DIFF SEASON 1

Category: Animated Films (Any length)

WINNER

THE BERTA CLOUD LEGEND 2023
Accreditee(s): MARIA TERESA MURER
Brazil

Category: Best Actor (Fiction) (Any Length)

WINNER

Pégame
Accreditee(s): Vladimir Zamudio

Category: Best Actress (Fiction) (Any Length)

WINNER

Katabasis
Accreditee(s): Samantha Casella
United States

CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARD

Pégame
Accreditee(s): Ana Paula Mujica

Category: Best Cinematography (Fiction & Documentary) (Any Length)

WINNER

Pégame
Accreditee(s): Dylan Verrechia

Category: Best Director (Any Length)

WINNER

Katabasis
Accreditee(s): Samantha Casella
United States

WINNER

Limitless
Accreditee(s): Wolfgang Stegemann
United Kingdom

WINNER

Moisture
Accreditee(s): Duda Gorter
Brazil

WINNER

Pégame
Accreditee(s): Dylan Verrechia

Category: Best Producer

WINNER

Limitless
Accreditee(s): Carla Donato
United Kingdom

Category: Best Sound Designing (Fiction & Documentary) (Any Length)

WINNER

Pégame
Accreditee(s): Dylan Verrechia

Category: Best Supporting Actor (Fiction) (Any length)

CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARD

Pégame
Accreditee(s): Gilberto Chi

Category: Best Supporting Actress (Fiction) (Any length)

WINNER

Pégame
Accreditee(s): Aidée González

Category: Best Writer

WINNER

A Country Homecoming
Accreditee(s): Wayne D Burdette Jr
United States

CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARD

Pégame
Accreditee(s): Dylan Verrechia

Category: Debut Filmmaker (1st or 2nd Film) (Any length)Debut Filmmaker (1st or 2nd Film) (Any length)

WINNER

Asampurno
Accreditee(s): Asampurno
India

WINNER

Liar-In-Chief: A Chronicle of the Trump Presidency Through the Eyes of an Outraged Graphic Artist
Accreditee(s): M Kaplan
United States

Category: Documentary Films (Any length)

WINNER

Mustang Saviors 2020
Accreditee(s): David Glossberg
United States

WINNER

Yes, I am Mauli
Accreditee(s): Suhas Jahagirdar
India

WINNER

You Should be Grateful
Accreditee(s): Heather Waters
Australia

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Kabir's Path
Accreditee(s): indubhushan mandal
India

CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARD

Interpreting Erik
Accreditee(s): Donald D'Haene
Canada

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

LUIS BENÍTEZ AND THE WORLD OF POETRY
Accreditee(s): Ileana Andrea Gómez Gavinoser
Argentina

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

Liar-In-Chief: A Chronicle of the Trump Presidency Through the Eyes of an Outraged Graphic Artist
Accreditee(s): M Kaplan
United States

Category: Experimental Films (Any length)

WINNER

Cassandra Venice
Accreditee(s): Hugo Justin Teugels
Belgium

WINNER

Moisture
Accreditee(s): Duda Gorter
Brazil

WINNER

Too Close But Too Far
Accreditee(s): Abhilash Chandran
United Arab Emirates

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder
Accreditee(s): Stephen Pope
United States

Category: Feature Script

WINNER

A Country Homecoming
Accreditee(s): Wayne D Burdette Jr
United States

WINNER

Alta California
Accreditee(s): Lynn Elliott
United States

WINNER

An Empress Revenge
Accreditee(s): Wayne D Burdette Jr
United States

WINNER

Deadeye
Accreditee(s): Chris Ross Leong
United States

WINNER

PROGRAMS
Accreditee(s): Irina Vysotskaya
France

WINNER

The Quantum Abbey One
Accreditee(s): Diego Savloff
Argentina

CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARD

NeverWere
Accreditee(s): Chris Ross Leong
United States

CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARD

Uncle Franco's Birthday Suit
Accreditee(s): Lynn Elliott
United States

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

A Hollow Throne
Accreditee(s): Wayne D Burdette jr
United States

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

LoveBeats
Accreditee(s): Chris Ross Leong
United States

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

ON THE EDGE
Accreditee(s): Irina Vysotskaya
France

Category: Film on Women (Any Length)

WINNER

Oishi's Honeyymoon
Accreditee(s): SUSHOBHAN SARDKKAR

WINNER

Sophia
Accreditee(s): Abigail Pickard Price
United Kingdom

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

Pick Me! (2022)
Accreditee(s): John Couper-Smartt
Australia

Category: Horror / Science Fiction / Genre Feature Film (Above 40 minutes)

WINNER

The Night of Samedi
Accreditee(s): Pedro Gandolla
Brazil

Category: International Narrative Features (Above 40 minutes)

WINNER

Pégame
Accreditee(s): Dylan Verrechia

Category: International Short Films (Less than 40 minutes)

WINNER

Moisture
Accreditee(s): Duda Gorter
Brazil

WINNER

Pather Katha
Accreditee(s): Ashwin Agrawal

WINNER

Pick Me! (2022)
Accreditee(s): John Couper-Smartt
Australia

WINNER

WINDOWS
Accreditee(s): Pedro Gandolla
Brazil

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Everyone Loves Muscles
Accreditee(s): Johan-Fredrik Bødtker
South Africa

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

One very last time
Accreditee(s): Laurent TACHON
France

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

Never
Accreditee(s): WangWang
China

Category: Micro Short

WINNER

Be-Living in The Ocean
Accreditee(s): Craig Sim Webb

WINNER

Boots on the Ground for Art
Accreditee(s): Randall Vemer

Category: Music Video (Any length)

WINNER

SONG OF MERLIN - An Original Song from Dark Legend Films
Accreditee(s): Patrick Cormack

WINNER

Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder
Accreditee(s): Stephen Pope
United States

WINNER

Thriuvonappoovu
Accreditee(s): Abhilash Chandran
United Arab Emirates

Category: Original Score

WINNER

Pégame
Accreditee(s): Karl Pettersen

Category: Short Script

WINNER

"The Seed Bearers. Pilot Episode: The Mongrel"
Accreditee(s): Lynn Elliott
United States

WINNER

America's Radical Women: Forgotten Voices of History
Accreditee(s): Edward Brown
United States

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

ATF
Accreditee(s): Wayne D Burdette Jr
United States

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

Time
Accreditee(s): Mario Telles

Category: Trailer/Teaser (5 minutes or less)

WINNER

Cassandra Venice - The BLUE Trailer
Accreditee(s): Hugo Teugels
Belgium

WINNER

Cassandra Venice - The RED Trailer
Accreditee(s): Hugo Teugels
Belgium

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