Lift-Off Season Awards 2020
Celebrating the best of the 2020 season, the Lift-Off Season Awards recognises the most talented filmmakers from around the globe.
Throughout the year, Lift-Off Global Network screens hundreds of incredible indie films from emerging talents. Season Award nominations are awarded throughout the season from our 26 international Lift-Off Film Festivals, Showcases and Labs.
Best Feature Live Action Narrative
![The thing before the thing](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-thing-before-the-thing-.jpg?fit=527%2C800&ssl=1)
The Thing Before The Thing
Mike Piccirillo
![Hotel Paradise](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hotel-Paradise.jpg?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Hotel Paraiso
Daniel Rehder
![Thanks!](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Thanks.jpg?fit=560%2C800&ssl=1)
Thanks
Gabriele Di Luca
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sorority.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
Sorority
James Webber
Best Feature Documentary
![BORN JUST NOW](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BORN-JUST-NOW.jpg?fit=530%2C800&ssl=1)
Born Just Now
Robert Adanto
![Sockeye Salmon](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sockeye-Salmon.jpg?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Sockeye Salmon. Red fish
Dmitriy Shpilenok & Vladislav Grishin
![Tommy Emmanuel](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Tommy-Emmanuel.jpg?fit=561%2C800&ssl=1)
Tommy Emmanuel: The Endless Road
Jeremy Dylan Potts
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Immaterial.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
Immaterial
Shinji Shiozaki & Felipe Santiago
![Exploring the known](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Exploring-the-known.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
Exploring the Known
Matthew Hollis
Best Short Live Action Narrative
![Osworld 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Osworld-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Osworld
Philip Hedegaard Povlsen
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Missing.jpg?fit=540%2C800&ssl=1)
Missing
Alexander Hankoff
![Leopard poster](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Leopard-poster.jpg?fit=565%2C800&ssl=1)
Leopard
James Arden
![You Say Nothing](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/You-Say-Nothing.jpg?fit=601%2C800&ssl=1)
You Say Nothing
Gray Hughes
![The watchmaker](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-watchmaker.jpg?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
The Watchmaker
Charlie Fonville
Best Short Documentary
![RADIOVANILLE_POSTER_portrait](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RADIOVANILLE_POSTER_portrait-scaled.jpg?fit=1752%2C2560&ssl=1)
Radio Vanille
Jack Laurance
![Streets of Lagos](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Streets-of-Lagos.jpg?fit=548%2C800&ssl=1)
Streets of Lagos
Dom West
![Little Bastard 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Little-Bastard-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
LITTLE BASTARD
Harun Hazar
![Guinjata Bay 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Guinjata-Bay-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Guinjata Bay
Rob Murray
![God of Hope](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/God-of-Hope.jpg?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
God of hope
Adam Kavanagh
Best Animation
![Theo 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Theo-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Wherefore Art Thou, Theo?
Theodore Schaffer
![Stick to Manual1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Stick-to-Manual1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Stick To Manual
Christian Antonini & Tanice Arnold
![Bunkers 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bunkers-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Bunkers
Oliver Anderson
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Crunch.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
CRUNCH
Liukaidi Peng
![The Abandoned Block](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Abandoned-Block-.jpg?fit=512%2C800&ssl=1)
The Abandoned Block
James Bourne
Best Music Video
![Tom and his computer](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Tom-and-his-computer.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
TOM and his Computer “Future Ruins” - music video
Martin Garde Abildgaard
![Kid Kapichi Thug 1psd](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Kid-Kapichi-Thug-1psd.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Kid Kapichi Thugs
James Green
![Crépuscule en mineur 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/22Crépuscule-en-mineur22-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Thelomis Danube - "Crépuscule en mineur"
Anthelme Dubois
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Farewell.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Kaada - Farewell
Christian Holm Glad
![Invisible man1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Invisible-man1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
The Invisible Mirror
Luigi Rizzo
Best Art Direction
![Ex-Wife Monogatari](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ex-Wife-Monogatari.jpg?fit=540%2C800&ssl=1)
Winner
Ex-Wife Monogatari
Production design by
Liang Mengyuan
![The Convenant1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Convenant1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
The Covenant
Elena Hahn
![Like father](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Like-father.jpg?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Like Father
![The Gliwensbourg Chronicles](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Gliwensbourg-Chronicles.jpg?fit=600%2C800&ssl=1)
