Best Indie Short: Wrong Address by John Simmons (USA)
Best Drama Short: Forgiving Retribution by Curt Samlaska (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Affirmed by Yvette M Hochberg (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Alexia for Frank Manos Most (USA)
Best Comedy Short: A Chicken by Dicot Alvarado (Australia)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Super Sweet by Noora Fahad and Eduarda Aun Angita (UK)
Best Crime Short: Penumbra by Ganpy Nataraj (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Can I Have Your Autograph? by Justin Patten (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Any Bad Man by Dan Asma (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: One Last Adventure by Ethan Tanti (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Still Rolling by John Brownell (USA)
Best Student Short: Ubiquitous by Grace Drury (USA)
Best Animation Short: Will You…? by Justin Bruce Lee (USA)
Best Women Short: The Broken Dancer by Felix Crumbsy (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Law’s World: Lipstick Bandit by Law Artis (USA)
Best Microfilm: The Ick by Michael Rognlie (USA)
Best Screendance Short: No.1614 by Junhao Fu (UK)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Justin T Nick of Time! by Mike Reeping (USA)
Best Female Director: Antonio Harper and Abby Burton for Forward Thinking (USA)
Best Male Director: Antonio Harper and Abby Burton for Forward Thinking (USA)
Best Student Female Director: Aigerim Zhangozina for The Wrong Door (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Laura Anastasia Jones for People (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Ganpy Nataraj for Penumbra (USA)
Best Actor: Deepak Tijori for Echoes of Us (India)
Best Acting Duo: Alex Naumann and Giovanna Cossalter-Walters for The Ick (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Ken Allan Phillips, Ryan Sandberg, John Queeley, Chelsey Queeley, Edward Bachir Karam, Curt Samlaska, and Jasmine Freeman for Forgiving Retribution (USA)
Best Cinematography: Steven Schloss for Solus (USA)
Best Editing: Pål Erik Helgerud for Fresh Blood Fresh Pussy (Norway)
Best Production Design: Sky Wilkenfeld for People (USA)
Best Original Story: Ivana Rauchmann for Corazon De Piedra (A Heart Of Stone) (Austria)
Best Short Script: The Home of Y&Y by Yelena Demikovsky (USA)
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