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SYTYCAD has set up a system where entries don't compete against each other but are instead judged on their own merits, ensuring that each film is studied and rated on its own.
They compete against themselves; each entry is scored according to an inherent value system.

When it is your turn to be evaluated, the judge's focus is on your film rather than on all the other films on cue, which ensures that they are not thinking about comparisons when they should think about you.

Judges score on a performance scale, and winning entries are recognized and awarded Best of Festival and Best of Show, as well as two Awards of Excellence levels, two Awards of Merit levels, a Kudos Endeavor Award, or no award.

The top-scoring entry or entries for each season are given the Best of Festival and Best of Show awards.
Awards of Excellence are granted to entries with exceptional artistic and technical achievements.
Notable achievements are recognized at the Award of Merit and Kudos award levels.
Submissions fluctuate between 200 and 400, with a rejection rate of 25%. However, we give those rejected pointers on what needs fixing, and they can re-submit for free the following season.

Points to know about being judged as a Director:
The film you submit as an example is not judged per se, just its aspects that reflect on you as a director.
We use sound, camera work, cinematography, actors,lighting,post-production, and any other aspects of the project that fall into your final approval. For example, let us say the film you directed has just one mediocre actor; it reflects poorly on you because you went on with production. Unpleasant sound? Fall again on you, bad cinematography, also, you.
If your film has no faults, you will rate higher on the award scale.
In short, the film could win a high award, although there were one mediocre actor and one bad camera take that didn't influence the judge's decision; however, when being judged as a director, those little things will cost you points.
 Directing is about making final decisions that make the film excellent in all aspects.



BEST OF FESTIVAL

 DIRECTORS


Dancing Faces of Bali
Director: Cathee Mang
USA
Fall 2021
Cathee Mang is an American national who is originally from New York state. She has been a professor at North Orange County Community College District (NOCCCD) in Anaheim, California since 2005, where she teaches acting, film and TV acting, readers theatre, and art appreciation to adult ESL (English as a Second Language) students. She is also a director and leads The Anaheim Players, a performance group at NOCCCD. She is a SAG AFTRA member and has acted professionally. Additionally, she is a playwright and screenplay writer and has written numerous scripts for educational theatre in Indonesia and the U.S. She has conducted mask making workshops on the East and West coasts. Presently, she performs bachata and salsa with Rhythmic Fusion Dance Company which is based in Santa Ana, California. Cathee Mang holds an MFA in theatre with a specialization in directing from the University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii. She earned an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from Ohio University. She also studied film for a year at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Cathee recently took a sabbatical in Bali to study mask making, to learn the Queen (Raja Putri) role in topeng panca, to write a short book in collaboration with local artists on making Balinese masks, and to produce a film on topeng panca that will be of value to her students.

Stick To Manual
When a curious robot finds a seemingly worthless book, he discovers that the knowledge within is truly priceless.
Christian Antonini is a 3D modeling and texturing artist currently based in Orlando, Florida. He graduated with a BFA degree in Character Animation from the University of Central Florida.

As of 2020, he is credited with co-directing and modeling the main character of the short film “Stick to Manual”.

Tanice Arnold is a visual development and visual effect artist currently based in Orlando, Florida. She graduated with a BFA degree in Character Animation from the University of Central Florida and has an Associates in Science degree in motion graphics.
 


of 2020, she is credited with co-directing and editing the short film “Stick to Manual”.


Saving Robin Williams - as told in his own words
Director Lawrence Whitener
United States

The Game Changer
Director Thomas Kadman
United Kingdom
The Invitation (Die Einladung)
Director Thorsten Schade
Germany
Trust Frank
Director Penny Moore
Australia




IF I COULD BARK &
IF I COULD RUN
Shawn Welling's career began in dance, before his rise in the indie filmworld. Soon after, he opened the dance studio Planet Funk Academy in Houston, TX. His career as a dancer saw him performing &choreographing for the NBA World Championship games for the Houston Rockets in 1994 and continued with NFL & NHL half-time shows,Cirque du Soleil (Dralion), Good Morning America, where Diane Sawyer heralded Planet Funk as "legendary."

BEST OF FESTIVAL

 ACTORS


Saving Robin Williams - as told in his own words
United States

Two actors (Any gender combination) :Roger Kabler & Lawrence Whitener

The Invitation (Die Einladung)
 Germany

Leading Actor, Orestes Fiedler
Supporting Actor, Neven Nöthig
Trust Frank
Australia

Leading Actor, John Flaus


Robert Picardo - USA - "Occupants"

Robert Picardo – “Dr. Alan Peterson”
A graduate of Yale University, Robert Picardo made his Broadway debut in the comedy hit GEMINI in 1977 with Danny Aiello. He also appeared in Bernard Slade's TRIBUTE, and THE NORMAL HEART for which he won a Drama-Logue Award. He then began his long and successful career in television, where in 1988 he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Mr. Cutlip on the series THE WONDER YEARS. In 1995, he won a starring role as "The Doctor" on the STAR TREK: VOYAGER series. He directed two shows, and appeared in more than 170 episodes throughout the 1990s. He also starred in 62 episodes of CHINA BEACH (for ABC Television), and more than 30 episodes of the hit series, STARGATE ATLANTIS. He has worked with producer Howard Nash and director Russ Emanuel on 6 independent films: P.J.(2007), CHASING THE GREEN (2009), THE LEGENDS OF NETHIAH (2012), RESTORATION OF PARADISE (2014), and now OCCUPANTS (2015) and THE ASSASSIN’S APPRENTICE (2018).
Male Actor in a monologue:
 "The Janitor"
Joe Perez Bertot

We strive create content that focuses on human truth and emotion. Working toward finding the connections that unite us as a race .

