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The California MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS Announce Final Nominees for Year’s Best Music Videos and Films

TasteTV and the CALIFORNIA MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS are pleased to announce the Finalist Nominees in the 4th Annual awards competition for all categories, including films and documentaries. In addition, selected Special Achievement Award Honorees have been announced.

This year’s competition has been fierce, with scores of fantastic, creative and exciting music videos and short films.

The CALIFORNIA MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS celebrate some of the most exciting and creative California-influenced music, musicians and artists. They honor great work and that California connection!

Additional Award Nominees and Honorees may be announced prior to the 2021 awards ceremony.

MUSIC VIDEO FINALISTS

Best Male Solo Artist

  • Dear America, Anas Tolba, Ibrahim Zafar
  • Everything’s Gonna Be Alright, Karissma Sangaria Robinson, Phillip Solomon Stewart
  • Friendly Neighborhood Poltergeist, Lauren-ann Smith, David Mace-Kaff
  • I’m Still Dreaming | Official videoclip, Jessyka Lapierre, Vega Musique
  • Love & Rock N’ Roll, Michael Everett
  • My Sea, Daniel Carneiro

Best Female Solo Artist

  • Mothica – Blackout, Ian Rowe, Mothica
  • Elodie Rêverie-Under the Radar, Elizabeth Douglass
  • KNGGEORGE – Crucified, Jimmy G Logue
  • Forgive Me, Matthew Brown, Leah Aldridge
  • It’s Been A While Since I Went Outside, Danielle Eva Schwob
  • Sky Is Falling, Jeremy Eichenbaum Jasmine Crowe
  • SOMEBODY, VISION ZHENG, YULI CHOU
  • TOM SAYS, Alie Mac
  • Tomorrow I’ll Try Again, Jake Huber
  • Unseen, Naïma Pöhler Naima Chebahi, Helo Roussel, Naïma Pöhler

Best Duet

  • Dream, Jose Muro Maxi Witrak, Kim Berthet
  • Perfect Sense (Feat. Angus Murray), Ozan Fikri
  • Stars and Rabbit – Attic No. 7 (Live in Jakarta), Riva Pratama
  • SYMBIOSIS, Nacci Alberto

Best Band or Group

  • TBA

Best Music Video

  • TBA

Best Movement (Choreography)

  • Tumba Catimba, Daniel Piñeros, Enrique Mendoza, Santiago Valencia
  • Rodin, Rhys Tivey, Natalie Deryn Johnson, Amyra Leon
  • SYMBIOSIS, Nacci Alberto
  • Made It Look Eas,y Xavier Toscano, Adam Parmalee
  • Dangerous Liaison, Austin Archer
  • First Day Back, Stuart Summerville, Rebecca Malaret
  • Walk of Contrasts, Max Masri, Chelsea Eng

Best Eye (Cinematography)

  • Mothica – Blackout, Ian Rowe, Mothica
  • Tumba Catimba, Daniel Piñeros Enrique, Mendoza, Santiago Valencia
  • Alpha Wolf – AKUDAMA, Third Eye Visuals
  • Stars and Rabbit – Attic No. 7 (Live in Jakarta), Riva Pratama
  • The Life, Rickey Bird Jr, Anthony Appello
  • The Sun, Daniel Carneiro
  • UMEED, Joydeep Sen, Lal Bhatia, Imran Zaki

Coolest Video Effects

  • Mothica – Blackout, Ian Rowe, Mothica
  • Erasure: Nerves of Steel, Brad Hammer, Tyler Stone, Neil Blanket
  • Oo La La, Frank Rogala
  • The News, Jonah S Oskow-Schoenbrod
  • Wasted, Denys Shchukin

