WINNERS OF THE LONDON DIRECTOR AWARDS
2023 SUMMER EDITION

BEST DIRECTOR SHORT

Documentary
Queen of Parks (Suzann Wade, UK)
Fiction
Croak (Dom Lee, UK)
Honorable Mention
Sand Castles (Tom Collins, James Collins, South Africa)

BEST DIRECTOR FEATURE
Documentary
The Mum in Me (Hilde Merete Haug, Norway)
Fiction
The Art of Love (Philippe Weibel, Switzerland)

Best Director Super Short Film
Ten out of the Ten (Imre Mazlo, Hungary)

Best Director Student Film
WITCH, REBORN (Maria Shevtsova, UK)

Best First-Time Director
Wait Till It Drops (Zara Chavasse, UK)

Best Female Director
Drumming (Anouk Witkowska Hiffler, UK)
Honorable Mention
Losing Us (Teele Dunkley, UK)

Best Male Director
Don't Choke (Sonny Baez, UK)

Best Director Music Video
Punkto - Ne Daiktai (Jonas Šarkus, Džiugas Babenskas, Lithuania)

Best Director Drama
ManMade (Plum Stupple-Harris, UK)

Best Director Comedy
First Date (Clara Planelles, Ireland)

Best director Sci-Fi
Conversion (Richard Broomfield, UK)

Best director Fantasy
Vigil Hours (Marko Marinkovic, Serbia)
Honorable mention
The Ankou, the Child and the Bandits (SIMON VAUTIER, France)


Best director Animation
The Last Biscuit (Amy Fitzpatrick, UK)

Best director Experimental
The Dreamer (Bella Rose, UK)

Best Director Indie-Feature

Violett (Steven John Mihaljevich, Australia)


Best Director Indie Short

Bitter Taste (Ethan Tomás Race, UK)


Best director Horror
My Baby  (John Dada, France)

Best director LGBTQ

VILAINS (Emmanuel Berthelot, UK)

Honorable Mention

Topless (Patrick Jensen Hansted, UK)

Best director Action
Andrea Alive (Wolfgang Christian Hans-Joachim Stegemann, UK)

Best director Psychological

By Any Other Name (Daniel Deville, UK)
Honorable Mention
Listen to ME (Liam Flynn, Ireland)

Best director War
The Irrepressible (Stefan Köhler Pellegrini, Denmark)
Honorable Mention
The Heart of Ravenscrag (Dale Hildebrand, Canada)


Best director Young (Under 25 years)
Lone Star Tick (Ewan McIntosh, UK)

Best Adult Director (25-50yo)
County lines: Grooming & Exploitation (Adam King, UK)

Best Art Director
PENTACLUB (Roberto Strazzarino, Italy)

Best European Director
After All (David Roger Juan, Spain)

Best American Director
Purgatory (Alec Patchin, USA)

Best South American Director
Broken (Israel Mirenda, Uruguay)

Best Australian Director
Laugh With Me (Karen Liebau McPherson, Australia)

Best Asian Director
Drama Life (Bo Yao, China)

Best London Film Director
Out of Chaos (George O'Reilly, UK)

Best Director of Photography
Elysian Fields (Olli Slatter, UK)

Best Short Script
Screenplay of PENTACLUB (Maria Pia Alibrandi, Roberto Strazzarino, Italy)

Best Feature Script
Blood runes (Jonny Bjørkhaug, Norway)

WINNERS OF THE LONDON DIRECTOR AWARDS
2022 WINTER EDITION

Best Short Film
Garfield Seashell (Paul Marques Duarte, France)

Best Director Short
Documentary
A Perfect Balance of Absolute Chaos (Carl Woods, UK)

Fiction

The Little Girl (Annette Westwood, UK)

Honorable Mention
Canine (Lorenzo Mandelli, UK)
Jalebi Nights (Ganesh Sharma, UK)
Treasure (Sean Patrick Healy, UK)

Best director Feature
Documentary
Hostile (Sonita Gale, UK)

Honorable Mention

SIDELINED - “99% don’t make it, this is their story” (Ben Marlow, Jack Tompkins, UK))
Fiction
Mary Anning & the Dinosaur Hunters (Sharon Sheehan, UK)

Best director Super-Short
Catchlight (Maximillian Newcombe, Lidia Huerta, UK)

Best Director Student Film
The House in the Middle of the Sea (Marcel Ruizendaal, UK)

Best First-Time Director
Hidden (Paul Riordan, UK)

Honorable Mention
Killed in Qatar (Yvonne Bauer, UK)

Best Director Female
WOOL (Dympna Jardine, UK)

Best Director Male
City of Ghosts (Christian Elliott, Elle Ginter, UK)

Best Director Music Video
We Said We Shouldn't Die, Remember? (Giulia Jules Menaspà, UK)

Honorable Mention
Simon, I Know a Place (Johan Oettinger, Denmark)
LUNARCODE: HELL IS JUST A PLACE (vincenzo carubia, jessica gillette)
Modern Life (Antoine Svolanek, France)
Self-Made (Something pt.2)
Surma - Islet (Telmo Soares, Portugal)

