Best Indie Short: About by Phil Dunn (UK)
Best Drama Short: Abroad by Enrique Suarez (USA)
Best Documentary Short: The Donbass Children by Lubomir Dankov (Bulgaria)
Best Romantic Short: The Last Two by Amy Huckabay (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Theory of Relatives by Evan Morton (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: From the Clear Blue Sky by James Bachelor (USA)
Best Action Short: Anatomy of An Antihero: Redemption by Meosha Bean and Alan Delabie (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Aks by Satyam Raj (India)
Best Crime Short: DeMarco Cain by Doron Morgan (USA)
Best Mystery Short: Almost. by Elena C. Lockleis (USA)
Best Horror Short: 130 by Tenzin Rabsel (Australia)
Best Fantasy Short: Trick of the Old Cat by Eugene Khazin (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: he110 by Fritz Frauendorf (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Expires 2/11 by Manuel Rodriguez (Canada)
Best Student Short: Dante Falls by Nancy Lin (USA)
Best Animation Short: Doubts by Julie Flanders (USA)
Best Children Short: Secret Summer by Carl Miller (USA)
Best Women Short: Emily by Amir Nikoui, Grace Baldridge, Julia Gallagher, and Sara Spadacene (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Jesse by Vinz Feller (USA)
Best Microfilm: Blue by Salvador Chacon and Aldo Chacon (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: What’s to Come by Stefanie Abel Horowitz (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Beacon on Monument Square by Ronn Kilby (USA)
Best Mobile Short: Careful in the Future by James O’Brien (USA)
Best Music Video: Dilemma: Feenix by Jesse Haaja (Finland)
Best Director (Female): Erika Kramer for Knock Me Down (USA)
Best Director (Male): Steven Belcher for Dead Lyft (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Olivia Wu for Unspoken (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Manuel Rodriguez for Expires 2/11 (Canada)
Best First Time Director (Female): Diana Markosian for Santa Barbara (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Arthur Alencar for Modular Heritage (Canada)
Best Young Filmmaker: Fletcher Turale for 21 Hours Until Midnight (Australia)
Best Actress: Masha Tkachenko for Among the Debris (Ukraine)
Best Actor: Dan Sauer for The Lobbyists (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Martha Wilson for Security Blanket (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Leo Martini for Pastalight (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Diane Sargent and Annie Willett for GPS (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Matt Gibson, Cadden Jones, Ken Jennings, and Monica L. Jones for Dogmate (USA)
Best Cinematography: Jonathan McNee for Portrait (Australia)
Best Editing: Mark Eckersley for 1814 Frost Fair (UK)
Best Visual FX: Shift (USA)
Best Production Design: Dante Falls (USA)
Best Sound Design: James Hall for An Eye for An Eye (USA)
Best Original Score: Fabio Brignone for To Her (Italy)
Best Original Story: Nancy Lin for Dante Falls (USA)
Best Short Script: Resq by Evan Morton (USA)
FINALISTS (OFFICIAL SELECTION)
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