Author: Christian Candido

Cherished Viciousness

By Daniel Arreola

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR, BEST WRITING SYLE & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER 2026

Tipping Point

By L. Scooter Morris

BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST VISIONARY PROJECT & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SHORT FILM

Walking With God

By Lois M. Banks

BEST INTERNATIONAL PICTURE 2026, BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature)

The Riddle Pact

By Zsolt Pozsgai

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, BEST MOVIEMAKER, BEST CAST & BEST SOUNDTRACK

Ritratto temporale IV – Teresa

By Ilaria Pezone

BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2026, BEST INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST EDITING (Category: Art Film)

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INDIE WRITER (Category: Drama Script)

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST SOCIAL SCREENPLAY, BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Indie Feature Script)

Love is a Lonely Hunter

By Graciela Cassel

BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM 2026, BEST EDITOR, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Sper Short Film)

Il tuo riparo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SOCIAL SONG, BEST SONG WRITER & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE SINGER 2026

French Broad

By Reid Barwick

BEST INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT 2026 & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Pilot TV)

The Revenge Club

By Marla Eaton

BEST SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: Short Script), BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL VISIONARY SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Vertigo

By Sylvie Kay

BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE MOVIE, BEST CHOREOGRAPHY, BESTORIGINAL FILMMAKER & BEST EDITING (Category: Dance Movie)

Dionysos Avignon, In Flesh and Shadow

By Gerard Bouysse

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2026, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Indie Documentary Short)

Midnite’s Journey

By Dana Silkiss

BEST INTERNATIONAL TRUE CRIME OF THE YEAR

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL HISTORICAL SCREENPLAY

Roses are Blind

By Wendy White

BEST AMERICAN INDIE FILMMAKER 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL THRILLER & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE

Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER, BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2026 & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS BOOK 2026

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR (Category: Indie Art Film)

Faust – This Had Never Happened OR Resurrection of Angels with Broken Wings

By Peyman Majidi

BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL FILM

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL SCRIPT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE (Category: Indie Feature Script)

Zone

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST CINEMATIC VISION, BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING  

Behind The Algorithm

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 2026 & BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST VISIONARY SCREENWRITER

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST ACTING, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Narrative Short)

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL VIDEO POETRY 2026, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST EDITOR, BEST SOUND DESIGNER & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Category: Video Poetry)

S2 E 3 | Airshow Flying – Wings Over Camarillo 2025

By Tommy Anderson Sherry Severs

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

The Harmony Saga & Movement I – Disciple: Episode I of The Harmony Saga

By Timothy Brad Reinhold

BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATION OF THE YEAR

Voyage in the Desert

By ΕΛΠΙΔΑ ΑΜΙΤΣΗ

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE FILM 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER & BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY

On My Special Day

By Leilani Amour Arenzana

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER & BEST EDITING (Category: Short Film)

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2026, BEST SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLING

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST SOUND, BEST CAST, BEST ORIGINAL EDITOR 2026, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST AMERICAN PRODUCTION COMPANY

Heaven

By AnayaMusic

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO 2026, BEST ORIGINAL SINGER OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: Music Video)

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST ORIGINAL ACTOR 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL VISIONARY SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Pretty Little Lucy

By David Williamson

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST WRITER 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDIAN, BEST SCRIPT (Category: International Comedy), BEST ORIGINAL COMEDY 2026

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST INDIE CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST VISIONARY EDITING

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ART FILM 2026

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST VIDEOPOETRY SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER (Category: International Experimental Film)

Bellatrix

By Jacek Krawczyk

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT 2026, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: Narrative Short)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2026, BEST ACTING & BEST CATING DIRECTOR

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST ORIGINAL ACTING, BEST VISIONARY ACTOR 2026 & BEST EXPERIMENTAL INDIE SHORT FILM

When Cassandra Venice speaks

By Hugo Teugels

BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FILMMAKER 2026

Out of Control

By Bellopropello

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST GLOBAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER 2026

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INDIE ACTOR, BEST EXPERIMENTAL INDIE SHORT & BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER

Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me opener

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST SCREENWRITER 2026 (Category: Indie Television Script) & BEST VISIONARY SCREENWRTITER OF THE YEAR

Darker Realities

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

The Harmony Saga & Movement I – Disciple: Episode I of The Harmony Saga

By Timothy Brad Reinhold

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCRIPT

I Can’t Save You

By Stephen Kelly

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST CAST (Category: Narrative Short Film)

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR 2026, BEST INSPIRATIONAL EDITING & BEST INDIE CINEMATIC VISION (Category: VIDEO POETRY)

Tipping Point

By L. Scooter Morris

BEST ART FILM 2026, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST EDITING (Category: Arthouse Super Short Film), BEST SUPER SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST SOUND

When Cassandra Venice speaks

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR 2026, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION & BEST EUROPEAN PRODUCER

Heaven

By AnayaMusic

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO 2026, BEST ORIGINAL SINGER OF THE YEAR & BEST EDITING (Category: Music Video)

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST EDITING, BEST ORIGINAL CAST, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature) & BEST SOUNDTRACK

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Arthouse Feature Script) & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2026 & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT)

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST VISIONARY FILMMAKER 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST HISTORICAL SCRIPT

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SCRIPT 2026

Zone

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ORIGINAL STORYTELLING, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER 2026 & BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR

The Wedding Bouquet

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT OF THE YEAR, BEST SOUNDTRACK, BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Narrative Short)

Behind The Algorithm

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY 2026

Secrets of Montmartre

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL SONG OF THE YEAR & BEST ARTHOUSE SONG WRITER

Out of Control

By Bellopropello

BEST EXPERIMENTAL INDIE DIRECTOR 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST SOUND (Category: Animated Short Film)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER, BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2026, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS (Category: International Drama)

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2026, BEST SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY FILM 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL INDIE FILM 2026 & BEST EDITING

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FILM 2026, BEST ORIGINAL INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: International Narrative Feature)

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST INDIE EDITOR & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE FILMMAKER

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE ACTOR 2026 & BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: International Indie Short) & BEST VOICE 2026

Looking for inspiration / Poszukiwanie inspiracji

By Michał Kucharski

BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2026, BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

Split Focus

By Cherie Carson

BEST ORIGINAL DANCE MOVIE 2026, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST SOUND, BEST EDITING & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Dance Movie)

Phantom and Percepter

By AJ Bucci

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST SOUNDRACK & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

Sheldon Mashugana gets stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY, BEST ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: International Comedy)

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT

A nest in My Heart

By Mira Kim

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER 2026, BEST EDITING, BEST CINEMATIC VISION & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Experimental Film)

Pretty Little Lucy

By David Williamson

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL IDEA

Il tuo riparo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST EUROPEAN SONG OF THE YEAR & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SONG WRITER 2026

Alzati dal buio

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SINGER

Into LA Art Show 2

By Rick Meghiddo

BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2026 & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Documentary Short)

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: NARRATIVE FEATURE), BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CAST (Category: Film) & BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY

Precious the baby dragon

By Dawn Menge

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS BOOK 2026, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INDIE WRITER

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST COSTUME DESIGNER, BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: MUSIC VIDEO)

Uncle Franco’s Birthday Suit

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL STORY

The Mongrel

By Lynn Elliott

BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT 2026 & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: Pilot TV)

Bellatrix

By Jacek Krawczyk

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT 2026, BEST DIRECTOR IF THE YEAR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST SOUNDTRACK (Category: International Short film)

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY 2026, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER, BEST EDITING & BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 

Zone

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY SHORT 

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2026, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR, BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS (Category: International Drama)

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT 2026, BEST ACTRESS, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST COSTUME DESIGN & BEST SCREENWRITER

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026

Secrets of Montmartre

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST ROMANCE SCRIPT

Freedoms Under Assault

By Jacob Comforty & Robert Arnove 

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY 2026 & BEST DIRECTOR

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Spritual Film)

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR & INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: EXPERIMENTAL)

