Honorable Mentions: November 2022

Best Indie Short: Well Past Midnight by Lucas Teichman Dudley (USA)

Best Drama Short: Queen by Przemysław Kulikowski (Poland)

Best Documentary Short: Love Sing Embrace – Among The Mystic Baul Minstrels Of India by Vijali Hamilton (USA)

Best Romantic Short: Ed: A Love Story by Abraham Lopez (USA)

Best Comedy Short: Forced Friendships by Jean-Diar Kalantar (Canada)

Best Dark Comedy Short: Conversations In A Waiting Room by Samantha Ipema (USA)

Best Film Noir Short: The Sara Teasdale Project: In A Garden by Hannah Erin Eakin (USA)

Best Thriller Short: Missing – A True Story by Jesse S (USA)

Best Fantasy Short: Meeting Dad by Robert Jarzen (USA)

Best Experimental Short: The Five Legged Ant by Lawrence Ramirez (USA)

Best Student Short: Only So An Hour by Elizabeth Winters (USA)

Best Women Short: Alice in Quarantine by Holiday Mariska Milosevich and Hayden Curtis (USA)

Best Music Video: Ghost by Charles Billot (USA)

Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Hostel Hollywood by Alexander Clarke Carver (USA)

Best Web and New Media: Cookie Wars: Sugar Cookie Edition by Miles Abraham Broadhead (USA)

Best Mobile Short: Winter Lockdown by Catherine Phillips (UK)

Best Director (Female): Jess Philipps for Lifeline (USA)

Best Director (Male): Shady Mawajdeh for Maqluba (USA)

Best First Time Director (Female): Haeri Jeon for The Home (South Korea)

Best First Time Director (Male): Julian Vargas for Wants and Needs (USA)

Best Actress: Gemma Ellice for Alice in Quarantine (USA)

Best Actor: Paulo Ribeiro for Just Like Everything Else in This Life (Brazil)

Best Acting Duo: Hyunwoo Im and Yena Lee for The Painted Face (South Korea)

Best Ensemble Cast: Abhimanyu Katyal, Ryan Simantel, Brittney Rae Carrera, and Megan Duffy for Staffed (USA)

Best Cinematography: Jop van de Kam for Required Reading (Netherlands)

Best Editing: Train to Budapest (Italy)

Best Production Design: Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt When Hugh Hefner Is Buried Next Door (USA)

Best Original Story: Shady Mawajdeh for Maqluba (USA)

Best Short Script: Not Our Day Jobs by Vanessa Schanen (USA)

FINALISTS

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GOLD AWARDS

SILVER AWARDS

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