SFF 2024 Award Ceremony & Winners

🎬✨ Synergy Film Festival Awards Ceremony 2024 – Celebrating Excellence in Filmmaking! ✨🎬

The 2024 Synergy Film Festival Awards Ceremony was a spectacular evening celebrating the extraordinary talent, creativity, and passion of filmmakers from around the globe. This year’s competition showcased a diverse range of stories across multiple categories, judged by our esteemed panel of academicians, producers, and industry professionals.

From heartwarming dramas to captivating documentaries, every project highlighted the power of storytelling and the resilience of independent cinema.

🏆 Jury Awards

• Most Promising Film: The Father Who Stayed – Directed by Jeremy David Schonfeld

• Best of the Festival: Company of Shadows – Directed by Dirk van Sloten

• Best Inspiring Story: Love of the Land – Directed by Travis Van Alstyne

• Jury Special: No Signal – Directed by Mohammed Zakria Alshareef

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🎥 Feature Films

🥇 1st Place: An Open Door - Temple Grandin – Directed by John Alexander Barnhardt🥈 2nd Place: Breakthrough – Directed by Patryk Wezowski, Kasia Wezowski🥉 3rd Place: Reclaiming Our Humanity – Directed by Robert Mossi Alexander

Semi-Finalists:

• The Father Who Stayed – Jeremy David Schonfeld

• Set Me Free – James Carman

• Thirst Trap – Chantal Massuh-Fox

• The Uncivil War - America Divided – Andrew Huff, Chris McKechnie

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🌍 Foreign Films

🥇 1st Place: Culture vs War. Liberov – Directed by Kadim Tarasov🥈 2nd Place: 115 – Directed by Dave Huynh Macon

Semi-Finalist:

• Assassination Orders from Belgrade – Dragan Cotic

🎬 Short Films

🥇 1st Place: Everyone Writes Memoir – Directed by Mark Solter, Alexander Campbell🥈 2nd Place: Lost in the Waves – Directed by Joss Berlioux, Franck Marchand🥉 3rd Place: Dreams of Glory – Directed by Ian Hui

Semi-Finalists:

• The Recruit – Michael Barbee

• Guiding Light – India Anne Mitchell

• Coffee Connection – Jodi Ferguson

• Stranded: A Dirty Coin Short – Alana Mediavilla

• The Imagination of a Child – Cesare Catania

🎓 Student Films

🏆 Winner: Silent Cycle – Directed by Smahi Anand

Semi-Finalists:

• Terra Draconis – Braeden Clete Meyer

• Say No More – Courtney Havrilla

🎵 Music Videos

🏆 Winner: Getting Along – Directed by Scott Dobson, Michael Phillip Wojewoda

Semi-Finalists:

• Bitela (Little Bee) – Daniel Goldblum

• To The Moon – Richard E

📺 Web Series

🏆 Winner: Carved in Stone – Directed by Porter Justus

Semi-Finalists:

• Touch the Sky – Stephen Limkin

• TradeCraft: On The Run – Jeremiah Kipp

🎨 Experimental Films

🏆 Winner: Sea of Serenity – Directed by YI Qu

Semi-Finalists:

• CR7 – Anesh Chandran Azad

• My Digital Truth – Swen Werner

🎬 Special Categories

• Best Director: The Asifa Bano Story – Directed by Mina Isabella Jafri Malik

• Best Editing: The Skids Revolution – Directed by Laura Graham, Colin J Graham

• Thriller Film: Between Shadows – Directed by Humberto Dias Fernandes Pacheco

• Sci-Fi Film: Hole Punched Ear – Directed by Alan Yammin, Ben Tull

• Drama Film: Wishful Thinking – Directed by Margaret Messer

• Animation: Supertramp – Directed by Fabrizio Gammardella

🎉 A Heartfelt Congratulations to All the Winners and Semi-Finalists! 🎉

Your creativity, hard work, and dedication to the art of filmmaking inspire us all.

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