48ISFF Awards
at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood.

For us, all of the participants are grand winners, because they've created an amazing short! But also because of the hard work of our associates and partners and sponsors!.

Our Executive Producers Francesco Vitali and Chris Siametis, wanted to thank our host for this year HH Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe, as well as our hostess Brigitte Bertrand. Both were extraordinary in shining a spotlight on these incredibly creative projects, and we can not thank them enough.

A great thanks to our Tech God Director of Technology John Barounis for his creative, endless passion for our festival. Our creative Art Director, and Chief Design Officer Ilenya Lekka our supportive Chief Scribbler Jason Bevly, our gorgeous head of operation manager Sydney Grant and our fantastic Publicist Monica Earle.

We are grateful to the DGA President Mr. Paris Barclay as well profoundly would like to thanks to the one and only Tim Webber, and his fantastic team at the Directors Guild of America, who worked so hard to make everything so perfect! We also would like to sincerely thank our all of our associates for their hard work and support, Kathleen Aiello, Mary Augeri, Sandra Meyer, Steven Madison, Mary Osborn, Dimitra Sakelariou, Fey Visgilio and Terence Middleton!

Last but not least our great sponsors Thy-Renew and the CEO of GATE Therapeutics, Mr. George Damascus and his lovely wife Efi Damascus as well our festival partners the managing director Amanda Toney and the founder and CEO of STAGE32 Mr. Richard Botto.