Best Indie Short: For You by Jordan Martinez Richard (USA)
Best Drama Short: Reaching for Sky by Hannah Logan (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Human – Ghost: Food Delivery Drivers As Locals, Strangers, And Wanderers by Lisha Chen (USA)
Best Documentary Short: I Am the Storm by Jason Turner (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Control by Rodja Martin Tröscher (Germany)
Best Comedy Short: The Rite of Writing by Mitchell Treharne (Australia)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Albert Rose’s Funeral by Florian Sanchez (France)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Door to Door by Nicky Hirsch (USA)
Best Action Short: Allegiant to None by Dylan Bowe (USA)
Best Action Short: Assassin League by Matthew Michael Wasiewicz (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: Hand Standman by Dylan St. Aubin (Canada)
Best Film Noir Short: The Narrative by Dmitry Kazantsev (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Backseat Rendezvous by Daniel Noa (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Shapes by John Ahle Kellar and Tyler Posey (USA)
Best Mystery Short: Surprise! by Victor Botelho (Canada)
Best Fantasy Short: Masters of Illusion 2: After Party (USA)
Best Horror Short: Damn by Jorge Antares (Puerto Rico)
Best Experimental Short: How to Hug a Porcupine by Byron Laviolette (Canada)
Best Experimental Short: Unlike Any Other by LaShea Johnson (USA)
Best Student Short: Summer in Winter by Xiaoxing Chen (China)
Best Student Short: Unique Chance by Stylianos Papadimitriou (Greece)
Best Animation Short: Brouchard Ep.2 – Mob Job by James Pavlou (UK)
Best Animation Short: I’m Here by Jennifer Hathaway (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Shadows by Michael O’Brien and Stuart Mast (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Smell The Roses by Auset Parris (USA)
Best Women Short: Wallpaper by Tanya Jade (Canada)
Best Women Short: Wish, I Was There by Sokhean Ouk (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: La Cita (The Appointment) by Alex Kannan (USA)
Best Microfilm: Miss Fortune by Jayzee Cali (Canada)
Best Microfilm: When I Met Mia by Merivelle Hannah (USA)
Best Music Video: Deep Redd by Lionel Monsanto (USA)
Best Music Video: The Band Royale – Superman by Samuel A. Morris (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Brouchard Ep.2 – Mob Job by James Pavlou (UK)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Rex Champion Vs. Human Resources by Kieran Testa (Canada)
Best Web and New Media: The Subaru Sagas by Danielle Swanson, Brian Larios, Walter Kartman, and Anne Arreguin (USA)
Best Mobile Short: La Cita (The Appointment) by Alex Kannan (USA)
Best Director (Male): Aris Katsigiannis for 15 – I. M. Faneromenis (Greece)
Best Director (Male): Joey Medina for Beautiful Violence (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Jennifer Hathaway for I’m Here (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Liza Gross for Crickets (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Dylan Bowe for Allegiant to None (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Mitchell Treharne for The Rite of Writing (Australia)
Best First Time Director (Female): Jeannie Stachniewska for On Charge (UK)
Best First Time Director (Female): Nicky Hirsch for Door to Door (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Daniel Bott for Do You Still Ask About Me (UK)
Best First Time Director (Male): Robby Kendall for Drag Queens Must Die! (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Joy L Tarzia for 1600: Revised (USA)
Best Actress: Kate O’Neill for Hangman (USA)
Best Actress: Lauren Molina for Let Them Eat (USA)
Best Actor: Anthony Giordano for Greg (USA)
Best Actor: Rodja Martin Tröscher for Control (Germany)
Best Acting Duo: Dan Lorette and Jolie Gutierrez for Stay (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Rudy Cabrera and Charee Baez for Deep Redd (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Christina Leidel, Sara Bresee, and Al Dollar for The Pardoner’s Sale (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: David S. Jung, Elaine Kao, Jonathan Ohye, Jeff Marchelletta, Charles Kim, Andrea Lwin, and Rita Rani Ahuja for Biased (USA)
Best Cinematography: Alex Quintana for Season of Victory (USA)
Best Cinematography: Dan Freene for Good Times, Bad Moon (Australia)
Best Production Design: Code 1/2 (USA)
Best Production Design: Drag Queens Must Die! (USA)
Best Original Score: Brian Sykes, Marlon King, and Cavan Jackson for Pictures Only (USA)
Best Original Score: Reuben Allen for Everybody’s Got Something (USA)
Best Original Story: Jeannie Stachniewska for On Charge (UK)
Best Original Story: Robby Kendall for Drag Queens Must Die! (USA)
Best Short Script: Dead West: The Devil’s Assassin by Alexander Jerome Callens (USA)
Best Short Script: Wired by Edward Tarrell Galloway (USA)
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