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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