HollyShorts Film Festival announced the 2020 winners of their “Sweet 16” year. 1, 2, 3, ALL EYES ON ME from director Emil Gallardo went home with the Oscar-Qualifying Grand Prix award which comes with a $15,000 Camera Package from Panavision.
Both winner of Best Live Action WELCOME BACK by Tiffany K. Guillen, and winner of Best Animation – o28 from Otalia Caussé, Geoffroy Collin, Lousie Grardel, Antoine Marchand, Robin Merle, and Fabian Meyran now qualify for the upcoming Oscars.
Other awards went to Student Academy Award Winner Karishma Dube who won this year’s Best Director for her acclaimed short BITTU; and BAD HAIR director Justin Simien received the 2020 Indie Maverick Award.
Winners of 2020 HollyShorts Film Festival
(listed in alphabetical order):
Best Action: Twin Turbo by Caity Lotz
Best Animation (Oscar-Qualifying Category): o28 from Otalia Caussé, Geoffroy Collin, Lousie Grardel, Antoine Marchand, Robin Merle, and Fabian Meyran
Best Cinematography: Kai Dickson for Eyes of Eidolon
Best Comedy: Basic by Chelsea Devantez
Best Commercial: Lyon E-Sport by Gaetano Naccarato
Best Director: Karishma Dube for BITTU
Best Drama: November 1st by Charlie Manton
Best Documentary: USA vs. Scott by Ora DeKornfeld and Isabel Castro
Best Editing: Stella Heath Keir for End-O
Best Female Short Screenplay: Hello I Must Be Going written by Sara Hallowell
Best Horror: The Fourth Wall by Kelsey Bollig
Best International: Alive by Jimmy Olsson
Best LGBTQ+: Query By Sophie Kargman
Best Live Action (Oscar-Qualifying Category): Welcome Back by Tiffany K. Guillen
Best Midnight Madness: Inferno by Bishal Dutta
Best Music Video: Adventure by Monster Rally, directed by Zak Marx
Best Producer: Julia Retali for Aio Zitelli
Best SAGIndie Award: Sunday’s Child by Maisie Richardson-Sellers
Best Sci-Fi: Hekademia by Gloria Mercer
Best Student: A Beautiful Nightmare by Kevin Lee Maxwell
Best Television Pilot: Small Fry Pilot ‘Six Pack’ written by Madeline Mack, Michael Lincoln
Best Thriller: An Uninvited Guest by Richard B. Pierre
Best TV: The World Between Us by ChunYang Lin
Best VFX: Automaton by Krzysztof Rost
Best Web Series: All-American Sex Offender by Chloe Lenihan
Festival Honorable Mention: Nahjum by Sebastian Torres Greene & Manuel Del Valle
Grand Prix (Oscar-Qualifying Category): 1, 2, 3 All Eyes On Me by Emil Gallardo
Indie Maverick Award: Justin Simien
Screenplay 1st Place Grand Prize Winner: The Problem With Time Travel written by Mike Kearby
Screenplay 2nd Place: Christopher and the Bug written by Vanessa Esteves
Screenplay 3rd Place: Rice written by Omar Kamara
Shot on Film Award presented by Kodak: Birthday Girl by Portia A. Buckley
Shot on Film Honorable Mention presented by Kodak: David by Zach Woods
Shot On Film Super 8 Winner presented by Kodak: “World Premiere Video” – The Music Video that survived after Music Television didn’t by Mike J. Nichols
Social Impact Award: Black Boys Can’t Cry by Victor Gabriel
Special Jury Award: The Van by Erenik Beqiri
Women in Film Award: The Birth of Valerie Venus by Sarah Clift
The 2021 HollyShorts Film Festival will be held from August 12 – August 21, 2021.
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