LOS ANGELES CINEVERSE WINNERS

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SEASON 2 — JULY 2023

WINNERS AND OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

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OFFICIAL FINALISTS

Official Finalists for BEST IN SHOW

  • In This Family // Drama Del Rosario

  • UPSIDE DOWN AND BACKWARDS // Taylor Johansson

  • Not Normal // Hector Ballner

  • Mariposas // Marie Alice Wolfszahn

  • TANKARD - Beerbarians // Costas Lambrou, Jasmine Lin, Joy Zou

  • Cannibal Comedian // Sean Haitz

  • The Interrogation (2023) // Zenghiok Ng

  • THE MEDS - Far Away // Dmitry Koturanov

  • DEAD DREAMS FALLING // Craig Murray

  • The Hobbyist // George Vatistas

  • Before The Next Teardrop Falls // Zhikun Zhang

  • Nightfire // Brando Benetton

  • Play It All Night Long // Quinn Bailey

  • The 2nd Act // Victor Fontoura

  • In Love We Trust // Bruno Taniguchi

  • POWER PALADIN - Creatures of the Night // Lauren Ambry, Ella McShortall, Olivia Tang

  • BABYRACER // CAROLINE DETOURNAY, PAULINA PISAREK

  • Lionheart // D.J. Hale

  • Human Bean // Clayton Smith

  • FRAME // JP Charlebois, MYRAI

Official Finalists for ROMANCE SHOWCASE

  • The Aftermath // LaChelle Joy Hunt

  • Introduction to the perfect Christmas tree // Jiseo Song

  • Signals // Louis Bennies

  • AQUARIUM // Noomen Noomen

  • You and Me and Her // Chancellor Joshua Hardy

  • By Any Other Name // Theo Brown

  • Revelation of John // Andrej Kolencik

  • Cremem les naus (Burn your bridges) // Ignacio Rodó

  • Mordisquitos (Nibbler) // Ignacio Rodó

  • Stepping Out // Rebecca Ann Bentley

  • We Were (2022) // Max Bennett

AWARD WINNERS

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  • BEST PICTURE (FEATURE) - La alberca de los Nadies // José Luis Solís Olivares

  • BEST DIRECTOR - Alexandra Tahereh Kaucher, James Jenkins // Sunbeam

  • BEST SHORT FILM - The Desert King // Lev Mergian

  • BEST CA-BASED FILMMAKER - Jonathan Galland // The Ribbon

  • BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM - Mordisquitos // Ignacio Rodó

  • BEST PERFORMANCE - Early Retirement // Adrienne Barbeau

  • BEST ANIMATION - The Ribbon // Polla Kozino

  • BEST MUSIC VIDEO - Go F*** Yourself - Machine Gun Kelly // Mat Musto, Tyler Serebreni, John Tashiro

  • BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO - Naked Jungle — I don't // Aleix Barba Perarnau

  • BEST ROMANCE SHORT - Bound // Brenda Serpas

  • BEST HORROR - 1848 // Alfonso Otero Mireles

  • BEST EDITING - Naked Jungle — I don't // Aleix Barba Perarnau

  • JURY PRIZE - The Woman Under The Tree // Karishma Kohli

SCRIPT FINALISTS

Winners:

BEST US FEATURE SCREENPLAY

  • CODE 10 // Matthew Margo

BEST US SHORT SCREENPLAY

  • Dear Agony // Xandar

BEST US WRITER

  • Lynn H. Elliott // Alta California

Finalists:

  • Not in This Town // Stephen Dale Floyd

  • DIZZY'S WORLD // R Lawrence

  • FAIRLY DEAD // Lucas RUE, Cedrick SPINASSOU

  • Death Noise

  • D-Emotion

  • MISSING CLAYTON

  • Hypertoad

  • Law of Retribution

  • Parched

  • The Klingsor Initiates

  • HARASSMENTS

  • Knitting Out

  • COINRUNNERS

  • The Four Of Us Are Dying

  • Raid On Columbus

  • Millions of Miles From Here

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCREENPLAY (DRAW)

  • The Fundamental Question // Timothy Wilde

  • The Quiet Ocean // Barry Smyth

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER

  • Elliot Stanton // Deadline To Death

  • Donavan Emery, The Android & Himself // Jesse Dorian

  • Brotherly Hate // Elliot Stanton

  • ALTER EGO // CHRISTIAN LEONARDO TALARICO

Quarter Finalists:

  • Crime and Punishment, LA

  • Raid On Columbus

  • Epidemic

  • Knights of Avalon

  • The Garden of Earthly Delights

  • DIZZY'S WORLD

  • Oscar

  • The Ushabti

  • Takako

  • Killergarten

  • Epidemic

  • Bad Love Tigers

  • Crime and Punishment, LA

  • Wendy Comes Home

  • Alex* // Joachim H. Böttcher

  • King of Blades // Paul Hikari

  • ROUGH CUT // Matthew Margo

  • The Fundamental Question

  • The Spear Carrier

  • Alien Gunslinger

  • The Phoebe Trap

  • Lucky Strike

  • Happily Never After

  • BOYSandGIRLS

  • Going For Broke

  • Death Cross of the Inca

  • Out Of Adversity

  • Twenty Last Summers

  • As Scared As You

  • SVEN

  • Morituriosis