Best Indie Short: Before the Sun Goes Down by Ari Ernesto Figueroa Aguirre (Mexico)
Best Drama Short: The Driver by Evan Oliver and Allen Baker (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Milieu by John Edgar Hart and Nikoloz Chanturia (Australia)
Best Romantic Short: Walking in the Wrong Direction by Lisa Singletary (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Rainfall The Band by Shane Peltzman (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Bran-Don of the Dead by David Over (USA)
Best Horror Short: Old Flames by Fugitives (Canada)
Best Sci-Fi Short: The Woman of the Sun by Bekah Andrew and Nick Andrew (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Ella and the Ghost by Clara Gil (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Tenuto by Meg Halski (USA)
Best Student Short: 1.2m by Dongjuan lvy (China)
Best Animation Short: Timeless in the Metaverse by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, and Christina Teenz Tan(Australia)
Best Children Short: Hide and Seek by Maddie Tran and Zachary Willis (USA)
Best Women Short: The Sibling Rule by Mari SanGiovanni (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: The Sibling Rule by Mari SanGiovanni (USA)
Best Microfilm: One Baby, Please! by Polly Pierce (Canada)
Best Music Video: Love In Vain by Rudy Strukoff (USA)
Best Female Director: Lisa Singletary for Walking in the Wrong Direction (USA)
Best Male Director: Skyler Bible for Left (USA)
Best Student Female Director: Dereka Bennett for A Terrorist or a Cry for Help? (USA)
Best Student Male Director: Milan Tangirala for Countdown (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Jennie Butler for Jailed For Weed (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Krstover Luaay for Money Greed (USA)
Best Actor: Jon Lee for The Driver (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Rylan Rand and Kimeka Sardine for The Midnight Retaliator (Canada)
Best Ensemble Cast: Mostafa Shaker, Adrian Neblett, Tanya Jade, Leysan Timirboulatova, David Bloom, Oula Hamadeh, Charles Jarman, Lynnette j Kissoon, Amitai Mamorstein, and Azriel Dalman for One Baby, Please! (Canada)
Best Cinematography: Jay Kamal for One Baby, Please! (Canada)
Best Editing: Mandy Brown and Jake Frank for Oh Boys (USA)
Best Production Design: Melaiah Schaefer-Romine for The Driver (USA)
Best Sound Design: The Princess and The Pond (USA)
Best Original Score: Avast Ye Scallywag (South Africa)
Best Original Story: Yanguo Hou for The Water Has Memory (China)
Best Short Script: Happy Hour by Cary James Mason (USA)


























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