"HBHF": Winners of September 2019

It's time to announce the winners of SEPTEMBER'S CONTEST!
Many films were simply outstanding... Our sincere congratulations to the winners and all the finalists!
And now, drum roll please!!! The winners are:

GENRE CATEGORIES:

- Best Feature
"Puppet Killer" (Lisa Ovies, Canada)

- Best Horror:
"Séance" (Johannes Franke, Germany)

- Best Sci-Fi:
"Athena" (Christian Stahl, Germany)
"Eternity" (Anna Sobolevska, Ukraine)

- Best Thriller:
"Dark Social" (Catharina Isenburg, Austria)

- Best Fantasy:
"The man with the hammer" (Mario Zozin, Germany)

- Best Gore:
"Altitude" (Nicole Scherer, Austria)

- Best Dark Comedy:
"A clown's tale" (Alexander Frank, Germany)

- Best Mystery:
"Dr. Friday" (Nathan DuConge, USA)

- Best Crime:
"Desatured" (Marina Stepanska, Ukraine)

- Best Action/Adventure:
"Cold Storage" (Thomas Freundlich, Finland)

- Best Drama:
"La llorona" (Rosana Cuellar, Germany)

- Best Animated:
"All the world is a stage" (Hannes Rall, Singapore)
"Como y porque se ha esfumado Don José" (Moshe Ben Avraham, Spain)
"The beach boy" (Hannes Rall, Germany)
"Them" (Robin Lochmann, Germany)


TECHNICAL CATEGORIES:

- Best Producers:
Mark D'Cruz and Puneet Panesar for "Daemon - The Mirror Lies" (India)

- Best Director:
Marcel Walz for "Blind" (USA)

- Best First Time Director:
Lisa Ovies for "Puppet Killer" (Canada)

- Best Actor:
Aleks Paunovic for "Puppet Killer" (Canada)

- Best Actress:
Sarah French for "Blind" (USA)

- Best Supporting Actor:
Zachary Loewen for "Fever Dream" (Canada)

- Best Supporting Actress:
Isabel Thierauch for "Athena" (Germany)

- Best Young Actor:
Cam Burns for "Letters from a father" (USA)

- Best Young Actress:
Savannah Pabon for "Open House" (USA)

- Best Acting Ensemble:
Enzo Monfre, Brooke Mckinney, Neal Sansing, Michael Morris, Meghan Forbes, Jesse Yandow, Bradford Riley for "Beneath" (USA)

- Best Acting Duo:
Sarah French and Caroline Williams for "Blind" (USA)
Dave Crosland and Benjamin Wise for "The man with the hammer" (Germany)
Nate Irvin and Travis Kent for "The One" (USA)

- Best Cinematography:
Thomas Rist for "Blind" (USA)

- Best Editing:
Oleksandr Chornyi for "Eternity" (Ukraine)

- Best Sound Design:
Nikolas Muhe for "Athena" (Germany)

- Best Original Score:
Michael Klubertanz, Paco Periago, Brendan Gillespie, Amanda Ply for "The Radicalization of Jeff Boyd" (Switzerland)

- Best Original Screenplay:
Dusty Gibson for "A devil on the river" (USA)
Thom Holland for "Beyond the shadows" (Australia)
Uwe Schwarzwalder for "The Radicalization of Jeff Boyd" (Switzerland)
Jose Luis Anaya for "Sofia's eye" (Mexico)

- Best VFX: Xanti Rodriguez for "Lekaime" (Spain)

- Best Costume Design:
Maja Makowski for "Séance" (Germany)

- Best Special FX:
Ryan Nicholson for "Puppet Killer" (Canada)

- Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
Luis Horcasitas for "La llorona" (Germany)

- Best Special Makeup:
Desirée Schober for "Altitude" (Austria)

- Best Production Design:
Merlin Ortner for "The man with the hammer" (Germany)

- Best Trailer:
"Open House" (Joseph Cabato, USA)

- Best Poster:
"Open House" (Joseph Cabato, USA)
"Puppet Killer" (Lisa Ovies, Canada)

- Best Photography:
"13" (Tyler Darkow, USA)
"Enter Sandman" (Becky Doyon, USA)