Honorable Mentions: June 2019

Independent Shorts AwardsBest Indie Short: What Goes Up by Christopher O’Reilly (USA)

Best Drama Short: Iris by Jerry J White III (USA)

Best Drama Short: Omolara by Esther Kemi Gbadamosi (Nigeria)

Best Documentary Short: A Place to Call Home by Ryan Sadaghiani (USA)

Best Documentary Short: OdeToSay by Aleksandra Zdziech (Poland)

Best Romantic Short: A Ring by RayMartell Moore (USA)

Best Action Short: The ComeBack: Le Retour by Marc Faucher (Canada)

Best Crime Short: Kalai by Karthik Siva (Sri Lanka)

Best Sci-Fi Short: Spice Frontier by Jalil Sadool and Adam Meyer (USA)

Best Sci-Fi Short: The ComeBack: Le Retour by Marc Faucher (Canada)

Best Experimental Short: Do You Understand? by Kurt Eberle (Switzerland)

Best Student Short: Phoebe by Kyra Gardner (USA)

Best Animation Short: A Scribbled Memory by Bhulla Beghal (UK)

Best Animation Short: Spice Frontier by Jalil Sadool and Adam Meyer (USA)

Best Women Short: Distant Stars by Emily Fisher (USA)

Best LGBTQ Short: In The Woods We Can Be Together by Ryan Schneider (USA)

Best Microfilm: A Scribbled Memory by Bhulla Beghal (UK)

Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Herrings by Keith Chamberlain (USA)

Best Mobile Short: In The Woods We Can Be Together by Ryan Schneider (USA)

Best Director (Female): Raey Ang for Reprise (Canada)

Best Director (Male): Kain Baigent for Ghosts That Cry in the Dark (Australia)

Best Student Director (Female): Lucy K Moroukian for 2BR02B (USA)

Best Student Director (Male): Daniel Antunez for Social Media (USA)

Best First Time Director (Female): Brooke Trantor for Yours Are Mine (USA)

Best First Time Director (Female): Dana Lenets for Escape (Ukraine)

Best First Time Director (Female): Emily Fisher for Distant Stars (USA)

Best First Time Director (Male): Mahesh Madhav for How to Bend Concrete in 108 Easy Steps (USA)

Best Actress: Trinity Breanne Perio for One of the Lucky Ones (USA)

Best Actor: David Ogrodowski for Herrings (USA)

Best Acting Duo: Michael Silva and Gabriel Soria for Like Wolves (USA)

Best Acting Ensemble: Boys Club (Australia)

Best Acting Ensemble: Shtriga (USA)

Best Cinematography: Jared M. Leon for VideoGenic (USA)

Best Cinematography: Jeremy Alan Pappas for To You Whom I Love (USA)

Best Editing: Alberto Martín-Aragón for Toast (Spain)

Best Editing: Melvin Deer for Shtriga (USA)

Best Sound Design: Haoyii Lim for One of the Lucky Ones (USA)

Best Sound Design: Kye Saunders for Qualm & Quietus (USA)

Best Original Score: Brennan Villarreal and Dylan Baumgartner for To You Whom I Love (USA)

Best Original Story: Michael Gavino for For the Greater Good (USA)

PLATINUM AWARDS

GOLD AWARDS

SILVER AWARDS

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