Lyrics and Verse

  • Rodin, Rhys Tivey, Natalie Deryn Johnson, Amyra Leon
  • Elodie Rêverie-Under the Radar
  • KNGGEORGE – Crucified, Jimmy G Logue
  • Dear America, Anas Tolba, Ibrahim Zafar
  • O My Nation (Ya Ummati), Mohammed K Paika
  • See You Again, Dan Foldes
  • Time Will Tell, Melinda Holbein-Loeffler, Max Kaiser, Spencer Johnson
  • Twisted Dream, Darren Stein, Christine Fox

Best Inspirational Video

  • Anybody Out There?, George Thelen
  • Brighter Days (Official Music Video), Jamie Alimorad, Elizabeth Sim
  • Quarantine Anthem – I’m so sick of this corona
  • We Will Win (A Music Video for Covid19 Awareness), Simon Twu

Made Me Laugh (Humor)

  • TOM SAYS, Alie Mac
  • See You Again, Dan Foldes, David Noble
  • #FROZEN, Nina Yndis
  • Beat Slayer, Leif Gantvoort
  • Can You Take It?, Greg Hoy
  • Hail Mary, Jake Huber
  • JEOPARDY!, Jake Huber
  • Keyboard Lion, Tiger Dek
  • Red Blooded American, Taina Rosa
  • Tryna Slurp, Drew VanderMale

Best Fashion and Makeup

  • Tumba Catimba, Daniel Piñeros Enrique, Mendoza, Santiago Valencia
  • Erasure: Nerves of Steel, Brad Hammer, Tyler Stone, Neil Blanket
  • Twisted Dream, Darren Stein, Christine Fox
  • JEOPARDY!, Jake Huber
  • Sky Is Falling, Jeremy Eichenbaum, Jasmine Crowe
  • Someday, Petros Antoniadis, Panos Mouzourakis
  • In Between – Margø, Michael B MacDonald, Cassidy Margolis

Best Location or Set Design

  • Sky Is Falling, Jeremy Eichenbaum, Jasmine Crowe
  • AU79, Franziska Schläpfer
  • Dominoes, Joey Chavez, Adam Chavez
  • Before I Let U Go, Austin Archer, Cramer england
  • Oo La La, Frank Rogala
  • Chameleon, Paul Kmiec

Best LGBTQ

  • Erasure: Nerves of Steel
  • Aglow, Jeremiah Gray , Ty Metcalfe
  • Walk of Contrasts, Max Masri, Chelsea Eng
  • All the Young Dudes (short film), William Stead, Cameron Greco

Best Editing

  • The Sun, Daniel Carneiro
  • Walk of Contrasts, Max Masri, Chelsea Eng
  • It’s Been A While Since I Went Outside, Danielle Eva Schwob

Best Directing

  • Mothica – Blackout, Ian Rowe, Mothica
  • Twisted Dream, Darren Stein, Christine Fox
  • Don’t Make Me Get The Semi
  • Woah!, Jake Huber
  • AU79, Franziska Schläpfer
  • Unseen, Naïma Pöhler, Naima Chebahi, Helo Roussel, Naïma Pöhler
  • Oo La La, Frank Rogala

Best Action or Adventure

  • TBA

Best Foreign Language Music Video

  • AU79, Franziska Schläpfer
  • Unseen, Naïma Pöhler, Naima Chebahi, Helo Roussel, Naïma Pöhler
  • My Sea, Daniel Carneiro
  • Tumba Catimba, Daniel Piñeros, Enrique Mendoza, Santiago Valencia
  • World’s Reflection
  • Keyboard Lion, Tiger Dek

The Trippy Award

  • Before I Let U Go, Austin Archer, Cramer england
  • The Silence, Malcolm Solomon
  • Got My Teflon On, Hank DeGreef
  • Strange, Jessica Mulder, Travis Pavur
  • Yellow Butterfly, Heather Murray

