Best Indie Short: Festival Of The Midnight Sun by Björn Rallare, Niklas Mertel Ekelund, and Peder Carlsson (Sweden)
Best Drama Short: Leaving Smith’s Pond by Harrington Day (UK)
Best Documentary Short: Conservation Trip with Empowers Africa, Wildlands and WildlifeACT by Empowers Africa/Black Bean Productions (South Africa)
Best Documentary Short: The Dog Healers by Karina Flowenbaum (Argentina)
Best Comedy Short: First by Sam Platizky and William R. Farley (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Women Of Valley Forge by Molly Clark (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Happiness – An Alien Concept by Cheryl Bayliss (UK)
Best Dark Comedy Short: I’ve Got You Beat by Billy Farley (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Maelstrom by Timothy Collins (USA)
Best Mystery Short: Nojo by Pedro Mira (Portugal)
Best Action Short: The Only Road by Alan Bagh, Sergio Valencia, and Nathan Miguel (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Dreaming of The Moon by Michael Step (UK)
Best Horror Short: Sketch by Jared Leaf (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Drawing You by Raza Tariq (UK)
Best Experimental Short: Manifesto by Richard Marra (USA)
Best Student Short: The 14th by Qi Qi (China)
Best Animation Short: ROARrrr: The Beast King’s Great Discovery by Charles Taylor (USA)
Best Children Short: ROARrrr: The Beast King’s Great Discovery by Charles Taylor (USA)
Best Women Short: Naked Ambition by Mai Iskander (USA)
Best Women Short: Out of the Quiet by CC Weske (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Taboo by Jato Smith (USA)
Best Microfilm: This Body Has No Text by Sophie Bardos (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Third Shift by Rich Baker (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Hello Realtor by David M Gutel (USA)
Best Director (Female): Mai Iskander for Naked Ambition (USA)
Best Director (Male): Harrington Day for Leaving Smith’s Pond (UK)
Best Student Director (Male): Kelly Needleman for Wilderness Quest (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Li Geqi for The Wrecker (China)
Best First Time Director (Male): Ayman Samman for Jumper (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Petr Melnikov for The Listener (Russia)
Best Actress: Candice Edwards-Marchrones for Naked Ambition (USA)
Best Actress: Katelyn Brooke for Out of the Quiet (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Jialun Deng for Xiong (China)
Best Acting Duo: Sergey Pavlov and Diana Klyushkina for The Listener (Russia)
Best Cinematography: Konstantinos Koukoulios, Kiren Jadhav, Anirudh Menon, and Prremanand Bhageerathan for Bedhab (Odd) (India)
Best Editing: Lucas Eubank for It’s Ya Boi (USA)
Best Production Design: Alexey Krin for The Listener (Russia)
Best Production Design: Harrington Day for Leaving Smith’s Pond (UK)
Best Production Design: Kelsey Combe for Ironrite (USA)
Best Original Score: Danny Ashkenasi for The Tell-Tale Heart: A Musicabre (USA)
Best Original Score: Joe Sanders for Out of the Quiet (USA)
Best Original Story: Karoly Palfai for Lecho (Hungary)
Best Original Story: Petr Melnikov for The Listener (Russia)
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