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
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
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