QUARTERLY WINNERS: YEAR 4, ROUND 2

FILM CATEGORIES

Best Feature Film

The Hook 

Best Short Film

The Angel

Honorable Mention: Notes for Tomorrow

Best Animated Film

In-Half

Honorable Mention: Dark Orange

Best International Feature Film

Violent Butterflies

Honorable Mention: The Present Help

Best International Short Film

The Boy with White Skin (L'enfant à la peau blanche)

Honorable Mention: Aicha

Honorable Mention: The Holidays

Best Micro-Short

Hoe Phase

Honorable Mention: On Dreams

Best Director

The Hook - Thomas Beatty

Honorable Mention: The Boy with White Skin - Simon Panay

Honorable Mention: Violent Butterflies - Adolfo Davila

Best First-Time Director

Broken Magic - Platon Ogarev, Marcjanna Lelek

Honorable Mention: The Present Help - Tyson Whitney

Best Cinematography

The Boy with White Skin (L'enfant à la peau blanche) - Simon Gouffault

Honorable Mention: Untainted Sky - Carson Blickenstaff

Best Editing

The Hook - Ellis Evans

Honorable Mention: The Angel - Hunter B. Phillips

Best Sound Design

The Boy with White Skin: Vivien Roche

Honorable Mention: The Angel - Brenden Bytheway & Doug May

Best Music Score

Violent Butterflies - Martin Thulin

Honorable Mention: In Half - Juan Manuel Camean

Best Production Design

The Boy with White Skin: Bandini Films

Honorable Mention: Untainted Sky - Randy Seely & Set Production/Design Team

Best Special Effects

Violent Butterflies - Daniel Cordero

Best Visual Effects

Violent Butterflies - Isaac Telle Isaacacho

Honorable Mention: Francesca - Ika Mauga

Best Stunt Design

Violent Butterflies - Tomas Guzman

Best Hair & Makeup

Revamped with Juliet Landau “Celebrating Todd McIntosh”: Todd McIntosh

Honorable Mention: The Hook - Chelsea Murphy

Best Wardrobe

The Hook - Tamara Orlova

Best Film Colorist

The Hook - Elise Wallbridge

Honorable Mention: Violent Butterflies - Juan Magana

Best Casting

The Boy with White Skin - Iman Djionne

Best Documentary Feature

Breaking Chains

Honorable Mention: Emerging from the Shadows: Rediscovering the Legacies of Weinberg and Korngold

Best Documentary Short

Making It

Honorable Mention: Knowing From the Inside

Honorable Mention: Bee Money: Mormon Gangster

Best Musical Film

The Hook

Honorable Mention: What Kind of World is This?

Best Actor

Violent Butterflies - Alejandro Porter

Honorable Mention: First Kiss - Farhad Baghaeenia

Best Actress

The Hook - Mei Bignall

Honorable Mention: Violent Butterflies - Diana Laura Di

Best Supporting Actor

The Angel - Doug Jones

Honorable Mention: Notes for Tomorrow - Brando White

Best Supporting Actress

Andariel - Lisa Thurman

Honorable Mention: Quarantine - Bailey Sorrel

Best Ensemble Cast

The Hook

Honorable Mention: Violent Butterflies

Best TV/Web Series Episode

Hit Me - Alexander John Brown

Best Musical Soundtrack

The Hook

Honorable Mention: Violent Butterflies

Best AI Film

Georges

Honorable Mention: Here was Life

Best Experimental Film

Aicha

Honorable Mention: What Kind of World is This?

The Willowstone Award (Best Family-Friendly Film)

Swift Current Swimmers

Honorable Mention: Willow

The Fablestone Award (Best Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film)

Untainted Sky

Honorable Mention: Francesca

The Powerstone Award (Best Drama Film)

The Cost of Living

Honorable Mention: Overhang

The Sunstone Award (Best Comedy)

The Hook

Honorable Mention: Hoe Phase

The Brightstone Award (Best Youth Performance)

The Boy with White Skin - Boubacar Dembele

Honorable Mention: The Present Help - Gunner Wares

The Rainbowstone Award (Best LGBTQ+ Film)

Francesca

The Scholarstone Award

Happy Thoughts

Honorable Mention: Rogue Runner

Honorable Mention: Road to Oblivion

The Shadestone Award (Best Film Noir)

Drawn in Black

The Gritstone Award (Best Western)

Gracie Buckshot & the Kiddo

The Ravenstone Award (Best Gothic Film)

In Half

The Grimstone Award (Best Horror Film)