The Gliwensbourg Chronicles
Gino Tommasi
![Punch it!](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Punch-it.jpg?fit=600%2C800&ssl=1)
Punch It
Perrier Olivier
Best Post-Production
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Zwart.jpg?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Winner
Zwart
Post Producation by
Zwart
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/PROXY.jpg?fit=540%2C800&ssl=1)
PROXY
Christoph Roth
![Seeing Green Poster](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Seeing-Green-Poster.jpg?fit=558%2C800&ssl=1)
Seeing Green
Daniel Kutcher, Timo Salia & Chris Bell
![Rise – Black Ocean](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Rise-Black-Ocean.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
Rise : Black Ocean
Camilla Pontiggia
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Talk.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
TALK
Pierre-Marie Croquet
Best Director
![Osworld 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Osworld-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Winner
Philip Hedegaard Povlsen
For
Osworld
![Missing](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Missing-1.jpg?fit=540%2C800&ssl=1)
Alexander Hankoff
Missing
![Sweet Street](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sweet-Street.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
Coz Greenop
Sweet Street
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MagRalen.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
Maryam Zarei
Magralen
![Ex-Wife Monogatari](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ex-Wife-Monogatari-1.jpg?fit=540%2C800&ssl=1)
Zihao Su
Ex-Wife Monogatari
Best Cinematography
![Missing](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Missing-1.jpg?fit=540%2C800&ssl=1)
Winner
Missing
DoP.
Alexander Hankoff
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Zoo1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Zoo
Simran Dewan
![Absent](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Absent-1.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
Nomination
Absent
DoP.
Molly Manning Walker
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MagRalen.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
Nomination
Magralen
DoP.
Ario Motevaghe
![Under the Flag](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Under-the-Flag.jpg?fit=518%2C800&ssl=1)
Nomination
Under The Flag
DoP.
Leo Purman
Best Acting Ensemble
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Treacle.jpg?fit=572%2C800&ssl=1)
Winner
The cast of
Treacle
![Ex-Wife Monogatari](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ex-Wife-Monogatari-1.jpg?fit=540%2C800&ssl=1)
Ex-Wife Monogatari
![Osworld 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Osworld-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Nomination
The cast of Osworld
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Zoo1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
The cast of ZOO
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MagRalen.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
The cast of Magralen
Best Screenplay
![Osworld 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Osworld-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Winner
Osworld
Written by
Oskar Groot
![Bad people](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bad-people.jpg?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Bad People
Vladimer Katcharava
![Ex-Wife Monogatari](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Ex-Wife-Monogatari-1.jpg?fit=540%2C800&ssl=1)
Ex-Wife Monogatari
Shawn Liang
![Leopard poster](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Leopard-poster.jpg?fit=565%2C800&ssl=1)
Leopard
James Arden
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Eulogy.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
Eulogy
Mateo Willis
Best Actor
![Teo Lepetit 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Teo-Lepetit-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Téo Lepetit
Osworld
![Michelle Chung 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Michelle-Chung-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Michelle Chung
Under The Flag
![Paul Arthaud](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MV5BMTAxNDc3Mzk2NzNeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDI3MjU4NjYx._V1_.jpg?fit=1365%2C2048&ssl=1)
Paul Arthaud
Missing
![Gong Zhe 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Gong-Zhe-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Gong Zhe
Ex-Wife Monogatari
![Elisha Aplebaum](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Elisha-Aplebaum.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Elisha Applebaum
Leopard
![Jesper Møller 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Jesper-Moller-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Jesper Møller
Osworld
Best First-Time Filmmaker
![Leopard poster](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Leopard-poster.jpg?fit=565%2C800&ssl=1)
Leopard
James Arden
![Antonio 1](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Antonio-1.png?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1)
Antonio
Alison Still
![The Yellow Jacket](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Yellow-Jacket.jpg?fit=560%2C800&ssl=1)
The Yellow Jacket
Andreas Mortensen
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Taboo.jpg?fit=566%2C800&ssl=1)
Taboo
Olivia Altavilla
![Spanish Pigeon](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Spanish-Pigeon.jpg?fit=565%2C800&ssl=1)
Spanish Pigeon
Stefan J Fideli
![](https://i0.wp.com/liftoff.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Appetite.jpg?fit=540%2C800&ssl=1)
Appetite
Xuemeng Li & Katrin Larissa Kasper