
Awards
Short films selected for the Festival's competition program are eligible for the short film awards, presented in two categories: documentary and non-documentary. Each category includes the Grand Jury Prize, Jury Prize, and Special Mention, with winners selected by a distinguished jury comprising film critics, filmmakers, and environmental experts. In addition to the main awards, the festival also presents special awards, which vary each year to recognize outstanding achievements and unique contributions by participating filmmakers.
Awards 2026
Main Competition
Documentary Competition
Grand Jury Prize
Mailee Osten-Tan
15 min · 2026 · Thailand · Thai, English
Jury Prize
Kawin Sirichantakul กวิน สิริจันทกุล
15 min · 2026 · Thailand · Thai
Honorable Mention
Muendaw Kamontum เหมือนดาว กมลธรรม
15 min · 2025 · Thailand · Thai
Non-Documentary Competition
Grand Jury Prize
Yusuke Yoshida
12 min · 2023 · Japan · Japanese
Jury Prize
Yoo Ji-in
15 min · 2025 · Republic of Korea · Korean
Honorable Mention
Hans Rivera
14 min · 2026 · Philippines, Thailand · Tagalog
Special Awards
Founder's Special Award
Thida Swe
15 min · 2025 · Myanmar · Burmese
Young Filmmaker Award
Wayne Lim
8 min · 2024 · Singapore, Iceland · English
Audience Award
Kawin Sirichantakul กวิน สิริจันทกุล
15 min · 2026 · Thailand · Thai
Jury members

Lydia Dean Pilcher
Lydia Dean Pilcher is a filmmaker, cultural strategist, and two-time Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated producer of over 40 feature films and series. Her NY-based production company, Cine Mosaic, works with international partners, studios, unions, and UN Climate Change to foster clean energy transitions and climate-themed storytelling. At the Columbia University Climate School, she teaches Climatic Change: Storytelling Arts, Zeitgeist and Our Future, an interdisciplinary graduate course to explore climate solutions in complex stories for film, television, and creative writing. She holds an MFA in Film & Television, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and a BA in Political Science and Communications.

Patiparn Boontarig
Patiparn Boontarig is an independent film director, producer, and screenwriter whose work explores social issues, environmental issues and equality through both fiction and documentary filmmaking. His debut feature film, Solids by the Seashore, has screened at more than 30 international film festivals worldwide. The film received two awards at the Busan International Film Festival, the LG OLED New Currents Award and the NETPAC Award for emerging filmmakers. It also won the Prix du Jury Award and the Coup de Coeur INALCO Award at the Festival International des Cinémas d’Asie de Vesoul.
In addition, he has been selected to participate in numerous international film workshops, labs, and project markets, including Asian Film Academy, Talents Tokyo, FOCUS ASIA, Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum, Docs by the Sea, and Thai Pitch at Cannes.

Poramin Watnakornbancha
From micro-patches in urban settings to the 1,000-kilometre expanse of the Mekong River, Poramin Watnakornbancha has spent his career exploring the frontiers of nature advocacy. As the Executive Director of the Green World Foundation, he focuses on re-rooting modern society into the ecosystems that sustain us. His work—ranging from the Ecowalk initiative to long-distance river pilgrimages—centres on the belief that saving nature begins with seeing it clearly and feeling it deeply. Poramin joins the CCCL jury looking for authentic voices that capture the intricate, often unseen threads binding human stories to a changing planet, ultimately fostering hope and a fundamental need for contact with the natural world.








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