Best Indie Short: Five and a Half by Heidi Nyburg (USA)
Best Drama Short: Sprout by Allie Yonick (Canada)
Best Documentary Short: Front Lines of Hope by Daniel Hasel (USA)
Best Comedy Short: The Life and Loves of Allan Glickman by Stanley Katz and Eric Lau (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: Le Fardeau de la Memoire (The Burden of Memory) by Aline Smithson (USA)
Best Student Short: Red Rain by Samer Saifan (USA)
Best Animation Short: Colours Set by Yufei Du (UK)
Best Women Short: Elmstone by Ava Lauren Grayson (USA)
Best Microfilm: Guy-Sight by Jean-Diar Kalantar (Canada)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Moments of Truth: Scattered Pictures by Jen Lytle (USA)
Best Female Director: Paula Randol-Smith for Forecast (USA)
Best Male Director: Roman Mitichyan for Real Heroes Don’t Die (USA)
Best Student Female Director: Kailey Danielle Morand for Hadley’s Home (USA)
Best Student Male Director: Samer Saifan for Red Rain (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Morgan Lu for Winter Is No More Lonely Than Other Seasons (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Chonglang Fan for Song of the Conscripts (China)
Best Actress: Denise Trankalis for The Acting Coach (Norway)
Best Actor: Jeremy Cohen for The Life and Loves of Allan Glickman (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Larrah Lambo for Hadley’s Home (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Sarah Velasco and Taylor Wynn for Computer Blue (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Jeremy Cohen, Kristiana Roemer, Ellie Jackson, Lezlie Lake Dalton, Mark Pinals, and Julyia Grigoryan for The Life and Loves of Allan Glickman (USA)
Best Cinematography: Wei Guo and Hongtao Zhang for Growing Pains (China)
Best Editing: J Pinder for RugbyTown – Season 2 (USA)
Best Production Design: Sam Bloom for Father Daddy (USA)
Best Sound Design: Kim Sungjae for Redman (Japan)
Best Original Score: Alberto Anaya Lopez for The March of the Penguins (Mexico)
Best Original Story: Bee Gul for The Java Plum Tree (Pakistan)
Best Short Script: The Final Inning by Mike Marsh (USA)
























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