Best Drama Short: With You by Neelin Chakraborty (USA)
Best Documentary Short: A Colony of Radicals by Charles Kaufmann (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Pretty, Perfect & Polished by Emily Shea (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Shadow by Laura Rodríguez (USA)
Best Horror Short: It’s Not Your Mother by Arsen Muratbayev (Kazakhstan)
Best Western Short: Preacher’s Daughter by Chandler Barbee (USA)
Best Women Short: Olive View by Janet Craig (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Our Morals and Theirs by Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky (USA)
Best Student Short: The Silver Ridge Shutdown by Madison Rojas (USA)
Best Microfilm: Liar’s Debt by Molly Gazay and Justin Sorvillo (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Divine Consign by Jackie Nico (USA)
Best Male Director: Dylan Leonard for 1/1290 (USA)
Best Student Male Director: David Zheng for Out-Casted (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Terence Lee for We’re Fine, Thanks (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Arsen Muratbayev for It’s Not Your Mother (Kazakhstan)
Best Actress: Tatiana Varón for Shadow (USA)
Best Actor: Varinder Chawla for Still I Am Happy (Canada)
Best Young Actress: Nina Jacob for Without a Scream (France)
Best Ensemble Cast: Johnny Briseño, Zach Trent, Annelise Hermsen, Tommy Glodo, Abel Garcia, Connor J. O’Brien, and Wyn Moreno for Knighted (USA)
Best Original Story: Nikolai Demin for The Nonsense Generator (Russia)
Best Editing: Micah Deerman for Pretty, Perfect & Polished (USA)
Best Original Score: Francesco Fabrizio for Hex’s Hue (Italy/Philippines/UK/USA)
Best Short Script: School Run by Rachel Walsh-Williams (UK)
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