Best Indie Short: Bizzarro e Fantastico by Kris Krainock (USA)
Best Indie Short: The Border by Roohollah Fakhroo (Iran)
Best Drama Short: Front Porches by Katie Prentiss (USA)
Best Drama Short: Journey Home by Christopher Houlston (UK)
Best Documentary Short: Let Me Ride by Benjamin Muñoz Alonso and Pablo Álvarez Villaver (Spain)
Best Documentary Short: My Yard, My Debt: The HBCU Student Borrower Experience by Saleem Reshamwala (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Parkbench Hero by Maïté Hauser (France)
Best Comedy Short: Guns and Stuff by Alexander McDaniel (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Unholy Spirit by Moises Barragan (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Brothers by Luke A. Sacksteder (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: The Beauty Queen and the Pickle Truck by Lachlan Neumann Crichton (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Who is Linda? by Federico Rabinovich (USA)
Best Horror Short: Live Stream in the Woods by Yassine Agloumi (USA)
Best Horror Short: Within by Jorge Miranda (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: A Movie with Subtitles by Ömer Faruk Aykut (Turkey)
Best Experimental Short: La Paura Del Buio by Beatriz Montes Lozano (Spain)
Best Experimental Short: Unearth the Landscape by Johanne Chagnon (Canada)
Best Student Short: The Beauty Queen and the Pickle Truck by Lachlan Neumann Crichton (USA)
Best Student Short: The Woman Who Laughs by Armin Etemadi (Iran)
Best Animation Short: Above the Deluge by Allyson Lorraine Glenn (Canada)
Best Women Short: Mosquito by Celina Igwe (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Play Date by Jack Denny (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Temple by Nick Virk (UK)
Best Microfilm: 7834 by Gil Rivera (USA)
Best Microfilm: Party Of One by Jean-Diar Kalantar (Canada)
Best Music Video: If You Don’t Fight, You Lose by Yanni Scott Davis (Australia)
Best Music Video: Somos De America by Jimmy Velarde (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Norma Doesn’t Know She’s Magic by Francisco Huergo (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Norma Doesn’t Know She’s Magic by Francisco Huergo (USA)
Best Parody Short: Norma Doesn’t Know She’s Magic by Francisco Huergo (USA)
Best Director (Male): Christopher Houlston for Journey Home (UK)
Best Director (Male): Maty Young for The Out-Fit (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Auryn Rotten for Battle of Gaman (Australia)
Best First Time Director (Female): Bella Maori and Alyse Riley for Ugly (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Celina Igwe for Mosquito (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Christopher J. Moriarity for Reverse the Punishment (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Joey Van Rumpt for Lost Trauma (Netherlands)
Best Actress: Jessica Rookeward for The Out-Fit (USA)
Best Actor: Joey Heyworth for Audition (USA)
Best Actor: Kaleb Rittenhouse for The Audition or So You Think You Can Be America’s Next Top Idol with the Stars (USA)
Best Supporting Actor: Johnny Crown for Guns and Stuff (USA)
Best Supporting Actor: Roy Iro for In The Depths (New Zealand)
Best Child/Young Actor: Elijah Garrett for Mosquito (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Lawrence Trailer and Ben Irving for On The Vine (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Sunny Moza and Roshni Datta for Alice Memorial Park (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Anjali Kirloskar, Dilip Ratnam, Tannistha Mukherjee, and Kartic Bhargav for Perfect Misunderstanding (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Sunny Moza, Roshni Datta, and Surender Singh for Alice Memorial Park (USA)
Best Cinematography: Into the Circle (USA)
Best Cinematography: Journey Home (UK)
Best Editing: John Laww and Julianna Villarosa for My Yard, My Debt: The HBCU Student Borrower Experience (USA)
Best Editing: The Day The Pubs Re-Opened (Ireland)
Best Production Design: Temple (UK)
Best Production Design: The Exit (UK)
Best Sound Design: Project Antarctica – Easter Island Extension (USA)
Best Sound Design: There’s No End (USA)
Best Original Score: Journey Home (UK)
Best Original Score: Within (USA)
Best Original Story: Betty Kaplan for A Youtuber and a Demon (Germany)
Best Original Story: Nick Palodhick for Cycle (USA)
Best Short Script: Dead West: Herbert West – Reanimator: Miskatonic by Paul Grammatico (USA)
Best Short Script: Unfolding Temporary: A New Musical by Elena C. Lockleis (USA)
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