Filmzen International Competition

  Result Filmzen Result Jan-Feb 2023​

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Category: Best Actor

Winner

Nothing Beats Oldies

Acted By Jek Jumawan/ Linda Paras/ Khey Dalit

Philippines

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Outstanding Achievement Award

 

For I Am Dead

Acted By Al Nazemian

Belgium

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Category: Best Actress

Winner

Dear Mama

Acted By ARIANE KRISTHIA ROSAURO /LINDA ROMABON

Philippines

 

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Category: Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner

LOVEBEATS

Written By Chris Ross Leong

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

BREAKUP

Written By MICHAEL WILLIAMS

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

HEARTSTONE

Written By Michael Williams, Robert Biheller, Phillip Margolin

United States

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Category: Best Animation Film

Winner

HARMONY

Directed By Viachaslau Sikora

Ukraine

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Fragments The Animation

Directed By Jabriel E Woodall

United States

-

Outstanding Achievement Award

A Boy of May

Directed By Seung-il Chon

Korea, Republic of

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Chinho (The Mark)

Directed By Sreemon Das

India

-

Outstanding Achievement Award

The Boy and the Mountain

Directed By Santiago Aguilera, Gabriel Monreal

Chile

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Critic’s Choice Award

BomPaPa (text)

Directed By annika Maria Udo Winther

Norway

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Critic’s Choice Award

Full Moon

Directed By John Vo, Ken Yoffe, Ellen Weisberg

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

Alucinar

Directed By Margie Kelk, Lynne Slater

Canada

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Category: Best Cinematography

Winner

DARCELLE XV: The Oldest Working Drag Queen in the World

Directed By Travis Nicholas Zariwny

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Tom and Luce

Directed By Muxel Paule

France

-

Outstanding Achievement Award

Adrift in Time

Directed By Alexander Hugo

United States

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Category: Best Comedy

Winner

Welcome to EVAZ - from the musical "This is Love"

Directed By AKISAI

Japan

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Roomates

Directed By Franklin Livingston

United States

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Category: Best Costume Design

Winner

La sposa nel vento - The bride in the wind (ita-sub eng)

Directed By Giovanni Coda

Italy

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Category: Best Debut Filmmaker

Winner

The Seeker

Directed By Kipp Howard

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Club Habana

Directed By Jorge Herrera

Cuba

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Home in the bushfire

Directed By darren clark

Australia

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Enter the Room

Directed By Harry Waldman

United States

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Category: Best Directing

Winner

Santa Guerra

Directed By Samantha Casella

Italy

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Outstanding Achievement Award

A Beautiful Woman Dies Twice

Directed By Marina Sasina

Russian Federation

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Outstanding Achievement Award

PHONE 3358-B

Directed By Travis Nicholas Zariwny

Ukraine

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Category: Best Documentary Film

Winner

Handsome Sailor of Rock'n Roll

Directed By Kagan Olgunturk

Turkey

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Helen Minskaya

Directed By Viachaslau Sikora

Not Specified

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Outstanding Achievement Award

DARCELLE XV: The Oldest Working Drag Queen in the World

Directed By Travis Nicholas Zariwny

    United States   

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Outstanding Achievement Award

The Four I's of the Black Man

Directed By Toneal M Jackson

United States

-

Outstanding Achievement Award

Finding the Line - An Exploration of Structural Integration

Directed By Aleš Urbanczik, Grzegorz Oleksa

Switzerland

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Forgotten Neighbours - A History Lesson

Directed By Andrzej Dudziński

Poland

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Critic’s Choice Award

Tham Luang Rescue : Power of Unity

Directed By Sasivimon Youkongkaew

Thailand

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Critic’s Choice Award

OVERSEAS

Directed By STEFANO GROSSI

Italy

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Critic’s Choice Award

"Managers of Luck"

Directed By Egle Vertelyte

Lithuania

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Category: Best Drama

Winner

As Scared As You

Written By Jesse Dorian

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Russian world

Directed By Viachaslau Sikora

Ukraine

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Tom and Luce

Directed By Muxel Paule

France

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Dear Mama

Directed By GERALDO B. JUMAWAN /JEAN M. VILLAME

Philippines

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Category: Best Experimental Film

Winner

La sposa nel vento - The bride in the wind (ita-sub eng)

Directed By Giovanni Coda

Italy

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Outstanding Achievement Award

A Matter of Perspective

Directed By Gerda Leopold

Austria

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Histoire d'Une Larme  (Ita-sub-Eng)

Directed By Giovanni Coda

Italy

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Outstanding Achievement Award

"Invisible" [with captions]

Directed By Steve Downey

United Kingdom

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Succubus à Distance

Directed By Hal Sinden

United Kingdom

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Outstanding Achievement Award

TRIP TO THE TAX PARADISE - RUMBO AL PARAISO FISCAL

Directed By Antonio Bellido Marín

Spain

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Police Story

Directed By Bob Jones

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

Santa Guerra

Directed By Samantha Casella

Italy

-

Critic’s Choice Award

Grimgart Burlesque: webisodes

Directed By Seth Grimgart

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

SEPARATION

Directed By jonas myrstrand

Sweden

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Category: Best Feature Film

Winner

Russian world

Directed By Viachaslau Sikora

Ukraine

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Winner

La sposa nel vento - The bride in the wind (ita-sub eng)