With over 30 years in the entertainment business Joseph has been living the dream, by working along side some of the most talented people in the business. After finding his muse in High school he went to M.D.C.C. in Miami, on a full theater scholarship. He then worked professionally for 10 years on stages all over the East Coast.
He moved to LA in 2001, studying at the “Second City Writing Conservatory.”
He started making some noise as a voice over and commercial artist;represented by William Morris Endeavor he was spokesman for dozens of commercial spots and 8 national campaigns. Theatrically he worked with James Cann in Las Vegas, Tommy Lee Jones in his Academy Award nominated performance in “The Valley of Elah” directed by Paul Haggis.


Male Leading Actor
"The Annunciation"
BENTON JENNINGS

Benton has to date been awarded 20 Best Actor Awards from Film Festivals internationally for his role as Rabbi in the film "The Annunciation".

Benton began acting at age seven, portraying his boyhood hero "Robin Hood" in a school play. Thirty years later, he reprised the character in a professional theatrical production, plus choreographing the fight sequences.

A 4th generation Texan, he fulfilled another boyhood dream -- that of performing in an Alamo movie...and not just one, but two Alamo movies.

BEST OF FESTIVAL

ACTRESSES


Trust Frank
Australia
Leading Actress, Brenda Palmer




THE TURTLE LIGHT


FEMALE LEADING ACTRESS/DIRECTOR
Rachel Pollack,daughter of Academy Award winning Director Sydney Pollack, presents her directorial debut with "The Turtle Light".


Leading Actress:
"Scarlet Visions"
GOLD: EXCELLENCE
Talea Rüsings - Germany - "Scarlet Vissions"

Born: 9.12.1993 in Datteln
Talea Rüsing is an actress, known for Scarlet Visions (2016).
 


Anna Sesia

Actress in a monologue
"SINGLE"
GOLD: EXCELLENCE (Fall 2021)

BEST OF SHOW DIRECTORS

See Me Once More, My Dear Kid
Director Bihong Sha
United States
Directing (Fall 2023) BEST OF SHOW
Your Breakfast
Director Alejandro Montero
China
Directing (Fall 2022) BEST OF HOW
Morok
Director Daria Nazarova
United Sates
Directing


Falling Up and Up.(Fall 2021)
Directors Daniel Dasent, Adam Campbell
in Director, Male Leading Actor Drama/Romance/Horror/Sci-Fi/Comedy/Other
United States
Directing (FAll 2021)
Excellence: Male Leading actor: Daniel Dasent
Hannah More
Director Diana Taylor
United Kingdom
Direction
Home Invasion
Director Demitra Papadinis
United States
Direction
Love is now the stardust of yesterday...
Director Mario Abbade
Brazil
Direction
The Ditch
Directors Kim Saarinen, P.J. Piippo
Finland

Kim Saarinen (b. 1986) has worked as a director, cinematographer and editor in several Finnish and international short films and commercial projects since 2015. He has also made projection arts to Finnish dance theatres and video installations to art festivals.
P. J. Piippo (b.1979) has worked as a screenwriter, director and production manager in several Finnish and international documentary, fiction and advertising productions since the late 1990s. In addition, he has previously worked as a radio journalist. In 2016, his prose debut book ‘Unieni Barcelona - Lyhyttä proosaa’ (Saga-kirjat) was published.

Piippo is a member of Finnish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild.

Direction (Fall 2021)
Also: Outstanding Excellence: Cinematography
You're on Mute!
Director Tom Cavanaugh
United States
Direction (Fall 2021)
Love is not Love
Director: Stephen Keep Mills (Award of Best of Show : Direction) Fall 2021
Stephen Keep Mills (Writer/Director/Actor/Producer) started out as an actor leaving the Yale Drama School in the spring of 1969 to join the Guthrie Theatre and then appearing over the next seventeen years with many regional companies in both the US and Canada. He performed in "The Shadow Box", "Story Theatre" and "Metamorphosis" on Broadway and in several Off-Broadway houses including The Roundabout Theatre and The Public where his performance in Vaclav Havel's "A Private View" earned him a Drama Desk nomination. His television credits include guest-starring roles in over 25 episodic shows and Movies Of The Week, a regular stint on the series "Flo" and a recurring role on the Sci-Fi series "VR-5."
In the late 1990's, Mills began directing and producing his own written works on stage, gaining critical notice with "SquareOne" in LA as well as an Ovation Nomination for his adaptation of "A Christmas Carol: The Ghost Story of Christmas" which he directed in collaboration with DeafWest Theatre in American Sign Language. In 2003, he produced and acted in the film of his play "Hotel Lobby", and thereafter cast himself full-time as a filmmaker. He made his directorial debut with the 15-minute film "A Cigar at the Beach" (2005) which screened world-wide in 166 festivals, winning 47 awards. He followed up with another short "LIMINAL" in 2008 that accumulated 84 festival screenings and 30 awards. Mills is a member of Academy Award Winner Bobby Moresco’s Actors’ Gym and is included in Del Weston’s (AOF) Top 100 Indie Filmmakers In The World Part 1. He is mortally coached by the “living” ghost of Stella Adler. “Love is not Love” marks Mills’ first feature as director.

