WINNERS

MONTH OF NOVEMBER

Vancouver

A mixed-race family relocates from Japan to the American Northwest hoping to find more stability, only encounter casual racism and even more trouble with their teenage daughter.

Best Composer - Fabian Obispo
Best Director - Ralph B. Pena

Vuja De

The changes brought by time in human relations. The dissonances in such changes..And journey of a man that transcends place and time, seeking a solution for those dissonances...

Best film (Under 40 min)

Belle-Ile En Acadie

Acadians from Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France, visit Canada to meet their "cousins" with whom they share a common culture and history. Descendants of the deported Acadians by the British from their original homeland, they walk on their ancestral lands and attend the international World Acadian Congress. This film is about exile, the power of memory and finding your roots

Best Documentary (Under 40min)

Dajla: Cinema and oblivion

Life is going on in Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, forgotten for 45 years. The celebration of a film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony. The event ends, life (and oblivion) continues.

Best director Arturo Dueñas Herrero

Amazon Queen

A dream vacation of a lifetime quickly turns into a hijacking, endangering passengers and crew, on a boat journey down the Amazon River and into the Brazilian rainforest. Desperate criminals storm aboard, pursuing a lost fortune in the jungle. Now under threat, and with food and fuel running low, the once idealistic tourists - now hostages - must use all their ingenuity as their Amazon cruise becomes a descent into a desperate struggle for survival.

Special jury award for pioneering in travel motion picture - Marlin Darrah

Virtual Game

Ran was playing an augment reality game in a real field and met a girl called Li. Ran knew everything was virtual in the game world and went through a few stages without obstacles. But eventually he tried to save Li and failed the game ..

Best experimental film Tianyi Zhou & Wenyu Zhang

Here Is Where the Monsters Live

Oliver tries to live through a dark episode of depression; however, memories - both joyful and sorrowful - keep pushing their way to the forefront of his mind.

Best Emerging Directors Chance Fuerstinger, April Matson

The Electric Man

A unique movie without a comparable.

When Trace McNeil experiences a 12,000 volt shock, his life becomes a psychedelic blur of reality and fantasy in this comedic science fiction drama.

Best Director – B. Luciano Barsuglia
Best Lead (Male) – Jed Rowen

The Bezonians

In the Bezonians social club in North London, A group of down and outs scheme, plot and dream of becoming rich and breaking out of the monotony of their dreary and financially impotent lives.

Best Producer John Pavlakos
Best Supporting Actor Jamie Crew
Best Writer Savvas D. Michael
Best Cinematography
John Hoare

GodChaserz The Documentary

Discover how the artists of GodChaserz Entertainment are using the unlikely pairing of faith and hip hop to disrupt the culture.
Watch the hand of God, change a generation

Emerging film maker
Brinson Wright, Will Thomas

Paracide

During a trip to a sci-fi convention, nerdy Simon is transported to a swingers den in a parallel universe. But there's a perfectly scientific explanation.

Best Emerging Film Maker
Paul Heron