Season 2 Winners
Celebrating the winning films, screenplays, filmmakers and creative talents recognized in Season 2 of the FilmShort Creative Award.
Best Cinematography
I C U Through Lightning
Director: Deidre C Locklear
Producer: Deidre C Locklear
Best Concept
My Town
Writer: Lynn Elliott
Best Editor
Bad Child
Director: Nicole Emilíana Mendez
Best First Time Screenwriter
The Christians – Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile (120)
Writer: tony GIOUTSOS
Best Lead Actress
The Restoration
Director: Justin Bratton
Writer: Justin Bratton
Producer: Justin Bratton
Key Cast: Yumika Hoskin, Justin Bratton, Juria Hartmans, Alan Wong
Best Music Video
A Feast That Never Comes
Director: Maria Juranic
Writer: Sven Britt
Producer: Rachel Morgan, Sven Britt, Maria Juranic
Key Cast: John Raffles Durbin, Kayla Farrish, Nico Li, Paul Vickers
Best Producer
Ataraxia
Director: Haley Seppa
Writer: Haley Seppa
Producer: Haley Seppa
Key Cast: Stephanie DeMott, Emily Hu, Evander Johnson, Michael Alan Thomas, Sepideh Khosrowjah
Best Screenplay – Written Only
Wiindigoo the Cannibal
Writer: Story by Winona LaDuke, Screenplay by Michael O’Rourke
Best Short Film
Kumaresan collector
Director: NIVAS ADITHAN
Writer: NIVAS ADITHAN, Vishnu devi (a) Yoginee Arul
Producer: Vishnu devi (a) Yoginee Arul, Nivas Adithan
Key Cast: Arya
Best Short Film – Animation
Pitching Movies
Writer: Jonathan Katz, H Jon Benjamin
Producer: Jonathan Katz, Mike Salva
Key Cast: Jonathan Katz, H Jon Benjamin
Best Short Film – Comedy
Nico Live
Director: Levi A Otis
Writer: Levi A Otis
Producer: Levi A Otis
Key Cast: Darron Jay Morgan
Best Short Film – Dark Comedy
Branching Out With The Invisible Man
Director: Jim & Nick Zounis
Writer: Jim & Nick Zounis
Producer: Jim & Nick Zounis
Key Cast: Nick Zounis, Michael Zounis
Best Short Film – Documentary
Louie (KR.ONE) Gasparro 5POINTZ
Director: Eirini Alligiannis
Writer: Eirini Alligiannis
Producer: Eirini Alligiannis
Key Cast: Eirini Alligiannis
Best Short Film – Documentary
Man and an old mill
Director: Päivi Kapiainen-Heiskanen
Writer: Päivi Kapiainen-Heiskanen
Producer: Päivi Kapiainen-Heiskanen
Key Cast: Eino Salonranta
Best Short Film – Drama
The Chief of Nash Valley & The Saga Continues
Director: Aundra’ Michael Segrest
Writer: Aundra’ Michael Segrest
Producer: Aundra’ Michael Segrest
Key Cast: Carolyn Kent, Benjamin Green, Lonnie Coleman, Tara Hickey, Dominique Savage, Grant III Parham, Fatima L. Gray, Sanddeep Pedneker
Best Short Film – Experiment
Through Mabel’s Eyes
Director: Marta Renzi
Writer: Marta Renzi
Producer: Norman Bird Sanctuary
Key Cast: Dominique Alfandre, Aislinn MacMaster, Alberto Denis, Andy Chapman
Best Short Film – LGBTQ Film
Ataraxia
Director: Haley Seppa
Writer: Haley Seppa
Producer: Haley Seppa
Key Cast: Stephanie DeMott, Emily Hu, Evander Johnson, Michael Alan Thomas, Sepideh Khosrowjah
Best Short Film- Noir
For the Greater Good
Director: Michael Gavino
Writer: Michael Gavino
Producer: Michael Gavino, Rosa Costanza Tyabji, Erik Forssell, Ricardo Acuña
Key Cast: Dwight Hicks, Shishonia Livingston, Peter Carrillo, Sarah Pettycrew
Best Short Film- Romantic
ROMANCE
Director: Piero Cannata
Writer: Piero Cannata
Producer: Piero Cannata
Key Cast: Maria Luce Bondì, Daniele Marotta
Best Short Film- Thriller
The Visitor
Director: Robert Kouba
Writer: Robert Kouba
Producer: Robert Kouba
Key Cast: Robert Kouba
Best Short Women Film
Butterfly Boxing
Director: Joslyn Rose Lyons
Writer: Joslyn Rose Lyons
Key Cast: Hill Harper, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Don Lacy, Kimberly Marie Olivier
Best Sound Design
Ataraxia
Director: Haley Seppa
Writer: Haley Seppa
Producer: Haley Seppa
Key Cast: Stephanie DeMott, Emily Hu, Evander Johnson, Michael Alan Thomas, Sepideh Khosrowjah
Best Web Series
KXNG D.O.P.E.
Director: Levi A Otis, Shadow Dragu-Mihai
Writer: Levi A Otis, Chaz KXNG D.O.P.E. Haymond
Producer: Lev A Otis
Key Cast: Chaz KXNG D.O.P.E. Haymond, Slink Johnson, Jeri Wingo
Best Women Director
Incubus
Director: Heba Salah
Writer: Heba Salah
Producer: Heba Salah
Best Zero Dialogue Film
A Morsel Of Love
Director: Helia Behrooz, Sana Norouzbaki
Writer: Sana Norouzbaki, Helia Behrooz
Producer: Helia Behrooz, Sana Norouzbaki
Key Cast: Mohammad Shisheforous, Azam Bayat