Indie Shorts Mag Short Film Festival (ISMSFF) 2021 Announces Official Nominations

We are approaching the final hours of our festival and that means it’s time to announce the winners. But first, let’s look at the nominees. For our first edition of the festival, we received 476 submissions and handpicked about 200 films. Check out all the official selections here.

The films were picked by our judges’ panel, who had a tough time finalising the nominations. Each film offered something unique and, more often than not, boasted stellar quality of craft. For some categories, we had to have a second round of screening for the judges.

Now, without further delay, here are the nominees for Indie Shorts Mag Short Film Festival 2021, Powered By Filmstro.

Nominees – Best Documentary

• Death of Childhood by McKinley Benson
• For the Love of Cow by Maitreya Sanghvi
• My Neighbor, Miguel by Danny Navarro
• Agnès Varda by Mohammad Mohammadian

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Nominees – Best Direction

• The Living by Raphael Frost Gonzalez
• Harvey by Aaron Carroll
• Voice Over by Martin Rosete
• Sunset in Winter by Kelley Lockman
• Life’s a Show by Harvey Puttock

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Nominees – Best Cinematography

• Homestead – Patrick Joshua Sutanto
• Young, Young Men – Toby Hart
• Just Like Water – Marinos Papadantonakis
• Piece of Me – Teodora Totoiu
• Sunset in Winter – Brady Holcomb

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Nominees – Best Editing

• Nano – Mike Manning & Hannah Long
• The Living – Liam Molina
• Cagnolino – Tom Massiani
• Sunset in Winter – Kelley Lockman
• Life’s a Show – Harvey Puttock

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Nominees – Best Music

• Fish out of Water – Alyssa Asaro
• Just Like Water – Giorgos Varsamakis
• Carga – Harry Franceschi
• Cagnolino – Malo Garcia
• Like Animals – Brian Mcomber

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Nominees – Best Screenplay

• Sylvia – Richard Prendergast
• Maximus – Richard Prendergast
• The Living – Raphael Frost Gonzalez
• Voice Over – Luiso Berdejo
• Small Boy – Nathan Young

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Nominees- Best Poster

• The Golden Shore by Fred Cavender
• Homestead by Enzo Hui & McKinley Benson
• I N T E R S T I C E by Oskar Willers
• Together by Ryan Oksenberg
• LIFE… by Mirlande Amazan

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Nominees – Best Short Film

• Sylvia by Richard Prendergast
• Homestead by Enzo Hui & McKinley Benson
• Maximus by Richard Prendergast
• Crazy by Holt Boggs
• A King’s Betrayal by David Bornstein

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Congratulations to all the nominees. Winners will be announced tomorrow (13th July 2021) at 10 AM EDT during our live event. The live event will begin with a special screening, following which the winners will be announced. You can catch the live stream here.

Official selections that didn’t make it to the nominees’ list, do not worry—we have something for a few of you. Make sure you stick till the end of the live stream!