The award winners of the latest online edition of Venice Shorts are announced. The festival has been selecting, promoting and awarding groundbreaking short films of all genres from all over the world. The committee also provides online screening options throughout the month in order to screen and publicize its official selections and the award winners. It is our pleasure to announce the winners of Venice Shorts.
Best Narrative Film & Best Actor
Better Half
Directors: Pete Johnson, Adam Jones
Starring: Tom Mardirosian
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Best Documentary Film
The Advocate
Director: UNHCR
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Honorable Mention Documentary Protect the living, Honour the dead
Director: Melina Huet
Best Indie Short & Best Poster
A Soldier's Letter
Director: Calvin Yearsley
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Honorable Mention Indie
The Present Mind Director: Chris Shaw
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Honorable Mention Indie Short:
Undertow Director: Fareed Kairon
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Best First Time Filmmaker
Pictures Only Director: Charles A. Honeywood
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Honorable Mention First Time Filmmaker
A Mother’s Nature
Director: Brody Bernheisel
Best Experimental
Brèves histoires de pierres muettes (Brief Stories of Silent Stones
Director: Mario Côté
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Honorable Mention Experimental
PORTALS Director: Adam Hans
Best Animation
Forgive Me
Directors: Michael Covello, Elizabeth Schneider
Best Web/TV Pilot-Series
One Woman
Directors: Dana Lerer, Michal Gassner, Ilana Reina, Limor Shmila, Tal Brenner
Best Narrative LGBTQ
Trashed
Director: Kate Johnston
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Best Documentary LGBTQ
AB HEUTE - Der lange Weg zum eigenen Namen Directors: Sophia Emmerich, Samuel Arndt
Best Thriller
Gus and Chloe
Director: Christopher Bates
Best Music video
All Cosmologies
Director: Vasco Mendes
Best Horror
Father Time
Director: Thomas Pickering
Best Science Fiction
ZERO
Director: Tim Hamilton
Honorable Mention Science Fiction
El Camino Directors: Fernando Campos, Jaime Jasso
Best Comedy
Best Friends
Director: Craig Talbot
Best Script
END OF DAYS – SHORT
Writer: DANNY ALEX
Best Trailer
Better Half
Directors: Pete Johnson, Adam Jones
Best Director
LOLA
Director: Nicolas Bosc
Best Producer
Human Condition
Producer: Aneka Manners
Best Actress & Best Cinematographer
Jump Seat
Actress: Alexa Ré
DOP: Dru Williams
Director: Aaron Colborn
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Honorable Mention Best Actor
Dust To Dust
Director: Claudia Selby
Actor: David Westhead
Honorable Mention Cinematographer & Best Student Film
Walk Alone
Director: Lamu Shangchoo
DOP: Evan Feng
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Best Editor & Honorable Mention Indie
A Nice Jew
Director: Sam Syrett
Best Female Director & Honorable Mention Student Film
Bea, Seriously
Director: Hanna Gray Organschi
Best Composer:
George Kostopoulos for Prelude & Fugue in Dm
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Best Youth Actress
Kayden Tokarski for
Message from the Mermaids