Winter Film Festival 2021

OnFebruary 26-28, 2021 NAFCo held an online short film festival streamed live over our YouTube channel. The festival included 24 hours of unique films from 58 countries around the world.

During the submission window we received over 1800 film submissions, from 93 countries. These were narrowed down 270 films. They were shown in two blocks or twelve hours with each block running twice consecutively beginning at 5 pm Friday and ending at 5 pm on Sunday. The winners and finalaist were then shown again SAunday evening.

Best Drama by a Young Filmmaker
“The Night For Witchcraft”
by Anhelina Chernyshova

Best Animation by a Young Filmmaker
“The Moth”
by Evangelina Sarett

Best Documetary by a Young Filmmaker
“Exit Stage Right”
by Marc Stoufer III

Youngest Filmmaker
“Kikki Racoon The Movie”
by Jade Evangelista

Best Actress
Lorena Loria B.
for “Dance”

Best Actor
Jay Jay Jegathesan
for “Soul Catcher”

Best Stage Performance
Dawn Shepard
for “Artist in the Black – Dueling Roots”

Production Design
“Flit”
by Jack Allen

Best Cinematography
“Colorless”
by Abdul Hamid Mandgar

Best Cinematography/Lighting
“Descent”
by Jacob Stauff

Best Film Social Commentary
“Illuminated”
by Nicolas Jofre

Best Horror
“Reaper”
by Young Kim

Best Science Fiction
“Proyecto Eolo”
by Daro Ceballos

Best 1 Minute Film
“17 Seconds”
by Patrick Benedict

Best Drama
“Everything Will Be Fine”
by Christina Milotaeva

Best Comedy
“Patrick J. Reilly Auditions For The New York Mets”
by Patrick J. Reilly

Best Documentary
“Dance of Love”
by Mohammad Farajzadeh

Best Animation
“A Little Gift For You”
by Roberto A. Padilla Sobrado

Best Film
“Dance of Love”
by Mohammad Farajzadeh

“Everything Will Be Fine”
by Christina Milotaeva

Judges Awards Drama
“A Letter to the Sky”
“A Short Story About Love”
“An Inheritance of Water”
“Cracked”
“Kill Kill”
“Let Me Still Be Your Son”
“Little Player”
“Nine Caliber Christmas”
“Red Window”
“Sandier”
“Shipwreck”
“Termites”

“Unreality”

Judge Awards Comedy
“A Day In The Life of A Pint”
“Absurd Man”
“Client Oriented Assassins”
“Girl Scout Cookies”
“Kidnapping Gone Wrong”
“Okay Bear With Me”
“Paqui Conchi and The End of the World”

“The Davenport Diaries”
“The Delusional Man”

Judges Awards Documentary
“Clay and The Camera”
“Five Murals”
“Keepers of the Magic Lantern”
“Revision”
“Teddy”
“The Bag Man”

Judges Awards Animation
“A Cold Day”
“Better Luck Next Time”
‘Companion”
“Ethereal”
Instrument”
“Paloma”
‘Phantom”
“Rawr”
“The Intextigator 2”