WINNERS 2020
Congratulations!
All the winners from #NZWF20
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 🙂 @NZWebFest: FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM
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
(Joint Winners)
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 & 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 NARRATIVE
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
ALUM AWARDS
These awards recognise ongoing excellence in online content creation, and ongoing contribution to NZ Web Fest.
INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE: Atsushi Ogata
NZ FACTUAL: Vicki Makutu
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