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GIFF'22 Results

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This GIFF season is over! It was a unique experience for the organizers and the jury - we met excellent filmmakers and watched 374 works from 57 countries. The choice was really difficult because there were a lot of quality works, but now it's time to announce the winners:

🥇 Best Short Film – Grand prix: 
  • “You Missed a Spot”, United States
💎 Special award - Cosmic sense (Reward for a strong aftertaste): 
  • “EINSTEIN TELESCOPE”, France 
💎 Special award - Best Knockdown (Reward for solid and confident directing): 
  • “Rock Bottom”, New Zealand 
💎 Partner award - ShotTV certificate: 
  • “The Station Caretaker”, Russian Federation
💎 Honorable Mention - Strong spirit (Best film of the Сovid-19 period): 
  • “Viral Vignettes”, United States 
💎 Honorable Mention - The future is here (Reward  for the usage of neural networks): 
  • “Incomplete”, United States 
💎 Honorable Mention - Lone wolf (Especially noted for commitment and quality of work)
  • “Alone beneath the Northern Lights”, France 
💎 Honorable Mention - Volcanic movie (Noted for its special authentic spirit)
  • “Paradise path”, Réunion 
✌️ People's Choice Award: 
  • “You Missed a Spot”, United States 

🏆Best Short Film – Drama: 
  • “Esc”, United Kingdom - WINNER
  • “Still Waters Run Deep”, United Kingdom - NOMINEE
  • “The Wheel”, Turkey -  NOMINEE
🏆Best Short Film – Comedy: 
  • “Help! I've Stolen Amy Adams' Nose!”, United Kingdom - WINNER
  • “Plantastic!”, United States - NOMINEE
  • “60-WATT”, United States - NOMINEE
🏆Best Short Film – Animation: 
  • “The Boy and The Mountain”, Chile - WINNER
  • “Quarantine Chorus”, United Kingdom - NOMINEE
  • “Jumalauta”, Finland - NOMINEE
  • “Lego Five Nights at "Freddy's" Horror-Movie”, United States - NOMINEE
🏆Best Short Film – Experimental: 
  • “In Blood”, United Kingdom - WINNER
  • “Under The Highway”, United States - NOMINEE
  • “Black Dog”, Australia - NOMINEE
🏆Best Short Film – Arthouse / Indie film: 
  • “The Call”, United States - WINNER
  • “Contingency”, United States - NOMINEE
  • “Crumb”, Turkey - NOMINEE
🏆 Best Short Film – Fantasy: 
  • “Woodland Cemetery”, Netherlands - WINNER
  • “Handle With Care”, United Kingdom - NOMINEE
  • “The Lord of the Woods”, Poland - NOMINEE
🏆🚀 Best Short Film – Sci-fi (science fiction): 
  • “EINSTEIN TELESCOPE”, France - WINNER
  • “ASTREA”, Italy - NOMINEE
  • “Kairos, tiempo cualitativo”, Spain - NOMINEE
  • “The Hurl”, Lebanon - NOMINEE
  • “DARA”, Germany - NOMINEE
🎬Best Director: 
  • Nahd Bashir, “A DEAD SEA”, Israel - WINNER
  • Kasra Tirsahar, “Gallu”, Iran - NOMINEE
  • Arthur Pereira, “Gone Dream”, France - NOMINEE
🙍‍♀️Best Actress: 
  • Camille James Harman, “Tigerlilly”, United States - WINNER
  • Melissa Tasslo, “Mine”, United States - NOMINEE
  • Kia Pegg, “Leap”, United Kingdom - NOMINEE
🙎‍♂️Best Actor: 
  • Juan Carlos Martín, “Anagnorisis”, Spain - WINNER
  • Alexander Lindman, “The Gunslinger”, Sweden - NOMINEE
