Best Indie Short: Vic’s Vac Shack by Will Dorney (USA)
Best Drama Short: Love by John Moore (Ireland)
Best Documentary Short: Eye of the Storm: Jerusalem’s Temple Mount by Paul Wittenberger (USA)
Best Romantic Short: When the World Goes Quiet by Kenny Elwell (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Trust Me Bro by Milan Veissi (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: End of Life Inc. by Christian Sampson (USA)
Best Mystery Short: Who Knows? by Brandon Rozo (USA)
Best Horror Short: Inkwell Hell by Mario Brown (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Sic Itur ad Astra by Marco Parolin (Italy)
Best Fantasy Short: Legendary by Heather Hemsley (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Ring by Vittorio Zizzari (Canada)
Best Student Short: Brett Wong’s Ex-Girlfriends by Gianna Labinpuno (USA)
Best Animation Short: Michael’s Miscarriage: An Unspoken Cartoonmentary by Chari Pere (USA)
Best Women Short: Burned Reputation by Nicolas Pouilley (France)
Best LGBTQ Short: Second Thought by Chris Stanley (USA)
Best Microfilm: Receding by Justin Lai (USA)
Best Music Video: Love Falling Like a Touching Melody of Music by Joby Gheza (Switzerland)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: The Ange and Addi Show by Dustin James Leighton (USA)
Best Web and New Media: OnlyMeat by Missy Jubilee (Australia)
Best Mobile Short: Golden Wings: Fifty Year Flight Path by Caleb Mills Stewart (USA)
Best Female Director: Brenda Turteltaub Feldstein for Maestro JoAnn Falletta – Symphony Trailblazer (USA)
Best Male Director: Paul Parent for Feet First Town (France)
Best Student Female Director: Julia Song for Elegy for My Grandfather (USA)
Best Student Male Director: Mario Brown for Inkwell Hell (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Jennifer McKnew for Sydney and Socket (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Mark Henderson for Crestfallen Leaves (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Judie Alice Zhang for Contentment (New Zealand)
Best Actress: Allison Sonson for Eunoia (USA)
Best Actor: Jeremy Journet Lynch for Target Jeremy (USA)
Best Supporting Actor: Nick Faltas for Target Jeremy (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Arielle Howell and Rachel Hemsley for Legendary (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Joseph Collymore, Ellen Colton, Pamela Jayne Morgan, Marilyn Busch, Elizabeth Dings, and John O’Hallaoran for Pickleball: Death in the Kitchen (USA)
Best Cinematography: Jonathan Suarez for Snug Fit (USA)
Best Editing: Corban Aspegren for Core City (USA)
Best Production Design: Disasterpiece (USA)
Best Visual FX: Harold Simon and Shinthu Sivakumar for Feet First Town (France)
Best Original Score: Rob Crowell for Quiver (USA)
Best Original Story: Yiding Wang for Jaglion (China)
Best Short Script: The Entropy Code by Narottama Dasa Panitz (USA)
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