Best Indie Short: Kina (Why) by Sidartha Biswa (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Bella Bimba by George Leontakianakos (Greece)
Best Comedy Short: Verified by Toniche Wallace (UK)
Best Film Noir Short: Call of The City by Owen Thomas Meinert (Canada)
Best Thriller Short: Digital Asylum by Nick Stanchev (Bulgaria)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Awakened by Lauri Levenfeld and Grace Wethor (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Cor by Nicolas Simon and Virna Hagen (France)
Best Student Short: Please Fill in All Required Fields by Tyler Chavez (USA)
Best Animation Short: Lucha and the Ekeko by Roger Edwards (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Ignored by Carl Garcia (USA)
Best Women Short: Olive by Flora Charlotte Lopategui (UK)
Best LGBTQ Short: Slammer! The Prison Girl Movie Musical by Jay A Nagle (USA)
Best Microfilm: Cock Your Area by Keena Ferguson (USA)
Best Music Video: Tragedy Strikes by Morgan Gullett (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Bitch Boy by Mhaya Polacco (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Gigi-Myomyo by Kyungmin Kim (South Korea)
Best Mobile Short: To Dust I Shall Return by Daniel Michael Tomcik (USA)
Best Parody Short: She’s An Instagram Model by Keith Orlando Harris (Kazakhstan)
Best Director (Female): Fanny Texier for Unattached (France)
Best Director (Male): Jeremie Sery for The Collector (France)
Best Student Director (Female): Huanshuo Wang for The Dilemma of Extra-Curricular Institutions in China (China)
Best Student Director (Male): Oliver Lin for To Add Oil (Taiwan)
Best First Time Director (Female): Toniche Wallace for Verified (UK)
Best First Time Director (Male): Colin Bowles for Charlatan (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Chiara Elise D’Ambrosio for An Actor’s Journey (USA)
Best Actress: Toniche Wallace for Verified (UK)
Best Actor: Bandhuka Premawardhana for The Apartment (Sri Lanka)
Best Supporting Actress: Melanie Abernathy for Echoes (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Sarah Moon and Melissa Davidson for Unbarred (Australia)
Best Ensemble Cast: Stephen Wayne, Jeff Querin, Becca Anderson, Nakeisha Daniel, and Tabitha Ottiwell for Love Potion (USA)
Best Cinematography: Isaiah Walk for Echoes (USA)
Best Production Design: You Rock, Zé Perri! (Brazil)
Best Sound Design: Niranjan Raghu and Vishal J Singh for The Silence of Day (India)
Best Original Score: Ashna Pathan for Aghast! (USA)
Best Original Story: Ahi Black for Broken Boy (USA)
Best Short Script: Colter’s Run by Michael Holliday (USA)
































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