2021 Global Nonviolent Film Festival, the most important and renowned nonviolent film festival in the world, announced the Awards handed at its 10th edition. The announcement was made by festival director Daria Trifu and festival artistic consultant Bruno Pischiutta in a video presentation that is available for viewing on the Festival’s streaming channel at 2021 Global Nonviolent Film Festival – GNVFF. Forty-four films from twenty-eight countries have competed at this year’s event. There were eleven premieres.
The 2021 Global Nonviolent Film Festival Jury comprises (in alphabetical order): film maestro Shamil Aliyev from Azerbaijan; artist, animation director, and university professor Joe Chang from Canada-China; producer Elio Dell’Unto from Canada; cinematographer and documentary producer Flynn Donovan from the USA, and member of the International Federation of Film Critics Hamed Soleimanzadeh from Iran.
The Jury resolved to award the following films:
FEATURE FILM CATEGORY
Best Director (ex aequo):
– Hunter Hopewell for SHELLFISH (USA);
– Kostadin Bonev for AWAY FROM SHORE (Bulgaria, Ukraine);
– Sohrab Khandelwal for QUE SERA SERA (India);
– Zsolt Pozsgai for DARKING WAY (Hungary).
Best Cinematography (ex aequo);
– Konstantin Zankov & Orlin Ruevski for AWAY FROM SHORE (Bulgaria, Ukraine);
– Claudia Kovaks for DARKING WAY (Hungary);
– Gudmundur Bjartmarsson & Johannes Jonsson for RISING MOON (Iceland);
– Daniel Pascal for REPENTANCE (France).
Best Screenplay (ex aequo):
– Kazem Mollaie for THE BADGET (Iran);
– Zsolt Pozsgai for DARKING WAY (Hungary).
Best Actor:
– Penko Gospodinov in AWAY FROM SHORE (Bulgaria, Ukraine).
Best Actress:
– Pap Katalin as Charlotte in DARKING WAY (Hungary).
Best Music Score (ex aequo):
– Gnassounou Koffi Chico for REPENTANCE (France);
– Nikolay Ivanov for AWAY FROM SHORE (Bulgaria, Ukraine).
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY
Best Feature Documentary:
A ONCE AND FUTURE PEACE, Mikaela Beardsley (USA).
Best Historical Subject (ex aequo):
Roger Paradiso for SEARCHING FOR CAMELOT: THE QUEST (USA);
Cheryl Halpern for REMEMBERING: THE MAURITS KIEK STORY (USA).
Best Medical Subject:
Dhiney Ramos for FATHER OF A BROKEN ANGEL (Netherlands).
Best Music (ex aequo):
Tatiana Lohmann & Roberta Estrela d’Alva for MY FORTRESS (Brazil);
Melanie De Klerk for GET LOST IN COLOMBIA (Canada).
FEATURE DOCUDRAMA CATEGORY
Best Docudrama
COUNTER HISTORIES: ROCK HILL, Ellen Barnard (USA).
SHORT FILM CATEGORY
Best Short Film
MISS HER, Adad Joel Warda & Jan McGregor (Czech Republic, USA).
Best Director (ex aequo):
Colin Skevington for THE LOSSEN (UK);
Camilla Roman for WAVES (Norway);
Christophe Switzer for BRETON (France).
Best Cinematography (ex aequo):
Hatti Beanland for THE LOSSEN (UK);
Christophe Switzer for BRETON (France).
Best Actress:
Tonje Thwin in WAVES (Norway).
Best Actor (ex aequo):
Jonathan Pienaar in EITHER WAY (South Africa);
Denis Lechopier as Louis in BRETON (France);
Henrik Norman in STROKE OF MIDNIGHT (Switzerland).
Best Screenplay (ex aequo):
Andrew Abbiw for THE AWAKENING (UK, Germany);
Christophe Switzer for BRETON (France).
Best Music Score:
Tom Linden for THE LOSSEN (UK).
SHORT DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY
Best Short Documentary:
KANDA BODE (DON’T GET WIPPED), Cheryl Halpern & Mitchell Stuart (Ethiopia).
Best Cinematography:
Tilo Wondollek for EGG-VOLUTION (Germany)
ANIMATION FILM CATEGORY
Best Animation Film:
FEAR OF FLYING, Ernie Berger (USA).
EXPERIMENTAL FILM CATEGORY
Best Experimental Film (ex aequo):
SANDLINE, Christopher Lewis-Smith (UK);
THE MEMORY OF MINE, Zheng Wu Lee & Diana (China)
MUSIC VIDEO CATEGORY
Best Music Video
COLOR BLIND, Annemarie Picerno (USA)
Every one of the forty-four competing films and videos are presented – with photos, directors’ commentary, and more – in the 2021 issue of DARIA! magazine that is available online, in an easy to read format, here. The 2022 edition of the Global Nonviolent Film Festival will take place from September 29 to October 9. This will be the 11th annual edition of the Festival that was founded in 2012 by film director Bruno Pischiutta and producer Daria Trifu.
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