SPRING 2018
 TOP WINNERS

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ANIMATION
 		DOCUMENTARY
Tight  Shorts
“There”
- Renato Lepsch (Brazil) -

AWARDS
 Loose Shorts
"Nobody Dies Here"
- Simon Panay (France) -

AWARDS
A punishment boy imprisoned in his room,
uses his imagination to free himself and travel
 far away, somewhere else, there.




"There" is a animation that has a strong value for me,
 it was idealized 15 years ago, and I finish just
 now in october 2017, is the proof of resilience,
that I have to believe, that one day I get there.
Award Of  Excellence: Original Score: Phillipe Fivet
Award Of Outstanding Excellence: Editing: Simon Panay
 Award Of Excellence:Cinematography: Nicolas Canton
Perma gold mine, Benin. Some dream to find something,
others realized there was nothing to be found.
Some dig relentlessly hoping to become rich,
others died in the process. And a few of them
 say that here, nobody dies.
NO TRAILER

Simon Panay is 22. He made his first
fiction short film « Drôle de Guerre »
at 19 and get more than
50 official selections,
15 awards and two TV
 screenings (Eurochannel, Shorts TV).
HORROR
Loose Shorts
"The Necropath"
- Joshua Reale (USA) -

A mentally deranged maniac stalks victims to fulfill his drug addiction and sedate psychosis until he becomes the victim of an unexpected invasion of the undead. This is a prototype film, to be used to present for future larger production.


Joshua Reale is the owner of a unique style horror attraction in Utica, NY, entitled Cayo Industrial Horror Realm (Cayoindustrial.com). Joshua has created a series of films for this attraction, inspiring the series of short films called NECROPATH. It was created as an experimental trilogy film to move towards a passion for creating a derivative style of horror films and working towards the thought provoking, psychological horror icon film series.