2023 Winners

THANK YOU TO ALL THE FILMMAKES WHO ENTERED IN THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL & Congratulations to all the winning entries.

Oziff 2023 Film Festival

The Award Winners

Ancestral Land

Director: Gabriel Bissonnette

Close-Up: An Odyssey

Director: Nick Gatsby

Everything I Could

Director: Christopher Armienti

Mara The Seal Wife

Writer: Uisdean Murray

EGO

Director: Claudio Mühle

Kill Me

Director: Yushi Li

Moksha

Written by Saurin Lakhia

Deus In Machina

Written by Michelle Fenn

CandyByte

Written by Diana Foronda

Corporate Monster

Written by Chelsea Arlene Schmidt

Love at War

Director: Maxime Desruisseaux

Murmur

Director: Mark Polish

Christmas Freak

Director: Sean Brown

Kalliope’s From Fear to Freedom

Director: Kalliope Barlis

Adventures in History

Director: J. Brian King

Precious Cargo: Return to Vietnam

Director: Janet Paxton Gardner

Our Horizons

Director: Charlotte Cayeux

Finding Courage

Director: Kay Rubacek

100 Cans

Director: Kay Rubacek

Blind Melon Head and the Big Gig

Director: Mo Morris

Justin and the Werloobee

Directors: Ken Yoffe & Ellen Weisberg, John Vo

Lady Betty

Director: Paul McGrath

Eyes Upon Waking

Director: Timothy Zwica

Edward and Isabella

Director: Adam Morris

Street

Director: Kyle Faulkner

The Old Man Next Door

Director: Aidan Otene Dickens

Kuringal

Directors: Stuart Cohen, Warren Foster Sr, Murray Vanderveer

Mamu Kurtaji

Director: Anna-Marie Harding

Unsaid

Director: Ayodeji Otuyelu

Stepping Out

Director: Rebecca Ann Bentley

Let's Go Below The Rainbow

Director: Julian Karikalan

Memories

Director: Adriel (Strenneth) Rosenfeldt

Respect The Gift

Director: Justin Stephenson

I Crashed my Drone in Texas

Director: Carl Emerton

Nala

Director: Darshan Singh Bhuller

Recurrent

Director: Wanqi Zhang

Is there balm in Gilead?

Directors: Luca Tuffarelli, Justine Doswell

Anyone for President

Director: Matt Nye

The Art of Crying

Director: Blake Gamble

Ages of Man

Director: Claire Leona Apps

Phoenix Incident

Director: Keith Arem

Mindflip - The Prequel

Director: Ken Rowe

The Horror Compendium: Freshest Cuts

Director: Blake Gamble

North 6

Director: Frank Kretschmann

Trash 2 Dash

Director: Wayne Johnson

Canvas

Director: Criss Gidas

Witches of the Waste

Director: Sam Rooke

Desaparecida

Director: Eduardo Hernández de la Torre

The Binding of Itzik

Director: Anika Benkov

Hotel No Tell

Director: Devon Unrau

The Fallen Ivy

Director: Todd Whitaker

Ukrainian C(r)ook

Director: Alex Kotsyk

Champagne For One

Director: Seth Iliff

The Countdown

Director: Melanie Renfroe

88

Director: Billy Surges

Peeled: Cooking up Compassion

Director: David Trotter

Crispy

Written by Dawson Roebig

Who Let the Wallflowers Out?

Written by Virginia Austin

Solitary Refinement

Written by Jaclyn Whitt

Three Manikins

Written by Abass Abass

Cyclone Madge and the Unexpected Consequence

Written by Warren Paul Glover

I Don't Like Thinking About Death

Written by Paul Bird

Fearless

Directed by Ye Ying

Renegades

Directed by Daniel Zirilli

Dark Corners

Directed by Dave Beamish

TSU

Directed by Ü Inose

Ghost

Directed by Artur Sallinen

Nothing Special

Directed by James Garces

They Never See It Coming

Directed by Jeff Stolhand

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