Aneil Karia’s The Long Goodbye starring Riz Ahmed won the Grand Prix at the Academy Awards®-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival’s 17th edition. Best Live Action went to Little Bear from director Nicolas Birkenstock and the prize for Best Animation short went to I Am A Pebble from Berteraut Mélanie, Bresson Yasmine, Coulombier Léo, Grondin Nicolas, le Chapelain Maxime, and Massé Louise. The three films now qualify to compete at the 2020 Oscar®.
The 18th Annual Oscar®-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival will take place August 11-20, 2022.
Winners of 2021 HollyShorts Film Festival
Best Animation: I Am A Pebble from Berteraut Mélanie, Bresson Yasmine, Coulombier Léo, Grondin Nicolas, le Chapelain Maxime, Massé Louise
Best Cinematography: Lasse Ulvedal Tolboll for Under the Heavens
Best Comedy: The Deep End directed by Sean Pettis
Best Commercial: Widen The Screen directed by Kevin Wilson Jr.
Best Composer: Brian Hall & Jonah Ramey for The Night I Left America
Best Director: Jayil Pak for Georgia
Best Documentary: Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma directed by Topaz Jones & rubberband
Best Drama: I Would Never directed by Kiran Deol
Best Editing: David Marks for Electromagnetic
Best Horror: Lilias Adie directed by Elize du Toit
Best International: Fabiu directed by Stefan Langthaler
Best LGBTQIA+: Bracha directed by Mickey Triest & Aaron Geva
Best Live Action: Little Bear directed by Nicolas Birkenstock
Best Midnight Madness: M*therfucker directed by Adam Long & Adam Peterson
Best Music Video: Tell Me A Story directed by Sasha Solodukhina
Best Podcast: Carcerem by Shane Salk
Best Producer: Henry Tumwesigye for The Night I Left America
Best SciFi: Jack and Jo Don’t Want To Die directed by Kantú Lentz
Best Screenplay: Dummy written by Andrew Kaberline
Prizes: Seattle Film Summit & 88th Street/HollyShorts grant of $25,000, and Final Draft software. Finished film will screen at HollyShorts 2022.
Best Student Film: Team Meryland directed by Gabriel Gaurano
Best Thriller: Reklaw directed by Polaris Banks
Best TV Series: Cronos directed by Michael Middelkoop
Best TV Screenplay: Half-Assed written by Tracie Laymon
Best VFX: Untitled Earth Sim 64 directed by Jonathan Wilhelmsson
Best Web Series: Best Before directed by Laura Bergeron & Maxime Robin
Grand Prix Best Short: The Long Goodbye directed by Aneil Karia
Hawk Films Screenplay Award: Glaciers written by Frank Berry & Matthew Bates
HollyShorts Honorable Mention: Koreatown Ghost Story directed by Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum
HollyShorts 3rd Place Screenplay: David written by Jacob Mittlestadt-Raab
Latinx Award: Nuevo Rico directed by Kristian Mercado Figueroa
SAG Indie Award: Some Still Search directed by Nesaru Tchaas
Shot on Film Award: The Archivists directed by Igor Drljača
Shot on Film Honorable Mention: Beity directed by Isabelle Mecattaf
Shot on Film Award – Super 8MM: Strong Son directed by Ian Bawa
Social Impact Award: Under The Heavens directed by Gustavo Milan
Special Jury Mention: Staff Pick by Mitchell deQuilettes
Women in Film Award: Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine directed by Ethosheia Hylton
Women in Film Screenplay Award: Sara written by Jessica L. Hinkson
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