Winners 2023

World Class Film Award

Best Feature Film

Left of Chopin

Best Short Film

MAMA

Best Director of a Feature Film

Christopher M. Allport – Emily or Oscar?

Best Director of a Short Film

Jae-Feel Hwang – To Father

Best Producer

George Chiang – Golden Lotus

Best Feature Documentary

‘THE QUEST: Nepal’

Best Short Documentary

Under Custody

Best Television Documentary

As Organism

Best Tv Pilot

Workforce – The Pilot

Best Actress

Camila Llano – The Chosen Path

Honorable mention

John Y – Million Loves In Me

Best Acting Ensemble

Golden Lotus

Best Young Actor/Actress

Indiana Edwards – MAMA

Honorable Mention

Madison Swallow – Distraction

Best Animation

Anacronte

Filmmaker of the Year

Dani Menkin – AULCIE

Best 1st Time Director – Short

Moe Taylor & Kathryn E F Taylor – As Organism

Best 1st Time Director – Feature

Baris Celiloglu – Lockedown Locked In

Best Cinematography

Matthew Luppino – Fragments

Best Sound Design

Peter Mark – A Cuban Documemory

Best Soundtrack

Sergei Stern – The Chosen Path

Best Song

White Dream

Honorable Mention

For You

Best Music Video

Fadi Awad – To Glory Land

Best Female Filmmaker

Yoshino Takemoto – Left of Chopin

Best American Filmmaker

Daniel Baldwin – My promise to PJ

Honorable Mention

Richard Benter – A Still Eye

Best Asian Filmmaker

Shuhei Kondo – Left of Chopin

Best European Filmmaker

Uwe Schwarzwalder – The Radicalization of Jeff Boyd

Best Indian Filmmaker

Manoj Thakkar – Manasvi

Best Latin American Filmmaker

Eric Iglesias – The Chosen Path

Best Artist of the Future

Harriet Chung – Old Montreal

Best LGBTTTIQ Project/Film

Mi Vida

Honorable Mention

The Veil

Best Comedy

Emily or Oscar?

Honorable Mention

The Three Bilinguals

Best Thriller

Red Rooms

Best Inspirational Film

My promise to PJ

Best Script

Byron Oróstica & Sofía Aliaga – Under Custody

Best Screenplay

James McCoy – Sacred Sky

Best Student Film

Sister

Filmmaker Globe Award

Josephine Lilla Bono – Taste of the Indigenous

Honorable Mention

DeMarcus Brown – The Pitchman

Best Original Story

MOONLIGHT DINER

Best Experimental Film

Healthy mind in a healthy body

World Class Creator Award

Julia L. Rosengren

Porfirio Ramírez

Antonio Domínguez

Aly Rose

Manolo Domínguez

Diana Davis

Manlio López Contreras

Cleopatra Fitzgerald

Enrique Aguilar Johana Martínez

Ioannis Koutrobis

Yiwen Cao

Award of Merit

Best Feature Documentary​

The Promise

Best Tv Pilot

13TH STEPPING

Best Acting Ensemble

BLUE MOON

Best 1st Time Director (short)

Benita Vera von Sass – The Yesterday

Best Screenplay

Gustavo Gregorio – LA VOZ

Best Animation

And So I Begin

Best Short Film

London Gangstah

Best Inspirational Film

Explicit

Best Student Film

A boat heading for the Desert

Best Comedy

Love, and the Deadly Virus

Best 1st Time Director (Feature)

Catherine Chabot – Lines of Escapes

Best LGBTTTIQ Film

Whistlings

Best Filmmaker of the Future

Steve Mortimer – Connect A Creative Response To Climate Change

Best Television Documentary

ELEMENTAL, reimagining our relationship with wildfire

Best Sound Design

Yossi Gal – Let’s talk

Best Original Story

ᐃᔨᔫ ᐊᔅᒌ Eeyou Istchee Trauma Rescue

Best Latin American Filmmaker

Esteban “Steven” Petersen – Viva

Filmmaker Globe Award

Lisa Hepner – The Human Trial

Best Soundtrack

Hugh Schulte – THAT?

Best Music Video

One Way Ticket

Best European Filmmaker

Bence Kotány – A Streetcar Named Desire

Best American Filmmaker

Steven Sawalich – Case for Kindness

Best Actor

Alexei Bondar – Tito

Best Cinematography

Leonardo Antonio Avezzano – The Promise

Best Young Actor

Aarav Bhatt – “HAMZA – The Lion”

Filmmaker of the Year

Yuri Maslak – EARTH MAN

Best Producer

Soukaina Alaoui El Hassani – Fix

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