Black Owl Film Festival

Winners 2024

Best Short Film

Directed by: Dan Hertzog

Best Feature Film
Best Director
Best Actress — Ralitsa Stoyanova

Wedlock

Directed by: Magdalena Ralcheva

Best Experimental Film

Directed by: Gideon Homes

Best Short Documentary

Directed by: Lisa Burkhardt-Worley

Best Feature Documentary

No Boundaries

Directed by: Jaeun(Jay) Chin

Best Animation

Shumisen town

Directed by: 直隆 遠藤

Best Original Screenplay

Rollaway

Written by: Tom McIntire

Best Script Unproduced

Whispers in the Tall Grass

Written by: Sinan Cevik

Best Short Screenplay

Rendez-vous à 15h pile

Written by: Nelly FRANCILLETTE

Best Feature Screenplay

Mecca

Written by: Monte Albers de Leon

Best Adapted Screenplay

A Tale of Two Cities in 4 Episodes

Written by: Michael O'Rourke

Best Micro Short Film

The cleaner

Directed by: Damien Douchez

Best Music Video

As Cotas (The Quotas) — Chico Cesar e Carlos Rennó

Directed by: Fábio Bardella, Guilherme Martins

Best Young Actress — Lou Amara
Best Thriller
Best Sound Design

Directed by: Mickael Abbate

Best Cinematography

Half Samurai

Directed by: Rashad Haughton

Best Original Score

Directed by: Joe LoBianco

Best Dance Video

Directed by: Bernadett Jobbágy

Best Director Debut

Directed by: Amartya Sinha

Best Drama

Directed by: Mikael Palm

Best Supporting Actress — Isabelle Weiskopf
Best Producer

Directed by: Mike Horan

Best Student Film

Back to the Lake

Directed by: Jinyang Li

Best Horror
Best Trailer

Silent Aisles

Directed by: Jace Gisclair

Best Sci-Fi
Best Editing

Directed by: John P Martinez

Best Comedy
Best Costume

Directed by: Daryl Cockburn

Best Dark Comedy

Krazy Dead

Written by: Horatio Tihanyi, Dawn Nargi

Best Black&White Film

Directed by: Isabelle Bartkowiak

Best No-Dialogue Film

Hira

Directed by: Emanuele Colognese

Best LGBTQ+

Directed by: Jérôme AMIMER

Best BLM Film

Are We Really Friends…Yet

Directed by: Natasha C Smith

Best Covid-19 Film

One more day

Directed by: Elanit Rubalcava

Best Symbolic Film

Yellow Daisy Butterfly

Directed by: Diek Grobler

Best Sport FIlm

MY TIME DANCES WITH ME

Directed by: Józef Romasz

Best Erotic Film

Directed by: Alissa Autschbach

Best ECO Film

Directed by: Dale Andree, Claudio Marcotulli

Best Educational Film

Directed by: Robert Mossi Alexander

Best Independent Film

Directed by: Marco Di Noia

Best Inspirational Film

Directed by: Rhoyce Nova

Best Mobile Film

Lulu in Turin

Directed by: Ian Charles Lister

Best Romance

Directed by: Yuri Riklis

Best Fantasy Film

If The Shoe Fits

Directed by: Barbara Spevack

Best Family Film

Directed by: Thomas Heinemann

Best No-budget Film

Directed by: Thomas Jackson

Best Action FIlm

Directed by: Armin Alic

Best TV Pilot

Directed by: Luca Centoni

Best Web-Series

Unraveling

Directed by: Rich Devaney

Best Photography

FSU

Directed by: Laila Thaler

Best 360°

Surrounded Serenity

Directed by: Malak Quota

Best Composer
Best Poster

Directed by: David Glass