WINTER WINNERS 2024
Film Categories
Best Feature Film
Love in Focus - US
Best Short Film
Safe Space - US
Best International Feature
"medèn àgan" NOTHING BEYOND MEASURE - Italy
Best International Short
Guardians of Colors - Germany
Best Animated Feature
With You - US
Best Animated Short
Growing Pains - UK
Best Micro-Short
Ghost Leave - US
Honorable Mention: The Five Life Stages of Your Teenager's First Car - US
Best Documentary Feature
The Theatre Documentary - Canada
Best Documentary Short
The Take Away - US
Honorable Mention: A Dirty Secret - Compassion in Wildfire - US
Honorable Mention: Remember Me - US
Best Student Film
Phase lll - US
Honorable Mention: Float Like a Butterfly, Bite Like a Snake - Australia
Best Director
Joseph Vernon Reidhead, Brandon Ho - Love in Focus - US
Best First-Time Director
Where the Flowers Won’t Grow - Jennica Anusua Galloway - US
Best Cinematography
Guardians of Colors - Markus Ott - Germany
Honorable Mention: Quixote - “Fleeting (Back in Time)”: Joseph Kitchens - US
Best Editing
Guardians of Colors - Tim Plaster - Germany
Best Music Score
Guardians of Color - Phillip Lust, Johnny Rosch - Germany
Best Actor
Love in Focus - Dan Fowlks - US
Honorable Mention: Fatefully Undone - Derek Ritchie - US
Best Actress
Safe Space - Haley Mauk - US
Honorable Mention: Where the Flowers Won’t Grow - Rylee Jensen - US
Best Supporting Actor
Love in Focus - Colin Cunningham - US
Honorable Mention: What I Should Have Said: Charan Prabhakar - US
Honorable Mention: Limbo - Eric Osmond - US
Best Supporting Actress
Xpendable - Annette Buchanan McGregor - US
Honorable Mention: Limbo - Megan Rees - US
Best Ensemble Cast
Uncle Edouard - France
Best VFX
Gift - Daniel Joseph - US
Best Makeup
Balcony - Lucy Goldberg - US
Best Production Design
Tito Strange “How to Escape a Cult” - US
Best Lighting
Balcony - Heather Shevach - US
Best Experimental Film
Mistake. - US
Honorable Mention: “Oil & Water” - Ryan Meeks - US
Best LGBTQ Film
Pink Walls - US
Best Film Noir
Xpendable - US
Best Comedy
Checkmate, The Last King - US
Best Drama
I Choose You - US
Best Horror Film
Balcony - US
Best Action/Adventure
Smack Man Resurrected - US
Honorable Mention - The Letter - US
Best Sci-Fi
Event Virus - US
Best Producer
Viruses War -Iraq
Best Thriller
Fatefully Undone - US
Honorable Mention: The Dental Plan - US
Best AI Film
Cat Chaser - US
Honorable Mention - Meet the Earthlings - France
Best Dystopian Film
Gift - US
Best Proof of Concept
The Body - US
Best Original Screenplay - Feature
“Bloody Teeth” Shaqwane Yates, Markus Evans
Best Original Screenplay - Short
“Six-Shooters and Sorcerers” Robert Salisbury
Best Fictional Podcast Recording
“London After Midnight” Jack Bowman - UK
Honorable Mention - “The Greenhouse” - Julia Warren - US
Best TV/Web Series Episode
“It’s a Fine Day” Kent Flaagan
Song & Music Video Categories
Best Music Video
Platinum
Advent Horizon “Water” - US
Gold
Quixote “Fleeting (Back in Time) - US
Silver
Rachelle Price “Haunted” - US
Bronze
Robyn Cage “Warrior” - US
Best International Music Video
Gold
5AM - Lebanon
Silver
Hasky “Skazki” - Russian Federation
Bronze
Elviria - “Mishkin-Qalam” - Cyprus
Best Country Song
“Cry No More” Magnolia Blooms - US
Best Metal/Progressive Song
“Scorn” Charlatan - US
Best Alernative Rock Song
“Oil & Water” Ryan Meeks - US
Best Rap Song
“New Me” Star2 - US
Best Contemporary Song
“Tumble” Renee Plant Band - US
Best Folk Song
“Elf, It Hides” Storms in the Hill Country - US
Best Experimental Song
“How to Escape a Cult” Tito Strange - US
Best Indie Song
“Silver Chameleons” Michael Palmer - US
Best World Song
Elviria - “Mishkin-Qalam” - Cyprus
Best Animated Music Video
“You Feel it Too” Moxy the Band - US
Best Music Video Producer
“Wretch” Charlatan - US