 


Director: Stephen Keep Mills (Award of Best of Show: Direction) (Fall 2021)
Male Leading Actor: Stephen Keep Mills (Award of Excellence)
Male Supporting Actor: Russell Simpson (Award of Excellence)
Female Leading Actress: Alejandra Gollas (Award of Excellence)
Actress in a Monolgue: Tonya Cornelisse (Award of Excellence)
The Beach

Director: Carlo Bruno (Award of Best of Show: Direction) Fall 2021

Carlo Bruno
An award-winning Director with over thirty-five years’ experience in filmmaking and acting. He has established himself as Writer-Director and Actor. Also serving as Producer, First AD, Cameraperson, DOP, Editor, Sound and Music Editor, Foley, Special Effects, Mixing.


Director: Carlo Bruno (Award of Best of Show: Direction) Fall 2021
THE COLOR OF SLAVERY (english version)
Director Patrick Baucelin BEST OF SHOW
in Director
Martinique

 
BEST OF SHOW

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, 25,000 convoys of approximately 300 to 450 African captives crossed the Atlantic after a 40-to-50-day journey to the Antilles.
More than a million of them lost their lives.
Thus, to meet the labor needs of its colonies, Europe deported more than 14 million captives from various African countries; for the sole purpose of exploiting them in plantations. We are here at the heart of colonial slavery.

Through reconstructed scenes, with different characters, we discover their destiny and the life that was reserved for them.
WRITING ABOUT A LOVE
Director: Mario Roccato (Award of Best of Show: Direction) (Fall 2021)

Mario Roccato was born in Como in 1953. He holds a degree in Philosophy but he has always had a great passion for photography. After a long experience as a photographer, he made numerous short films selected for international competitions. He is the author, screenwriter, director and editor of the film.

Francesca is a young actress who is facing a serious existential crisis, a situation exacerbated by the recent death of one of her dearest friends. The cause of this crisis can be found in the relationship with Alessandro, her husband. He has changed a lot over the years and he is now interested only in his career and social media: slowly but constantly drifting away from his wife, he seems not to comprehend her growing feeling of loneliness. Meanwhile, Francesca is still seeing her psychotherapist Fabio. The two have become good friends and she confides in him, talking about the existential dread which pervades her…
TCCON Philipines
Director: Malcom A. Velazco (Award Best of Show: Direction) Fall 2021
Philipines
After graduating from a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Information Technology, Malcolm A. Velazco took a Certificate Degree in Filmmaking at the International Academy of Film and Television in Cebu, Philippines. He then took several filmmaking job positions in the Philippines for 4 years, both in the government and private sector. In 2014, he started a production company - MAV Film Productions, with which he produced a number of corporate videos and documentaries for the Philippine government, Police, Foundations, and Museums. With years of education and experience in the film industry, Malcolm took a specialised course in Documentary Filmmaking at the Met Filmschool in Berlin, Germany in 2016. Shortly after the course, he went on to film and produce "TCCON Philippines" - a film documentary about the installation of the first Total Carbon Column Observing Network in Southeast Asia. It is a ground-based satellite station that monitors carbon concentrations in the atmosphere in the hope to fully understand the effects of Climate Change.


In the fight to save the planet, Scientists and Entrepreneurs from the Philippines, Japan, and Australia team up to ameliorate the next biggest threat to mankind – Climate Change. But in order to fight the threat, the team must first understand it.

BEST OF SHOW ACTORS


An Ordinary Adventure
Canada
Leading Actor, Roberto Zorfini
Adam Saini



MALE LEADING ACTOR


Adam Saini Actor, playing 60 yrs old, father, and famous Doctor from Scotland
Maurice Micallef


DIRECTOR: 
THE GIANT DEEP REDS

Today Maurice is retired. Throughout his filming career Maurice managed towin 243 awards in international film and video festivals on three continents. Between 1954 and 1959 he worked at Saint Luke’s Hospital asa radiographer and later at the bacteriological laboratory. Later in 1964 he was technical officer at the Malta College of Arts Science andTechnology at Msida. Maurice was awarded the National Order of Merit during Republic Day celebrations in 2014 for his outstandingfilm-making career and representing Malta with his award winning productions.
Angel Puado Veloso


DIRECTOR:
 STARING AT THE SEA

Angel Puado Veloso
Manish Vatssalya


DIRECTOR:
 SCOTLAND
 Manish Vatssalya
Manish Vatssalya (born 05 April 1980) is an Indian film director. producer and Actor. He is Highly skilled in genre likeabnormal crime and thriller, political thriller practices with regular ordinary family relationship in society.



