Best Indie Short: Rot by Jared Kash (USA)
Best Drama Short: Distanze (Distances) by Angelo Donzella (Italy)
Best Documentary Short: Good Morning Buffalo by Thomas Allen Harris (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Damsels in Distress by Samantha Wan (Canada)
Best Action Short: Alaska Rescue Story by Mark Rose (USA)
Best Crime Short: Lawless Entanglement by Allan Cheng (Australia)
Best Film Noir Short: The Mid Life Crisis by Howard Bowler (USA)
Best Thriller Short: The Things We Bury by Serena Manouchehri (Canada)
Best Mystery Short: The White Pill by Harry Fowler (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Heart Adjustment by Lance David Tate (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: 7 Floors to Midnight by Sebastian Fesser (Germany)
Best Animation Short: Blind Spot by Fletcher Russmann (USA)
Best Children Short: Apple and The World Eater by Sarah Chen (USA)
Best Women Short: The Unsuspecting Victim by Alexandria Lopez (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Raw Vision by Acacia Khonji (UK)
Best Student Short: The Right Way by Fan Zhewei (China)
Best Music Video: Small Towns by Ricky (Typo) Crouch (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: The Mid Life Crisis by Howard Bowler (USA)
Best Web and New Media: The Gosari Monsoon by Eungyu Lee (South Korea)
Best Mobile Short: 2:03 by Robby Sean Sexton (USA)
Best Female Director: Serena Manouchehri for The Things We Bury (Canada)
Best Male Director: Benjamin Hess for An Iris Wild (USA)
Best Student Female Director: Morgane Reed-Roth for The Car Ride After (Canada/USA)
Best Student Male Director: Chad A. Rivera for Forward (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Nika King for For Sale (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Brett Robert Culbert for Good Boy (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Seth Baella for Ignore the Neighbors (USA)
Best Actress: Nelly Flores for The Unsuspecting Victim (USA)
Best Actor: David Winning for The Mid Life Crisis (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Kunal Pant and Rhea Sharma for Flower of Life (India)
Best Ensemble Cast: Isol Young, Trevor Johnson, and Dianne Paukstelis for Hard Break (USA)
Best Original Story: Jared Kash for Rot (USA)
Best Cinematography: Hongyu Liu for For Adeline (USA)
Best Editing: Hyeri Shin for Beyond The Silence (South Korea)
Best Production Design: Francesca Porcelluzzi for 10:52 (USA)
Best Visual FX: Noam Cohen for Lex (USA)
Best Original Score: An-Ni Wei for Unread Goodbye (Taiwan)
Best Short Script: Yosmagul by Ercan Değirmenci (Turkey)
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