WIFA Awards 2021

WINNERS

Best Short – Die Einladung, Thorsten Schade (Germany)
Best Feature Film – Dreams of Las Vegas, Carl PA Nilsson (Sweden)
Best Script (Feature Film) – The Extraterrestrial Highway, Steve Sorenson (United States)
Best Micro Short – Mask-In, Dharmateja Javvadi (Belgium)
Best Script (Short Film) – Roadkill, David Anthony Estringel (United States)
Best Documentary Feature – The Waters of Babylon, Berfi Dicle Öğüt (Turkey)
Best Script (TV Pilot) – The Sealgaire Saga, Andrea Hurtt (United States)
Best Experimental Short – Moonlight People, Dmitri Frolov (Russian Federation)
Best Documentary Short – Zenerù, Andrea Grasselli (Italy)
Best Student Short – Haunted for Life, Hunter Paul Nickless (United States)
Best Horror Short – Exorcizamus Te, Diego Alvarez León (Chile)
Best Thriller Short – Beautiful Violence, Joey Medina (United States)
Best Mobile Short – Ghostlight, Melissa Stanton (United Kingdom)
Best Comedy Short – Daniel. Noah., Daniel Goldberg (United States)
Best Animation Short – Beatrice, Vincenzo De Sio (Italy)
Best Lockdown Short – Pole Climb, T.C. De Witt (United States)
Best TV Pilot – Last Gasp – Broke Back Fields – Chapter 1, Robert Pagan (United States)
Best First-Time Filmmaker Movie – Grandpa’s Crazy?, K. Danor Gerald (United States)
Best Dance Short – Future Memories, Federico Ferraro, Simone Concilio (Italy)
Best Music Video – I Am The Candidate, George Ohan (United States)
Best Trailer – The Secret of the New Year, Tim Mustoe (United States)

Best Director – Condemned Through Time, Amanda Fleming (United Kingdom)
Best Actor – Zeng Zhiwei, Suit (Zeng Zhicong, China)
Best Actress – Ty Love, Faith Interrupted (Marquis Simmons, United States)
Best Cinematography – Everything, Alexandre Bertella Rodrigues (Brazil)
Best Editing – Ice hockey Orphans, James Anthony McElligott (Canada)
Best Screenplay – nostalGia, José Velasco (Bolivia, Plurinational State of)
Best Sound Design – Itlu Amma, C. Umamaheswara Rao (India)
Best Acting Ensemble – Where To, Gursel Ates (Turkey)​

HONORABLE MENTIONS

The Wheelchair And The Trap, Bilal Hussain (Denmark)
Themis’s Goat, Wu Jiarun (China)
Update, Richard Dijkema (Netherlands)
NO EXCUSES, The Greatest Fight, Mauro A Diaz/ Jesus Rouco (United States)
Mark of Love : Celestial Burial, Hermann Kayode (Benin)
Caesar The Musical, Mike Petrone (United States)
Blond Poison, Fabio Giovinazzo (Italy)
Fascination: Helena’s Story, Karen Goldfarb (United States)
On / Off, Nicolas P. Villarreal (Argentina)
Between the Tides, Valerie Dent (United Kingdom)
Hijack: Parkour, Jason Snellman (United States)
W∞ – Heritage of Soul -, Takeshi Inoue (Japan)
Emily or Oscar?, Chris M. Allport (United States)
Black Collar, Gwenyth Rogers (Canada)
A Nun And An Officer, James Anthony (United States)
The Great Salami Breakout, Josie Montano/Liam V Power (Australia)
Bizzarro e Fantastico, Kris Krainock (United States)
In the Name of Vjosa, Matthias Leupold/Eric Berg (Germany)
The Ridiculous Romantic, Jim R Moore (United States)
Here Is Where the Monsters Live, Chance Fuerstinger/April Matson (United States)
From New York to Nashville, Armand Arekian (United States)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

An American Posada, Robert Pagan
Last First, Kate Strafford
The Alliance 2019, Robert L Butler Jr
The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze, Robert L Butler Jr
Welcome Home, Robert Lee Glenn
The Ruckus; From Nothing to Nowhere, Tyler Brailey
We’re going on a Bob Hunt, Ben Devlin
How Are You, Korede Soyinka
Obama’s Dreams of His Literary Father, James Fitzmaurice
The Trust, Harris Shore
The Broken Table, Richard Par
Abstract Film, Kostiantyn Mishchenko
VS, Jourin Hannah 
Creole “Seis Corrido”, Puerto Rico
Contained, Jake Orton/Andrew Heaton
Ralphie’s ‘Blue’, Joseph F Alexandre
The Come Up, Glenn McBride Jr/Eugene T. Barnes/Ryan Roman
As You Wish, David Todd McCarty
Expected Unexpected, Sisi Theo
Gone are the days ., R Paul Dhillon
The Shroud Trinity, Frank McEvoy
Again And Again, Galenus 
LANAPA, Hu Hongshun
PsychoPath, Jack RH O’Sullivan
Visit, Yuta Takaue
Bloodlines: The Mogadishu Diaries 1992-1993, Eddie Clay Thompkins III
2nd Date, Jaik Andino
Who Said Love is Dead, Guy Nicholls
Redemption: Sister Bloody Mary, Stephanie Jacobsmeyer Sunnys Park – A Meowing Tree, Alexander Kalinkin
The 7 Lives of Sara Blanchard, Kevin Ruiz
Broke and Bloody, Lanessa Miller/Ahren Field Buchheisteer
Stand Tall!, Vincent J. Paterno
PAW, Diana Lee Woody
What you Keep, Oscar Gonzalez
Girl On Fire, Kimberly Fisher
The Cherished, Mike Spence
We All Fall Down, Mike Spence
The Beach, Louie Holland/Kieran McLaughlin
Burial, Brooke deRosa
The Deputy, Paul Corricelli
One, Nicholas ”Big Ghun” Nartey
The Game Just Got Real, bellopropello
We Kept America Great, Johnnie O Michael
Blackout, Eddie Saint-Jean
Noise, José Ramón da Cruz
On The Edge, Lindsay Duncan
Disappear, Veronica Narang
Mobile Psychotherapy, Katarzyna Adamus
Border-Ball, Joel Tauber
Channel 36.ss, Emory Rice
Bruja, Emory Rice/Ommar Guiterrez
The Devil Inside Me, Jessica Linn/Joshua T Berglan
I got your letter, John Bauer, Noel Brady
Full Circle, Noel Brady
Letters from home, Simone Cicalò
Dog Killer, Max Reinert
The Fallout, Dominic Flanagan
Valvonauta, Riccardo Romano
The Dream’s Gates, Mauro A Díaz/ Jesus Rouco
Soul’s on Fire, Joseph Lincoln Harrison
Anguish, Brian T Shirley/Drew Howard
End of Days, Danny Alex
Paralysis, Alberto Martín-Aragón
The Pond, Corrado Menegatti
Shavings, Jorge Harrington
WHO IS BAD ?〜The shouting of Rock-and-roll Samurai〜, Yuri Sasamoto
Edwin, Stuart G. Robertson
Reflection, Sevgen İzel
The Long Goodbye, Burnham Holmes/Ken Holmes
Slippery Slope, Karen Klami
Memento Mori, Simon O’Corra
The Split, Nicola Green
Billy, Sam Tomlinson/Thomas Savoury
The Loner, Philip Brocklehurst
Dreadful, Amrik Pabla
Hunters, Amrik Singh Pabla
Burn, Armand Arekian
Bone Creek, Armand Arekian