HOLLYSHORTS BEST SHORT FILM-Tsuyako by Mitsuyo Miyazaki

The 9th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival wrapped after running August 15 – 22, 2013, with the festival’s Awards ceremony celebration at the Roosevelt Hotel Ballroom and lobby hosted by Digital LA’s Kevin Winston. The HollyShorts Best Short Film Grand Prize went to Mitsuyo Miyazaki for her short film Tsuyako, the Best Director prize was awarded to Sacha Feiner for Un Monde Meilleur (A Better World); and the short film Sahasi Chori by Erin Galey took home two HollyShorts Awards, one for Best Producer and the Women in Film Director’s Award. The festival also announced that next year’s festival, it’s 10th Anniversary edition, will take place August 14 – 23, 2014 in Hollywood.

The 2013 HollyShorts Winners

HOLLYSHORTS BEST SHORT FILM – Tsuyako by Mitsuyo Miyazaki

BEST DIRECTOR – Sacha Feiner for Un Monde Meilleur (A Better World)

METHOD STUDIOS HOLLYSHORTS BEST VFX – Our Lady of Lourdes by Peter Szewczyk

BEST COMMERICAL – Coca Cola – Happiness in the Air by Hugh Mitton 

BEST MUSIC VIDEO – Vengeance Rhythm by Christopher Ullens de Schooten

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Brightwood Connor Hair.

BEST ACTOR – Gabe Fazio for the film Gun

BEST ACTRESS – Carla Quevedo for the film Side Effects

BEST ACTION – The Forge by Stephen Reedy

BEST DRAMA – ROTKOP by Jan Roosens and Raf Roosens

BEST ANIMATION – Alienation by Silvia Carpizo

BEST COMEDY – Loveseat by Matthew Richmond

BEST 3D SHORT – Le Grand Combat by Jean – Nicolas Rivat

3D SHORT Runner up – Eysian Fields by Ina Conradi

BEST DOCUMENTARY – Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution by Matthew VanDyke

BEST EDITING – I’m Right Here – Christopher Soren Kelly

WOMEN IN FILM DIRECTORS AWARD – Erin Galey for her short Sahasi Chori

BEST STUDENT – MAGNESIUM by Sam de Jong

BEST HORROR FEARNET AWARD – Do You Believe in the Devil by Alex Grybauskas

BEST THRILLER – Lapsus by Karim OUARET

BEST CROWD FUNDED FILM – And After All by Julian Ungano

BEST INTERNATIONAL – Tweesprong by Wouter Bouvjin

BEST NARRATIVE – GUN by Spencer Gillis

BEST PRODUCER – Sahasi Chori by Erin Galey

BEST SCI FI – Frost by Jeremy Ball

BEST TRAILER – Rainbow Bay by Mack Lindon

BEST SOUND – The Fifth Horseman by Kari Barber

BEST WEB SERIES – Inside Joke On Gentrification by Brian Neaman and Michael Southworth

PANAVISION FUTURE FILMMAKER AWARD – Karaoke! By Andrew Renzi

HOLLYSHORTS SPECIAL JURY AWARD – The River by Sam Handel

HOLLYSHORTS SPECIAL JURY AWARD – A Great Man by Joshua Dawson

HOLLYSHORTS SPECIAL JURY AWARD – Death of Shadow by Tom Van Avermaet

HOLLYSHORTS MENTION – Cootie Contagion by Josh Smooha

HOLLYSHORTS MENTION – Marla by Nick King

HOLLYSHORTS MENTION – 8:47 by Nik Kacevski

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