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Summer 2020 TOP Winners


WSTL, in conjunction with WRPN.TV Entertainment, offers a unique opportunity to 'expose your shorts' to a world-wide community of video fans from dozens of countries that filmmakers would not normally have access to (Optional)
In order to insure that each film is studied and rated on an individual basis, WSTL has instituted a system where entries do not compete against each other, but instead are recognized for their own individual merits.

For all intents and purposes, they compete against themselves:  each entry is judged on individual merits and scored on an inherent value system.

The judges focus is on your film when it is your turn to be evaluated, not on all the other films that are in cue: this insures that they will not have comparisons going on in their minds when they should be focusing entirely on YOU.

Judges score entries on a performance scale and winning entries are recognized and awarded not only for Best Of Festival and Best Of Show, but also for two Awards of Excellence levels, two Awards of Merit levels, a Kudos Endeavor Award, or no award.

Best Of Festival and Best of Show honors are granted to the top scoring entry/entries for each season;  Awards of Excellence are granted to entries with truly exceptional artistic and technical achievements; and Notable achievements are recognized at the Award of Merit and 'Kudos' award levels.

The number of awards granted at any given level will fluctuate based on the total number of entries received for each competition deadline.



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Salsa Mia

(USA/Colombia) Tight Shorts
It's about Betty returning to her hometown to claim the inheritance
left by her strange father, and that inheritance is a night club.
The place is in debt and Betty desperately looks for ways not to lose
 the night club and give it life by bringing dancers and live salsa music;
 however, the man who has the night club as a form of payment has
 a different purpose than Betty.


NO TRAILER AVAILABLE

In Tune

(France) Tight Shorts
While he must, no matter the costs, win the largest
piano contest in the world, he has a stroke...

Also
Award of Outstanding Excellence: Original Score, Xavier Inbona
Award of Outstanding Excellence: Direction, Xavier Inbona
NO TRAILER AVAILABLE


Short film "Birthday present"
(Macedonia) Loose Shorts
The first short movie related to multiple sclerosis shot in Republic of North Macedonia.
The movie portrays and elaborates on an extremely sensitive subject focused on
 the health and social aspects through the prism of the main heroine's struggle with her chronic
 illness on the one hand and the lack of empathy and social barriers on the other.


NO TRAILER AVAILABLE

Chronofilm: The Web Series
 (USA) Tight
Shorts
A team of investigators travel back in time with the Chronofilm Institute,
 observing history but never interfering.
 As they uncover more truths of the organization they work for and as the
horrors of watching history unfold but never doing anything about it,
the team bands together to make the ultimate decision on whether
 to keep their past intact or change it for a hope of another future.

Also
Outstanding Excellence: Lead Actor, Joseph T Hypes
Outstanding Excellence: Original Score, Matthew David Wheeler
Excellence: Cinematography, Chad Phillips

NO TRAILER AVAILABLE