Monday, August 2, 2021

2021 Awards and Nominations


Top Jury Awards

Best Picture - Silo (Marshall Burnette, USA) Nominees: Silence, Dreamover, Kings of Mulberry Street, Touch

Best Script - Secret Passage (Paul Teese, USA) Nominees: The Art of Resistance, Running the Bases, Run for Your Life, Forbidden: Once Upon a War, Nine Lives

Film Jury Awards

Best Narrative Feature - Dreamover (Roman Olkhovka, Russian Federation) Nominees: Silo, Silence, Kings of Mulberry Street, Touch

Best Student Film - Last Night in Vegas (J. Nicholas Meese, USA) Nominees: Take a Little Time, Gray, Last Night in Vegas, One Body, Her Mother's Daughter, You Are My Son, Ruby Days

Best Alternative Film - Kings of Mulberry Street (Judy Naidoo, South Africa) Nominees: Dreamover, Silence, Aquamarine, Loving Lenna, Your Wreckless Heart

Best Short Film - Killing Time (P. Patrick Hogan, USA) Nominees: The Keeper, Night Sky, Aquamarine, Loving Lenna, Your Wreckless Heart, Hungry Ghosts, The Dinner Guest

Best Documentary - Uprooted - The Journey of Jazz Dance (Khadifa Wong, USA) Nominees: Subjects of Desire, Bangla Surf Girls, Tsunami of New Dreams, My Sister Hali, Alan Magee: Art Is Not a Solace, Life & Life, For Fear of Kofi

Best Horror Thriller - The Keeper (Bob Celli, USA) Nominees: Aquamarine, Killing Time

Animal Welfare - Desert Flight (John Azoni, Samia Staehle, USA) Nominees: The Last Vaquita

Cultural Spirit - Subjects of Desire (Jennifer Holness, USA) Nominees: Bangla Surf Girls, Life & Life, Detroit Rising: How the Motor City Becomes a Restorative City, Finding Hope - In the Face of Relapse, The Heart of Camden - The Story of Father Michael Doyle

Best Short Documentary - The Heart of Camden - The Story of Father Michael Doyle (Douglas Clayton, USA) Nominees: Vincent Price: The Original Thriller, The Last Vaquita, Finding Justice: The Untold Story of Women's Fight for the Vote, Desert Flight,  Finding Hope - In the Face of Relapse

Best Foreign Film - Silence (Erik Borner, Germany) Nominees: Kings of Mulberry Street, Dreamover

Best Biographical Film - My Sister Hali (Paul Sheriff, USA) Nominees: For Fear of Kofi, Life & Life, Mira Nakashima, Vincent Price: The Original Thriller

Best Experimental Short - Aquamarine (Jack Dentinger, USA) Nominees: Your Wreckless Heart, Bennifer, Her Mother's Daughter

Indie Spirit - Bangla Surf Girls (Elizabeth D. Costa, Canada) Nominees: Tsunami of New Dreams, My Sister Hali, Hungry Ghosts, For Fear of Kofi, Dreamover

Best Animated Film - Mate (Rusty Eveland, USA) Nominees: Hungry Ghosts, Ruby Days

Female Eye Filmmaking - The Dinner Guest (Dale Griffiths Stamos, USA) Nominees: Bangla Surf Girls, Her Mother's Daughter, Finding Justice: The Untold Story of Women's Fight for the Vote, Loving Lenna, Subjects of Desire, The Della Morte Sisters, Touch, The Dinner Guest

Best Sci-Fi Film - Night Sky (Greg Rulfs, USA) Nominees: Gray, Killing Time

Best TV Pilot - Yellow (Sarah Deakins, Canada) Nominees: Stuck!, Ex-Sisters-In-Law

Best Comedy - Stuck! (Omri Anghel, Lauren LeBeouf, USA) Nominees: Life on Pause, Ex-Sisters-In-Law, The Calling, Manifest, Aquamarine, Mate

New Hope - Tsunami of New Dreams (Isaac Kerlow, USA) Nominees: Life & Life, Detroit Rising: How the Motor City Becomes a Restorative City, Finding Hope - In the Face of Relapse

Artistic Spirit - Alan Magee: Art is Not a Solace (David Berez, David Wright, USA) Nominees: My Sister Hali

LGBTQ Spirit - Loving Lenna (Kirstie Munoz, USA)

Best Supernatural Film - Killing Time (P. Patrick Hogan, USA) Nominees: Silence, Dreamover

Best Webisode - The Calling (Brian Lederman, USA) Nominees: Chronicles Of: The Good Reverend, Detroit Rising: How the Motor City Becomes a Restorative City, Ex-Sisters-In-Law

Best Music Video - Stormy (Michael Barnett, USA) Nominees: Seven Dreams, Preserved Vegetables, Hard to Keep the Faith, Livin' in the Light, Knocking on Your Door, Bourbon Street Taps, How Long

Cultural Spirit Music Video - Hard to Keep the Faith (Dane Elcar, USA) Nominees: Livin' in the Light, How Long

Best Director - Marshall Burnette (Silo, USA) Nominees: Erik Borner, Dale Griffiths Stamos, Isaac Kerlow, Jennifer Holness, Greg Rulfs, Alejandra Cadena-Perez

Script Jury Awards

Best Narrative Feature - The Art of Resistance (David Brown, United Kingdom) Nominees: Running the Bases, Secret Passage, At the Mercy of Faith, Good Grief, Land of Light, Go Ahead

Best Teleplay - Forbidden: Once Upon a War (Ron Modro, USA) Nominees: Nine Lives

Best Alternative Script - Triangle 146 (Diane Young Uniman, USA) Nominees: A Need for Something New, Healing Time, Red Sea, Closure, Cottoning, The Chair

Best Sci-Fi Thriller - Healing Time (John Thibault, USA) Nominees: Run for Your Life

Best Action Thriller - Run for Your Life (Gregory JM Kasunich, USA) Nominees: Checkmate, Petrov, The Art of Resistance, About Nelson, Run for Your Life

Best Period Script - Red Sea (Rosalyn Rosen, USA) Nominees: Go Ahead, The Art of Resistance

Best Short Script - About Nelson (Sahlima, USA) Nominees: Petrov, Knock Three Times, Cottoning, Run for Your Life, Triangle 146, The Chair, Closure, Stay

Audience Choice Awards

Best Narrative Feature - Silo (Marshall Burnette, USA)

Best Short Film - Hungry Ghosts (Mark Borkowski, USA) 

Best Documentary - Life & Life (NC Heikin, USA)

Best Short Documentary - The Heart of Camden - The Story of Father Michael Doyle (Douglas Clayton, USA)

Best Webisode - Detroit Rising: How the Motor City Becomes a Restorative City (Cassidy Friedman, USA)

Best TV Pilot - Yellow (Sarah Deakins, Canada)

Best Music Video - Last Night in Vegas (J. Nicholas Meese, USA)

Best Student Film - You Are My Son (Phoenix Logan, USA)