Bronze Awards: August 2022

Best Indie Short: Guru by Thomas Dalais (USA)

Best Drama Short: 13th Round by Michael Trainor (Canada)

Best Documentary Short: Walker by Mike Rapsys (USA)

Best Comedy Short: Wheel Gone Kid Three And A Half-Plane Stupid by Matt Holt (UK)

Best Dark Comedy Short: Patient Zero by Ilia Smirnov (Russia)

Best Thriller Short: The Gestalt Shift by Logan Michelle (USA)

Best Sci-Fi Short: The Contract by Sean Heyman (USA)

Best Western Short: The Hanging of William Cane by Preston Walden (USA)

Best Experimental Short: My Mother’s Last Dance by Ivan Knyazev (Russia)

Best Student Short: Acquiescence by Manya Branham Glassman (USA)

Best Animation Short: Phygital Supermarket by Nix Liu Xin and Yuting Zhu (USA)

Best Women Short: The Pussycat by David Charles Bird (USA)

Best LGBTQ Short: Two Anxious Bisexuals by Megan A Zebrowski (USA)

Best Romantic Short: Back in the Saddle by Ronda Suder (USA)

Best Microfilm: Spoken Melody by Arnau Giol Trilles (Spain)

Best Screendance Short: Under My Skin by Liam Azogui (USA)

Best Music Video: Arlo Sings the Blues (In the Middle of the Night) by R.J. Sullivan (USA)

Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Dead-Enders (Season 2) by Dani Hanks, Katie Colwell, Mark DePasquale, and Reed Yurman (USA)

Best Web and New Media: Digital Affairs by Elor De Mayo (USA)

Best Director (Female): Pamela Matew for Perfectly Disturbed (USA)

Best Director (Male): Jonathon Kimble for Metamorphosis (USA)

Best Student Director (Female): Heesoo Choi for It’s Raining Outside (USA)

Best Student Director (Male): Noah Pescara for After You (USA)

Best First Time Director (Female): Ebony Patrice Jones for Jungle Alley (USA)

Best First Time Director (Male): Thomas Dalais for Guru (USA)

Best Young Filmmaker: James Hsieh Bylinsky for Aaron and the Train (USA)

Best Actress: Susan Blair for Back in the Saddle (USA)

Best Actor: Sean Heyman for The Contract (USA)

Best Acting Duo: Victoria Liu and Donald Truong for Holy Smokes (USA)

Best Ensemble Cast: Reece Jagpal-Mohan, Rita Jagpal-Mohan, Eleanor Burke, Gabriel Lockwood, Peter McManus, and Joanne Wells for Wheel Gone Kid Three And A Half-Plane Stupid (UK)

Best Editing: Jules Fox for 85 (Australia)

Best Production Design: Jungle Alley (USA)

Best Sound Design: Red Hook Post for Check The Locks (USA)

Best Original Score: Keegan Dewitt for Check The Locks (USA)

Best Original Story: Ajay Varma Nandyala and Joseph Van Landschoot for Agent Heads (USA)

Best Short Script: Black Dawn by Letizia Arcaleni (Italy)

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