Lift-Off Season Awards 2019
Celebrating the best of the 2019 season, we are showcasing and awarding some of the most talented filmmakers from around the globe at the Lift-Off Season Awards!
Throughout the year, Lift-Off screen hundreds of incredible films from emerging talents within the indie film community. Season Award nominations are chosen throughout the year from our 11 international Lift-Off Film Festivals.
This year, we have chosen nominations which reflect talented filmmakers from all corners of the globe, and invite those filmmakers for a fantastic night of drinks, dancing, and awards.
Best Feature Live Action Narrative
Philophobia
Directed by
Guy Davies
Guest Artist
Timothy Busfield
10 Seconds to Glory
José Alvarenga Jr
The Last Witness
Piotr Szkopiak
Widow's Walk
Alexandra Boyd
Best Feature Documentary
Fighting for a City
Directed by
Greg Hardes & Jacob Proud
Larry (Yust Explains)
Loic Zimmermann
Super Cool Wins in the End
Cheng Herng Shinn
Buddy Goes to Nollywood
Michael Lebor
Underdog
Freyja Kristinsdóttir
Best Short Live Action Narrative
Dominant Species
Directed by
Joseph Sackett
Safety
Fabrice Joubert
Boiling Point
Philip Barantini
A Battle in Waterloo
Emma Moffat
Innocence
Ben Reid
Best Short Documentary
Yellow
Directed by
Chris Franklin
Miss Black Germany
Elisha Smith-Leverock
Balancing the Waters
Falkwyn de Goyeneche
Uncaged: A Stand-In Story
Blake Johnston & Kelso Steinhoff
Lady Samurai
James Latimer
Best Animation
Two Balloons
Directed by
Mark C. Smith
The Three Crow Boys
Tom Adriani
Don't Feed These Animals
Guilherme Afonso & Miguel Madaíl de Freitas
The Ogre
Laurène Braibant
Listen to Me Sing
Isabel Garrett
Best Music Video
MADBEN - Grief, dance to death
Directed by
nobrain
Husky Loops - Every Time I Run
Arianna Gheller
Thirsty Eyes - 838
Ioan Gavriel
Agoria - Call of the Wild
Loïc Andrieu
Agoria - You're not Alone
Hernan Corera
Best Art Direction
One, No One, 100.000
Directed by
Karlijn Milder & Lotte Milder
Fall of the Matador
Griffin Davis
Lucienne Eats a Car
Guillaume Duhoux & Maude Piette
The Third King
Mike Schäfer &
costume design by
Susanne Roggendorf
Ghost of a Chance
Alyssa Forstmann &
costume design by
Paola Alejandra Erazun
Best Post-Production
Unregistered
Directed by
Ivy Agregan
Black Shore
Jon Park, Grant White, Roman Kaelin & Quentin Corker-Marin
Agoria - Call of the Wild
REEPOST
Taniel
Garo Berberian
Carga
Rehan Abdulovski
Best Director
Philip Barantini
For
Boiling Point
Simon Ryninks
The Plunge
Emma Moffat
A Battle in Waterloo
José Alvarenga Jr
10 Seconds to Glory
Zoë Dobson
The Cunning Man
Best Cinematography
Boiling Point
DoP.
Matthew Lewis
The Hunted
Aaron Farrugia
Stigma
Conor Rotherham
Bertin
Jimmy Boutry
Dominant Species
Mia Cioffi Henry
Best Acting Ensemble
The Cast of Innocence
The cast of Dominant Species
The cast of Boiling Point
The cast of Speechless
The cast of
Philophobia
Best Screenplay
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
Written by
Tamara von Werthern
Innocence
Ben Reid & Owen Gower
Nobody's Darling
Ruby Richardson & Samuel Keefe
Growth
Allison Miller
Intelligent Life
Paddy Earle
A Stitch in Time
Graham Atkins-Hughes
Best Actor
Alice Lowe
For
Innocence
Jessie Buckley
A Battle in Waterloo
Sytse Faber
On Air
Stephen Graham
Boiling Point
Kwabena Ansah
#Haters
Therese Bradley
Rubberneck
Best First-Time Filmmaker
My Father The Martyr
Directed by
Harris Alvi
The Stocky Broker
Theo Jessel
Bad Mother
Marnie Baxter & Nicola Stuart-Hill
Tête de Mule
Victor Bargès
Rocket Boy
Simon Sorted
The Fish Out of Water
Josh Brine