Best Latinx

  • TBA

Best Sci-Fi Music Video

  • AU79, Franziska Schläpfer
  • Happy Sad Face, Heart Shield, Rawn Erickson II The Machine , Shirah Wagner , Rawn Erickson II
  • Imperfect Bones, Heather Murray, Paul Oneto
  • Noël & Jeremy – Red Light (Official Music Video), Noël Ill
  • Rodin, Rhys Tivey, Natalie Deryn Johnson, Amyra Leon

Best Live or Studio Performance

  • Do You Think of Me?
  • Insert, Eject: The Mormons Live at Cafe NELA, Peter Tintle

Best Musical

  • ESSENTIAL BUSINESS (A “Mini-Opera” created in COVID-19 Quarantine), Judith Lynn Stillman
  • LAG: A Zoomsical Comedy, Haddon Kime, Ariel Fristoe, Lee Osorio

FILM & DOCUMENTARY FINALISTS

Best Mini Music Film or Documentary (3-10 Minutes)

  • All the Young Dudes, William Stead, Cameron Greco
  • Temple: Its a Trash Life
  • World’s Reflection
  • SYMBIOSIS, Nacci Alberto
  • Blue Fantasy, Mei Qi, Nakamura Taiki Chen Jian, Jing qi Li, Simon Twu
  • Drowning in Paradise, Drue de Milo
  • Goodbye, Trevor Rock, Grant Richards, George Thelen
  • Record Plant, Sausalito – Historic Nor-Cal Music Studio
  • She Moved Through the Fair, Randy Copus, Tim Kennedy

Best Short Music Film or Documentary (10-40 Minutes)

  • Planet Cozmo, Jack Campise Misha Maguire
  • 1.6, Kirill Proskurin Maxim Matyushchenko, Alexander Schelkushkin, Sofia Prokhorova
  • A Band Widow’s Lament, Patrick Sites, Tomas Herrera, Doug Usher Patrick Sites, Doug Usher
  • ATTENTIONSPAM, Kilo Watts -, The Drone Ahhtension Planet Arts
  • El Corrido de Anza, Armando Aparicio Los Cenzontles
  • Little French Fish, Eva Lanska James Norbury
  • Sunset Blvd
  • The Revivalists: Made In Muscle Shoals, Jay Sansone Morgan Young
  • Unspittable, Michael B MacDonald

Best Feature Music Film or Documentary 

  • DJ Hound Dog, Jon Jacobs, Migel Delgado, Andy Schefter, Agostino Carollo
  • Family song, Caroline Pochon
  • Insert, Eject: The Mormons Live at Cafe NELA, Peter Tintle
  • The Art of Worship, Ahmed Khairat

MUSIC VIDEO FINALISTS

True California

  • TOM SAYS, Alie Mac
  • Brighter Days (Official Music Video), Jamie Alimorad, Elizabeth Sim
  • Sky Is Falling, Jeremy Eichenbaum, Jasmine Crowe
  • What Am I Afraid Of, Calvin Kai Ku, Ken Newman
  • A Walk In The Park, Ginger Daniels, Michael Mayers GingerPants Productions
  • Washing Of The Water, Mary McGuinness, Paul Buchholz
  • The Chain, Alie Mac, Jocelyn McMahon-Babalis

Best EDM/Dance

  • SOMEBODY, VISION ZHENG, YULI CHOU
  • Made It Look Easy, Xavier Toscano, Adam Parmalee
  • The Sun, Daniel Carneiro
  • Erasure: Nerves of Steel, Brad Hammer, Tyler Stone, Neil Blanket
  • Aglow, Jeremiah Gray , Ty Metcalfe
  • AU79, Franziska Schläpfer
  • In The, Luca Nistler
  • MOONLIGHT, Leonardo Martinez, Amber Ford E.L.M. Entertainment LLC, Dark Horse Productions
  • You Dance in the Dark

