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Below are Previous Edition Winners- Thank you so much for your Great Work!!
|| Award Winners Feb 2024 - GMIFF ||

 
Great Message International Film Festival  
Award Winners GMIFF 2024

Short Film :

BEST SHORT FILM:
A. The Key (Dani)
B. Straight on 'til Morning (Paul Parent, Shinthu Sivakumar)
C. Without You (Al Friedman)


BEST DIRECTION:
A. Coastal Winds (Madhav Sharma)
B. Azap (Torment) (Anıl Şeddadi)
C. An Ever After Drama (Michelle Lynn)


BEST SCREENPLAY:
A. Durbin (Vivek Petkar)
B. CUT (Luca Vines, Ashton Crompton)
C. Coke Squatch (Marcus Watkins)


BEST ACTING:
A. Conference Deal (Ashvin Prahlad)
B. Deserve (Director: Arpège Lundyn | Actor: Malaiye)
C. The Sunshine Summit O’er the Mountain of Dishes (James Kirby)

BEST EDITING:
A. Night Voices (Bradley Hawkins)
B. FRAGILE - Handle with care (Frank Besl)
C. A Day At The Beach (Chris Arnold)

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Feature Film :
BEST FEATURE FILM:  
A. Fallen: The Search of A Broken Angel (Alex Kruz)
B. Natura (Mickael Perret)
C. Cuckoo's Den (Michael Acland)


BEST DIRECTION :
A. The Adventures of Infinita (Yu Shibuya)
B. Happy Birthday (Joseph A Mauro, Ezekiel N Drews)
C. Roswell Delirium (Richard Bakewell)

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BEST WRITER :
A. LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI (Nikolay Bogomilov, Vincent Molli)
B. THOOLIKA ( PEN ) (ROY MATHEW MANAPPALLIL)
C. Group (William R.A. Rush)

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- BEST ACTING AWARD :
A. Digital Era (Haneul Choi)
B.Stick to the Present (Makena Keita)
C. Ulagammai (Vijay Prakash  | Actor: Cowry Kishan)
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DOCUMENTARY:

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
A. CANCER/EVOLUTION Episode 1: The Dustbin of History (Maggie Jones, Brad Jones)
B. The Righteous: The Delegation to Poland (Gal David Balaban)
C. Siren Lullabies (Kristina Atovska, Viktor Petreski)

BEST DIRECTION:
A. Manufacturing Madness (Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve)
B. Reinventing Freedom (Robert J Moore, Eleftherios Koutinas)
C. The Evolution of Human Motivations: An AI-Illustrated Odyssey (John Voorhees Wylie)
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BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT :
A. A New LVHS: Pioneering Animal Welfare in the Lehigh Valley (Tyler Wursta)
B. The Beauty Within Us All (Lorenza Castella)
C. The future in our hands (Shihyun Wang)

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ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
A. Children of Tomorrow (Nilesh Patel)
B. I want to be a Pilot (Jacob Hughes)
C. On / Off (Nicolas P. Villarreal)

BEST DIRECTION:
A. Untold Incident (Dakarai Adebowale)
B. Sulzi Paheli (Sushma Tathe)
C.Waterfront (Lateef Badawi)
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EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM:
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM:
A. Thingamajig (Lindsey Morrison Grant)
B. ATMAN (HARIHARAN RAJU)
C. TANITHTIRU (BE UNIQUE) (S K Sentiil)

BEST DIRECTION:
A. THERE ARE NO SMALL OR BIG DECISIONS (Maxim Timofeev)
B. Awakenings of Rock (Abhinav Chhabra)
C. Writer? (Murali Krish)

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Music Video -

BEST MUSIC VIDEO AWARD:
A. if i die tonight ( The 11th)
B. Deb Browning - "Think I Found Forever" (Tony Murnahan)
C. Tomorrow (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)
D. Show me the Vision (Roc Flowers, Matilde Bergamini)

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- Best Director Award :
D. Lambi Si Sadak (Kunal Sanjay Mehra)
E. I Will Understand (Clare Steffen)
F. Beautiful Face (Levi Wise Kenneth Catoe Jr.)

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BEST WEB SERIES:
A. Living Vision (Bamidele Uduike)
B. Tremendous Desire (Ella Bailey)
C. The Cosmic Companion (James G. Maynard)
D. Daftar (Mohsin Shaikh)
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SCREENPLAYs:
BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD (Feature):
A. A Boy Among Champions (Catherine Stanley)
B. The Pickleball Killer (Jim Carroll)
C. The Monster in Mummy (Steve Sloan, Donia Youssef)
D. Most Important! (Anatoly Zhirov)


BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD (Short):  
A. Illiterate (Naveen Kumar Miriyala)
B. Tangled Tails (Oleg Condrea)
C. Prestigious (Sandesh Mukherjee)
D. A way of Unlearning (Li Jie Chong)
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BEST SMARTPHONE SHORT:
A. RAPTURE "THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD MORE TIME" (Tshombye K. Ware)
B. Andharalya Ratri (Tukaram Bhise)
C. Lost and Found (Kiril Yelagin)
D. Jakarta Diaries (Aati Tegku)
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BEST MULTIMEDIA:
Best Multimedia Award:
A. Uncle Li (Hanyu Duan)
B. Creamy Story (Emilly Turner)
C. Imagination of Dolly (Akimitsu Sasaki)
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BEST AD FILM / (Social - Commercial):
A. Project Southern Rivers (Laxman Bhosle)
B. Save Nature (Valeria Martinez)
C. OX Place - Oxford Needs Homes - Shared Ownership with Michelle Chidgey (Sharon Woodward, Dave Lansley, Michelle Chidgey, Paul Stachura)
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BEST TRAILER AWARD:
A. Azap (Torment) (Anıl Şeddadi)
B. No House To Morehouse: The Untold Story (Dee Brown, Omarosa Manigault Newman, Venai Brown)
C. Divide and Rule (Nachiket Deshpande)
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Shiva Global Filmmaker Award :
A. Fallen: The Search of A Broken Angel (Alex Kruz)
B. Home Front (Gal Balaban)
C. The Sunshine Summit O’er the Mountain of Dishes (James Kirby)

