Gold Awards: June 2022

Best Indie Short: Eggs by Neel Menon (India)

Best Drama Short: Oh, Little Spark! by Charlie Lyon Budden (UK)

Best Comedy Short: Unessential by Jacob Paul (USA)

Best Dark Comedy Short: Animal Appetites by Quentin Ferrant (Canada)

Best Sci-Fi Short: Yorktown: A Time to Heal by Da Han (USA)

Best Experimental Short: Untitled by Lin Song (USA)

Best Student Short: Pseudea by Ani Stein (USA)

Best Animation Short: Little Hoo Hoo by Jiayao Yu (China)

Best Women Short: As It Was by Kayla Avitabile (USA)

Best Microfilm: Rayleigh Scattering by Connor Carroll (USA)

Best Music Video: Skeletons by Sebastián Vargas Flor (Colombia)

Best Web Series/TV Pilot: How Did We Get Here? by Matt Frierdich (USA)

Best Director (Female): Lin Song for Untitled (USA)

Best Director (Male): Jesse Leaman for Mad Martha (Australia)

Best Student Director (Female): Kayla Avitabile for As It Was (USA)

Best Student Director (Male): Charlie Lyon Budden for Oh, Little Spark! (UK)

Best First Time Director (Female): Zoë Marden for Becoming Creature (UK)

Best First Time Director (Male): Quentin Ferrant for Animal Appetites (Canada)

Best Actress: Jacquie DiTroia for Flesh Peddler (USA)

Best Actor: Chozy Aiyub for Conflict (USA)

Best Child/Young Actress: Kayden Brenna Tokarski for I Miss Her, Too (USA)

Best Acting Duo: Siena D’Addario and Annie Hoeg for K2 Tog (USA)

Best Ensemble Cast: Laura Denmar, Peter Hodgins, and Heidi Michelle Thomas for Animal Appetites (Canada)

Best Cinematography: Sawyer Holcomb for Hand that Feeds (USA)

Best Editing: Joe D. Norman for This Wall Must Come Down: The Annie Burns Hicks Story (USA)

Best Production Design: Nina Koyfman for Freaky (USA)

Best Visual FX: Roland Baron, Samuel Cockings, Henry Gibbens, Michael Struck, and Tobias Richter for Yorktown: A Time to Heal (USA)

Best Original Score: Celisse Tan for When You Leave (USA)

Best Original Story: Thomas Ryan RedCorn for Dead Bird Hearts (USA)

Best Short Script: Allusion by Scott Hutz (USA)

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

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