The 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Live-Action film “Feeling Through” (USA) by Doug Roland, won the Best Film Gold Medal, and a total of 6 Gold and 2 Silver Medals, in a total of 11 nominations! Doug Roland won also the Gold medals for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Feeling through had an excellent score getting an average of 93/100 in the semifinals and finals, where it won the match-ups against the highly artistic “’91” (Slovenia) by Luka Stigl and “One, Half” (Iran) by Javid Farahani, who won the Bronze and Silver medals for Best film respectively.

Among the participating countries, we had for the first time participating films in Film Olympiad from Brazil, Benin, Norway, Denmark, Slovenia, Israel, Indonesia and South Korea.

We are proud of all our filmmakers and nominees, but a special mention must be made for two. Christian Nielsen, writer of the lyrics of the music video “I Am a Very Special Being” was our first ever nominee with autism, in the “Best Message” category. Robert Tarango, the first-ever DeafBlind actor to be featured in a film, was nominated in the “Best Supporting actor” category ending up winning the Gold Medal in his category!

Their tremendous efforts inspire us and we congratulate them along with the rest of our nominees and winners!