Best Indie Short: Wrinkle by Behrad Ezati (Iran)
Best Drama Short: Night Encounter by Lei Jia (USA)
Best Documentary Short: The Real Activist by Soul Soul and Jody Banks (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Good Head by Matt Servitto (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Palm Swings by Marques Mallare (USA)
Best Horror Short: C by Zac Villanueva (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: I Am Here by Adam Nowak (Poland)
Best Experimental Short: 4.5m² by Kim Je Hyun (South Korea)
Best Student Short: Night Encounter by Lei Jia (USA)
Best Animation Short: On / Off by Nicolas P. Villarreal (Argentina)
Best Children Short: Opening Number by Cole Cabiness (USA)
Best Women Short: Pretty Metal by Mikhail Tot (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Jesse James by Josef Steiff (USA)
Best Music Video: Boy Scientist by Susan Lim and Samudra Kajal Saikia (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Pretty Metal by Mikhail Tot (USA)
Best Director (Female): Soul Soul and Jody Banks for The Real Activist (USA)
Best Director (Male): Shannon Dion for Latasha Harlins: A Rose That Grew from Concrete (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Zac Villanueva for C (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): LIM for How Was It For You? (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Revaz-Giorgi Arveladze for Creeping Occupation (Georgia)
Best Young Filmmaker: Magnolia Ellenburg for Help (USA)
Best Actress: Rayven Symone Ferrell for Latasha Harlins: A Rose That Grew from Concrete (USA)
Best Actor: Shawn Ali for The Ivory League: Confessions of a Black Faculty (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Avery May for Opening Number (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Spike Mayer and Joey Bicicchi for Jesse James (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Angela Cole, Lina Edwards, and Katelynn Newberry for Pretty Metal (USA)
Best Cinematography: Hengyu Yin for Latasha Harlins: A Rose That Grew from Concrete (USA)
Best Editing: Slow Burn & The Muse (USA)
Best Production Design: Laura Yurko for Pretty Metal (USA)
Best Visual FX: Marcin Przymus and Emilia Szymańska for I Am Here (Poland)
Best Sound Design: Fly Myself Home (USA)
Best Original Score: Saul Oros for Florence & Normandie (USA)
Best Original Story: Alfredo Gómez for Father, Daughter and Old Woman (Spain)
Best Short Script: Grey by Marc Castaldo (Canada)
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