'Lion': 20 award nominations in Hollywood

Tonight I'm extremely proud to announce that 'Lion' has received an outstanding 20 award nominations at the famous "IndieX Film Fest" of Los Angeles, California (US).

My short is the most nominated of all submitted films!

In detail, I received two nominations for the 'Genre Categories':

- Best Horror Short;

- Best Fantasy Short.

Check out all the nominations here.

Furthermore 'Lion' received another 18 nominations for the 'Technical Categories' (individual awards):

- Best Producers (Luca Vannella, Alexis Continente, Vincenzo Mastrantonio, Bobby Holland Hanton, Ferdinando Merolla, Roberto Paglialunga);

- Best Male Director;

- Best Young Actor (Pedro Sánchez);

- Best Supporting Actor (Michael Segal);  

- Best Supporting Actress (Tania Mercader);

- Best Production Design (Carlos J. López, Carlos B. Luise); 

- Best Cinematography (Juanma Postigo);

- Best Editing (Daniel Salinas);

- Best Sound Design (Christian Valente);

- Best Sound Mixing (Christian Valente);

- Best Sound Editing (Christian Valente);

- Best Original Score (Francesco Tresca);

- Best Special FX (Sarah O'Brien);

- Best Visual FX (Luca Visual FX);

- Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Daniele Nastasi, Niamhy Glynn);

- Best Special Makeup (Sarah O'Brien);

- Best Set Design (Carlos J. López, Carlos B. Luise);

- Best Original Song ("The Roar of the King" by Francesco Tresca).

You can read all the nominations here.

And now we just have to wait for the jury's decision... Let's keep our fingers crossed!

Congratulations to all the cast & crew!!!