Aaron Stielstra
Italy
GOLD: Exceptional merit

Supporting Actor: Acting Reel

Chelo Onate
&
Paco Escribano

GOLD: Outstanding Excellence

LEADING ACTORS
Staring at the sea




Director: Kelly Galindo

"26 seconds"
OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE (Fall 2021)
Kelly Galindo | ​Writer, Director, Creative & Executive Producer
www.imdb.com/name/nm0302170/

Kelly Galindo is an American actress, director and producer. Her work has spanned decades in television, theater and film. She is currently in post-production for the “26 Seconds” feature documentary that is based on a horrific cause that has driven her passion in giving a voice to children who are victims of the sex trade. For the past three years, she has produced and directed 26 Seconds which has taken her around the world to experience and expose these horrors happening globally. Kelly highlights the non-profit organizations that have actively stepped forward to do something about it. In addition, Kelly balances her directing and acting career while passing on her craft onto future generations of students as a professor at Dodge College of Film and Media Art, Chapman University. She also teaches in the Theater Arts Department at Biola University and has taught at UCLA, School of Theater, Film, and Television and Orange County School of the Arts. Kelly is also a proud lifetime member of the Actors Studio as a Actor and Director.

Directors: Giorgio Messina
 & Stefania Simoni
GOLD: EXCELLENCE


DIRECTORS
Giorgio Messina and Stefania Simoni have been working in the audiovisual sectorfor more than thirty years and have been engaged in making short films for about three years.


Director: Kirk Leidy
GOLD: EXCELLENCE

DIRECTOR

As an undergrad, Kirk first started to realize his interest in film and the opportunities that it could bring when he won his firstStudent Film Award at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for a short “Claymation” film entitled The Dance of the Clay People.

He has continued to pursue and explore his interest in film and won many other awards at the Telly Awards in the 1990s and 2000s atthe Tele-films in Canada.

 

Director: Jillian Bullock
GOLD: Excellence

DIRECTOR
Jillian is a screenwriter, producer, and an award-winning filmmaker. While in college, she worked as a reporter forThe Wall Street Journal . After graduation from La Salle University in 1991, Jillian began her filmmaking career with an internship on the setof Spike Lee's movie, “Malcolm X .” She has gone on to produced short films, a documentary called “A Filmmaker’s Personal Journey ,” which won the Mickey Michaux Award, andone feature film entitled “Spirit,” which involved boxing, wrestling and martial arts. Since then Jillian has won additional awards for filmprojects and for her involvement in the film community in Philadelphia.

Director:  Bethany Dwyer
Outstanding Excellence Fall 2021
I was born in Chicago and live in Los Angeles. I am a stand up comic, writer, actor and director. Horror and comedy are my greatest loves (my boyfriend has accepted he's 3rd) I get just as much satisfaction making my audience cringe as I do laugh. GRANDPA: The Horror is my directorial debut.


Director: Daniel Arreaza
GOLD: Outstanding Excellence
DIRECTOR
Rino Arreaza is a Venezuelan director based in Mexico City. He studied Journalism in Venezuela and then Cinematographyin Argentina where he started his career in the film industry doing thecinematography of the independent film Olympia directed by Leo Damario. Later on he was the 1st Assistant Director of PALMERA also directed byLeo Damario and before living Argentina he did the 2nd unit direction of Bohemia the feature film. Then he moved back to Venezuela where hedid the cinematography of the most viewed documentary in theaters in Venezuela called Fuera del Aire.
Rino Arreaza is now director at the multinational production company Whisky.

Sean O'Connor

Acting Reel
Male Supporting Actor Drama/Romance/Horror/Sci-Fi/Comedy/Other (Fall 2021)
Outstanding Excellence
Sean was born and raised in the UK and emigrated to New Zealand in 2004. Coming to acting at the age of 41, he decided that this was a passion and change of direction for the better and trained at South Seas Film, TV and Acting School in 2009, gaining a Diploma in On Screen Acting. Sean is also an established voice actor and teaches workshops in this craft.

Sean now has over 50 short films to his name and several features, including the soon to be released Frozen Moments (written, produced and directed by Craig Newland), a psychological thriller shot partly in San Francisco and Auckland, New Zealand.

Gaining the Best Actor - Comedy at the Asia Web Awards in 2020, for Naughty Bits web series (written and directed by Dion Paz) has been a highpoint of Sean's acting journey to date and he is looking to build on this success.

Sean is delighted to be able to display his acting passion in the 'So You Think You Can Act Festival' of 2021.

