FC Team7th Annual Top Shorts 2021 Nominations Announced
The nominations for the 7th Annual Top Shorts 2021 have been announced!
The Stranger, directed by Katherine Oostman, earned most nominations this year. Congratulations to all the nominees!
Best of Fest 2021
The Morning Walk - Louise Hylland, Marc Harpsøe
HotHed - David Spring
Pork Chop - Katherine Guggenberger
A Girl and a Gun - Pierre-Edouard Joubert
Monstrus Circus - Jordan Inconstant
The Peak - Satoshi Takahashi
ROAM - David Jung
The Last Step - Stanislav Matveev
The Great Artist - Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
Pretty Metal - Mikhail Tot
The Stranger - Katherine Oostman
Inertia City - Vellas, Reinaldo Faria
Best Narrative Film of the Year
Sleepwalk - Filipe Melo
Windblown - Usher Morgan, Katie Vincent
Mabel - Kimberley Wintle
Breaking the Silence - Seayoon Jeong
Wireless - Criss Gidas
Bongo - Jacob Lallas
Paz - Andrew Gutierrez
Metamorphosis - Elaine Xia
RED - David Newton, Beau Fowler
Dress - Paulina Lagudi Ulrich
The Stranger - Katherine Oostman
I am - Ruan Yi
Best Indie Film of the Year
Summer Rain - Renzo Montoya
Hot Take - Arthur Glover
Blinded - Cecilia Choi
If You Love Her, Let Her Go - Ilan Zerrouki
Morti's Law - Marcel Wohlfahrt, Natalie Kölbl
A Threat to Justice - Chris Files
F8th (= Rebirth + Faith) - Glenn Plummer
To Kill a Truth - Kiriakos Kotsinis
Gunther - Ryan Rowley
Pebbles - Renee Bourke
Awakened - Yulian Mateo
How Was It For You? - LIM
Best Drama of the Year
Swann - Antonio Petrone
Something Safe - Shaun Lupton
Pentimento - Benjamin O'Donnell
The Monster's Club - Federica Alice Carlino
Heartland - Jahmil Eady
Miss Boundless - Qiyu Zhou
The System - Michael Cruz
Hurtful Truth - Marie France Louis, Eman Elsweisy
The Great Artist - Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
Shevolution - Seidy Lopez
Becoming Everything - Dan Lowënstein
Maryam - Maza White, Doug Brooks
Best Comedy of the Year
Big Break - Dicle Ozcer
HotHed - David Spring
Free Desk* - Keith Macri
A Girl and a Gun - Pierre-Edouard Joubert
The Sister Solution - Casey Cooper Johnson, Antoneta Kastrati
Chronicles of Gnarnia: The Rex Chadwick Story - Brian Colin Foley
Bucko & Junior - Jordan Rader
Divorce School - Dana Marisa Schoenfeld, Julie Zelman
Ride the Wave - Colleen Davie Janes
Pretty Metal - Mikhail Tot
Matty Boy - Dr Shahid Kamal
New Growth - Karimah Westbrook
Best Thriller of the Year
Disconnected - Traci Hays
Countless Sheep - Rhett Wellington, Riley Robbins
Kongo - Bryan Wynn Sutton, John Roche
Velvet Farewell - Micheal Eastman
Fugitive Zero - Joe Lam
The Animal - Oscar Cowie
Windblown - Usher Morgan, Katie Vincent
The Climbing Perch - Daniel Gomez Bagby
A Bullet For Your Thoughts - Doug Williams
Non-transferable - Jack Veasey
The Wolf Delivers - Thomas Crouser Jr
Vincent - Nicholas Andrews
Best Horror of the Year
Orisha - Drew Anthony
Susie - Jordan Doig
Mark of the Rougarou - Erica Duke
Lies Inside - Corey Emanuel Jr.