Directed By Giovanni Coda

Italy

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Outstanding Achievement Award

LIFE THORNS OR FLOWERS

Directed by Binod Bista

Nepal

 

Outstanding Achievement Award

The Haunted Jizo of Shimo-Mizuno, Sayama City

Directed By Mitsuo Kurihara

Japan

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Outstanding Achievement Award

WRITING ABOUT A LOVE

Directed By mario roccato

Italy

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Outstanding Achievement Award

AN ANTHOLOGY OF MEN

Directed By Aranyak Chakrabarty

India

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Outstanding Achievement Award

The Maestro

           Directed By Paul Spurrier       

Thailand

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Sayama City, Saitama Prefecture

Directed By Mitsuo Kuribara

Japan

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Outstanding Achievement Award

THE MAN WITH THE PINK BICYCLE

Directed By Keith Soforic

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

HELLO JINDAGI /LIFE

Directed By Everest Surya Bohara

United Kingdom

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Critic’s Choice Award

Regional exchange center, IRISO

Directed By Mitsuo Kurihara

Japan

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Critic’s Choice Award

Cruising with virus on board

Directed By Shihyun Wang

New Zealand

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Critic’s Choice Award

ANTIQUE CLOCK, COPPER BASIN AND CAT

Directed By Mingxuan WANG

China

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Critic’s Choice Award

The Chief of Nash Valley & the saga continues

Directed By Aundra' Michael Segrest

United States

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Category: Best Music Video

Winner

Welcome to EVAZ - from the musical "This is Love"

Directed By AKISAI

Japan

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Outstanding Achievement Award

LOVE TORAH

Directed By Daniel Mouyal

Israel

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Outstanding Achievement Award

CAN YOU HEAR ME

Directed By Raymond Edwards

United States

-

Outstanding Achievement Award

Omnipotent Resolution

Directed by Uniqueness

Not Specified

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Critic’s Choice Award

SMELL OF PAIN-T

Directed By DAMIANO ROSSI

Italy

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Category: Best Original Screenplay

Winner

Liza Rose

Written By Kevin Joseph Silva

United States

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Winner

As Scared As You

Written By Jesse Dorian

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Pheromone City

Written By Bruno Starrs

Australia

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Rumble Rumble

Written By Kipp Howard

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

The Rest of the Da Vinci code

Written By Melvin Leroy Abercrombie

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Box of Hope

Written By Glenna Goodman

United States
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Outstanding Achievement Award

MY ZEN DOORMAN

Written By Dean H. Huh

Not Specified

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Deadline To Death

Written By Elliot Stanton

United Kingdom

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Predator Origins: She-Predator

Written By Michael John Chase

United Kingdom

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Outstanding Achievement Award

SCRIPT

Written By Piero Cannata

Italy

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Review

Written By Jonathan Zarantonello

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

Hollywood Park

Written By Glenna Goodman

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

Bad Love Tigers

Written By Kevin Schewe

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

Hell's End

Written By Walter Hochbrueckner

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

The Flight of Souls

Written By Guy Quigley

United States

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Category: Best Score

Winner

Destiny -from the musical "This is Love"-

Scored By AKISAI M

Japan

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Outstanding Achievement Award

The Maestro

Scored By Somtow Sucharitkul

Thailand

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Category: Best Short Documentary

Winner

Mama Flow

Directed By Kathrin Ganser

Germany

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Critic’s Choice Award

PIVOT Paying It Forward During COVID-19

Directed By Tom DiDonato, Robert Hunkele

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Wisdom of the Waves

Directed By Jane Lawton Baldridge

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Once upon a time in Watkins Glen Park

Directed By Kostiantyn Mishchenko

United States

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Category: Best Short Film

Winner

"White Nuke spiraling toward transcension"

Directed by Mimi Garrard

United States

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Winner

"Notes from the Underground Percussionist"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

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Winner

"Thalassa JPKJ"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

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Best Short Film

Outstanding Achievement Award

"23 THSR"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

-

Outstanding Achievement Award

"Anaphora jsmm"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

"Looking Back- Part 5"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

-

Outstanding Achievement Award

Destiny -from the musical "This is Love"-

Directed By AKISAI M

Japan

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"Rat Race Heaven"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

-

Outstanding Achievement Award

"Tired Angel"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

-

Outstanding Achievement Award

"Purvi"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

-

Outstanding Achievement Award

"Dark Mountain"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

"Nothing is but What is Not"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Galaxy of Marks

Directed By John Richmond

United Kingdom

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Breath Taking

Directed By Phyllis Whyte, Sherry LeBlanc

Canada

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Outstanding Achievement Award

10 1/2 dates

Directed By Alexander Hugo Alvarez

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

"Shehe"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

"MinimAnimA"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

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Critic’s Choice Award

CROSS

Directed By Minhye Zang

Korea, Republic of

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Critic’s Choice Award

"Depart"

Directed By Mimi Garrard

United States

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Category: Best Women’s Film

Winner

Mama Flow

Directed By Kathrin Ganser

Germany

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Outstanding Achievement Award

Kuch-Kuch-Film-Jaisi

Directed By Anindgita Dasgupta

India

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Outstanding Achievement Award

A Poet's  Childhood - Awakening to Consciousness - Elizabeth Martina Bishop

Directed By Vibhas P A Kendzia, Elizabeth Martina Bishop

United States

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