#NZWF20 Winners

We’re thrilled to be able to announce our 2020 winners. Congratulations to all of them!

We’re about to run away on holiday but will open #NZWF21 submissions on 1 February 2021. Keep up with us on social media until then 🙂

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And, once more, congratulations!

The #NZWF20 winners are…

OPEN AWARDS

BEST ANIMATED SHOW

Dead End

BEST PILOT

Brazzy Jazzy
Illuminagents

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

BEST DIRECTOR: INTERNATIONAL FACTUAL

Dana Lerer, Michal Gassner, Ilana Reina, Limor Shmila & Tal Brenner, One Woman
Darius Devas, The Common Thread

BEST SHOW: INTERNATIONAL FACTUAL

The Common Thread

BEST ENSEMBLE: INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE

Carpark Clubbing
Skeleton Crew

BEST ACTOR: INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE

Emmanuel Schwartz, Public Writer

BEST ACTRESS: INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE

Heidi Lynch & Perrie Voss, Avocado Toast
Catherine Elsen, W.

BEST WRITER: INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE

Diana Nguyen & Fiona Chau, Phi And Me
Kyle Leland, Hammersmith

BEST DIRECTOR: INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE

Frederic Zeimet, W.
Luke Eve, Cancelled
Viviana Di Capua, Red Velvet Revolution

BEST SHOW (Young Audiences): INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE

Phi And Me

BEST SHOW (Episodic): INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE

Valerianas

NZ AWARDS

BEST DIRECTOR: NZ FACTUAL

José Barbosa, On The Rag

BEST SHOW: NZ FACTUAL

Who Killed Lucy The Poodle?

BEST ENSEMBLE: NZ NARRATIVE

Millennial Jenny
Naughty Bits

BEST ACTOR: NZ NARRATIVE

Thomas Sainsbury, Sextortion

BEST ACTRESS: NZ NARRATIVE

Raukawa Tuhura, In the Rainbow

BEST WRITER: NZ

James Watson & Vince McMillan, Kura

BEST DIRECTOR: NZ NARRATIVE

Lauren Porteous, Loner

BEST SHOW (Anthology): NZ NARRATIVE

Millennial Jenny

BEST SHOW (Episodic): NZ NARRATIVE

Sextortion

PITCH COMPETITION:

Nine projects presented at our inaugural Pitch Competition.

WINNER

I Am Not Straight, presented by Laura Jane Turner

RUNNER-UP

Kith & Kin, presented by Melissa Malone

ALUMNI AWARDS:

These awards recognise ongoing excellence in online content creation, and ongoing contribution to NZ Web Fest.

ALUMNI AWARDS: INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE

Atsushi Ogata

ALUMNI AWARDS: NZ FACTUAL

Vicki Makutu

ALUMNI AWARDS: NZ NARRATIVE

Emmett Skilton & Holly Shervey

DIRECT SELECTION AWARDS:

These partner festivals have chosen shows from #NZWF20 for their next editions. Partner festivals which were postponed or cancelled in 2020 will present their selections from #NZWF19 at their next editions.

Apulia Web Fest: Deluxe Motion
Asia Web Awards: Naughty Bits
Die Seriale: Water
Japan Web Fest: Misconceptions
Montreal Digital Web Fest: Into the Pickle Jar
New Jersey Web Fest: Millennial Jenny
Santa Monica Web Fest: Maui
Seoul Web Fest: Maui
Sicily Web Fest: Sextortion
Sydney Web Fest: In the Rainbow

Published on 14 November 2020