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Audience Award
I Declare War (D: Robert Wilson & Jason Lapeyre)
AMD ‘Next Wave’ Spotlight Competition
Best Picture: Flicker (D: Patrik Eklund)
Best Director: Charles de Lauzirika (Crave)
Best Screenplay: Max Porcelijn (Plan C)
Best Actor: Michael Eklund (Errors of the Human Body)
Best Actress: Alina Levshin (Combat Girls)
Horror Features
Best Picture: Here Comes the Devil (D: Adrián García Bogliano)
Best Screenplay: Adrián García Bogliano (Here Comes the Devil)
Best Director: Adrián García Bogliano (Here Comes the Devil)
Special Mention: Hajime Ohata (Henge)
Best Actor: Francisco Barreiro (Here Comes the Devil)
Best Actress: Laura Caro (Here Comes the Devil)
Special Mention: Katherine Isabelle (American Mary)
Fantastic Features
Best Picture: Vanishing Waves (D: Kristina Buozyte)
Best Director: Kristina Buozyte (Vanishing Waves)
Best Screenplay: Bruno Samper, Kristina Buozyte (Vanishing Waves)
Best Actor: Rene Bitorajac (Vegetarian Cannibal)
Best Actress: Jurga Jutaite (Vanishing Waves)
Gutbuster Comedy Features
Best Picture: New Kids Nitro (D: Steffen Haars & Flip Van der Kuil)
Best Director: Dario Russo (Danger 5)
Best Screenplay: John Mitchell (The History of Future Folk)
Best Actor: Chapman To (Vulgaria)
Best Actress: Rina Takeda (Dead Sushi)
Documentary Features
Best Picture: The American Scream (D: Michael Stephenson)
Best Director: Rodney Ascher (Room 237)
Short Fuse: Horror Shorts
Winner: “At the Formal” (D: Andrew Kavanagh, Australia)
Runner-up: “The Sleepover” (D: Chris Cullari, USA)
Fantastic Shorts
Winner: “Record/Play” (D: Jesse Atlas, USA)
Runner-up: “Love” (D: Kaveh Nabatian, Canada)
Drawn and Quartered: Animated Shorts
Winner: “Bendito Machine IV” (D: Jossie Malis, Spain)
Runner-up: “Tram” (D: Michaela Pavlátová, Czech Republic)
This article appears in September 28 • 2012.