann.
Link to a 60p version:
Vimeo Link:
https://vimeo.com/142513745
password: explosive_silence
The bullet holes of war are omnipresent. Especially now, when Germany become a magnet for war refugees, it is important to remind of these scars.

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Other (4m30s, France) Music video - Animation.
Directed by Jeffig Le Bars
A little girl awakes in a ruined smoking limbo-like world.
Chased by ghostly monsters, she rides a friendly horse, companion in misfortune, to try and escape these frozen lands.

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
In the Open Sea (U S A) drama, adventure, mystery, fantasy, thriller, written by Scott Dissinger.
A shipwrecked man awakens to find himself on an island but how he got there and where he’s actually at, comes to be known through a wave of unforeseen and puzzling circumstances.

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
KIDICIDE (U S A) feature horror, psychological thriller, written by Kelly Jean Karam
A self-made single mom impulsively brings a suspicious new husband and his creepy son into her home, and in doing so, destroys the one person she loves more than anyone else in the world - her daughter.

BEST SCORE
The Clockmakers Dream (13m, Ireland).
short , Sci-fi/Fantasy
Directed by Cashell Horgan.
WATCH TRAILER NOW
A fairytale from a Mechanical world. Fearless, humorous poetry with obvious affection for a tradition, grimm and Hans Christian Anderson and Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman.

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
Eléctrico Cielo (U S A) photography by WonBin Lee.
This electrifying visual represents freedom and contradiction through the stark contrast between red and blue, and sharp edges versus negative space.

BEST POSTER
Le Pardon

BEST DRONE FILM
Drone view in Norway in May 2016
(3m, Norway) drone.
Directed by André Hope.
WATCH NOW
The colors are finaly here and the the lake so quiet early in the morning. Like an eagle's eye you will see high and low flying across the beautiful nature around Trondheim, Norway.

BEST OF AUDIENCE
F**kin' Actors (9m, U S A) new media comedy.
Directed by Halstan Williams, created by Ashton Bingham, Gian Keys and Art Kulik.
Follow Chase and Ryan through a comedic journey of chasing a dream.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiizcw0Bem8
Pilot Episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl1TIJnTtt0

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