Best Hip Hop

  • Hail Mary, Jake Huber
  • JEOPARDY!, Jake Huber
  • Quarantine Anthem – I’m so sick of this corona
  • First Day Back, Stuart Summerville, Rebecca Malaret
  • Bring it Back
  • Nobody/Trust Nobody, Daniel Osorio
  • Put it on Repeat, Karissma Robinson, Phillip Solomon Stewart
  • VooDoo, Karyn Bailey, Daniel Mauicio

Best Pop

  • Dear America, Anas Tolba, Ibrahim Zafar
  • Friendly Neighborhood Poltergeist, David Mace-Kaff, Lauren-ann Smith, David Mace-Kaff
  • Tomorrow I’ll Try Again
  • Dream, Maxi Witrak, Jose Muro, Kim Berthet
  • Dangerous Liaison, Austin Archer
  • All For You
  • Shoulders, Joe Laporte, Dave Liehn Frasier Glenn
  • The New Norm, Pat Campo

Best Rap

  • Nobody/Trust Nobody, Daniel Osorio
  • Don’t Make Me Get The Semi, Jake Huber
  • Monday, Craig Thomas Marlee Williamson, Purposed Productions
  • Social Media Addiction Rap
  • We Don’t Play, Daniel Osorio
  • Woah!, Jake Huber

California Heat Index

  • TBA

Best Love Song

  • Before I Let U Go, Austin Archer, Cramer england
  • Friendly Neighborhood Poltergeist, David Mace-Kaff, Lauren-ann Smith, David Mace-Kaff
  • Nobody/Trust Nobody, Daniel Osorio
  • See You Again, Dan Foldes, David Noble
  • Forgive Me, Matthew Brow,n Leah Aldridge
  • Perfect Sense (Feat. Angus Murray), Ozan Fikri
  • Twisted Dream, Darren Stein, Christine Fox
  • Truth Or Lies (X Global Mix), Will Etra

This Rocks

  • See You Again, Dan Foldes, David Noble
  • What Am I Afraid Of?, Calvin Kai Ku, Ken Newman
  • Can You Take It?, Greg Hoy
  • Mothica – Blackout, Ian Rowe
  • Alpha Wolf – AKUDAMA, Third Eye Visuals
  • The Life, Rickey Bird Jr, Anthony Appello
  • Lockdown, David Petrucci
  • Camiseta Grande (Big T-Shirt), bradley oliver wilkinson-vega

Best Metal

  • Alpha Wolf – AKUDAMA, Third Eye Visuals
  • The Life, Rickey Bird Jr, Anthony Appello
  • Hidden Hand, Dylan Howard
  • Kentucky Windage, Patrick Sites, Tomas Herrera, Doug Usher

Best Animation

  • Hidden Hand, Dylan Howard
  • Camiseta Grande (Big T-Shirt), bradley oliver wilkinson-vega
  • Truth Or Lies (X Global Mix), Will Etra
  • Tryna Slurp, Drew VanderMale
  • Elodie Rêverie-Under the Radar, Elizabeth Douglass
  • Wasted, Denys Shchukin
  • And Then It’s Over
  • Angel Vox, Walter Santucci

Best Folk, Country or Blues

  • Do You Think of Me?
  • Kentucky Windage, Patrick Sites, Tomas Herrera, Doug Usher
  • Perfect Sense (Feat. Angus Murray)
  • Love & Rock N’ Roll, Michael Everett, Michael Everett
  • Time Will Tell, Melinda Holbein-Loeffler, Max Kaiser, Spencer Johnson
  • The Hard Road Trio- Mama Spin Me Round

Best Instrumental or Jazz

  • SYMBIOSIS, Nacci Alberto
  • UMEED, Joydeep Sen Lal Bhatia, Imran Zaki
  • FROM HERE, Carlos Cuenca Cebrián
  • There Are Heroes (Stay Put Blues), Paul Helou

