Roll of Honour (Awards)

Mixed Media & Visual Design – Strange Beasts

Outstanding Cinematography – Hala

Original Music – Ali Helnwein (After Sophie)

Film Editing – Hot Seat

Male Performance – Byron Quiros (Hot Seat)

Female Performance – Tess Granfield (Hala)

Writing – Anna Kerrigan (Hot Seat)

Directing – Minhal Baig (Hala)

Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize – Minhal Baig

For writing and directing two outstanding short films, Hala and After Sophie, with Pretext coming next. Baig also had a feature film, One Night, released in the last year. An extremely talented filmmaker on this evidence, we look forward to more.

Dog Tooth (Third prize) – Strange Beasts (Magali Barbe)

Red Lantern (Second Prize) – Hala (Minhal Baig)

Gold Sovereign (Grand Prize) – Hot Seat (Anna Kerrigan)

Mixed Media – Land Without Evil

Editing – Somersault Pike

Writing – Joosje Duk (Night)

Dog Tooth (Third prize) – Aria (Myrsini Aristidou)

Directing – Myrsini Aristidou (Aria)

The Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize – Morgan Gruer

For excellent, emotive hand-drawn animation with Reflections, and incorporating her vibrant talent to live action work including music videos.

Male Performance – Hervé Laudière (Listening Eyes)

Visual Design – Land Without Evil

Cinematography – Somersault Pike

Original Music – Tonolec (Land Without Evil)

Female Performance – Chryssa Platsatoura (Aria)

Red Lantern (Second Prize) – Creswick (Natalie Erika)

Gold Sovereign (Grand Prize) – Land Without Evil (Kati Egely)

Mixed Media – Mélody Boulissière (Ailleurs)

Original Music – Monica Lyrae (Hyphen)

Sound Design – Once Upon a Line

Editing – Control

Special Contribution Prize – Alison Becker’s Dog, Dignan (Control)

Red Lantern – Control (Kimmy Gatewood, Alison Becker)

Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize – Maegan Houang

For fantastic, refreshing blend of cinematography, sound, production design and mixed media – aptly and artistically demonstrated in her latest short film In Full Bloom.

Visual Design – Family Portrait

Male Performance – David Ebert (It’s Been Too Long)

Female Performance – Taylor Hess (The Morning After)

Directing – Courtney Hope Thérond (The Dress You Have On)

Cinematography – Salam

Writing – Elizabeth Rose (The Law of Averages)

Dog Tooth – Once Upon a Line (Alicja Jasina) and Little Pyongyang (Roxy Rezvany)

Gold Sovereign – Salam (Claire Fowler)

Special Contribution Prize – Dalia Binzari (Just Me and You)

Sound Design – The Pregnant Ground

Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize – Kelsie Moore

For the timely, powerful depiction of different cultures and social issues, as well as demonstrating a clear range and affecting stroytelling with not one, but three documentary short films: The Get; The Gray Area; Shelter in Place

Editing – Hearth

Original Music – Satyaki Banerjee (The Story of Painted Songs) and Chancha Vía Circuitom El Búho (El Mago Georges)

Directing – Sophie B Jacques (Hearth)

Mixed Media – Girl in the Hallway

Visual Design – Home

Writing – Armita Keyani (Welcome Home)

Cinematography – Long Time Listener, First Time Caller

Female Performance – Lu Huang (The Pregnant Ground) and
Breeda Wool (Long Time Listener, First Time Caller)

Male Performance – Ptolemy Slocum (Uproot)

Dog Tooth (Third prize) – The Pregnant Ground

Red Lantern (Second Prize) – Hearth

Gold Sovereign (Grand Prize) – Long Time Listener, First Time Caller

Special Contribution Prize – Sacrebleu Productions

Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize – Ragini Bhasin

For consistency in excellence making culturally relevant and moving short films Ghazaal and Hide and Seek.

Editing – Hysterical Girl

Dog Tooth (Third prize) – Normal (Julie Caty)

Red Lantern (Second Prize) – The Walking Fish (Thessa Meijer) / Hysterical Girl (Kate Novack)

The Gold Sovereign (Grand Prize) – And Then The Bear (Agnès Patron)

Sound Design – Gone Youth

Male Performance – Cian Hughes (Paddy)

Female Performance – Sophia Di Martino (End-O)

Visual Design – Normal

Mixed Media – Oh Baby! (Meghann Artes)

Cinematography – Back In The Island

Original Music – various interpretations in Pacifico Oscuro and Pierre Oberkampf (And Then The Bear)

Writing – Katherine Tolentino (Parachute) and Elaine Grace (End-O)

Directing – Thessa Meijer (The Walking Fish)