BEST PROJECT CANNES FILM AWARDS 2021 + CASH PRIZE OF 1,500 + TWO YEAR PARTNERSHIP: DA YIE (Ghana, Anthony Nti)


FILM CONTEST

Best Feature Film: A Story Sewn and Bound with a Red Thread (Japan, Yuria Matsushita)
Best Feature Documentary: All the Way - The Making of Swimrun Champions (Sweden, Carl Eneroth)
Best Short Film: DA YIE (Ghana, Anthony Nti)
Best Short Documentary: CELL364 (France, Mathilde Babo, Zoé Rossion)
Best Student Film: DA YIE (Ghana, Anthony Nti)
Best First-Time Short Film: HENET WARD (Egypt, Morad Mostafa)
Best Indie Short Film: CELL 364 (France, Mathilde Babo, Zoé Rossion)
Best Indie Feature Film: Le Cineaste - a director's journey (Italy, Manlio Roseano)
Best Super Short Film: CELL 364 (France, Mathilde Babo, Zoé Rossion)


FILM AWARDS - ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES

Best Drama: THE LETTER ROOM (USA, Elvira Lind)
Best Comedy: Fortissimo (Switzerland, Janine Piguet)
Best Horror: Moonlit Requiem (United Kingdom, Arthur Edelman)
Best Thriller: MANHUNT (USA, Jack Martin)
Best Animation: Anacronte (Argentina, Raúl Koler, Emiliano Sette)
Best LGBT: Love me (Greece, ΑΝΤΩΝΗΣ ΣΑΜΟΥΡΑΚΗΣ)
Best Fantasy Film: Anacronte (Argentina, Raúl Koler, Emiliano Sette)
Best Crime Film: Garbageman, Nurse, and Cop (Malaysia, Aiman Samat)
Best War: Dying Of The Light (United Kingdom, David Newton)
Best Web Series: GOOD MONSTERS; The Series; Episode 1 (Germany, Johannes Muhr , Julia Zimth)


FILM AWARDS – INDIVIDUAL DIRECTOR CATEGORIES

Best Director Short Film: THE LETTER ROOM (USA, Elvira Lind)
Best Director Short Documentary: CELL 364 (France, Mathilde Babo, Zoé Rossion)
Best Director Feature Documentary: GUSTAU, THE TRANSITION EXPOSED (Spain, Jaume Domènech)
Best First-Time Director Short Film: HENET WARD (Egypt, Morad Mostafa)
Best First-Time Director Feature Film: An Other City (Sweden, Rasmus Waern)
Best Director Indie Short Film: Enough (Sweden, Apostolos Vasileiadis)
Best Director Student Film: DA YIE (Ghana, Anthony Nti)
Best Director Super Short Film: CELL 364 (France, Mathilde Babo, Zoé Rossion)
Best Male Director: DA YIE (Ghana, Anthony Nti)
Best Female Director: THE LETTER ROOM (USA, Elvira Lind)


FILM AWARDS – INDIVIDUAL CATEGORIES

Best Actor Short Film: THE LETTER ROOM (USA, Oscar Isaac)
Best Actress Short Film: HARBOR (France, Marie Bunel)
Best Child/Young Actor: DA YIE (Ghana,Prince Agortey)
Best Child/Young Actress: DA YIE (Ghana, Matilda Enchil)
Best Esamble: Moonlit Requiem (United Kingdom, Daniel J Hickson, Angharad L Ford, KC Flanagan, Deidre Forrest)


FILM AWARDS – INDIVIDUAL TECHNICAL CATEGORIES


Best Cinematography Short Film: DA YIE (Ghana, Pieter-Jan Claessens)
Best Cinematography Feature Film: An Other City (Sweden, Tomas Boman)
Best Editing Short Film: DA YIE (Ghana, Frederik Vandewalle)
Best Production Short Film: STICKER (Macedonia, Georgi M. Unkovski)
Best Production Feature Film: Forgotten Heroes - The Robert Hartsock Story (USA, Jim Huggins, Leslee Huggins)


