Best Indie Short: Sticks & Stones by Emily Singer (USA)
Best Drama Short: Swatch by Tal Chatterjee (USA)
Best Documentary Short: A Perfect Love by Kyle Saylors (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Fragments by Matthew Luppino (Canada)
Best Comedy Short: Party Girl by Stacey Kelly (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Oll Korrect by Antonin Féraud (France)
Best Thriller Short: The Marked by Reggie Austin (USA)
Best Horror Short: Rake by Christopher Mays (USA)
Best Experimental Short: A Month. A Day. A Year. by Hunter Brockmann (USA)
Best Student Short: Paracitic Wasp by Wenbo Zhang (China)
Best Women Short: About James by Alice Weber (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: The Roommate by Eugene Slupchuk (Ukraine)
Best Microfilm: Bootees by Shreya Jayamohan (USA)
Best Music Video: Runaway by Tara Sekana Zulfikar (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Runestone by Robert C Bruce (USA)
Best Female Director: Cecilia Choi for Kombucha Cure (USA)
Best Male Director: Hunter Brockmann for A Month. A Day. A Year. (USA)
Best Student Female Director: Qiongyuan Wu for The Dancer (China)
Best First Time Female Director: Tal Chatterjee for Swatch (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Kevin Kudukis for Which One Of Us Are You? (Canada)
Best Actress: Kate Maude for Starry Eyed (Australia)
Best Actor: Lachlan McKillop for Starry Eyed (Australia)
Best Acting Duo: Lance E. Nichols and Gracie Silva for The Dead Driver (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Jhon Mejia, Milena Abilova, and Akash Seeramreddi for The Risk Takers (USA)
Best Cinematography: Fragments (Canada)
Best Editing: Caught (USA)
Best Production Design: McKenzie Miller for Rake (USA)
Best Sound Design: A Month. A Day. A Year. (USA)
Best Original Score: Mathew Mozzoni for The Dead Driver (USA)
Best Original Story: Michelle L. Silva for The Dead Driver (USA)
Best Short Script: Partners by Nicholas Ryon Joseph and Jerry Ferrell (USA)























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