Best Indie Short: Kidnap by Aoxue Song (China)
Best Drama Short: Enemy No More by Christopher Schultz (USA)
Best Documentary Short: The Perfect Shot: Antarctica by Quinn Halleck (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Denuevo by Doug Cox and Rich North (USA)
Best Action Short: Ellie by Vinny O’Brien (USA)
Best Crime Short: God in the Valley by Christian David Colbert (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Puppet by Xi Wenting (China)
Best Experimental Short: Luminous Bird by Zimeng Li and Ruixi Zhou (China)
Best Student Short: The Drowning Fish by Weihua Feng (China)
Best Animation Short: Knightlights & Teddy Bears by Mackenzie K. Wertman (USA)
Best Children Short: Receding by Renee Garcia (USA)
Best Women Short: Sis by Brooke Markham (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Secret Of Happiness by Greg S. Reid (USA)
Best Female Director: Renee Garcia for Receding (USA)
Best Male Director: Michael Cox for The Watson Journals (New Zealand)
Best Student Male Director: Yonglin Han for Miss Windy (China)
Best First Time Female Director: Mackenzie K. Wertman for Knightlights & Teddy Bears (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Thomas Dubois for Solitary Waves (France)
Best Actress: Ciara Bravo for Sis (USA)
Best Actor: Maarten Cornelis for Dinner For Two (USA)
Best Supporting Actress: Debbie Pollack for What Ever Happened to Jonny Faith (USA)
Best Supporting Actor: Wayne Knight for What Ever Happened to Jonny Faith (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Kayden Tokarski for The In-Between Place (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Sophia Nesterova, Christine Allocca, William Tapley, and Adriana Kostetska for Receding (USA)
Best Cinematography: Ebed Pohl for The Watson Journals (New Zealand)
Best Editing: Garrett Castillo and Joshua Chamberlain for Father’s Day: A Kirk Franklin Story (USA)
Best Production Design: Receding (USA)
Best Original Score: Joost Diederen for Waar Thuis Was (Netherlands)
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