FILM AWARDS – INDIVIDUAL SCREENPLAY CATEGORIES

Best Screenplay Short Film: DA YIE (Ghana, Anthony Nti)
Best Screenplay Indie Feature Film: Home Away (China, Oliver Yan)
Best Screenplay Student Film: DA YIE (Ghana, Anthony Nti)


FILM AWARDS - CONTINENTAL CATEGORIES

Best European Film:
I AM HERE (Poland, Adam Nowak)
Best European Director: An Other City (Sweden, Rasmus Waern)
Best American Film: Almost Home (Kayla Saunders, USA)
Best American Director: Almost Home (Kayla Saunders, USA)
Best American Actor: Hank & Holly Meow (USA, Trent Walker)
Best African Film - Dust and Dignity: African Lessons (Italy, Carla Zickfeld)
Best Asian Film: Touch (Kurisu Lee, Malaysia)
Best Asian Director: The Drone Over Corn Fields (China, Chuanfa Wan)
Best Asian Actor: Sunflower (Kazakhstan, Yerkebulan Daiyrov)


SCREENWRITING AWARDS – MAIN CATEGORIES

Best Super Short Script (under 10 pages): Grey (Canada, Marc Castaldo)
Best Short Script (under 30 pages): Obolus (Germany, Kim Fabienne Hertinger)
Best Feature Script (over 61 pages): Organized Criminal (USA, Crystal Stevens)
Best First Time Screenwriter (Short Screenplay): Grey (Canada, Marc Castaldo)
Best First Time Screenwriter (Feature Screenplay): Out of My Comfort Zone (USA, Ivy Vale, Rick Reil)


SCREENWRITING AWARDS – ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES


Best Television Script: Necropolis (USA, Caledonia Hanson)
Best Drama Screenplay: The Seedling (USA, Kevin J. Howard)
Best Comedy Screenplay: I Don't Know (USA, Arthur Tiersky)
Best Thriller Screenplay: The Beast Within (USA, Henry P. Gravelle)
Best Horror Screenplay: The Crystal Wall (United Kingdom, Fernanda Alvarez)
Best Action Screenplay: “SQUADRE” (USA, CHARLES PETRILLA)
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay: EarthJacked (USA, Marco Ruggio)
Best LGBT Screenplay: Out of My Comfort Zone (USA, Ivy Vale, Rick Reil)


SCREENWRITING AWARDS - CONTINENTAL CATEGORIES

Best European Screenplay: Alex* (Joachim Böttcher, Switzerland)
Best Asian Screenplay: Death Offers Life - last moments of Vincent Van Gogh (Madhu R, India)
Best African Screenplay: A Moment in the Wind (Dr Abraham Michael Ackermann, Denvor Phokaners)
Best Australian Screenplay: Loonatoona (Shockadelic, Australia)


MUSIC AWARDS

Best Music Video:
The Last Detail – Places (Spain, Santi Capuz)
Best Animation Music Video: Green Jewels (Canda, Arantxa Chavarri)
Best Experimental Music Video: Shams – Schizophrenia (Egypt, Dan Haddad)
Best Low Budget Music Video: No One Makes A Sound (Greece, Kyriakos Gkalanakis)
Best Director Music Video: The Last Detail – Places (Spain, Santi Capuz)


MUSIC AWARDS - CONTINENTAL CATEGORIES

Best European Music Video: No One Makes A Sound (Greece, Kyriakos Gkalanakis)
Best Asian Music Video: Coma (Korea, Surin Song)
Best African Music Video: D.I.T.R (South Africa, Ntuthuko Sibaja)


PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - FILM SHOT CATEGORIES


Best Film Poster: what if (mersal alshamsi, United Arab Emirates)
Best Film Still Photo: COERCION (Christian Elliott, Neal Johnson, USA)