Quarantine

Honorable Mention: Psych War

Honorable Mention: True Meaning

Best Social Impact Film

Breaking Chains

Honorable Mention: Aicha

Honorable Mention: Forgotten Children Sing

Honorable Mention: Zona Cesarini

Best Motion Video Music Soundtrack

The Hook

Honorable Mention: Violent Butterflies

LITERARY & AUDIO CATEGORIES

Best Original Screenplay - Feature

Platinum: Hunch - Michael E. Caisley

Gold: The Loser’s Club - Jonathan Turner Smith

Silver: (tie)

Cate - Kelsey Risher

Voodoo Valentinos - Michael Louis Gould

Bronze: (tie)

Crab Walkers - Toni Martocchio

Solomon’s Keys - Victoria Polzer

Best Original Screenplay - Short

Platinum: A New Kind of Patriot - Zachary Blaine Maxfield

Gold: When the Veils Dance - Tayebe Babei

Silver: Cate - Kelsey Risher

Bronze: The Paper Daughter - Howard Lun Hong

Best Vertical Screenplay

The Princess & the Poet - Jonathan Turner Smith

Best Non-Fictional Book

Taking Up the Runes: A Complete Guide to Using Runes in Spells, Rituals, Divination, and Magic - Rune Walker

Best Fictional Book

Rules Worth Breaking - Liz Whittaker

Honorable Mention: A Tragedy of Riches - Tony Cointreau

Best Podcast -  Non-Fictional

Revamped with Juliet Landau

Honorable Mention: abandoned: The All-American Ruins “Nick and the Assassination of JFK”

MUSIC CATEGORIES

Best Music Video

Platinum: Andariel - Uncle Opey

Gold: Infernal Execution - Eternal Warrior

Silver: Rocket - Brett Ryder

Bronze: I’m Still Bored - Phenta Soldier

Best International Music Video

The Kluane Compositions - Diyet & Matthew Lien

Best Folk Song

Truth - The Kluane Compositions

Best Blues Song

Baby - Mandreger

Best Jazz Song

Suite for Africa Part 3: Forgotten Children - Amina Figarova and Matsiko World Orphan Choir 

Best Metal/Progressive Song

The Elemental Four (A Distant Memory) - Dhara

Honorable Mention: Infernal Execution - Eternal Warrior

Best Pop Song

I’m Still Bored - Phenta Soldier

Honorable Mention: Crybaby - The Glitter Bombs

Best Rap/Hip-Hop Song

Andariel - Uncle Opey

Honorable Mention: Street Lights - Griff

Best Rock Song

Mandreger - Masquerade

Best World Song

Love - ELViRiA

Honorable Mention: Venice - Emiko

Best Alternative Song

Bus Stop to Jupiter - Cosmic Fates

Honorable Mention: What Do I Mean to You? - Rocket

Best Contemporary Song

Higher - Caleb Fullmer

Best Classical Song

Emerging From the Shadows: Rediscovering the Legacies of Weinberg and Korngold - Mieczysław Weinberg

Best Instrumental Song

Elemental Four (A Distant Memory) - Dhara

Honorable Mention: Randy - Andre Correa

Best Music Video Music Producer

The Kluane Sessions - Matthew Lien

Honorable Mention: Andariel - Jared Palmer

Best Song Lyrics

Masquerade - Mandreger

Honorable Mention: Bus Stop to Jupiter - Cosmic Fates

Honorable Mention: The Bumblebees - A Song From Cate and the Garden Bandits: Th Musical

Best Inspirational Song

Breaking Chains - Chain Breaker - Zach Williams

Honorable Mention: Now I Can See - Stephen Dejoseph, Henry Nevision

Honorable Mention: Set Me Free - Caleb Fullmer

ZepTUNES Song of the Year (Sponsored by Utah Music Radio)

Mandreger - Masquerade

ZepTUNES Album of the Year (Sponsored by Utah Music Radio)

Suite for Africa - Amina Figarova & Matsiko World Orphan Choir

Honorable Mention: The Kluane Compositions

ZepTUNES Live Performance of the Year

Love - ELViRiA

Honorable Mention: The Elemental Four (A Distant Memory) - Dhara

ARTS & INNOVATION CATEGORIES

Best Visual Art

Violent Butterflies - Adrian Cruz

Honorable Mention: Willow

The Innovation Award

Forgotten Children Sing - Mark Lee Hegeraty

Honorable Mention: Breaking Chains - SOLID Media Services and Training Team - Utah State Correctional Facility & Bo Landin

Best Theatrical Performance

Grasmere - Voodoo Theatre Company

Best Dance Performance

The Elemental Four (A Distant Memory)

Best Fashion Team

The Elemental Four (A Distant Memory)

Best Photography

Miles Stanley “Living Art Show”

Best Poem

Gros Topos - Anne Cieko