Best Indie Short: Good Boy by Francisco Gabriel Scena (Canada)
Best Indie Short: Playback Is A Bitch by Scot Sax (USA)
Best Drama Short: Gautreaux by Houston Jones (USA)
Best Drama Short: Mo by Shawn Pipkin-West (USA)
Best Drama Short: Stigma by Shingo Ishikawa (Japan)
Best Documentary Short: Glad You’re Here by Lisa Kannakko (Canada)
Best Documentary Short: You Have To Go For It by Julio Mendez and Kristy Espinoza (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Perchance by Joud AlAmri (USA)
Best Romantic Short: The Last Day by Federico Rabinovich (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Immigrant Holdem by Slava Babenkov (Ukraine)
Best Comedy Short: Please, Turn the Light On by Sunhee Na (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Woke by Jules Lipoff (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: A Tea Party for Sad People by Michael McLennan (Australia)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Comfort Him by Lee Bailes (Sweden)
Best Dark Comedy Short: The Divorcing by Kevin Cappiello (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Organ Failure by Alex Sultoon (UK)
Best Thriller Short: Terraforma by Drew MacPowell (Israel)
Best Thriller Short: Truth, Incorporated by Gabriel Barreto (USA)
Best Crime Short: Mystaken Identity by Dave Thorp (UK)
Best Horror Short: He Comes From a Good Family by Anisha Savan (USA)
Best Horror Short: The Torch by Tyce Hoskins (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: The Story of Sister Eva by Carleigh Newland (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Bipolar Kubrick Ventilator Wallpaper Dream by William Stancik (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Moments by Oluwatoyin Giwa (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Paint On Paint # 1 by Vasco Diogo (Portugal)
Best Student Short: Here Comes the Bride by Amshu Medapa (USA)
Best Student Short: Road Test by Christian Hurley (USA)
Best Student Short: Surrendering Nina by Jeremy Jung (USA)
Best Animation Short: Invention In C Major by Richard D Lopez (USA)
Best Animation Short: Robot Rhapsody by Courtland Shakespeare (Canada)
Best Animation Short: The Chair by Ronnie Cramer (USA)
Best Children Short: The Bat and the Matt by Stefan Janoski (USA)
Best Women Short: Echoes by Sarah Wong (USA)
Best Women Short: For Better or For Worse by Ahlan Williams and Nidheya Suresh (USA)
Best Women Short: Younger by Denise Dove (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: The Making Of Alex by Jessica Fay and Velton Lishke (UK)
Best Microfilm: Comfort Him by Lee Bailes (Sweden)
Best Microfilm: Organ Failure by Alex Sultoon (UK)
Best Music Video: Refuge by Jonathan Sprout and Rodney Whittenberg (USA)
Best Music Video: Sabotage by E. Gabriel Edvy (USA)
Best Mobile Short: Black Lives Matter by Ashna Sharan (USA)
Best Mobile Short: From Culiacan by Carolina Herzlt (Mexico)
Best Mobile Short: The Moviegoer by Leif Larson (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Audition Life – Canst Thou Not Hear Me? by Brooke Hayley Martin (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Crab by Felix Crumbsy (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Welcome to Tate’s by Nathan Aaron (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Covid Rockin’ by Magnus Christoffersen (USA)
Best Web and New Media: The Wisdom of China by Ishma Yusaf Valenti I and Denis Paul Circo (USA)
Best Parody Short: Tuesday-In-Place by Dave Laden (USA)
Best Director (Female): Brooke Hayley Martin for Audition Life – Canst Thou Not Hear Me? (USA)
Best Director (Female): Tari K. Robinson for Ana (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Amshu Medapa for Here Comes the Bride (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): J. Basil for Chopsticks (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Axel Rezinovsky for Karaoke (Argentina)
Best Student Director (Male): Hunter Goetz for Valora (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Yige Seleny Xie for A Touch on the Edge (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Trevor Hansford for A Better Balimore (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Daniel Dutra for The First Date (USA)
Best Actress: Gabrielle Reublin for Metanoia: Episodes 1-2 (USA)
Best Actress: Maya Nohrstedt for My Demons (Sweden)
Best Actor: Jordan McDonald for My Demon (USA)
Best Supporting Actress: Emily Brolin for This Is Not A Happy Story (USA)
Best Supporting Actress: Moriah Sittner for Metanoia: Episodes 1-2 (USA)
Best Supporting Actor: Henry Mark for Dr. Daddy (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Maci Wealleans for Pause. (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Timia Simone Reed for Reflection (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Mason Cufari for Pause. (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Vance Wiberg for The First Date (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Isabelle Boulton and Peter James Elias for In the Stillness of Summer (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Justin Timpane and Marine Madesclaire for The Distanced (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Gabrielle Reublin, Rylee Smith, Moriah Sittner, and Clayton Currie for Metanoia: Episodes 1-2 (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Kristin Morris, Jessica Wellington, Kristen Lundberg, Dee Dee Sorvino, and Carissa Gallo for Oddly Popular (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Slava Babenkov, Oleg Karpenko, and Rob Feldman for Immigrant Holdem (Ukraine)
Best Cinematography: Errol Webber Jr. for Stay Sane (USA)
Best Cinematography: Maria José Gomez Rodriguez for Embered Youth (Ireland)
Best Editing: Stéphane Payen for Leaving to Live (France)
Best Special FX: Dane Elcar for Oak (USA)
Best Visual FX: Ryan Lutz for The Magic Show (USA)
Best Production Design: Louka Amalie, Natasha Clarke, and Hana Wagner for Stay Sane (USA)
Best Sound Design: Jeremy Jung for Surrendering Nina (USA)
Best Sound Design: Skopein (USA)
Best Original Score: Aysenur Kolivar and Daim Yusuf Orti for Tea (Turkey)
Best Original Score: Luna Pan and Sandrine Rudaz for A Tea Party for Sad People (Australia)
Best Original Story: Anthony Culanag for Unidentified (USA)
Best Original Story: Elias Gandy for Luzi and the Nameless Generation (USA)
Best Trailer/Teaser: The Secret Sign of the Lizard People (Canada)
Best Short Script: Ashes by Alicia Ocana (USA)
Best Short Script: His Yearbook by Jim Norman (USA)
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