Leading Actor:
"Occupants"
GOLD: EXCELLENCE

Romantic and Dramatic scene:
GOLD: OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE


Michael Pugliese – Canada - “Neil Curtis”
Residing in Toronto, Canada, Michael Pugliese has acted in a multitude ofprojects including GRASPING FOR STRAWS as Anthony, THE MEETING TV Series as Danny, and THE PENALTY BOX as Frank. 
He also has worked behind the camera as a Director of Photography on SONS& FATHERS and WHAT'S THE USE? The independent feature film OCCUPANTS represents Michael’s first leading role in an Americanindependent film.
 He is currently acting in a lead role on the multi-million dollar featureTIGER, directed by Alister Grierson.



Lead Actress: Maria Sofia Palmieri

"I Love You, Maria"
EXCELLENCE
(Fall 2021)
Sofia and Daniel are the perfect couple. Both are budding professional photographers, living their dream in blissful success, loving it, and loving each other even more. They see life through that very special artist's lens, where reality melts with fantasy, and anything is possible. When an unexpected twist of fate threatens to blast a hole in their happy, secure relationship, both are challenged to the core. Separated physically due to work by an ocean, they are also oceans away emotionally about the solution to their problem. Some choices are life changing and this is one. There's no turning back the clock. And what remains after the dust has cleared is the test of true love.


Leading Actress: "Occupants"
GOLD: EXCELLENCE


Romantic and Dramatic Scene:
 GOLD: OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE

Briana White – USA - “Annie Curtis”
Briana White is a California native. She has been acting and training sinceshe was 7 years old, starting with community theater, continuing at Joy Theatre's improv classes in North Hollywood, and eventually earning aB.F.A in Theater from New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. While at NYU, she took extra classes to graduate in onlythree years and acted in over 30 student projects, including advanced senior thesis pilot, SPIN. Now back in L.A. to continue her career, shehas stayed busy acting in films such as indie thriller, BASEMENT, the short film, RECKLESS SERENADE, and BALLERINA'S REVENGE. She's also hadfun acting in commercials and viral shorts such as PRINCESS RAP BATTLE: SNOW VS ELSA She has more recently been on YouTube's THE REEL REJECTS.




Director: Bernadette Chapman (Pain.kil.lers) Fall 2021
OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE


Bernadette Chapman grew up in the Dayton, Ohio area where she spent most of her first 18 years underwater. When she wasn’t swimming, chances are you could find her parked in front of the TV watching Humphrey Bogart or the Bowery Boys . Her father passed on his passion of the movies, while her grandfather, Papa Bill, taught her how to tell a story. Bernadette attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, graduated in ’84 with a BS in Radio/TV production.

She spent the next seven years in D.C. and Baltimore freelancing in video production and doing a little acting in local theater. In 2006, her dear friend, Larry Holden (Memento, Batman Begins) asked her to produce and act in his indie film, All Sun & Little White Flowers, which starred her daughter, Sadie LeJeuene. After a few years of acting in plays and other indie movies, she decided to take on writing and directing her own films, Lost in Reality and Is That a Real Gun?, which won Best Music at the Mountain of Laughs Film Festival. She has since written over eight screenplays.


Director: Luicenne Lanaz
 (GIANERICA - The Artist Couple Erica and Gian Pedretti)
EEXCELLENCE Fall 2021CE)
Born in 1937, Zurich, Switzerland. Diploma in commerce and physical education. From 1972, assistant in Swiss film productions and from 1974, free lance documentary filmmaker. Collaborated during several years as interpreter and all-round assistant with the film festivals of Solothurn, Nyon, Locarno, Oberhausen and Bludenz. President and member of the international Jury, film festival Bludenz (Austria 2008, 1997, 1993,1990) and member of the international or ecumenical Jury, film festivals Bilbao (Spain 1978), Imola (Italy 1996), San Giovanni Lupatoto (Italy 1997), Oberhausen (Germany 2007, 2001). 1995 to 1998 Delegate to the European coordination of film festivals for the film festival Bludenz (Austria). Teachings: 2008: Lecture on film analysis at the “Haute École fribourgeoise” of social work in the context of the Fribourg (CH) International Film Festival. Winter 1993/94: Direction of a work-shop on "creation in film-making" for prisoners of the Penitentiary Institution "de la Plaine de l'Orbe", Orbe, Switzerland.


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Director Bizhan Tong
in Female Leading Actress Drama/Romance/Horror/Sci-Fi/Comedy/Other
Hong Kong
OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE: Female Leading Actress: Selena Lee

Director: Yerania Del Orbe (La Santera) Fall 2021
Excellence
Female Leading Actress: Excellence

Yerania Del Orbe is a Dominican American Actor, Writer, Director and Producer. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in The Bronx, NY. She attended High school at St. Thomas Aquinas in the Bronx and served 10yrs in The US Army. She began her higher education at Central Texas College, Temple Texas studying Business during her military service. She was honorably discharged in 2008, and continued her studies. She graduated from The New School, NYC with a Bachelors in Liberal Arts & Media Studies in 2013. Currently she is a Masters in Film Candidate at Vermont College of Fine Arts class of Spring 0f 2021.
In 2019 she started Latina Made Media. A production company dedicated to making films that center around Latino cultures and families.
Latina Made Media is a Film and Media Production Company established on the principal of making media for all audiences based on reflections of the Latino culture and experiences produced and told by Latino Artists. Formed with a Family based working environment in mind Yerania Del Orbe, a Dominican-American Actor, Writer, Producer and Filmmaker founded Latina Made Media in 2019 out of Somerville, Massachusetts.