  • Hiram A. Murray, “The Octopus and the Giraffe”, United States - NOMINEE
🎥Best Cinematographer:
  • Wawrzyniec Skoczylas, “RUST”, Poland - WINNER
  • Johnny Francis, “Black Dog”, Australia - NOMINEE
  • Oleksandr Lozytskyi, “Tierra del Fuego”, Ukraine - NOMINEE
  • Ross Yeandle, “A Fool's Errand”, United Kingdom - NOMINEE
🎞️ Best Editing: 
  • David Levin, “Band Mates”, United States - WINNER
  • Shinoy Kreativ, “YOUR CALL”, India - NOMINEE
🎼 Best Music or Score (Soundtrack, OST): 
  • Kevin McDaniel & Dan O'Hara, “Of Dionysus”, United States - WINNER
  • David Cerquetti, “A Canvas Tale”, Italy - NOMINEE
  • Giovanni Caffagni, “Where Are You”, Italy - NOMINEE
  • Thomas “Wideyed” Sherman, “The Garden” - NOMINEE
🏅 Best Visual Effects (VFX) - Organizer award:
  • “Precursor”, Italy - WINNER
  • “Jericho”, United Kingdom - NOMINEE
  • “Little Gestures”, United Kingdom - NOMINEE
📝 Best Short Screenplay (filmed): 
  • Mattias Königsson, “True Friends”, Sweden - WINNER
  • Aaron Falvey, “Rock Bottom”, New Zealand - NOMINEE
  • Brent Alan Henry, “The Octopus and the Giraffe”, United States - NOMINEE 
📝 Best Short Screenplay (script): 
  • Oscar Daniel Hernandez Moreno, “The Gleam in Her Eyes”, Colombia - WINNER
  • Ntando Ndlovu, “Homesick Franco”, South Africa - NOMINEE
  • Chance Fuerstinger, “Shelter the Lambs”, United States - NOMINEE
  • David J Keogh, Alice Wells, “John Sunshine's Lost Rock 'N Roll Tapes”, United States - NOMINEE
📝 Best Feature Screenplay (script): 
  • Lacy McClory, “Sins of Saints”, United States - WINNER
  • TJ Behe, “Contraband”, United Kingdom - NOMINEE
  • Stephen Floyd, “The Llandudno File”, United States - NOMINEE
📽️ Best Feature film: 
  • “TWISTED VINES”, United States - WINNER
  • “OPAL”, Martinique - NOMINEE
  • “Pessoas”, Spain - NOMINEE
  • “Not To Forget”, United States - NOMINEE
📌Best Documentary film: 
  • “Singing in the Wilderness”, China - WINNER
  • “Amuka”, Belgium - NOMINEE
  • “The Sound Of Identity”, United States - NOMINEE
  • “The Traditional Brazilian Family KATU”, Brazil - NOMINEE
🛋️ Best Web Series: 
  • “Pastiche”, United States - WINNER
  • “Last Gasp - Brokeback Fields - Chapter 1”, United States - NOMINEE
  • “Thick Slices”, United States - NOMINEE
🎼Best Music Video: 
  • “Hush! Noise - What an average end”, France - WINNER
  • “Marloe - Remember Me”, United Kingdom - NOMINEE
  • “Lunarcode: Parasite”, United States - NOMINEE
  • “Hannyta - Wildflower”, United Kingdom - NOMINEE
🌌 Best AR/VR (Augmented  and Virtual Reality Short Content): 
  • “GIOTTO BEYOND BORDERS”, Italy - WINNER
  • “The Veil”, Australia - NOMINEE
  • “What lies in the imperishable”, Austria - NOMINEE
🎓 Best Debut (student) work: 
  • “The Interview”, Russian Federation - WINNER
  • “Out of Play”, Israel - NOMINEE
  • “The Way You Smile”, United States - NOMINEE
  • “Again And Again”, China - NOMINEE

Congratulations! And thanks to all for your participation! Please let the fire of creativity burn inside of you and see you at the next festival, which we will announce soon!