Best Indie Short: A Good Home by Vishnu Prasad (USA)
Best Indie Short: Pi by Laith Al-Ramahi (United Arab Emirates)
Best Indie Short: The Session by Rick Beck (USA)
Best Drama Short: Men I Trust by Nathan Vass (USA)
Best Drama Short: Overcast by Anthony Kalmeta (USA)
Best Drama Short: Right Where You Need To Be by Choice Skinner (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Chasing Color: A Gem Trader’s Journey by Rob Himebaugh (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Living Water by Gerard M. Cahill (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Maffy’s Jazz by Deniz Yuksel Abalıoğlu (Turkey)
Best Romantic Short: Birthday Party by Leslie Lank (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Groups of Two by Bobby Slaski (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Man Looking for Job by Paolo Vacirca (Sweden)
Best Comedy Short: Old Aquatics by Stephen Mickelsen (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Two Stans and a Dan by Jeff Mosuk (Canada)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Brought To You By Satan by Holly Laurent (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Sui Caedere by Fabrizio Accettulli (Italy)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Xmas by A.J. Callens (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Antelope Mile by Joseph LaGuidice (USA)
Best Crime Short: Botched by Thomas Baker (USA)
Best Crime Short: Broken Belles by Scott Grady (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: Perpetual Us by Tanner Gibas (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: The Lioness by Richard Poche (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: Unexpected by Cristiano Soares (Brazil)
Best Mystery Short: Point Of View by Dingding Ou (China)
Best Mystery Short: The Decision by Samuel Nkwume (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Chronology by Kate Romero (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Love’s Labours Lost by Nick Musleh (USA)
Best Horror Short: 2:59 by Kody Newton (USA)
Best Horror Short: All I See by George Pilafdzhyan and Gary Karapetyan (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Dr. On by Vi-Dieu Nguyen (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Pi by Laith Al-Ramahi (United Arab Emirates)
Best Experimental Short: Fizzle by Jeremiah Kipp (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Olfaction by Beboon Bahk (South Korea)
Best Experimental Short: The Requiem by Peter Wang (Canada)
Best Student Short: Are We Born or Made by Yi Zhang (USA)
Best Student Short: Lines by Olivia Rietti (USA)
Best Animation Short: Framed by Sandra Rzeczyca (USA)
Best Animation Short: Thousand Dollar Chocolate by Emerson Chan (USA)
Best Women Short: Broken Belles by Scott Grady (USA)
Best Women Short: Partners in Crime by Kerry LeVielle (USA)
Best Women Short: Slip by Lizzie Morgan (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Layover by Skyler Barrett (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Playboys by Roxanne Paisan (Spain)
Best LGBTQ Short: The Breath Of Celia by MIguel Angel Barroso (Spain)
Best Microfilm: Behind the Right Door by Peregrine Mccafferty (UK)
Best Microfilm: Je Suis Une Douce Traîtrise by Joakim Scheidegger (Switzerland)
Best Microfilm: Paranoid by Mikael Roth (Sweden)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Haunted Roots by Matt Ryan Vilade and Will Cook (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: OrDaned by Kenny Prawat and Justin Prawat (USA)
Best Web and New Media: In Your Honor by Mauro Romero (Argentina)
Best Web and New Media: Trillo and Suede by Ophir Ariel and Ryan Collins (USA)
Best Music Video: Extraordinary Men by Ari Takahashi (Italy)
Best Mobile Short: Secrets, A Coming of Age, Selfie Film by Barbara Becker Holstein (USA)
Best Mobile Short: The Hall of Nirvana by Hirotaka Ikeda (Japan)
Best Parody Short: Couch’s Crazy Cartoon Commercials by Steve Couch (USA)
Best Director (Female): Samantha Casella for To A God Unknown (Italy)
Best Director (Male): Laith Al-Ramahi for Pi (United Arab Emirates)
Best Student Director (Female): Grace Chung for Memento Mori, Memento Ma’um (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Sarah Lee Harter for Clean. (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Wesley Wang for Faces (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Holly Laurent for Brought To You By Satan (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Olga Alikberova for Draft (Russia)
Best First Time Director (Male): Daniel Bruington for Beyond the Cracks (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Peter Wang for The Requiem (Canada)
Best First Time Director (Male): Saulo Guilherme Senra for Into the Light (Brazil)
Best Young Filmmaker: Scotty Strout and Will Strout for Berries (USA)
Best Actress: Christy St. John for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Interview (USA)
Best Actress: Dana Aliya Levinson for Dear Aunt Noa (USA)
Best Actress: Rébecca Dereims for Girl Tuesday (UK)
Best Actor: Bateer Liu for For An Absent Recluse (China)
Best Actor: Tenzin Rabsel for The Mirage (Australia)
Best Supporting Actor: Lawrence Whitener for Saving Robin Williams (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Naveen Kumar for Metanoia (United Arab Emirates)
Best Child/Young Actor: Trevis Zhang for Magic Kingdom (Hong Kong)
Best Acting Duo: Adriana Moniz and Anna Eremin for Red Queen (Portugal)
Best Acting Duo: Bre Blair and Chris White for Velcro (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Geoffrey Owens, Peter Friedman, Ingrid Saxon, Jennifer Plotzke, Caitlin O’Connell, James Strouse, Marisa Brau and Steve Coats for Fizzle (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Irene Karas Loeper, Daniel Bacon, Sadie Silcock, Andrew Coghlan, Aaron McCallum, Raquel Riskin, Colin Foo and Dee Jay Jackson for Two Stans and a Dan (Canada)
Best Acting Ensemble: Jamel King, Dustin Hahn, Leslie Seiler, Hanna Anderson, Kaley Roberts, Andy Gates, Kyle Colton and Emi Cross for Ill Will (USA)
Best Cinematography: Frank Hoffman for To A God Unknown (Italy)
Best Cinematography: Logan Wong for For An Absent Recluse (China)
Best Editing: Alfredo G. Unibe for When La Rumorosa Quiets (Mexico)
Best Editing: Johan Granberg for Bamboo: The Tradition of the Future (Qatar)
Best Editing: Rob Himebaugh for Chasing Color: A Gem Trader’s Journey (USA)
Best Visual FX: Mason and Jay Save The World! (USA)
Best Visual FX: The Hall of Nirvana (Japan)
Best Production Design: Elsa Mickelsen for Old Aquatics (USA)
Best Production Design: Ou Dingding for For An Absent Recluse (China)
Best Production Design: Tay Olssen for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Interview (USA)
Best Sound Design: Aurélien Martin Vieira Lino for Red Queen (Portugal)
Best Original Score: Aimee Hoffman for Micky (USA)
Best Original Score: Brian Ziff for Amara (USA)
Best Original Story: Andrew Woodward and Emily Swain for The Shriving (UK)
Best Original Story: Cristiano Soares for Mislinked (Brazil)
Best Original Story: Tamara von Werthern for I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire (UK)
Best Short Script: Cal’s Strings by Domanique Cummings (USA)
Best Short Script: Thirty Minutes Or Less by Blake Siemens and Patty Meyer (USA)
FINALISTS (OFFICIAL SELECTION)
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