FINALISTS AND WINNERS

Best Open 2020
There’s A Mobster Under My Bed! Matthew Smolen Winner

Online People’s Choice 2020
Valentina Bertuzzi, Delitto Naturale Winner

Best Emerging
El Niño, Nikita Dunovits-Ferrier  Winner
Backing Up Bilitis, Abbie Pobjoy
On, Jelena Sinik,   
I See In The Dark, Lana Bregar
Slaughter, Saman Hosseinpuor, Ako Zandkarimi

Best Cultural Diversity
Backing Up Bilitis, Abbie Pobjoy   Winner 
I See In The Dark,  Lana Bregar
Mild, Daniel Woods

Best Secondary
Social, Charlotte McLaverty    Winner
Sallie Jones: An Australian Farmer
Goodnight, Jessica Evans 
Super Steve and Mighty Michael, Orlando Catoggio
Mon Grand-pere, Greta Shannon

Best West
The Divers,  Angela How
The Starey Bampire, Adam Bigum    Winner
Glass Canvas, Portrait of A Sign Writer
Love is a Lunatic City, Hannah Moore

Best Animation
The Quiet, Radheya Jegatheva
Urbanality, Evan McInnes          Winner
Dreams Into Drawing, Koji Yamamura

Best Drama, Australia
Drum Wave,  Natalie Erika James      Winner
Backing Up Bilitis, Abbie Pobjoy
Taboo, Olivia Altavilla
The Starey Bampire, Adam Bigum

Best Documentary 
A Mile an Hour, Beau Miles
Glass Canvas: Portrait of a Signwriter
Grinding the Country, Olivier Lambert    Winner
The Divers, Angela How

Best Comedy
There's A Mobster Under My Bed! Matthew Smolen       Winner
The Starey Bampire, Adam Bigum
Lil , Lizzy Bailey

Best International
Kneeling Sheep, Hai Rihan
Three August Days, Madli Lääne     Winner
Il fagotto (Sub Eng) - The Load 
Home, Inuk JÃrgensen
Grinding the country, Olivier Lambert

Film Art Media
Three August Days, Madli Lääne    Winner 
ON,  Jelena Sinik, Highly Commended
Triple Swear, Dannika Horvat, Highly Commended

Best Acting Performance
Claudia Greenstone, El Niño     Winner
Mariano Maciá, Manuel
Hong Mei, Kneeling Sheep

Best Acting Performance by A Child
Elvie Farmer, The Starey Bampire      Winner
Keeley Abrahamson, There's A Mobster Under My Bed!
Caroline Kruberg, Three August Days
Pippa Van Wijck, Taboo

Best Director
Three August Days, Madli Lääne
There's A Mobster Under My Bed! Matthew Smolen      Winner
Drum Wave, Natalie Erika James
Kneeling Sheep, Hai Rihan
Backing Up Bilitis, Abbie Pobjoy  

Best Screenplay
Three August Days, Madli Lääne
There's A Mobster Under My Bed! Matthew Smolen     Winner
Drum Wave, Natalie Erika James
Kneeling Sheep, Hai Rihan
Backing Up Bilitis, Abbie Pobjoy