Director: Yuri Sasamoto

(
WHO IS BAD ?〜The shouting of Rock-and-roll Samurai〜)
Outstanding Excellence

Excellence: Actress: Supporting, Yuri Sasamoto
Excellence: Actor: Supporting, Daisuke Tamaru

Outstanding Excellence (Fall 2021)
Excellence: Actress: Supporting, Yuri Sasamoto
Excellence: Actor: Supporting, Daisuke Tamaru
OTHER AWARDS

Aaron Moss

DIRECTOR: Teaching While Black (Pilot)
EXCEPTIONAL MERIT (Fall 2023) (
Andy Stapp

Director: Destination Marfa
Exceptional Merit (Fall 2021)
Anne Connolly
Actress in a Monologue
Silver: Outstanding excellence




Brad Weston

Male Actor in a Monologue: BIG DREAMS IN 33 SCENES
Bronze
Brian Ceponis


Lead Actor: Almost Grownups

Silver
Calvin Sutter
DIRECTOR: Blood Bash
Lead Actor: Blood Bash
Bronze

Bronze
Carlo Bruno

Actor Demo Reel
Outstanding Excellence (Fall 2021)
Casey Hayes-Deats (USA)
Lead Actress: Leaving Virginville Silver:Exceptional Merit
Celeste A. Marcone

Lead Actress: You Feel Me?
Silver: Excellence
Christopher Brown

DIRECTOR: Clear as Crystal
Exceptional Merit (Fall 2021)
Christopher Lukas (USA)

DIRECTOR: To Tell The Truth
SIlver: Excellence
Cole Harrison Walderman

Male lead actor: BABA
Outstanding Excellence (Fall 2021)
Curtis McNeil (USA)

Male Actor in a monologue (Courageous)
Excellence (Fall 2021)
David Marshall
Louanne Ponder
Two actors (Any gender combination)
in a dramatic scene: Dopamine
Merit
Ethan Hemenway
No photo available
Under 18 Leading Actor Drama/Romance/Horror/Sci-Fi/Comedy/Other "Mind Breaking"
Exceptional Merit (Fall 2021)
Hannah Lawrence

Lead Actress: CHASM
Silver: Excellence
Ingrid Jordan

Lead Actress: Unbowed
Exceptional Merit
‘Eff Off!’ Monologue
Director Jack Hyde
in Male Actor in a Monologue
United Kingdom

Male Actor in a Monologue
Excellence
Jared Crowelle
DIRECTOR: Lost Time
Silver: Outstanding Excellence
Karen Iacobbo

DIRECTOR: Newport Castle
Silver
Kelly Godell

Theater Actors and Directors category only (Fall 2021)
DIRECTOR: Anomie

Excellence: Director

Excellence: Acting

Fall 2021
Kenneth Cassidy Tyner
No photo available
Itsy Bitsy Problems
Director Kenneth Cassidy Tyner
in Director
United States
Excellence: Director
Linda Rosenfeld

Director: Dubliner
Exceptional Merit ((Fall 2021)
Lovie Johnson

Director: The Sins...
Excellence: Director (Fall 2021)
Luca Cerbone "Luca"
Sofia Maggi "Kate"

Two actors (any gender combinatrion) in a dramatic scene.
IT IS WHAT IT IS
Excellence (Fall 2021)
Naveen Kumar Srinivas
Lead Actor: Aparadhees
Kudos
Giovanni Soletta
(Italy)

DIRECTOR: vegetable skin, an interview
Silver: Excellence
Katherine Flannery

Lead Actress: You Drive Me Crazy
Silver: Excellence
 LAURA PUCCIA VALTORTA

DIRECTOR: Bermuda


EXCEPTIONAL MERIT
Leonidas Stanescu

Male Supporting Actor: Leonidas Dacul Stanescu showreel
Silver: Outstanding Excellence
Marina Tetaric Prusec
DIRECTOR: TUNNEL
Silver
Nathalie Schmidt

 Lead actress: I DO
Silver: Excellence
Patrick Durham
No photo available
Male Actor in a Monologue "Any Given Sunday"

Exceptional Merit (Fall 2021)
Oliver Assiran

Mail Order Bride
Director Oliver Jonathan Assiran
in Director
United States
Exceptional Meirt (Fall 2024)
Paul Rochford