Vac Attack - Kyle Lane
Meanwhile At A Cabin Somewhere Near Fairplay, CO - Michael Chenette
Metamorphosis - Elaine Xia
What If - Tammy Klembith
The Invitation - Thorsten Schade
Vincent - Nicholas Andrews
Satanico - J.R. Curtis
Till Death - Andrew Thomas
Best Action Film of the Year
Battle - Emre Orun
Operation Shell Shock: Phantoms - Allan Riggs
Office 86 - Jyo Carolino
Saving Grayson - Breck Cuddy
RED - David Newton, Beau Fowler
Shadow Valley - Isaac Joel
Artificial Souldier - Jason Gonzalez
F I V E - Will Sidaros
Best Sci-Fi of the Year
Infinitus - Cameron Currin
Plant - Carlos Milite
River - Emily Skye
The Counterfeit Mind - Malek Haneen
Chronofilm - Robert Hypes
Finger Guns - Nikola Sreckovic
ROAM - David Jung
F I V E - Will Sidaros
(Dys)Functional - Adam Nowak
Ecclesiastes - Lola Rùi
Refuge - Sina Sultani
Volume Control - Giorge Souladze
Best Experimental Film of the Year
Collapse - Alberto Martín-Aragón
One Actor Short 3 - Yuval David
Spotted - Shranjay Arora, Seda Anbarci
Pandemia - Katerina Giannakopoulou
Isolation Animation - Ruth Ducker
Popped Culture - Spencer Flynn
Sin - Alberto Martín-Aragón
Returning Home - Bhushan Thakkar
The Accident - Paul Brian Osorio, Jayasinhji Jhala
Dû - Eric Marie Afer
clarity. - Daisy Paroczy Hickey
Mosaic - ZHUANG Guantianxia
Best Inspirational Film of the Year
To You, Me & The Next Generation. - Sam Akel
A Line Unbroken - David Earnhardt, Patricia Earnhardt
Making Waves - Laura Zéphirin
As the Wave Broke - Alexandra Bekiou
Come Back - Alban Pauly, Aurore Klein
clarity. - Daisy Paroczy Hickey
Xiety - Carlos Torres, Karen Torres
Ye Shall Be Hindered From Loving Me - Karlos Alastruey
Black Water - Jenn Xu
Looking Through the Trees - Justin Morfin
The Funny Runner - Rob Steger
Under The Same Sky - Alison Chace
Best Fantasy Film of the Year
Hollow - Nicholas Andrews, Rosie Keogh
Fulgidusen - Alexander Feichter
Virtually Together - John Argelander
Loop - Yanqing Chen
He/She - Norah Xi
Sawa - Harinarayan Rajeev
Fix Me - Woonyea Han
Come Home To Me - Gavin Bradley
31 - Joumana Rizk
Ecclesiastes - Lola Rùi
Best Romance Film of the Year
Spending Time With You - Josh Pafchek
Manasanamaha - Deepak
Heartstruck - Ian Thomas Kent
The Don't Call List - Tevin Everett
Stay Sane - Hana Wagner
One Last Shot - Saram Jaffery
He/She - Norah Xi
Wherever, Whatever - Broderick Angeles
Best Mystery Film of the Year
Acid Fantasy - Lorenzo Lanzillotti
Cherry Swamp Road - Josh Cummins
Life is a two-way dream - Gjert Rognli
Loop - Yanqing Chen
Hal - Josh Flaherty, Caleb Yellin-Flaherty
A Bullet For Your Thoughts - Doug Williams
Shutter - Andres Ramirez
Stalkers – Dongjun Kim
Best Parody of the Year
Coasters: A Film by Ben Kurns - J.G. Murphy, Nolan Pugh
Chronicles of Gnarnia: The Rex Chadwick Story - Brian Colin Foley
Rabbit Island - Ben Cichowski, Shan Harris
King of Angels - Fred Bonheim