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Best Writer Award :
A. Vishal Parvat (Akshay Patil)
B. SADIE AND THE GROVE (Donia Youssef )
C. PERFECTLY AMANDA: GUNSMOKE'S MISS KITTY, TO DODGE AND BEYOND (Beckey Burgoyne)
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Best Director of the Year Award :
A. Group (William R.A. Rush)
B. The Colour of the Horse (Kristina Schippling)
C. Pavasala (Atul Bankar)

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Best Debut Director Award :
A. Grimoire (Joanna Kolodziej)
B. Show me the Vision (Roc Flowers, Matilde Bergamini)
C. Yellow Shoes (Nikhil Katkade)
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Best Actor / Actress of the Year Award :
A. Appachante Christmas Visit (Grandfather's Christmas Visit) (Stevin Mathew, Simu George)
B. Algorithm Dreams (Wesley Erwin Van Horn)
C, Mehar (Director: Nikhil Sharma | Actor: Amisha Sethi)
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Best DOP / Cinematographer Award :
A. Re_Shaped (Michael Alexander McDougall)
B. Night Voices (Bradley Hawkins)
C. The Sisyphus (Director: Juntao Liang  |  DOP: )
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Best Editor Award :
A. My Little Girl (Emanuel Loarca)
B. Do Not Answer (Kenzie J. Illnest)
C.  Little Dolphin (Amanda Thesser)
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Best Film Production Company of the Year Award :
A. Divine Path (Tan Jebat Munsi)
B. Ghar ki Rekha (Shravani Karmarkar)
C. Grimoire (Joanna Kolodziej)
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Best Talent Awards -
Music :
a. Machine  (Meg Pfeiffer)
b. LUNARCODE: HELL IS JUST A PLACE (vincenzo carubia, jessica gillette)
Cinematography :
a. Bali Frodo (Director: Felix Benjamin Schaefer | DOP: Pavel Aleksandrovich Ponomarenko)
Editing :
a. Sacred Flowers (Jeremy Gredone)
Writing :
a. Whispers of Love (Michelle Lynn)
Acting : 
a. Resonance (Agatha Evans)
Direction :
a. Blue Lizard (Thomas Johnson)

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Best Producer Award :
A. Home in Ohio (Clara Williams)
B. Vibrant Black (Botan Kobayashi)
C. Dopahar aur Shyam (Kavitha Iyer)
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Best Animator Award :
A. Film One (.. The Overcoming Trilogy) (Carcazan)
B. I know who I am (Simone Massi)
C. Wish of Sikandar (Mahnaz Ahmadi)
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Best Sound Award :
A. Dream Vibes (Haoyu Ding)
B. LDN 51.5072° N, 0.1276° W (ILLUSION LONDON) (ShangYun Wu)
C. Triangle of Three (Vidhisha Sinha)
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Best Music Award :
A. Breath Again (Gábor Klacsán, Zoltán Wirth)
B. IL MORSO DEL RAMARRO (Maria Lodovica Marini )
C. Please Help Me Forgive (Darla L Zuhdi)

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Best Screenwriter Award :
A. First Row (Lev Domnin)
B. YAAN (Satish Sharma)
C. Twisted Thoughts (Cyra Ebrahimi)
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Best Film of the Year Award :
A. Michael Gaismayr (Wolfgang Moser)
B. Drishtikon (Harish Asabe)
C. And they move! (Yegor Glebov)
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Best Short Film of the Year Award: 
A. shadows (MOHADESEH ASADI ZADEH)
B. 15 (Melody Brooke)
C. Recognize That (Pranjal Mujumdar)
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Best Documentary of the Year Award :
A. On the Earth! (Audrey Jones)
B. Master (Dastan Khalili)
C. Beyond Purpose (Ming Zhu Duang)
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Great Message Award :
A. Neelkanth (Shekhar Mishra)
B. Four on Eleven (Shrikaran Beecharaju)
C. Chemistry of Love (Himari Nakamura)
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Great Filmmaker Award :
A. White Peacock (Beatrix Wilkinson)
B. Ping Pong'd (Jijo Sengupta)
C. Human Nature (Jaleh Amiri)
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Best Shorts Award :
A. EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN (Gino Zhang)
B. Room Number 37 (Deepak Mhasalkar)
C.Spanish Waves (Alondra Rodriguez)
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We really wish to share international thinking which is developed in the form of films with the society and the young generation of humanity. Every human being is a message in himself or herself, we just have to channelize & nurture that message into a great one. Filmmakers from all across the globe are respectfully welcome to share and submit your great films into the GMIFF.


We understand that you understand the realm of understanding and so you have created your wonderful films with your conscious understanding.



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Through vantage point we see that entertainment is just the medium to share realm of life with film lovers. If we penetrate the meaning of life sometime we feel that there is no such meaning or purpose to life, yes! Sometime, but we must have to give a great meaning or purpose to life to create great message for whole humanity or for our next generation.


We are really very small people; please understand what we want to say. But the task or mission which we want to empower is very big. One can understand it by the example of river. The beginning or origin of every river is so small but her consistency with selflessness leads her towards more hugeness.


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Dear human beings, being human it is good if we transform each moment into humane one.


We really admire your passion and enthusiasm as a filmmaker so with humbleness we invite filmmakers from all across the globe to share your great films into Great Message International Film Festival - GMIFF.
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