Best Indie Short: The Green Room by Shashank Banawalikar Subhash (Canada)
Best Drama Short: The Rhythm Of Silence by Juan David Villar Steffens (Aruba)
Best Documentary Short: State Champions by Cime Bruce (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Sugar Slate by Lorenzo Patanè and Alessandra Rucco (USA)
Best Horror Short: Dotted Line by Michael Rognlie and EE Tallent (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: One Thing You Can Do by Jimena Larraguivel (UK)
Best Experimental Short: I Was Within Everything by Mida Kagolkina (Spain)
Best Student Short: The Last Chance by Xiaotong Liu (USA)
Best Animation Short: Grizzly Jim by Richard Guthrie (UK)
Best Children Short: Curious (The Story of Pie) by Jeong Jin Kim (South Korea)
Best Women Short: F*ck Feelings by Samantha K Tan (USA)
Best Microfilm: Dispersal by Astrid Rothaug (Austria)
Best Music Video: Dear Beyonce by Charles Ford and Ricardo Datts (USA)
Best Mobile Short: Now Smile by Miguel Lopez de Leon (USA)
Best Female Director: Jimena Larraguivel for One Thing You Can Do (UK)
Best Male Director: Andrew Acedo for The Sharp Point of Time (USA)
Best Student Female Director: Xiaotong Liu for The Last Chance (USA)
Best Student Male Director: Luke Tatro for Brothers of the Apocalypse (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Hanna DiLorenzo for Behind Closed Doors (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Audrey He-Qing Cheng for Chirp Talker (Taiwan)
Best Actress: Maria Sky for Sugar Slate (USA)
Best Actor: Colin Miller for Between Us (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Anna Greene and Zaramok Bachok for Her War (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Alex Naumann, James C. Stewart, Lianna Perry-Fountain, Leo Phillips, and Erik Franklin for Dotted Line (USA)
Best Cinematography: C.Y.A (Israel)
Best Editing: Daniel Williams for Behind Closed Doors (USA)
Best Production Design: Yibo Kou for Snow Whisper (USA)
Best Visual FX: AI Actually (Hong Kong)
Best Sound Design: Zane for After (Canada)
Best Original Story: Steffan Busser for OG Prime (USA)
Best Short Script: Germaphobe In A Sex Club by Caitlin Cronenberg and Jessica Ennis Moss (Canada)
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