Silver Awards: November 2018

Independent Shorts Awards

Best Narrative Short: The Doll of Your Dreams by Mohamed H Morsy (USA)

Best Drama Short: Written By? by Kankana Chakraborty (India)

Best Indie Short: A Note To Self by Clay Fisher (Australia)

Best Documentary Short: New Caledonia, Mother of the Coral Sea by Shawn Heinrichs (New Caledonia)

Best Comedy Short: The Obituarist by Shannan Leigh Reeve (USA)

Best Dark Comedy Short: Practices From Beyond by Francesco Santoro (Italy)

Best Crime Short: Beyond Darkness by Mishaal Almanaa (Kuwait)

Best Thriller Short: Roadside Assistance by Ali Matlock (USA)

Best Horror Short: Dodah by Jondaniel Cornett (USA)

Best Fantasy Short: RIFT by Yuanyuan Sun (China)

Best Children Short: Adela by Unnur Jónsdóttir (Iceland)

Best Women Short: Zola by Vivian Bausch (Austria)

Best LGBT Short: Silver Light by Brad McDermott (Canada)

Best Parody Short: #Metoo Gumshoe by Ilyse Mimoun (USA)

Best Music Video: Silver Light by Brad McDermott (Canada)

Best Experimental Short: Practices From Beyond by Francesco Santoro (Italy)

Best Microfilm: Callmeister by Sage Christian Drake (USA)

Best Student Short: Mission Ouroboros by Xingyu Li (USA)

Best Mobile Short: Falling, Not Waving by Rob Layton (Australia)

Best Drone Short: Shikisai: Four Seasons of Tohoku by Kenichi Sasaki (Japan)

Best Director (Female): Kankana Chakraborty for Written By? (India)

Best Director (Male): Guillaume Courty for Karma Coma (France)

Best First Time Director: Mayumi Yoshida for Akashi (Canada)

Best Student Director: Matthieu Estrem for Fourth Position (USA)

Best Actress: Kankana Chakraborty for Written By? (India)

Best Actor: Hamish Riddle for Their War (UK)

Best Acting Duo: Nancy Mensah-Offei and Mercy Docars Atieno Otieno for Zola (Austria)

Best Acting Ensemble: Johanna Smitz, Martin Nick Alexandersson and Robert Karlsson for For It Is Written (Sweden)

Best Cinematography: Emmanuella Zachariou for Memoriam (USA)

Best Editing: Meridith Sommer for Dark Specter II (USA)

Best Sound Design: David Nessl for Chichi (USA)

Best Original Score: Rachele Wildmare for The Paper Boat (Australia)

Best Original Story: Guillaume Courty for Karma Coma (France)

BRONZE AWARDS

HONORABLE MENTIONS

PLATINUM AWARDS

GOLD AWARDS