Winners of Berlin Art Film Festival are announced
Berlin Art Film Festival has been selecting and promoting arthouse independent film projects for the past couple of years. The festival team seeks indie film projects from international artists in various sections of the festival. It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the latest edition of the festival. The festival is a true filmmakers festival dedicated to the cinematic language and arts. Berlin Art Film Festival attempts to provide spaces for independent filmmakers to create and display their stories without commercial pressure, in order to discover and celebrate extraordinary films and develop independent filmmaking. The festival stands with independent cinema and promotes arthouse film projects of all genres in various categories of the competition. It is important to recognize independent films and artists who have dedicated their life to making arthouse film projects.
Winners:
Best Narrative Feature & Best Feature Film Director & Best Actor
EVIE
Dirs: Jamie Lundy, Dominic Brunt
Starring: Jay Taylor
Best Documentary Feature
Salzburg. Eine Kunstgeschichte
Dir: Daniel Harald Ronacher
Best Narrative Short
Come Find Me
Dir: Nela Wagman
Best Producer & Best Screenplay
EVIE
Dirs: Jamie Lundy, Dominic Brunt
Best Short Film Director
Music Box
Dir: Simon Richards
Best Documentary Short
Seeing in the dark
Dir: Juliëtte Dominicus
Best Indie Feature Film
The Unit
Dir: Lucas Diebold
Best Indie Short Film
At the Strawberry Stand
Dirs: Gerald Gerhard Pribek, Marc Weber
Best First Time Short Filmmaker
I, Dido
Dir: Penelope Shales-Slyne
Best First Time Feature Filmmaker
Remarkable
Dirs: Anders Storm, David Storm
Best Youth Actress
Elizabeth M. Kelly
For: Come Find Me
Best Youth Actor
Lebing “Lavender” Zhuang
For: Your Silhouette
Best Cinematographer
EVIE
DOP: Edward Ames
Best Composer
Salzburg. Eine Kunstgeschichte.
Music: Michael Frankenberger
Best Unproduced Screenplay
SOUL'S ON FIRE
Writer: Joseph Lincoln Harrison
Best Actress
Holli Dempsey
For: EVIE
Best Student Film
The Island of Misfit Artists
Dir: Jordan Elizabeth Sambogna
Best Comedy
A Killer Secret
Dir: Bettina Bresnan
Best Horror
Andrew Ginger/Likes Dogs
Dir: Amber Rose McNeill
Best Sci-Fi
The Station Caretaker
Dir: Vladislav Emelin
Best Web-Series-Pilot
The Grind
Dir: Adam Cook
Best Animation
Forgive Me
Dirs: Michael Covello, Elizabeth Schneider
Best Experimental
Isn't It A Beautiful World
Dir: Joseph Wilson
Best Music Video
Leisure Machine
Dir: Jim Batt
Best Trailer
Professional Experience
Best Female Filmmaker
Anima & Animus
Dir: Lauren Pringle