Panic in Valley City - Antonio Harper, Abby Burton
Office 86 - Jyo Carolino
Best Dark Comedy of the Year
Office Manager - Shamus Maxwell, Lola-Rose Maxwell
The Axe and the Iron - Matthew Roseman
It's That Guy! - Jean Paul San Pedro
Neutrals - Jacob Horne
The Body - Adam Weber
Finger Guns - Nikola Sreckovic
Requiem for a Crab - Patrick Gehlen
The Funeral - Michael Filek
Wichita - Sergine Dumais
Hero - Jayson Martin
Wellness - Lindsay Gonzalez
Cult Following - Amy Parry
Best Romantic Comedy of the Year
Just Delivered - Rosie Gaunt-Mathieson
Girl Night Stand: Chapter Two - Jenna Laurenzo
Trust Frank - Penny Moore
We Met in Quarantine - Rob Seiffert, Rob Wagner
I'm Press - Antaneise Henderson
Christopher Nolan is God - Javier Alegre
Screen Girl - J.D. MacNutt
Manasanamaha - Deepak
Best Crime Film of the Year
The Man That You Fear - Nicholas Kerekes
Salsero in Purgatory - Antonio De La Cruz
The Dentist - Lawrence Terrill
Wrangle - Alex Culberson
Aborted Traffick - Bea W Bliss
Hot Take - Arthur Glover
Lockbox - Jake Noecker
Morti's Law - Marcel Wohlfahrt, Natalie Kölbl
Best LGBTQ Film of the Year
You Boy - Juliette Labrousse, Sonia Guitz
Wherever, Whatever - Broderick Angeles
The Great Artist - Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
Underneath - Lena Weller
The Acceptance of Suffering - Jason Klein
Swindled - Stanton Long
The Cruising Monologues - Jose Batista-Ayala
No Loss Here - Nathan Brewer
Bonnie & Bonnie - Lena Murisier
P98's Waltz Of The Flower - Praise
Best Film Noir of the Year
La Schema - Alex Bowling, Stephen Byrum
The Widow - Brendan Young
The Big Con - Augie Pagan
Acid Fantasy - Lorenzo Lanzillotti
bun·ny /’banē/ - lost girl - Anna Martin
Slice of Life - Dale Fabrigar
Best Web/TV Pilot of the Year
The Hinsdale Archives - Ryan Wefelmeyer
Texas High School Football - Peter Calvin, Brent Crable
Harbor Island - Tiffany Rhodes
Sharp - Sander Ligthart
In Two Minds - Fabian Schwab
Limbo - Ben R Johnson, Josh Demuele
The Romans - Maurice Micallef, Chris Micallef
The Gliwensbourg Chronicles - Emilie Tommasi
Wisecrackin - Angie McMahon
Atlas - Ayman Chaudhry
Something About Bubbles - Mark Cheng, Graham Brown
Unearthed - Tari K. Robinson
Best Web Series of the Year
The Honey Trapper Season 2 - Felise Garcia
Zader Law - William Woods, Shawn Bates, Stanley Sievers
Another Time, With Paul - Elena Saurel
Anacostia - Anthony Anderson, Martha Byrne
Incompleteness - David Ash
Divorce School - Dana Marisa Schoenfeld, Julie Zelman
Jade & Jaded - Sarah Franco
Diversity Hires - Tevin Everett
All In 3: A Fikowski & Vellner Documentary - S.J. Finlay
Good Monsters - Johannes Muhr, Julia Zimth
The Jersey Connection Season 2 - Tim Firtion
Chronofilm - Andrew Burkum, Robert Hypes
Best Documentary of the Year
Use Your Words - Lauren Layton
Rise - Hannah Byrd
Inhale - Brian Chambers
We to Me - Jade Chase
Time Matters - Mike King
