Best Indie Short: Breaking Bread: Fāgogo/Povi Māsima by Gabriel Faatau’uu-Satiu (Australia)
Best Indie Short: Invisible by Juan Lume (Chile)
Best Drama Short: Go For Broke by William Wu (Canada)
Best Drama Short: Surrender Me by Chris Del Sordo (USA)
Best Documentary Short: High Hopes by Ida Vincent and Tammy Martin (USA)
Best Documentary Short: It Gets In Your Blood by Ed Hartman (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Auction House by Sean Davis and CavekeeperX (USA)
Best Comedy Short: New to the City by Lulu Lopez (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: The Voice Over Artist by Ken Holmes (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Disengagement by Cheston Kwan (USA)
Best Mystery Short: Kleptomaniac At The Magic Shop by Theresa Angela (Australia)
Best Horror Short: Ghost Me by Anisha Savan (USA)
Best Horror Short: Mavka by Douglas Duffy Johnson (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Central Command by Terrance A Smith and Steve Wilson (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Mavka by Douglas Duffy Johnson (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Kiss Me When He’s Gone by Nicholas Muhlbach (USA)
Best Experimental Short: … Lucid Dreams by Kostiantyn Mishchenko (USA)
Best Experimental Short: The Voice Over Artist by Ken Holmes (USA)
Best Student Short: In Other News by Ivan D. Ossa (Canada)
Best Student Short: Scarlet by Lisa Ranran Hu (China)
Best Animation Short: In Shapes by Zoé Risser (UK)
Best Animation Short: Welcome Home by Dana Crypto (USA)
Best Children Short: Dawn Heist by Neil Walshe (Australia)
Best Women Short: Never Die by Xue Song (China)
Best Women Short: Transplant by Vanessa Vivas (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Close to Home by Ace Steele (USA)
Best Microfilm: Dear Lily by Yuan Yang (China)
Best Music Video: Escape by Eleni Kolliopoulou (UK)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Comming Together: Seminal Dating by Michael Alvarado (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Pandemic Stories by Raphaello (USA)
Best Mobile Short: Coronapocalypse by Safir Monroe (USA)
Best Mobile Short: Dawn Heist by Neil Walshe (Australia)
Best Parody Short: Coronapocalypse by Safir Monroe (USA)
Best Parody Short: Pop to Punk: The Tragic Story of Gerry Pop by Nicholas Muhlbach (USA)
Best Director (Female): Anisha Savan for Ghost Me (USA)
Best Director (Female): Jordan Rader for The Invite (USA)
Best Director (Male): Chris Del Sordo for Surrender Me (USA)
Best Director (Male): Juan Lume for Invisible (Chile)
Best Student Director (Female): Ace Steele for Close to Home (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Yuan Yang for Dear Lily (China)
Best Student Director (Male): Joseph Osei-Bonsu for The Knell (Ghana)
Best Student Director (Male): Nicholas Romano for It Is Still a Beautiful World (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Vanessa Vivas for Transplant (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Yumin Zhang for One Afternoon (China)
Best First Time Director (Male): Bruce Liang for The Butcher (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Zachary Padgett for Black Coffee (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Carter Stoudt for The Liberty Bell and The Assembly of Freedom (USA)
Best Actress: Barbara Sirotti for Aria (Air) (Italy)
Best Actress: Isabella Gomez Giron for Q-Friends (USA)
Best Actor: Harry Seabrook for Ghost Me (USA)
Best Actor: Italo Spotorno for Invisible (Chile)
Best Acting Duo: Henry Braff and Katherine Schaber for It Is Still a Beautiful World (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Jessica Duclos and Taylor Nicholas Forte for When a Honey Bee Stings (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Joshua Leomiti, Kyle Maddox, Tim Christian, Jessica Staples, Katie Yandall, and Tanielu Fifita for Tapu (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Richard T. Phillis, Chris Baldwin, Nathan Muhlbach, Lou DeNardo, Tom Zavertnik, Nick Muhlbach, Angel Matos, Ken Muhlbach, and Kevin Scheid, Richard T. Phillis for The Family Business (USA)
Best Editing: Ed Hartman for It Gets In Your Blood (USA)
Best Editing: Kintsugi: Nagasaki (USA)
Best Sound Design: Mavka (USA)
Best Original Score: Shie Rozow for Untwined (USA)
Best Original Score: Zachary Padgett for Black Coffee (USA)
Best Original Story: Shady A Mawajdeh for American Immigrant (USA)
Best Short Script: The Master and the Bride by Daniel Arora (Austria)
Best Short Script: What Would They Say by Johanna Salloum (France)
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