Best World Music

  • UMEED, Joydeep Sen Lal Bhatia, Imran Zaki
  • Everything’s Gonna Be Alright, Karissma Sangaria Robinson, Phillip Solomon Stewart
  • My Sea, Daniel Carneiro
  • Tumba Catimba, Daniel Piñeros Enrique Mendoza, Santiago Valencia
  • Delirious (Confined), Brice Blanloeil, New Heart
  • Someday, Petros Antoniadis Panos Mouzourakis
  • Where is music born?, Carlos Cuenca Cebrián
  • World’s Reflection

COVID / FILMED AT HOME FINALISTS

Best Music Video

  • It’s Been A While Since I Went Outside, Danielle Eva Schwob
  • Stars and Rabbit – Attic No. 7 (Live in Jakarta), Riva Pratama
  • TOM SAYS, Alie Mac
  • Everything’s Gonna Be Alright, Karissma Sangaria Robinson, Phillip Solomon Stewart
  • Truth Or Lies (X Global Mix), Will Etra
  • Keyboard Lion, Tiger Dek
  • Delirious (Confined), Brice Blanloeil, New Heart
  • Can You Take It?, Greg Hoy
  • Lockdown, David Petrucci
  • The New Norm, Pat Campo

Best Directing

  • Stars and Rabbit – Attic No. 7 (Live in Jakarta), Riva Pratama
  • TOM SAYS, Alie Mac
  • Can You Take It?, Greg Hoy
  • Lockdown, David Petrucci
  • The New Norm, Pat Campo
  • Someday, Petros Antoniadis, Panos Mouzourakis
  • Milena – Higher Hopes, Milena Lainovic
  • The Challenge Jacob McFadden (mini film)
  • David Koresh Fan Club, Matthew Oates, Nate Cole
  • There Are Heroes (Stay Put Blues), Paul Helou

Best Editing

  • Lockdown, David Petrucci
  • Everything’s Gonna Be Alright, Karissma Sangaria Robinson, Phillip Solomon Stewart
  • Delirious (Confined), Brice Blanloeil, New Heart
  • First Day Back, Stuart Summerville, Rebecca Malaret
  • COVID-20, Sid Patwa

Best Film or Documentary, Any Length

  • ESSENTIAL BUSINESS (A “Mini-Opera” created in COVID-19 Quarantine), Judith Lynn Stillman
  • LAG: A Zoomsical Comedy, Haddon Kime, Ariel Fristoe, Lee Osorio
  • Beat Slayer, Leif Gantvoort
  • Learned, Loved, Left, Camille Cohen
  • SPIRITUAL BATTLE TRILOGY (full version), Sarahí Lay Trigo

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER HONOREES

The WORD

  • Monday, Craig Thomas, Marlee Williamson, Purposed Productions
  • Social Media Addiction Rap
  • The News, Jonah S Oskow-Schoenbrod
  • That’s Life (The Politician Speaks)

Peace

  • Everything’s Gonna Be Alright, Karissma Sangaria Robinson, Phillip Solomon Stewart
  • What Am I Afraid Of, Calvin Kai Ku, Ken Newman
  • I Need Hope, Cyrus James Griffin, Paul G. Griffin, Alex “The Free Mind” Batres

Social Justice and Hope

  • All the Young Dudes, William Stead, Cameron Greco
  • Brighter Days (Official Music Video), Jamie Alimorad, Elizabeth Sim
  • You Are Gold – the Music Video, Barbara Heller

Breakout Storytellers

  • Dominoes, Joey Chavez, Adam Chavez
  • Tumba Catimba, Daniel Piñeros, Enrique Mendoza, Santiago Valencia
  • The Life, Rickey Bird Jr, Anthony Appello
  • Friendly Neighborhood Poltergeist, Lauren-ann Smith, David Mace-Kaff
  • Planet Cozmo, Jack Campise, Misha Maguire

Spotlight Award

  • Stars and Rabbit – Attic No. 7 (Live in Jakarta), Riva Pratama

Student Recognition

  • Learned, Loved, Left, Camille Cohen
  • Temple: Its a Trash Life
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