Award Winners of October 2024: Technical Categories

Best Producer: Ganesh Hanmantrao Chowgule for Peepal (India)

Best Female Director: Michele LaBrucherie for Noteworthy (USA)

Best Male Director: Stephen Pierce for The Flight of Ulick Underhill (UK)

Best Student Female Director: Zixian Liu for Unfaded (China)

Best Student Male Director: John Field Brown for Sunny Afternoon (USA)

Best First Time Female Director: Sheel Yerneni for Moksha (USA)

Best First Time Male Director: Ganesh Hanmantrao Chowgule for Peepal (India)

Outstanding Achievement Award (First Time Male Director): Victor Kuchmaner and Elliot Wilks for Just For Now (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Young Female Filmmaker): Paloma Corzo Torres for Good Riddance (USA)

Best Young Male Filmmaker: Cade Savage Schwartz for Umbral Cloak (USA)

Honorable Mention (Young Male Filmmaker): Pietro Baiocchi for To the Naked Eye (Italy)

Best Actress: Jennifer Adams for Just For Now (USA)

Best Actor: Tim McKiernan for Noteworthy (USA)

Best Supporting Actor: PJ Sosko for Stuck in Muskogee (USA)

Best Child/Young Actress: Sienna Evangeline for 13th & Sunny (USA)

Best Acting Duo: Jennifer Adams and Victor Kuchmaner for Just For Now (USA)

Best Ensemble Cast: Steve Kuzmick, Kathleen Kozak, David Amadio, and Gil Damon for Viaticum (USA)

Best Original Screenplay: Ganesh Hanmantrao Chowgule for Peepal (India)

Best Cinematography: Carl Bengtsson for An Exam’s Journey (Sweden)

Best Editing: Shelby Smith for More Than A Test: The Rise of the Unsilenced Movement (USA)

Best Production Design: Zhang Xiang for Mother & Son: About the First Stage of Psychological Healing (China)

Best Costume Design: Sheel Yerneni for Moksha (USA)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Olimpia Goździewicz, Sylwia Roehring, and Magdalena Makulec for Abortion Hypocrite (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Makeup and Hairstyling): Nora Kay for Whisper in the Shadows (Singapore)

Best Special Makeup: Chen Tinwei for Mother & Son: About the First Stage of Psychological Healing (China)

Honorable Mention (Visual FX): Graham Ros and Alex Atallah for E.V.E (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Score): Logyn Okuda for E.V.E (USA)

Honorable Mention (Original Score): Sonia Mokhtari for Defenestrated (France)

Best Original Song: You Are Special by Anna Khanina (Ukraine)

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