Winner September 2021

RedWood Film Festival announces the list of Winner films of September 2021.

  • Redwood Film Festival is an Online Film Festival. 

  • Our Jury screens the selections Privately and from there we select the winners. Only the winning films will get a chance to participate in a second selection at the end of the year. If they pass the second selection, we'll screen them at our annual live online screening. Where one film from each category will be awarded. 

BEST CATEGORIES AWARDS

BEST 1- MINUTE SHORT FILM

Film: The Beginning
Directed by: José Bibian
Award Goes to – José Bibian


BEST SHORT FILM

Film: Imitation of Life – A Machine Learning Story
Directed by: Øyvind Knustad
Award Goes to – Øyvind Knustad


BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

Film: This Is For Us
Directed by: Roshan Hill
Award Goes to – Roshan Hill


BEST LGBTQ FILM

Film: Let Us Eat Cake!: Asexuality in the 21st Century
Directed by: Maddy Heller
Award Goes to – Maddy Heller


BEST WEB SERIES

Film: FaceTime With The Rickkenbakker Family
Directed by: Thomas Connelly
Award Goes to – Thomas Connelly


BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Film: Food To Ate
Directed by: Randy J. Huling
Award Goes to – Randy J. Huling


BEST ANIMATION FILM

Film: The Penguin
Directed by: Matt Bissett-Johnson
Award Goes to – Matt Bissett-Johnson


BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

Film: Four Motherless Children
Directed by: Ralph Isenberg, Joe De La Fuente
Award Goes to – Ralph Isenberg & Joe De La Fuente


BEST COMEDY FILM

Film: Routine
Directed by: Russ Emanuel
Award Goes to – Russ Emanuel


BEST DRAMA FILM

Film: Athame
Directed by: Dimitrios Karas
Award Goes to – Dimitrios Karas


BEST EXPERIMENT FILM

Film: Cornered
Directed by: Raquel Salvatella de Prada
Award Goes to – Raquel Salvatella de Prada


BEST HORROR FILM

Film: Loyal?
Directed by: Felicia Rivers
Award Goes to – Felicia Rivers


BEST ROMANTIC FILM

Film: Her & Him
Directed by: Julian Morales
Award Goes to – Julian Morales


BEST SCI-FI FILM

Film: Lemon Tea
Directed by: Maurizio Venturiero
Award Goes to – Maurizio Venturiero


BEST FILM ABOUT COVID-19

Film: Dear Quarantine
Directed by: Tuğba Yiğitcan
Award Goes to – Tuğba Yiğitcan


BEST INDIVIDUAL / SPECIAL AWARDS

BEST DIRECTOR

Film: Bruce Wayne Begins
Directed by: Kevin Ruiz
Award Goes to – Kevin Ruiz


BEST PRODUCER

Film: Yard Sale – Final Cut A ver 4
Directed by: Andrew Huggins / Donna Whitmore-Sexton
Award Goes to – Donna Whitmore-Sexton & John R. Sexton


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Film: What I Want to Say, Burn! *
Directed by: Luís Damas
Award Goes to – Eddie, Rui Simões & Luís Damas


BEST SCREENWRITER

Film: Beautiful Sunshine Script
Directed by: JW Richardson
Award Goes to – JW Richardson


BEST ACTOR – MALE

Film: … And He Found Me…
Directed by: Aniez Atlas
Award Goes to – Aniez Atlas


BEST ACTRESS – FEMALE

Film: HoneyDough
Directed by: Jillian Vitko
Award Goes to – Jillian Vitko


BEST SCREENPLAY

Film: A Good Example
Directed by: Lawrence Whitener
Award Goes to – Lawrence Whitener


BEST CONCEPT

Film: Somebody That I Used to Know
Writer by: Robert Leo Cox
Award Goes to – Robert Leo Cox


BEST PLOT

Film: Ruse
Writer by: Deric Olsen
Award Goes to – Deric Olsen


JURY SPECIAL SECTION

Film: Smoking Kills
Directed by: Steven Luchel
Award Goes to – Steven Luchel