Breathe, Nolan, Breathe - Daniel Catullo
ProDogTV - Randall Owens
Born From Junk - Mike Horn, Galin Foley
Dying Is Not Giving Up - Kelly Grosklags, Bryan Piatt
Tadpoles: The Big Little Migration - Maxwel Hohn
Driving La Carrera: Rally Brothers - Fernando Cum Marin
From the Ground Up - Trent Zulkiewicz, Will Brenninkmeyer
Best Animation of the Year
Stick To Manual - Christian Antonini, Tanice Arnold
The Train to Qinling - Shir Baron
Pork Chop - Katherine Guggenberger
Goalie - Maarten Lemmens
Two Different Kinds of Love - Alyce Vest
The Peak - Satoshi Takahashi
The Heretic - Veselin Efremov
The Last Step - Stanislav Matveev
Made With Love - Chloé Robichaud
Melted - Nikki Chapman
Hope - Abdulla Al-Janahi
Tides Are Changing - Dinah Kalaha, María Bjarnadóttir
Best Music Video of the Year
Happy Sad Face - Heart Shield - Rawn Erickson II
Mama - Tonio Krueger
Two Arms Apart - Renee Jonas, Sven Tydeman, Elizabeth Usher, Ben Chai
You're the Kinda Guy - Michelle Rose, Joshua McGrane
Superhuman - Hans Van Vliet, Natasha Parker
Drowning in Paradise - Drue de Milo
The Misunderstanding - Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
Supersonics / Caravan Palace - Béchir "Jiwee" Jouini
Love´s worst nightmare (ft. Liz Kretschmer) - Philippe Funk
Woman's Enlightenment - Koutaro Ishida
Bloodvape - Maxson Jarecki
Never Ever - Evgenii Bakirov
Best Student Film of the Year
Mathilda - Yaqi Tao
Tic Talk: Time to Heal - Maria Florencia Smith
Pork Chop - Katherine Guggenberger
Lockbox - Jake Noecker
Stay Sane - Hana Wagner
The Night Shift - Jinwei Fan
Paz - Andrew Gutierrez
Cocoon - Maxfield Cooper Smith
Wailing - Charley Parker
Mama - Delores M. Flynn
Way Back Home - Yanyan Zhao
Astral - Morgan M. Montgomery
Best Microfilm of the Year
Uber Thoughts - Meredith Koch, Victor Zachary
Unapeeling - Amber Baris
Chums - Olivia Perkins
Melted - Nikki Chapman
To Whom it May Concern - Daniel G. Roberts
With Love - Kirana Rafli
Stranger Strings - Ava Salomon
Masks - Carolyn Bridget Kennedy
Made With Love - Chloé Robichaud
The Game - Tim Moldenhauer
Unspeakable BLM - Emmai Alaquiva
Long Way Down - Brandon Lopez
Best Director of the Year
Sleepwalk - Filipe Melo
Windblown - Usher Morgan, Katie Vincent
Mabel - Kimberley Wintle
A Girl and a Gun - Pierre-Edouard Joubert
Monstrus Circus - Jordan Inconstant
Lea's Secret - Rico Gutierrez
ROAM - David Jung
Metamorphosis - Elaine Xia
RED - David Newton
Pretty Metal - Mikhail Tot
The Stranger - Katherine Oostman
Inertia City - Vellas, Reinaldo Faria
Best First Time Director of the Year
Big Break - Dicle Ozcer
Letters from a Father - Andrea Fantauzzi
Cherry Swamp Road - Josh Cummins
Melted - Nikki Chapman
Aborted Traffick - Bea W Bliss
Andean Condor - William Mazzola
This is how I lost my virginity - Claire Chubbuck
LIFE... - Mirlande Amazan
Strung - Joseph Bezenek, Ryan H. Reid