Best Director Drama
Boy in the Back Seat (Scott Pickup, UK)

Best Director Comedy
Everybody dies…Sometimes ( Charlotte Hamblin, UK)

Honorable Mention
Killing for a Living  (Sherice Griffiths, UK)

Honorable Mention
A FISTFUL OF KARMA (Terence Gross, UK)

Best director Sci-Fi
Phi 1.618 (Theodore Ushev, Bulgaria)

Honorable Mention
Reality Heist (Olivier LEMERY, UK)

Best director Fantasy
Another Dead Sailor (Jack Lennard Willoughby, UK)

Best director Animation
You Wish! (Lingyun Li, UK)

Honorable mention
ORPHEUS (Guy K Ward, UK)

Best Director Experimental
The Ode on Cure (Vladislav Motorichev, UK)

Best Director Indie-Feature
Soundproof (Margaret Rogerson, UK)

Best Director Indie Short
Vincent And Agostina (Steven Waddington, USA)

Honorable Mention
Decisions (Meletis Fourountzidis, Greece)
Sea change (Edward Hendry Browne, UK)

Best Director Web/TV series
Chateau Laurier - Season 2 (James Stewart, Canada)

Best Director Horror
Merger (Daniel Negret, UK)

Honorable Mention
INCUBUS (Tito Fernandes, UK)

Best Director Thriller
The Forfeir (Josie Charles, Phoebe Brooks, UK)

Best Director LGBTQ
Spin (Lisa Marie Tedesco, USA)

Best Director Action
Layers of Lies (Ramin Sohrab, Finland)

Best director Psychological
Caretaker (James Hood, UK)

Honorable Mention
CHROMA KEY (Max Puglisi, UK)

Best Director War
Children of Ukraine (Shahida Tulaganova, UK)

Honorable Mention
A Love Worth Fighting For (Toby Fountaine, UK)

Best director Young (Under 25 years)

Sonder  

(Joseph Martin John Morel, UK)


Best director Senior (55+ yo)

Secret superstars the hidden history of the Kennedy cup (Tom O'Flaherty, Ireland)

Honorable Mention
The Fall From Grace (John Sexton, USA)

Best Art Director
Òran na h-Eala (Steve Exeter)

Best European Director
Going Home (Aineias Babulis, UK)

Best American Director
Bed Heads (Georgia Peppe, USA)

Best South American director
Polartropica "What's Your Fantasy" (Vanessa Marzaroli, USA)

Best Australian director
Mr. Gypsie (Aaron Lee Noyes, Australia )

Best Asian director
Kogershin (Malik Zenger, Kazachstan)

WINNERS OF THE LONDON DIRECTOR AWARDS
2022 SUMMER EDITION 


Best Director Short Documentary
The State of Dissent (Roshaan Khattak, UK)

Best Director Fiction Film
I Wish for You (Stuart Rideout, UK)

Honorable Mention
Nanay's Lullaby (Drew Stephens, Thailand)

Best Director Feature Documentary
The Healers (Rodrigo Occelli, Mexico)

Best Director Fiction Film
When You Are Gone (Rafael Altamira, Mexico)

Best Director Super-Short Film
Enough (Alina Ilin, UK)

Best Director Student Film
A Butterfly Vanishes (Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz, USA)

Best First-Time Director
Talia (Cara Bamford, UK)

Best Female Director
Detained (Khushnuda Shukurova, USA)

Honorable Mention
Vanity (Natasha Kinaru, UK)

Best Male Director Male
THE MASTER OF SILENCE (Ovidiu Georgescu, Romania)

Best Director Music Video
Better Than You (Lucy Turner, UK)

Best Director Drama Film
Worthy of thee (Dulith Anthony Gunasekera, New Zealand)

Best Director Comedy Film
THE LAST SLICE (Clifford Milner, UK)

Best Director Sci-Fi
Solus (Jonathan Brooks, USA)

Best Director Fantasy
Memories of the Moon (Antoine Dricot, Belgium)

Best Director Animation
The Cloaked Realm "Tunnel 23" (Marisa Cohen, Peter Issac Alexander, USA)

Best Director Experimental
Flowers (Dumas Haddad, UK)

Best Director Indie Feature
The Rock in the Sea (Niall Duffy, Ireland)

Best Director Indie Short
Flourish (Carol Nuñez, USA)

Best Director Web/TV series
Grey Nomads 2 (Felix Williamson, Australia)

Best Director Horror
Who Am I? (Christopher Newberry, UK)

Best Director Thriller
EXCHANGE (Khoa Nguyen, Viet Nam)

Best Director LGBTQ
Avocado Toast there series SEASON 2 (Sam Coyle, Canada)

Best Director Action
Welcome to Candy's (Sabine Crossen, France)

Best Director Psychological
One More Bite (Yaxing Lin, USA)

Best Director War
The Crossing (Tomas Simonsen, Norway)

Best Director Young (Under 25 years)
Aphrodite (Alonso A. Anza, USA)

Best Director Adult (26-55yo)
Sunrise Meets Sunset (Aram Atkinson, UK)

