Silver Awards: November 2020

Best Indie Short: Brides of Jesus by Joe Bartone and Jose Zambrano Cassella (USA)

Best Drama Short: She by Josh Hodgins (USA)

Best Documentary Short: Street Bullets (Footpath) by Naziha Mehmood (Pakistan)

Best Comedy Short: Tribe: The Untold Story of the Making of Vice Cops by Manuel Alejandro Vargas (USA)

Best Dark Comedy Short: Enemy of the People by Aline Andrade and Michael Rivera (USA)

Best Action Short: Synchro by Jii Zhang (Japan)

Best Thriller Short: 10 Photographs by Brandon Jordan (Canada)

Best Film Noir Short: A Night Under The Moon by Chenthur Rathnam (India)

Best Mystery Short: Ronnie the Milkman by Alejandro Vogt (USA)

Best Sci-Fi Short: Major Robinson by Andrew Klein (USA)

Best Fantasy Short: Mirror Game by Angie Rowntree (USA)

Best Romantic Short: Marcy Avenue by Rebecca Lynne Loftin (USA)

Best Experimental Short: Infinity of The Universe by Evren Özgür (Turkey)

Best Student Short: Far From Abroad by Hyung-Guhn “Hugo” Yi (Germany)

Best Animation Short: In A Pickle by Jennifer Gelfer and Terra Henderson (USA)

Best Children Short: In A Pickle by Jennifer Gelfer and Terra Henderson (USA)

Best Women Short: Away by Zhou Weijia (China)

Best Microfilm: Anna & Luter by T.R.E. Nue (UK)

Best Screendance Short: Together – 6 Feet Apart by Jay Paris (USA)

Best Music Video: Rope Walkers – It’s Nothing by Fernando Silva (Portugal)

Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Suddenly Single in the Suburbs by Denise Parella and Eric Francis Melaragni (USA)

Best Web and New Media: Saving Earth: Turkey’s Wildlife Corridor by Abed Ahmed (Turkey)

Best Mobile Short: Cold Water Therapy by Remy Brand (Australia)

Best Director (Female): Becky Beamer for Aminah (United Arab Emirates)

Best Director (Male): Joe Bartone and Jose Zambrano Cassella for Brides of Jesus (USA)

Best Student Director (Female): Mengyuan Guo, Naicheng Liu, and Suhn Young Chung for Tricked (USA)

Best Student Director (Male): Yanlin Chen for Degenerate (RenJianJi’E) (China)

Best First Time Director (Female): Mirlande Amazan for Life… (USA)

Best First Time Director (Male): Chris T.W. Anderson for What Tiger Wishes (USA)

Best Young Filmmaker: Ovidio Jasso for Violent Cycles (USA)

Best Actress: Kyra Sedgwick for Until (USA)

Best Actor: Kevin Bacon for Until (USA)

Best Supporting Actress: Cathy Baron for A Bullet For Your Thoughts (USA)

Best Supporting Actor: Mike Sutton for Suddenly Single in the Suburbs (USA)

Best Child/Young Actress: Marlee Scandura for Just Imagine (USA)

Best Child/Young Actor: Luca Cerbone for It Is What It Is (USA)

Best Acting Duo: Layla Steinwald and David Thomas Jenkins for She (USA)

Best Acting Ensemble: Corey DeMon, Jonathan Daniel Boyden, Marquecia Jordan, Chris McClellan, and Charlita Williams for The Park (USA)

Best Cinematography: Chris Song for Away (China)

Best Editing: Sergio Rozas for Salman Bin Hamad – A Vision of Promise (Bahrain)

Best Production Design: Michelle Howe for A Bullet For Your Thoughts (USA)

Best Visual FX: Matthew Jarjosa for Children Are Monsters (USA)

Best Sound Design: Paradox (India)

Best Original Score: Carlos Dohrn for The Ghost Writer Show – The Call of Cthulhu (Brazil)

Best Original Story: Benedict Elsworthy for Martin (UK)

Best Short Script: Catch Anything? by John Kearns (USA)

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