Best Indie Short: Missing Piece by Andrew Moodie (Canada)
Best Documentary Short: Saving Chinatown – The Rise of The Dragons by Jimmy Chan (Canada)
Best Romantic Short: Bleh by Megan Chumbley (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Adam by Martin Balaguer (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Open House by Mikaela McParlan (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: The Hitman by Matthew Donley (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Killing Georgia Jones by Andrew Gallerani (USA)
Best Action Short: Super Dilemma by Chase Yi (USA)
Best Mystery Short: A Private Education by Jamie Knox (Canada)
Best Horror Short: No More by Fabricio Estevam Mira (Brazil)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Parallel by Shawyon Fazel (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Glory & Injustice by Jamieson Tabb (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Nomad by Abdulrahman El Abyad, Lynne Zakhour, and Tamara Qaddoumi (Lebanon)
Best Student Short: Where The Bird Goes by Troy Charbonnet (USA)
Best Animation Short: Giving Meat To A Skeleton by Lucas Novak (USA)
Best Women Short: Darling Mother_B-side by Han-Ling Chuang (Taiwan)
Best LGBTQ Short: For I Am Dead by Patricia Delso Lucas (Belgium)
Best Microfilm: Come Healing by Robert Burns (USA)
Best Music Video: Argent Glass by Katsuyuki Nakanishi (Japan)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Strings Attached by Andy Wolf, Marie Förster, Jessica Hutchinson, Autumn T. Dang, Inger Berit Grøterud, Johann-Christof Laubisch, and Prarthana Joshi (UK)
Best Web and New Media: Made In America by Charles Victor Nunley IV (USA)
Best Parody Short: Babysitter’s Club by Tess Paras (USA)
Best Director (Female): Tailiah Breon for Grief (USA)
Best Director (Male): Andrew Moodie for Missing Piece (Canada)
Best Student Director (Female): Gabrielle Addison Barton for 1-800-777-7777 (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Robert Burns for Come Healing (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Shuwen Qiu for Paper Hawk (Australia)
Best First Time Director (Male): Robert Gilbert and Griffin Stevens for Thrill of Missing Out (UK)
Best Actress: Harriet Webb for Thrill of Missing Out (UK)
Best Actor: Fabricio Estevam Mira for No More (Brazil)
Best Acting Duo: Karen O’Leary and Ella Gilbert for Finding the Lighthouse (New Zealand)
Best Ensemble Cast: Mike Ricci, Justine Christensen, Chase Jeffels, and Rosalie Tremblay for A Private Education (Canada)
Best Cinematography: Evan Feng for Where The Bird Goes (USA)
Best Production Design: Darling Mother_B-side (Taiwan)
Best Original Score: Tom Bourgeois for For I Am Dead (Belgium)
Best Original Story: Michael Cox and Annie Wykes for Finding the Lighthouse (New Zealand)
Best Short Script: Flat Blurbs by John S McCloskey (USA)



























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