Best Indie Short: Mãe by Alfred Addis (UK)
Best Drama Short: Five Questions by David Arrow (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Preschool to Prison by Karen Baptiste (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Mr. Mimoto by Govind Chandran (UK)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Bleeding Heart by Ben Ashby (USA)
Best Crime Short: No Devil Lived On by Napon Anakew (Thailand)
Best Mystery Short: I Want To Forget by Tristan Wauchope (USA)
Best Thriller Short: The Manifest of Revenge by Artan Morina (Switzerland)
Best Horror Short: The PAntry by Ervis Zika (Germany)
Best Experimental Short: Sara by Sydney A Steinberg (USA)
Best Student Short: Oeuvre, Unfinished by Madeline Sun Woo Kim (USA)
Best Animation Short: A Tadpole’s Music Journey by Emma Fusheng Chen (Hong Kong)
Best Children Short: If I Were a Pony by Leonard Eckhaus (USA)
Best Women Short: Move In With Me? by Sarah Sawyer and Jade Kaiser (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Blueberry Smoothie by Darren Lee Murphy (UK)
Best Microfilm: Disconnected by Alvaro J Martínez (El Salvador)
Best Music Video: Tell Me Where To Go by Peter Beatty and Joseph Boyle (UK)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Word of Mouth by Mike Baro (USA)
Best Male Director: Andrew Acedo for Good Filipino Kids (USA)
Best Student Female Director: Chuhan Wang for Daughters of the Mountain (China)
Best Student Male Director: Michael Cherry for Lear’s Shadow (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Grace Perry for Motherlode (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Derrex Brady for Roberta’s Rules (USA)
Best Actress: Zoë Yeoman for The Can (USA)
Best Actor: Gregor Patti for Lear’s Shadow (USA)
Best Supporting Actress: Aida Rodriguez for Roberta’s Rules (USA)
Best Supporting Actor: Jorge Rodriguez for Pollo Loco (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Jack Wyant for The Brother (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Giancarlo Beltran and Derek Bauder for Pollo Loco (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Kiera Allen, David Arrow, Andrew Arrow, Joyia D. Bradley, Donna Lynne Champlin, Elijah Guo, Amber Paul, Tom Alan Robbins, and Eliza Simone for Five Questions (USA)
Best Cinematography: One Date (USA)
Best Editing: The Manifest of Revenge (Switzerland)
Best Production Design: Crapeetalism (France)
Best Visual FX: Maxime Bourstin and Raphael La Motta for Love Is My Gun (USA)
Best Sound Design: Tyrus Tucker and Jake Weston for Kept (USA)
Best Original Score: Sid De La Cruz for The First Cowboy (USA)
Best Original Story: Christopher Newhard for Self Tape (USA)
Best Short Script: Rue du Louvre by Jacob Moniz (USA)
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