Venice Shorts is a monthly competition and an annual festival dedicated to short films of all genres from U.S. and international filmmakers. All the monthly award winners can be further selected for the annual festival.
Emerging U.S. and international talents have been officially selected and competed with Oscar winning directors and producers of Venice Shorts such as Ross Kauffman and Gus Van Sant. The festival encourages indie filmmaking and supports filmmakers with promoting film and script projects. Venice Shorts of California encourages filmmakers from all backgrounds to submit their projects and they aim to award a diverse group of filmmakers. It is with great pleasure that we announce the latest winners of Venice Shorts. Venice Shorts is one of the most popular festivals on FilmFreeway.
Best Narrative Film: Tutu Grande
Dir: Derek Sitter
Best Indie Short: ME, SSIAH
Dir; Jae-Hyun Park
Best Short Director: Dir: Thomas Hacikoglu WODEN - Let me explain to you the language of the sword
Best Short Producer; The Sweetest Girl Producers: PYanatha Desouvre & Harry J. Jeudy
Best Short Film Actress: Molly O Neil For Gemini
Best Short Film Actor: Juston Graber For Spread
Best Short Cinematography:
Jacky Shun Man Cheung For Nostalgia
Best Short Script; The System
Writer: Ramazan Demir
Best Short Editor: Daniel Dasent For Falling Up and Up.
Best Science Fiction: Dual
Dir: Sam Brosnan
Best Female Director: Myra Aquino For Take Care
Best Animation: Nanakorobi (Seven Falls) Dir: Glenna Burmer, Gaby Breiter
Best Experimental: A moment of whiteness just before...
Dir: Johanne Chagnon
Best Documentary: Seawolf
Alexander Sworik
Best Horror: PRESAGE
Dir: FELIPE CUNHA
Best Comedy; Bernard Checks In
Dir: Michael Basta
Best Composer:
Tixinda
Luis Alberto Alvarez
Best Music video: Searise
Dir: Joseba Elorza
Best Thriller: Here comes the wolf
Dir: Rohart Julie
Best Youth Actor:
Maximillian Florio Barimani For Dreams of escape
Best Youth Actress:
Vanessa Molinelli For Dinette
Best Web Series/TV Pilot-Series: The Madams
Dir: Meredith Yinger
Best Student Film: Dreams of escape
Dir: Alexander Rahnami Mannstaedt
Best Trailer; Pandemic Stories
Dir: Raphaello
Best First Time Filmmaker: Blood Money
Dir: Walter King
Best LGBTQ: Lamentation: Iconic
Dir: Rachael Servello
Best Unproduced Script:
The George Sanders Affair
Writer: Michael Ellis