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Winners Brazil 2023
Best Animation
My Digital Truth - Directed By Swen Werner
Best Student Film
The Enemy - Directed By Michele Profeta
Best Music Video
I'm Dreaming of You - Directed By Eddie Reid – Performed By Jen Ash
Best TV & Web Series
Laure in America - Directed By Andrew Essig
Best Short Screenplay
Luck Be A Lady - Written By Elliot Stanton
Best Feature Screenplay
Mia - Written By Matthew Townsend
Best Documentary
Muito Amor - Jews and Judaism in Amazonia – Directed by Malka Shabtay
Best Documentary in Portuguese Language
Phoenix: David’s Dream – Directed By Vinicius Donola, Roberta Salomone & João Rocha
Best Short Film
The Butler - Directed By Catriona Boeing & Adrienne Boeing
Best Short Film in Portuguese Language
Cura - Directed By Pedro Silva & João Guilherme Matos
Best Feature Film
Open Asylum 1982 (Restored 2021) - Directed By Colm Bernard Villa
Best Feature Film in Portuguese Language
Dasein - Directed By Canuto
Best Asian Short Film
Speaker - Directed By Alan Hamwan
Best Asian Feature Film
Shaakuntalam - Directed By Gunasekhar Karri
Best Actor
I Don't Want to Live Without You – Actor: Lorenzo Gabanizza
Best Actress
Don't Get in the Car - Actress: Jennimay Walker
Best Cinematography
A Song for Juliette – Director of Photography: Hamid Rahbaoui
Best Director
Encontro – Director: François Manceaux
Best Drama Screenplay
Unconquered - Written By John Parr
Best Comedy Screenplay
Steve's Law - Written By Paul May
HONORABLE MENTION
Honorable Mention is an award given to someone who has done something extremely well
but who has not won any of the official prizes.
Run Away To Mars – Directed By Courtney Paige
Vanishing Grace – Directed By Matty Killen
The Deal - Directed By Edward Palmer
Humanity – Directed and Performed By Jeremy Parsons
The Pickleball Killer – Written By Jim Carroll
The Substitute – Written By Hoyt Hilsman
A Most Annoying Man – Directed By Lee Steinbeck
Praise Party – Directed By Martins Onyedika Obi
Biba May "No More" - Directed By Arlinda Morina
Insect – Directed By Cherelle Ann Sarah Higgins
Save Skin Save Life – Directed By Dinesh Shukla
Trail Of Tears – Written By Hans Sluijter
The Chase – Directed By Mirzaab
Sleep/Talk - Directed By Aleksey Zyzin
The Applicants – Directed By María Yolanda Brown Melián & Kevin Ramos Fernández
River N' Me – Directed By Sharpe Dunaway – Performed By Ten Penny Gypsy
Enter The Room - Directed By Harry Waldman
The Invitation – Directed By Peter Bruno
Empty Spaces – Directed By Lukas Hanulak
Hoffmann – Written By Patrick Craddock
Land Of The Nen-Us-Yok – Written By Jamie Sutliff
In Your Dreams – Directed By Mike Krohn
Wills – Directed By Ignacio Ferreyra
Bill Lishman - The Man Who Flew With The Birds – Directed By Peter Shatalow
Gher – Directed By Dinesh Shukla
Ruby – Directed By Gwendoline Laurent
Fateful Encounter - Directed By Ryo Kagawa
On/Off - Directed Jurg Slabbert
Delicious Dilemma – Written By James K Jones
Winners Brazil 2022
BEST ANIMATION
Red Gaia – By Udesh Chetty
BEST STUDENT FILM
A Morsel Of Love – By Helia Behrooz, Sana Norouzbaki
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Unbreakable – By LuAnn Chapman
BEST TV & WEB SERIES
'SHINJIKKI' The Mermaid Who Predict The Future – By Chaewoon Park, Jeongmin Choi
BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
O Caçador de Beleza – By Flávia de Carvalho
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Gyütö – By Filipa Cardoso
BEST DOCUMENTARY IN PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE
Machado 21 - Celebrating The Centennial – By Ivoilson Goulart
BEST SHORT FILM
Under Tension – By Mireille Fiévet
BEST SHORT FILM IN PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE
Adoptive Land – By Carlos Pires Silveira
BEST FEATURE FILM
Silenced Tree – By Faysal soysal
BEST ASIAN SHORT FILM
Rumadiya – By Dinesh Shukla
BEST ASIAN FEATURE FILM
Talking to the Starry Sky – By Yurugu Matsumoto
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
A Week To Rosh Hashanah – By Anastasia Itkina
Bullet – By Khatuna Vashadze
False Start – By James K Jones
Free Will In China Blue – Performed By Sun King Rising - Directed By Dante Ludovici
La Voz – By Carlos Arenal
The Ghost Under My Bed – By Sara Caldwell
The Unintended Journey – By Ayo Liu
To Speak Is To Live - Freed From Stuttering – By Sonja Schütz, Sabine Schütz