Gold Awards: July 2019

Independent Shorts AwardsBest Indie Short: Beyond the Green Mountain by Meicen Meng (China)

Best Drama Short: Hear Me by Kevin M. Turner (USA)

Best Documentary Short: Fragile Beauty by Alan Kaplan (USA)

Best Romantic Short: The Three Bobs by Roxanne Marciniak (USA)

Best Comedy Short: The Three Bobs by Roxanne Marciniak (USA)

Best Dark Comedy Short: Eugene vs Humanity by Michael David Charles Hick (USA)

Best Crime Short: The Koi by Qiyu Zhou (USA)

Best Thriller Short: Olhouser by Matt Fletcher (UK)

Best Action Short: The Koi by Qiyu Zhou (USA)

Best Mystery Short: They Broke In by Jeremy Reyes (USA)

Best Fantasy Short: Secret Space by Cameron Elmore (USA)

Best Sci-Fi Short: Expiration by Lisheng Zhang (USA)

Best Experimental Short: Forest Creatures Feel No Cold by Edoardo Cantiello (UK)

Best Student Short: Three Hundred Days by Zeyu Zhang (USA)

Best Animation Short: Ada by Dane Winn (UK)

Best Women Short: Into Daylight by Stephanie Botelho (USA)

Best LGBTQ Short: Giving Up the Moon by Samantha Bloomfield (USA)

Best Microfilm: Memento Audere Semper by Giulia Lupetti (USA)

Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Fully Formed Adults by Scott Boxenbaum (USA)

Best Drone Short: The Soul of Iceland by Marcello Ercole (Italy)

Best Music Video: Linoleum by Niki Noves (France)

Best Director (Female): Qiyu Zhou for The Koi (USA)

Best Director (Male): Michael David Charles Hicks for Eugene vs Humanity (USA)

Best Student Director (Female): Stephanie Botelho for Into Daylight (USA)

Best Student Director (Male): Justin Bromley for Isolation (Canada)

Best First Time Director (Female): Julia Weaver for Home (USA)

Best First Time Director (Male): Tom Clover for Disco Dynamite (UK)

Best Young Filmmaker: Angie Nicholas for Submerged (USA)

Best Actress: Raquel McPeek for Into Daylight (USA)

Best Actor: Giovanni Savoia for Red Kraken (USA)

Best Child/Young Actress: Gilana Maranslicht for Submerged (USA)

Best Child/Young Actor: Casey McKenzie for Be-Longing (UK)

Best Acting Duo: Willow Finn and Jose Gonzalez Castro for Ten Hours (USA)

Best Acting Ensemble: Hear Me (USA)

Best Cinematography: John Pope for Only in Dreams (USA)

Best Editing: Drew James and D.Z. Pierce for Mountain Ave (USA)

Best Visual FX: Circadia (USA)

Best Sound Design: The Koi (USA)

Best Original Score: Pawel Son Ngo for The Host (Poland)

Best Original Story: Kevin M. Turner for Hear Me (USA)

Best Short Script: Blind Vampire by Eric Robert White (USA)

SILVER AWARDS

BRONZE AWARDS

HONORABLE MENTIONS

PLATINUM AWARDS