Best Indie Short: Jack by Henri Pardo (Canada)
Best Drama Short: Starfish by Alicia Buckner (USA)
Best Documentary Short: A Voice for Whales by Selket Kaufman (USA)
Best Comedy Short: And Don’t Forget to Subscribe by Jake Nielsen (Australia)
Best Dark Comedy Short: A Hole by James Solomon (New Zealand)
Best Thriller Short: Kick by Alex Backes and Tanner Boyajian (USA)
Best Crime Short: Priceless by Tom Vujcic (Canada)
Best Film Noir Short: His Shadow by Hrachya Tokmajyan (Canada)
Best Mystery Short: Children of the Night by George A. Velez (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Heretic by Joshua Nicolás Prits (USA)
Best Horror Short: Sourdough by Jonah Lindley and Nils Terton (Australia)
Best Western Short: The Settler by Matt Haley (Canada)
Best Experimental Short: Trouble For Miles by Benjamin Berg (USA)
Best Student Short: Sourdough by Jonah Lindley and Nils Terton (Australia)
Best Animation Short: RenaiDance by Zhike Yang, Wenjie Wu, and Han Chen Chang (USA)
Best Children Short: 52 – A Tale of Loneliness by Johnny DePalma (USA)
Best Women Short: When I’m at Home by Ivana Todorovic (Serbia)
Best LGBTQ Short: Outlines Of Love by João Cutileiro Nunes (UK)
Best Microfilm: The Anniversary by Michael Lubin (USA)
Best Screendance Short: Terpsichore’s Daughters by Fani Iatrou (Greece)
Best Music Video: When The Bloom Has Left The Rose by Brendan Young (Australia)
Best Parody Short: Rabbit Island by Ben Cichowski and Shan Harris (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Stuck! by Omri Anghel and Lauren LeBeouf (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Human Spectrum – Episode 1 by Eduardo Ramirez (USA)
Best Director (Female): Alicia Buckner for Starfish (USA)
Best Director (Male): Alex Backes and Tanner Boyajian for Kick (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Zaira Armendariz for Under My Skin (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Changhe Liu for Always With You (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Sonja Devi for Mizpah (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Joshua Nicolás Prits for Heretic (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Lucy Freyer for Lookout (UK)
Best Actress: Bonnie Mckee for April Kills The Vibe (USA)
Best Actor: Stuart Cullen for Final Curtain (Ireland)
Best Supporting Actor: George A. Velez for Children of the Night (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Mia Tretta for Day 14 (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Max Tretta for Day 14 (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Daniel Dasent and Kurt Oberhaus for Gates of Redemption (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Emily Mahon, Samantha Labrecque, John Henry Richardson, and Luciana Elisa Quinonez for Starfish (USA)
Best Cinematography: Ilya Chegodar for The Wasteland (USA)
Best Editing: Todd Zelin for Kick (USA)
Best Production Design: Christine Llerins for In The Dark (USA)
Best Visual FX: Kiss of the Creature (USA)
Best Sound Design: Ernesto Suarez for In The Dark (USA)
Best Original Score: Camilo Rodriguez for In The Dark (USA)
Best Original Story: Charlotte Rose Manning and Daniel R. Manning for Sheltered (USA)
Best Trailer/Teaser: Sawa (Canada)
Best Short Script: Five Sheep vs. Two Human Lives by Gang Chen (China)




































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