Awards for 2015

Gold Medal

Animation

WINNER

Soar

Honorary Foreign Film Award

Foreign Short

NOMINEE

Group B: Nick Rowland (director), Joseph Murtagh (co-writer), Alexandra Breede (producer), Terence Dunn (composer), Sverre Sørdal (cinematographer), Paco Sweetman (editor), Laura Mickiewicz (production designer), Matis Rei (sound designer), Maria Bruder (costume designer), Oliver Cronk (costume designer) (National Film and Television School (NFTS))

Student Academy Award

Documentary

WINNER

Looking at the Stars: Alexandre Peralta (University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts)

Foreign Film

WINNER

Fidelity: Ilker Çatak
NOMINEES

The Last Will: Dustin Loose (director)

Everything Will Be Okay: Patrick Vollrath (Filmakademie Wien)

400 Maletas: Fernanda Valadez (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC))

Alternative

WINNER

Chiaroscuro: Daniel Drummond (director)
NOMINEE

Gen RX: John Taschner (Mulholland Studio)

Animated

WINNER

Soar
NOMINEE

Higher Sky: Teng Cheng (University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts)

Narrative

NOMINEES

Drone: Justin S. Lee (University of Southern California (USC))

Against Night: Stefan Kubicki (director)

Samaria: Kiel Adrian Scott