Best Indie Short: Single Handed by Jake Hatt (UK)
Best Drama Short: Nostos by Pavlos Vissariou (Greece)
Best Documentary Short: Looking Through The Binoulars by Noa Im (South Korea)
Best Comedy Short: The Secrets to a Happy Marriage by Brian Sacca (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: The Funeral by Michael Filek (USA)
Best Crime Short: The Guilty Party by Cristian Medellin (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: Slice of Life by Dale Fabrigar (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Genesis by Maria Luísa Cotta (Brazil)
Best Horror Short: Delivered by Austin Rasmussen (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Slow Dive by Andrei Zaitcev (Finland)
Best Student Short: The Fighter by Sche-Hao Wang (Taiwan)
Best Animation Short: Stray Katana by Rodrigo Preiss Maya (Austria)
Best Women Short: Meet You Half Way by Paul DiVito (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Hello, My Name is… by Chris Machian (USA)
Best Microfilm: Hey. by Stephanie Oustalet (USA)
Best Music Video: Towards the Sun by Alex Linares and Flora Cheng (USA)
Best Mobile Short: Delivered by Austin Rasmussen (USA)
Best Parody Short: Now Time With David Crawford: Online Dating by Arthur Studholme (UK)
Best Trailer/Teaser: Like Water (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Audre Smikle for Everything’s Fine (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Findlay Brown for The Flexed Arm Hang (Canada)
Best First Time Director (Female): Megan Anderson for Video Girl (Australia)
Best First Time Director (Male): Steven Demmler for Kill Them With Kindness (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Andreas Rothbart for Isolation (USA)
Best Actress: Melania Dalla Costa for I Sogni Sospesi – Unfinished Dreams (Italy)
Best Actor: Stephen Drury Phillips for The Confession (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Frankie Da Ponte Jr., Tatiana Ortiz, Kedrick Parham, and Jon St Pierre for Perception (USA)
Best Cinematography: TinNgai Chan for Mary Mary Quite Contrary (USA)
Best Production Design: Lose You to Love Me (USA)
Best Sound Design: Austin Rasmussen for Delivered (USA)
Best Original Score: Rafa Carbonell for Gateway Drugs (USA)
Best Original Story: Svend Ploug Johansen and Mads Koudal for Dark Angel (Denmark)
Best Short Script: Leatherman by Charles Haskins (USA)
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