Director: The Funeral
Outstanding Excellence (Fall 2021)
Phillip E. Walker

On-Screen Host/Hostess/ News Anchor : GettingPaid.us
Silver
Philip Guerette

Lead Actor: You Drive Me crazy
Silver: Excellence
Robert L Butler

DIRECTOR: The Alliance 2019 Merit
Robert l Butler Jr
Michael E Bell

Two actors (Any gender combination)
in a dramatic scene:
Merit
Sybil D. Jatta

DIRECTOR: Akwaaba the Awakening
Exceptional Merit (Fall 2021)
Tim Kelly

Lead Actor: The Audition
Merit
Rikoudis Vangelis

Director: absent... somewhere else
Exceptional Merit (Fall 2021)
Vanda Ladeira

DIRECTOR:  Alder
Excellence (Fall 2021)
Vickie Rose Sampson

DIRECTOR: You drive me crazy
Silver: Excellence
Vinay Kumar P

DIRECTOR: Aparadhees
Kudos
William Jody Ebert

DIRECTOR: The Prize
Exceptional Merit: Director (Fall 2021)
Yuko Hirata, Aung Thu Rein

DIRECTOR: The Golden Rockers!!
Silver
Ray Field

Lead Actor: Daddysgirl_99
Silver Exceptional merit
Rene Herrera & Dan Lamas


On-Screen fight preformers
Silver: Outstanding Excellence
Salvador Chavajay

Lead Actor: Anything for the ones we love
Silver
Donald Watson


Lead Actor: Whitey Web series
Silver: Exceptional Merit
Zoé Mahfouz
(No Photo)
Actress in a Monologue: Marriage Story (By Noah Baumbach) France
Outstanding Excellence (Fall 2021)
Bernard Le Coq (France)

 Lead Actor "Insurance Can Be
 Sometimes a Dangerous Game"

Silver: Excellence
Tanya Iskona (Russia)

Lead Actress "Fuck The Bitch"
Silver: Excellence
Autumm Simmons (USA)

Lead Actress "The Quirk Chronicles"
Silver: Exceptional Merit
Deborah Smith Ford (USA)

Actress in a monologue
"Miss Bonita Springs 1967"

Silver
Geoffroy Thiébaut (France)

Lead Actor "I want to see some ID"
Silver
Jeff Musillo (USA)

Lead actor "The Perception Of Time"
Bronze: Exceptional Merit
Sandy Vincent Lucadello
Sullivan Leray
Yamin Gougmar
(France)



Actors "Teenagers"
Bronze: Exceptional Merit
Ken Holmes (USA)

Lead Actor "Old Hearts Cafe"
Excellence
Katrin Butt (Austria)

Lead Actress
From Showreel 2018
Merit
Walter Hochbrueckner (USA)

Lead Actor "The Sins Of The..."
Merit

OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE
AWARDS


Alberca
Mexico
Two actors (any genter combination)  Denisse Corona &Benoit Nordin
Bella Dontine Demo Reel

Supporting Actress, Bella Dontine
Conversation With A Cigarette
Director Russell Brown
Male Actor in a Monologue
Male Actor in a Monologue: Ian Hart
Dinner For Two
Director Joe Lobianco
in Director, Male Leading Actor Drama/Romance/Horror/Sci-Fi/Comedy/Other
United States
Direction
Leading Actors: Matthew Ventre and Maarten Cornelis
For the Goblins
United States
Leading Actor, Jayden Taylor
Inner Peace
United States
Directing
Morok
United States
Leading Actress, Murisa Harba
Supporting Actor, Timothy Ryan Cole
PLATFORM
Directors  Terence Mcglade and Hayden Currie
Canada
Directing
The Waiting Room
Director Mike West
United States
Direction


