**CONGRATULATIONS MHFF 2024 WINNERS** 🏆🎉

**JURY AWARDS**

🏆 **Festival Special Award**  
*Left-Behind Children*  
Director: Yuanyuan Zhao  

🏆 **Grand Jury Award**  
*My Love Flows Like a Song*  
Director: Tian Xiao Fan  

🏆 **Best Picture Award**  
*Orange Park*  
Director: Cody Gere  

🏆 **Foreign Film Winner**  
*Through Life and Death*  
Director: Qing Chang  

**Semi Finalists**  
*Gierogi Appa*  
Director: Yeonwoo Kim  

*115*  
Director: Dave Huynh Macon  

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**U.S. FEATURE NARRATIVE FILM WINNERS**

🏆 **1st Place**  
*Dead-End Dreams*  
Director: Malakai Tyne Bisel  

🥈 **2nd Place**  
*Company of Shadows*  
Director: Dirk van Sloten  

🥉 **3rd Place**  
*Descendent*  
Director: Artour Bajanov  

**Semi Finalists**  
*Ketchup on Waffles*  
Director: John Theissen Jr.  

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**SHORT FILM WINNERS**

🏆 **1st Place**  
*Piano Man*  
Director: Zack Beining  

🥈 **2nd Place**  
*Direct Action*  
Director: Tor Kristoffersen  

🥉 **3rd Place**  
*Hybrid*  
Director: Chris Romrell  

**Semi Finalists**  
*Buddy*  
Director: Yeonwoo Kim  

*YOU ARE SPECIAL*  
Director: Ilya Noyabrev  

*Lost in Waves*  
Directors: Joss Berlioux, Franck Marchand  

*Struggling Beneath Mud*  
Director: Hou Jun Yi  

*Dreams of Glory*  
Director: Ian Hui  

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**BEST COMEDY FILM**

🏆 **Winner**  
*Just Like Me*  
Director: Andreas Thelander  

**Semi Finalists**  
*Triggered LOVE*  
Directors: Joell Jackson, Richard Louprasong  

*Hanky Panky*  
Directors: Lindsey Haun, Nick Roth  

*Tricked and Treated*  
Director: Victoria Monai Richards  

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**BEST STUDENT FILM**

🏆 **1st Place**  
*The Cloffice*  
Director: Colton Cates McPherson  

🥈 **2nd Place**  
*Union Blues*  
Director: Maya Shimron  

🥉 **3rd Place**  
*Buddy*  
Director: Yeonwoo Kim  

**Semi Finalists**  
*At the Boundary of Faith*  
Director: Claire Hyunseo Lee  

*Left-Behind Children*  
Director: Yuanyuan Zhao  

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**DOCUMENTARY FILM WINNERS**

🏆 **1st Place**  
*Hope For The Holidays*  
Directors: Yuri Williams, Nathan Cribari  

🥈 **2nd Place**  
*The Years of Darkness*  
Director: Kebabi Hakim  

**Semi Finalists**  
*The Skids Revolution*  
Director: Laura Graham  

*Playing The Chances*  
Director: Michiel ten Kleij  

*The Asifa Bano Story*  
Director: Mina Isabella Jafri Malik  

*What Happened To You*  
Director: Alec Goldberg  

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**WEB SERIES**

🏆 **Winner**  
*Touch the Sky*  
Director: Stephen Limkin  

**Semi Finalists**  
*Trumpet Player*  
Director: Felino Dolloso  

*Ballet*  
Director: Evgeniy Sangadzhiev  

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**BEST ACTRESS/ACTOR**

🏆 **Best Actor**  
*Lost in Waves*  
Directors: Joss Berlioux, Franck Marchand  
Actor: Roel Dirven  

🏆 **Best Actress**  
*Tricked and Treated*  
Director: Victoria Monai Richards  
Actress: Victoria Monai Richards  

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**BEST SCI-FI FILM**

🏆 **Winner**  
*The Red Market*  
Director: Christopher Matthew Spencer  

**Semi Finalist**  
*Event Virus*  
Director: Andrea Fantauzzi  

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**BEST MUSIC VIDEO**

🏆 **Winner**  
*Feel No Burn*  
Director: Aryna Tsyltsyna  

**Semi Finalists**  
*Getting Along*  
Directors: Scott Dobson, Michael Phillip  

*As Each Day Goes By*  
Director: Theresa Kowall-Shipp