Best Director Senior (55+ yo)
Unflinching Grace (Bill Frakes, USA)

Best Art Director
JACK (Pelayo de Lario, UK)

Best European Director
The Young Dictator (Andy Lupu, Romania)

Best American Director
Uncommon Negotiator (Brian Glassford, USA)

Best South American Director
HANDS ON (RAQUEL ARRAES, UK)

Best Australian Director
Riley (Ben McHugh, Australia)

Best Asian Director
Chopsticks (Fanbo Zheng, Weiyang Chen, China)

WINNERS OF THE LONDON DIRECTOR AWARDS
2022 SPRING EDITION


Grand Prix: Best Director
Short Film
(nominated for awards on Golden Art Film Academy)
R[evol]ution Of Love (Louise Hylland, Denmark)

Honorable Mention:
Best Director Short Film
The Game The Doubt
(Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi, Iran)
Let's talk, sister (Celia de Coca, Spain)

Grand Prix:
Best Director Short Documentary
(nominated for awards on Golden Art Film Academy)
Our Land
(Alexandra Genova, UK)

Grand Prix:
Best Director Feature Documentary
(nominated for awards on Golden Art Film Academy)
COVID19: The Fallout of a Modern Pandemic (Robert M Silver, UK)

Honorable Mention
Bella Ciao, Song of Rebellion (Andrea Karena Vogt, Italy)

Grand Prix: Best Director
Feature Film
(nominated for awards on Golden Art Film Academy)
Spaghetti junction
(Kirby McClure, USA)

Grand Prix: Best Director Super Short Film
idle (United Kingdom, Sam Parkinson)

Best Director Student Film
(nominated for awards on Golden Art Film Academy)
Ring (Zhang Haoyu, China)

Best Director Female Director
Love (Jane Ashmore, UK)

Best Director Male Director
ARENA (Myles Clohessy, USA)

Grand Prix: Best Director Music Video
(nominated for awards on Golden Art Film Academy)
Its Not The End of The World (Marielle Tepper, Czech Republic)

Best Director Drama Film
Out In Orbit (Jess Kay, Dann Emmons, United Kingdom)

Best Director Comedy Film
CATARINA (Pierre Amstutz Roch, France)

Best Director Sci-Fi
Twotwo (Jun Hoskulds, USA)

Best Director Fantasy
Matters of the Heart (Vadim Bogomolov, Russia)

Best Director Animation Film
The Boy and The Mountain (Santiago Aguilera, Gabriel Monreal, Chile)

Best Director Experimental Film
Man with Shadow (Ema Kugler, Slovenia)

Best Director Indie Feature Film
WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YOU (Valentina Battorti, Italy)

Best Director Web/TV series
Predestined (Aaron Avont Johnson, USA)

Best Director Horror Film
Tekenchu (Carlos Matienzo Serment, Mexico)

Best Director Thriller
The Proposal (Alexis Cifuentes, Spain)

Best Director LGBTQ Film
In Orbit (Katie McNeice, Ireland)

Best Director Action Film
Makhom (Leila Rastyamovna Salakhatdinova, Russia)

Best Director Psychological Film
All That Glitters (Dan Bronzite, UK)

Best Director War Film
Grace (Brian Patto, Australia)

Best Young Director (under 25 years)
Why Wouldn't I Be? (Ella Greenwood, United Kingdom)

Best Adult Director (26-55yo)
Bimba mia (Paolo Tresoldi, Italy)

Honorable Mention
Entre Les Tombes (Romain LAFARGUE, Thibault LAFARGUE, France)

Best Senior Director (55+ yo)
PROCREATION: Adam and Eve (Lol Sargent, UK)

Honorable Mention
Chiusi fuori (Giorgio Testi, Italy)
Bullshit (Borys Shusterman, Mykhailo Ozerov, Ukraine)

Best European Director
Nightline (Robert Sedlacek, Czech Republic)

Best American Director
Pastiche (Shivaan Makker, USA)

Best South American Director
VERONA (Ane Siderman, Brazil)

Best Australian Director
Fading Numbers (Aron Attiwell, Australia)

Best African Director
Korrinty (Aziz Chennaoui, Tunisia)

Best Asian Director
October 22 (Nauwroz Khan, India)

WInner BEST DIRECTOR AWARD 2021
DEKEL BERENSON

Anna, a middle-aged single mother, lives in a small industrial town in war-torn Eastern Ukraine. She works in a meat processing plant, lives in a rundown apartment and dreams for a better life for herself and her 16-year-old daughter.

Desperate for a change, she is lured by a radio advertisement to attend a party organized for foreign men who are touring the country, searching for love. Despite not having been out for years she decides to take part in the event.

At the party, Anna is confronted with the realities of old age, with the American men's real intentions, and by her underaged daughter who is also attending the event. Both mother and daughter realize the absurdity and indignity of the situation and abandon their dream for a better life.

Director: Dekel Berenson (United Kingdom)
Time: 15 min
Premiere: Festival de Cannes 2019
Grand Prix Best Film Awards and financial reward 5,000.00 USD

You can read the full list of winners here: https://bestfilmawards.com/history/best-director-award