Nominations for Performance: April 2023

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NOMINATIONS FOR PRODUCTION

SEMI-FINALISTS

NOMINATIONS FOR GENRE

Best Female Director

LaShaunte Wade for The Breakthrough (USA)

Nicole Sofia for Hamartia (Canada)

Sylvie Zaidman and Nic Shake for tRuth (Belgium)

Best Male Director

Ashwin Vijay Agrawal for Broken Mirror (India)

Roman Daniel Rütten for Life of a Stranger (UK)

Steve Ramsden for Road Kill (UK)

Best Student Female Director

Maya Nicole Daughtry for A Little Tipple (USA)

Siqi Zhang for Sleepless (USA)

Skylar Piela for Sage (USA)

Best Student Male Director

Cole Mandras for Only Actors (USA)

Dominic Czarnota for Like No Place (USA)

William H. Abes for Awake (USA)

Best First Time Female Director

Brit Morgan for Cupcakes (USA)

Isabella Ivoš for Rabbit (USA)

Jessie Lee Thorne and Justin Thorne for Topia (USA)

María Abenia for Circe (Spain)

Victoria Zubick for Laundry (Canada)

Best First Time Male Director

Ashton Arthur Shemet for Latch (USA)

Matteo Di Loreto for Vividream (Denmark)

Noumo Willy Stephane for Father Fotso (Cameroon)

Best Young Female Filmmaker

TBA

Best Young Male Filmmaker

TBA

Best Actress

Beáta Imre for Hamartia (Canada)

Emily Burton for Cupcakes (USA)

Emily Topper for The Breakthrough (USA)

Lisa Vacca for Latch (USA)

Sami Staitman for Sami (USA)

Best Actor

TBA

Best Supporting Actress

TBA

Best Acting Duo

Jason Dugre and Bryan Coffee for All We Have to Do is Kill One Guy (USA)

Lazarus Tate and Edward Neequaye for Like Son, Like Father (USA)

Melissa Dawn Johnson and Rodney J. Hobbs for Good Grief Hotline (USA)

Best Ensemble Cast

Joaquin Fitzsimmons, Louis Mendel Holt, Tio Twohig, Mateo Fitzsimmons, Kassidy Seibert, Emma Clementine Thomas, Brendan Hougardy, and Valentin Geronimo Perry for The Bad, Bad, Bad Frankie Smalls (USA)

John Hoogenakker, Leonard Roberts, Eli Goodman, Gregory Fields, Amie Farrell, Julia Eringer, Kate Bergeron, and Danielle Reddick for The Other V Word (USA)

Pedro Diaz Perna, Lili Taveras, Fredy Cordova, Natalia Yonni, Leslie Velasquez, Nelly Flores, Daniel Castillo, Fabian Mejia, and Ruben Morales for La Línea (At The Border) (USA)

Rick Shepherd, Jarred Harper, and Kaizo Kim for The Hawthorne Bounty (USA)

Tamara Braun, Denise Boutte, Jasper Cole, Robert Craighead, Jennifer Bassey, Angie Kim, and Jermel Nakia for Kombucha Cure (USA)