Wichita - Sergine Dumais
In Isolation - Edmund C. Short
I am - Ruan Yi
Best Indie Filmmaker of the Year
Speechless - Jane Chai
Astray - Josh Brainin, Ernest Kabashi
Lifeless - Alex Fedosov, Elvira Sinelnik
Claire. - E. A. Dodson
The Robot Vacuum - Daniel G. Roberts
Elizabeth - Jamal Rahman
Denver to Boston - Joseph Anthony Marcello
Nightswimming - Eoin Bourke
Amy From Outer Space - Eric Urbiztondo
With New Eyes - George Leontakianakos
Impermanence - Josh Yellin-Flaherty
Where's Kate? - Keith Macri
Best Young Filmmaker of the Year
The Friday Night Escape - Billy Tsiolis
What Are You Waiting For? - Ella Jerrier
Last Summer - Adamson Novak
bun·ny /’banē/ - lost girl - Anna Martin
Immaculate - Joshua Albalos
Sweet 15 - Brianna Reed
Crisis In The City By The Bay - Vishal Krishnaiah
Consent - Georgia Kate Sasso
The Unwanted Guest - Max Willocx
Help - Magnolia Ellenburg
The Waiting Room - Ella Jerrier
Spoon - Edwin Ramirez
Best Actor of the Year
A Person With Feelings - Trent Culkin
Countless Sheep - Marco Delvecchio
Pentimento - Toby Truslove
Lockbox - Justin Schilling
Shadow Valley - David Samson
RED - Beau Fowler
ROAM - Josh Connor
Cocoon - Christopher Brian
The Great Artist - Matthew Postlethwaite
Until - Kevin Bacon
Grandpa's Long March - Andy Sun
Vincent - Dilshan Rain
Best Actress of the Year
Dress - Tess Sullivan
Windblown - Katie Vincent
Mabel - Kimberley Wintle
Clean - Amber Gaston
Wireless - Annaliese McGuire
This Is How I Lost My Virginity - Sofia D'Marco
LIFE... - Stacy Ann Rose
Junior - Beteal Sharon Mahari
Shevolution - Minerva Vier
The Honey Trapper Season 2 - "Secrets Surface" - Felise Garcia
The Stranger - Melissa Saint-Amand
Vincent - Rosie Keogh
Best Actor in an Indie Film
Thereafter - Johnny Gilligan
Heartstruck - Jeremiah O'MaHony
Seermass - Kerwin Gonzalez
The Man That You Fear - Michael L. McNulty
Better Late Than Dead - Julian Crouser
Come Home To Me - Lance Caver
First Time - Germano Blanco
Slice of Life - Christopher Dukes
Morti's Law - Michael Marwitz
Gunther - Joel Wetterstein
Amy From Outer Space - Eric Urbiztondo
Awakened - Adam Race
Best Actress in an Indie Film
Cradle - Ava Fay
River - Mary Cameron Rogers
You Up? - Lindi Cecile
The Basement - Naïma Pöhler
Cranberry - Sarah Buchanan
bun·ny /’banē/ - lost girl - Brooke Michelle
Waiting Games - Nicole Massie
Gunther - Brittany Underwood
Andean Condor - Vika Mora
Alison - Jessica Rose
Do It Again - Cecilia Cereijido-Bloche
Maryam - Maza White
Best Supporting Actor of the Year
The Only Competent Person In This Entire Country - Bryan Wynn Sutton
If You Love Her, Let Her Go - Fred Tousch
As the Wave Broke - Micky Jukovic
Vincent - Jordan Rainford
Countless Sheep - Rhett Wellington
RED - Ian Reddington
Wireless - Giuseppe D'Allura
Mark of the Rougarou - Marcus T Thomas
A Girl and a Gun - Michael Gantz
HotHed - Alexander Neal
Paz - Armando DuBon Jr.
