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Best Producer: Olivia Hantken for Kilter (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Producer): Nikki Blacklock, Zachary Smith, and Susannah Joffe for Falling Sparrow (USA)
Best Director (Female): Wu Yu Fen for There (Taiwan)
Best Director (Male): Dale Fabrigar for The Curse of Stone Hill (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Director – Male): Ian Rowe for Mothica – Blackout (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Adriana Mrnjavac for Fish Out Of Water (Austria)
Best Student Director (Male): Jason Luckett for Hipster Potato (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Fan Xun Lilac for Rekindle (Singapore)
Outstanding Achievement Award (First Time Director – Female): Mirlande Amazan for Life… (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Rob Stanton-Cook for Kilter (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (First Time Director – Male): Aurian De Wouters for Suave (Belgium)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Young Filmmaker – Female): Greta Kerkhoff for Leena and Claudia (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker (Male): Josiah Dunjey for The Gift of Years (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Young Filmmaker – Male): Brandon Hill for The Wages of Sin (USA)
Best Actress: Stacy Ann Rose for Life… (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Actress): Isabel Schnall for The Perfect Week (USA)
Best Actor: Cláudio Costa Val for Scourge (Brazil)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Supporting Actress): Gabrielly Bertolino for Scourge (Brazil)
Best Supporting Actor: Zack Gottsagen for At Last (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Supporting Actor): Matthew Payne for Slice of Life (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Madison Ekstrand for The Curse of Stone Hill (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Child/Young Actress): Kathryn Harter for Between the Creag and the Sky (USA)
Honorable Mention (Child/Young Actress): Zoe Cannella for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, FL (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Benedikt Haager for Fish Out Of Water (Austria)
Best Acting Duo: Sophie Maréchal and Irina Stopina for Suave (Belgium)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Acting Duo): Jack Hofer and Benedikt Haager for Fish Out Of Water (Austria)
Best Acting Ensemble: Matt Bailey, Clarence Wethern, Bethany Ford Binkley, and Katie Willer for Incompleteness (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Acting Ensemble): Norma Sheahan, Karen Healy, and Jade Jordan for Ascending Grace (Ireland)
Best Production Design: Jackson Lowen for Falling Sparrow (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Production Design): Katarzyna Tomczyk for Investigative Experiment (Poland)
Best Original Screenplay: Mirlande Amazan for Life… (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Screenplay): Fan Xun Lilac for Rekindle (Singapore)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Kurt Gerard Heinlein for Between the Creag and the Sky (USA)
Best Cinematography: Aaron Mclisky for Kilter (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Cinematography): Edgar Grishchuk for Investigative Experiment (Poland)
Best Editing: Nicolas Bier and Aurian de Wouters for Suave (Belgium)
Best Sound Design: Suave (Belgium)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Sound Design): Siegen Bretzke for Falling Sparrow (USA)
Best Sound Mixing: Driven (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Sound Mixing): Alexandre Poirier for Submerged (France)
Honorable Mention (Special FX): Tom von Dohlen for Door to Door (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Visual FX): Buzz Off (USA)
Honorable Mention (Visual FX): Jason Luckett for Hipster Potato (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Costume Design): Anna & Luter (UK)
Best Special Makeup: Divan Camli for Fubar (Belgium)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Special Makeup): Sasha Glasser and Chelsea Delfino for Mothica – Blackout (USA)
Best Original Score: Alan Williams for Moving Art: Underwater (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Score): Declan Harsent for Kilter (Australia)
Best Original Song: “Let It Ride” by Pröwess (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Song): “Straight Into The Ocean” by Allen Ling (USA)
See also AWARD WINNERS: JANUARY 2021
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