Best Indie Short: There You Found Me by Sasha Bilik (USA)
Best Drama Short: Scars by Colin Tracy (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Without Water by Jonathan Hyla (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Wheel Gone Kid 3 – Rolling In It by Wayne Kelly (UK)
Best Dark Comedy Short: The Polar Bear by David Charles Bird (USA)
Best Crime Short: January 2nd Incident by Lu Yang Liu (China)
Best Fantasy Short: Mona by Lori Mae Hernandez (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Dust by Li Ban (China)
Best Student Short: Colfax by Jesse Christopher Theobald (USA)
Best Animation Short: Teenage Jesus by John Steven O’Day and Blade Thornton (USA)
Best Children Short: Charlie: The Chicken by Jeevan Dhaker (USA)
Best Women Short: Medea by Feifei Zhong (China)
Best LGBTQ Short: Quality Check by Harriette Murtland (USA)
Best Microfilm: Paranoia by Richard Zapien (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Teenage Jesus by John Steven O’Day and Blade Thornton (USA)
Best Director (Female): Zoe Loftowski for The Leap (USA)
Best Director (Male): Sasha Bilik for There You Found Me (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Mykah Charette for Last Night (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Feifei Zhong for Medea (China)
Best First Time Director (Male): Gibbs Ryals for Aww, Shit! (USA)
Best Actress: Winnie Wang for Blindfolded (USA)
Best Actor: Thierry Cahez for The Leap (USA)
Best Supporting Actress: Laura Faye Smith for The Leap (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Jonathan De La Torre and Juan Felipe Restrepo for Letters to Axél (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Cody Tracy, Marianne Burke, Abigail Gonzalez, and Sawyer Mainella for Scars (USA)
Best Editing: Espiritu del Jaguar (Costa Rica)
Best Production Design: Melissa Holritz for He Ain’t Up (USA)
Best Sound Design: Beto Rosas for The Farewells (Mexico)
Best Original Score: Oliver Gagnon for Keep Painting, Mom (Canada)
Best Original Story: Zachary Padgett for Shutter (USA)
Best Short Script: Sister by Phenice Arielle (USA)
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