Countless Sheep - Jeremiah Jahi
Best Supporting Actress of the Year
Sleepwalk - Joy Green
Lockbox - Anna Horsey
Fugitive Zero - Georgina Elizabeth Okon
Company - Nina Paw Hee Ching
Dress - Madeline Dennison
The Stranger - Autumn Dial
The Great Artist - Marimar Vega
Windblown - Susan Gallagher
The Stranger - Ashley LeConte Campbell
HotHed - Victoria Broom
Maryam - Roxie Mohebbi
RED - Jennifer Lim
Best Young Actor of the Year
Letters from a Father - Cam Burns
The Garage - Jack Coghlan
Son of Oakland - Joël Friebe-Makinto
Fulgidusen - Jona Eisenblätter
Solitaire - Jacob C. Schultz
Wrangle - Ty Culberson
A Child’s prayer - Jack Botros
Finger Guns - Oliver Patry
Strung - Wyatt Darling
Gift - Patrick Zhou
The McHenry Trial - Kaleb Alexander Roberts
Junior - Carter Young
Best Young Actress of the Year
Mathilda - Laurel Badenell
Letters from a Father - Katie Coryell Hall
Harbor Island - Lacey Caroline
The Sister Solution - Jana Kastrati Cooper Johnson
Finger Guns - Ava Bowen
Lonelyboy - Cali Jennings
Waiting Games - Erin Addison
Slice of Life - Madison Ekstrand
Pebbles - Yasmin Polley
Becoming Everything - Diaana Babnicova
Gift - Anna Feng
Come Home To Me - Jamilia Caver
Best Duo of the Year
The Morning Walk - Louise Hylland & Amalie Gissel
Until - Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick
Till Death - Emma Maddock & Andrew Thomas
Do It Again - Cecilia Cereijido-Bloche & David Socolar
Velvet Farewell - Sasha Andreev & Maggie Bearmon Pistner
Wireless - Annaliese McGuire & Giuseppe D'Allura
One Last Shot - Saram Jaffery & Aniqa Khwaja
The System - Ashley Olivia Fisher & Daniel Puig
Speechless - Ke- yen Hsu & Ben Wang
Windblown - Katie Vincent & Jacob A. Ware
Dress - Tess Sullivan & Madeline Dennison
The Argument - Shalini Bathina & Vance Lovett
Best Ensemble of the Year
Sleepwalk - Greg Lucey, Durant McLeod, Joy Green, William Knight
Countless Sheep - Marco Delvecchio, Rhett Wellington, Anna Daines, Jeremiah Jahi, Ryan Ramirez, Lucas Royalty
A Girl and a Gun - Olivia Buckle, Anand Mahalingam, Michael Gantz, Stephen Schlager, Michael J. Sielaff
Pretty Metal - Angela Cole, Lina Edwards, Katelynn Newberry
Something About Bubbles - Vivan Dugré, Abigail Marlowe, Mikel Miller, Kristin Vahl, Mikel Parraga-Wills, Graham Brown
Estilo Americano - Lidia Porto, Antonio Jaramillo, Zuleyka Silver, Lombardo Boyar, Goya Robles, Ruben Garfias, J. Teddy Garces, Jessica Meza
LIFE... - Stacy Ann Rose, Mirlande Amazan, Gordon Greene, Shawn Lockie, David Beyersforfer, DeinRene Amazan, Ashna Sharan, Poorva Waach, Barry Newell, Coventry Halcyon
Three-Second Rule - Carina Yang, Maggie Yu, Allison Qu, Anthea Best, Christopher Louis Srasin, Marvin Brown, Ashlynn He, Kayla Kim, Candice Peng
Kicks - Maria Soccor, Scott Albrecht, G.K. Williams, Vanessa Bontea, Lou Martini Jr., Anthony Chisholm, Perry Young
HotHed - Nimisha Odedra, Victoria Broom, Amber Doig-Thorne, Jonathan Hansler, Alexander Neal
The Stranger - Melissa Saint-Amand, Autumn Dial, Ashley LeConte Campbell
New Growth - Nikea Gamby Turner, Tiffany Snow, Eddie Goines, Timon Durrett, Zoey Boyce, Karimah Westbrook
Best Cinematography of the Year
Monstrus Circus - Jordan Inconstant
HotHed - Beatriz Delgado Mena
Inhale - Nik Pilecki