White Christmas
United States

Leading Actress, Camryn Kanew
White Christmas
United States


Leading Actor, Keith Jarvis


EXCELLENCE AWARDS


A line of Verse
Director Vanessa Powers
USA
Two actors (any gender combination) in a romantic scene
Andrew Stecker - Abbey Lowenstein
Alberca
Director Paola Villa
Mexico
Direction
ALEPH
Brazil
Actor in a Monologue, Joao Butoh
A Home for Curiosities
United States
Under 18 Leading Actor, Nathaniel Ruth
Bolero
Director Simon Sager
United States
Directing
Bolero
United States
Leading Actress, Firoozeh Adli
Supporting Actor, Noel Vazquez
Can't Judge?Corona and the Japanese government 20XX version?
Director Yuri Sasamoto
Japan
Direction
Charlie
Director Koroknyai Róbert
iHungary
Direction
Charlie
Director Koroknyai Róbert
Hungary
Two actors (Any gender combination) Antal Cserna, Gusztáv Molnár
Cowboys Without Borders
Director Gaston Davis
United States
Direction
Dead man wait
Italy
Leading Actor, Gian Paolo Mai
Don't Stand Up!
Director Amy Losi
United States
Theater Actors and Directors for directing and ensemble
Driftwood
Director Ralph Martin Fleischer
Sweden
Direction
FRAME OF MIND - silenzio in sala
Directors Davide Del Mare, Raphael Tobia Vogel
in Theater Actors and Directors category only
Italy
Direction and acting
Greg and the Tree
Director Diana Lanham
United States
Direction
Greg and the Tree
United States
Leading Actor, Greg Lanham
IN THREE monologue
United States
Actress in a Monologue, Erin Carere
Inner Peace
Director Severn
United States
Direction
Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker
Director Deirdre Allen Timmons
United States
Direction
Living with Lynette
Director Lynette Louise
United States
Direction
Manasanamaha
India
Direction: Deepak reddy
Me, My Meds & Mother
Director Kat Conway
United States
Direction
Me, My Meds & Mother
United States
Supporting Actress, Flo Lawrence
Supporting Actress, Lynelle Ladd
No Fall My Hand_play
Writer Amy Losi
in Two actors (Any gender combination) in a dramatic scene
United States
Based on the script.
Retirement
Director Joshua M. Thomas
United States
Direction
Styx
Director Richard Martin
United States
Direction
The Blue Marble - Pilot Long
Director Ralph Toporoff
United States
Direction
The Blue Marble - Pilot Long
United States
Leading Actor, John Pirkis
Supporting Actor, Greg Cohan
The Chart
Director Kimberley Hellem
United States
Direction
The Chart
United States
Two actors (Any gender combination) Mike Mondrone and Tara Cannistraci
The Game
Australia
Leading Actor, John Vizcary-Wilson
The Norwalk Witness
Director Travis Brown
United States
Direction
Traces of You
United Kingdom
Actress in a Monologue, Lydia Cashman
When the World Changes
Directors Benjamin Caruccio, Changhee Chun
United States
Director, Editing, Original Score: Excellence

EXCEPTIONAL MERIT
AWARDS

Best Friends
United States
Two actors (Any gender combination)
Kat Johnston and Megan Kim
Can't Judge?Corona and the Japanese government 20XX version?
Japan
Leading Actor, Daisuke Tamaru
Supporting Actress, Yuri Sasamoto
Supporting Actors, Yoshiki Sato, Yoshihiro Sugita
Two actors in a dramatic scene, Yoshiki Sato, Daisuke Tamaru
Free
Acacia Khonji
UK
Female Leading Actress
 Acacia Khonji
Exceptional Merit
MOTH
Director Nancy Vazquez
United States
Direction
No Gyroscope
Director Fella Cederbaum
United States
Direction
Racing To Enlightenment
Director Fella Cederbaum
United States
Direction
Remorse
Submitter Sally Connors
United States
Actress in a Monologue, Sally Connors
Retirement
United States
Under 18 Leading Actor, Montgomery Samuel Thomas
Retirement
United States
Under 18 Supporting Actor, Isaac Seymour
The Biannual Meeting of the Owners of the World
Director Brittany Whelan
Canada
Direction
The Biannual Meeting of the Owners of the World
Canada
Leading Actress, Sabrina Miniaci
Supporting Actor, James Adam Forester
The Craftsman
United States
Leading Actor, Paolo Perez Roman
The Game
Director Campbell J Smith
Australia
Direction
The Game
Australia
Leading Actress, Campbell Smith
Two actors (Any gender combination) Campbell Smith and JohnVizcary-Wilson
See also excellence category above.

The Sins of The... Film
Director Walter Hochbrueckner
United States
Direction
The Story of Job
Director Jose Nieves
United States
Direction
Touch of the Devil
Director Virginia Mariposa Dale
in Director
United States
Direction
WE ALL ARE CHANGEMAKERS
Director Sylvie Dreyfus
Puerto Rico
Direction
Comic in Covid
Director Michael T. O'Brien
United States
Male Actor in a Monologue (Fall 2021)

MERIT AWARDS

A Fragile Nest
Director Matthew Pillischer
in Editing
United States
Editing
Behind You
Director Taylor Bryce Turner
United States
Direction
Behind You
United States
Leading Actress: Kiera Smithson
Behind You
United States
Supporting Actress: Dani Carney
Die Königin 3
Director Katrin Butt
in Actress in a Monologue
Austria
Acting
Family Matters
UK
Under 18 Leading Actress: Angel Eaglestone
The Will
UK
Under 18 Leading  actor: Sacha Heath
SFUMATO
Iran
Direction: amirali mirderikvand
Slippery Highway
Director Kyle Scott Wilkinson
Canada
Director: Merit
The Coffee-House
Director Jonas Haldemann
Germany
Direction: Jonas Haldemann
The Coffee-House
Germany
Leading Actor, Samuel S. Franklin
Leading Actress, Chamelle Moser
The Don Of West Hollywood
United States
Leading Actor, Dominic Paolo Testa
The Sins of The... Film
United States
Two actors (Any gender combination) Walter Hochbrueckner and Sonja Olson


KUDOS AWARDS



Sticky Situations
Submitter Howard Harden
in Male Supporting Actor Drama/Romance/Horror/Sci-Fi/Comedy/Other
United States
Based on the trailer.






SUBCATEGORIES

Unfailing Love
Directors Jewell R Powell, Dan Parsons
in Original Score
United States
EXCELLENCE AWARD