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Experimental) & BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER

Out of Control

By Bellopropello

BEST ANIMATION 2026, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER, BEST EDITING & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: Animated Short Film)

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST EDITOR (Category: VIDEO POETRY) & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST ORIGINAL STORY & BEST WRITING STYLE

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST INDIE FILM 2026, BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Action 8

By Maximillian Decker

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature)

My Hollywood Circus

By Roger Paradiso

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST AMERICAN WRITER 2026

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL STORY

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST INDIE EDITING

An adventure An Adventure of a Tiny Man and Gulliver

By Giorge Megrelishvili

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER (Category: Indie Narrative Feature) 2026

Walking With God

By Lois M. Banks

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE PICTURE, BEST ARTHOUSE FILM 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Film)

Pretty Little Lucy

By David Williamson

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY, BEST WRITING SYLE (Category: Feature Script)

Measure for Measure

By Phil Howe

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2026, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER

Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2026 & BEST WRITER 2026

Tipping Point

By L. Scooter Morris

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST EXPERIMENTAL SUPER SHORT FILM

Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times

By Tom Gallagher

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2026, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITOR (Category: Documentary)

Pounding Pavements

By Jeremy and Christine Stork

BEST AUSTRALIAN SONG & BEST AUSTRALIAN MUSIC VIDEO 2026

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR 2026, BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR 

Alzati dal buio

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SINGER 2026, BEST SPIRITUAL SONG & BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG DIRECTOR 2026, BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY 2026, BEST PRODUCER & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Midnite’s Journey

By Dana Silkiss

BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL PROJECT & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: True Crime)

Heaven

By AnayaMusic

BEST INTERNATIONAL VOICE 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Music Video)

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2026, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: NARRATIVE FEATURE), BEST CAST, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INDIE CASTING DIRECTOR

Revisited – Life is Short

By TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL INDIE MUSIC VIDEO, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST EDITOR (Category: Arthouse Music Video)

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST INDIE EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER 

 Out of control

By Bellopropello

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED PROJECT 2026

The Harmony Saga & Movement I – Disciple: Episode I of The Harmony Saga

By Timothy Brad Reinhold

BEST CINEMATIC VISION, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATION 2026

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ARTHOUSE SCRIPT 2026 & BEST GLOBAL WRITER OF THE YEAR

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT 2026, BEST ORIGINAL ACTING, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST EDITING & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Behind The Algorithm

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Screenwriter) & BEST INDIE FEAURE SCRIPT 2026

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST ACTING, BEST ORIGINAL INSPIRATIONAL FILMMAKER & BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACTOR OF THE YEAR

A Tragedy of Riches

By Tony Cointreau

BEST INDIE BOOK 2026

Zone

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ORIGINAL EDITING, BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ARTHOUSE POETRY FILM 

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER 2026

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST CINEMATIC VISION, BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA 2026, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS (Category: International Drama)

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2026, BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER (Category: Arthouse Screenplay) & BEST ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Sheldon Mashugana gets stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY 2026, BEST COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR (Category: Comedy)

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST CAMERA OPEAROR, BEST PRODUCER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

And We Were Left Darkling

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 2026 & BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST HISTORICAL SCRIPT

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HUMAN RIGTS SCRIPT 2026

When Cassandra Venice speaks

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER 2026 (Category: Experimental) & BEST INDIE PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

Mind over Matter

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Super Short Film) & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SUPER SHORT FILM 2026

The Jaguar and the Dragonfly

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING SYLE (Category: Feature Script) & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY, BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

A nest in My Heart

By Mira Kim

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST SOUND & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATIC VISION

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER

The Aesthetics of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: Experimental)

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO 2026, BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE DANCE FILM, BEST ORIGINAL SOUND & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: INDIE MUSIC VIDEO)

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ARTHOUSE ACTOR 2026, BEST ARTHOUSE EDTING & BEST POETRY SHORT FILM

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTING & BEST INTERNATIONAL ART SHORT FILM 2026

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY 2026 & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER