Best Indie Short: Midnight Sun by Sarah Warren (Canada)
Best Indie Short: Yéyé by Roxanne Paisan (Spain)
Best Drama Short: 11-95 by Paul S Lindsay (USA)
Best Drama Short: Come As You Are by Alyse Kane Riley (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Reaching Out From Within by David Brick (USA)
Best Documentary Short: We Three by Linna He (China)
Best Comedy Short: 24 Hours in Beijing by Laurence Carroll Brahm (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Creeped Out by Matt Holt (UK)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Damage and Shame by William Anthony Stancik (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: The Plan by Gigi Burgdorf (UK)
Best Action Short: The Perfect Husband by Eddie Eniel (USA)
Best Crime Short: A Walk in the Shadows by Kevin Gibson (USA)
Best Thriller Short: The Other Side by Dong Chen (China)
Best Mystery Short: The Past is a Graveyard by John Wilfred Roberson (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Shadow and Souls by Judith Foster Thompson (USA)
Best Horror Short: Three Days Home by Simmons McDavid (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Can’t Run by Logan Shaw (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Ni Kallatho by Sujay Putchala and Mahaveer Abhimanyu (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Estonian Lullaby by Matvey Rezanov (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Namibia Photo Tour Timelapse by Martin Zalba (Spain)
Best Student Short: Miscellaneous by Joshua Anthony Ramirez (USA)
Best Student Short: Two’s a Lesson by Joshua Urquhart (Australia)
Best Animation Short: Cowboy by Gibb (USA)
Best Animation Short: Night, Knight Teddy by Nicholas Ryan Louviere and Adam Christopher Kohlenberg (USA)
Best Children Short: Co-kee! by Yessenia I. Calderon (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Matched by Russell Sorbello (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Xo Stella by D.J. Holman (USA)
Best Women Short: Do Something by Peppur Chambers (USA)
Best Women Short: The (Un)Making of a Woman by Rebecca L Lowry (USA)
Best Microfilm: Exist by Niaz Parvaresh (USA)
Best Microfilm: The Heart by Mike Colquhoun (France)
Best Music Video: Bohemian by Mari Makkonen and Riikka Silkala (Finland)
Best Music Video: Swept Away by Tom Baldinger (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Blocked by Anntreece Jones (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: TempaKILL – Season Two by Rick Williamson (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Gelker in the Treehouse by Moe Taylor and Kathryn Taylor (Costa Rica)
Best Web and New Media: Radio Gaga by Samuel Martin and Rahul Das (USA)
Best Mobile Short: Video Man by Peter Lundholm (USA)
Best Mobile Short: Waypoints by Cas Taylor (USA)
Best Parody Short: Don’t Ask Where I Live by Jennifer Wenger and Genevieve Marie (USA)
Best Director (Female): Alyse Kane Riley for Come As You Are (USA)
Best Director (Female): Chiara Sabatini for Carbonara Kids (France)
Best Director (Male): Justin Fong for Model (USA)
Best Director (Male): Paul S Lindsay for 11-95 (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Kelsey McGee for Crystal (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Jake Mason and Felix Wilding for Dark Cloud (UK)
Best Student Director (Male): Laurence Carroll Brahm for 24 Hours in Beijing (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Ella Mikayelyan and Gabriella Vore for Faultline (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Rebecca Towns for Waiting (Australia)
Best First Time Director (Male): Jay Chesson for Meet Me at Ours (Australia)
Best First Time Director (Male): Joshua Urquhart for Two’s a Lesson (Australia)
Best Actress: Bénédicte Lala Ernoult for Fotos (France)
Best Actress: Sudapa Ishikawa for Spaceman (Thailand)
Best Actor: Jean-François Pichette for Midnight Sun (Canada)
Best Actor: Robert Slotnick for The Snail (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Chase Offerle and Farah Shea for Come As You Are (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Nathan Ondracek and Lauren Byrd for Collapse! (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Julie Marie Hassett, Dori Toledo, Jeffrey S.S. Johnson, Paulette Smith, and Rick Williamson for TempaKILL – Season Two (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Silas Irwin, Maisie Owens, Tom Rodgers, Jan Hunt, and Nola Wallace for Billy Blue Eyes (Australia)
Best Editing: Kary H Sarrey for Song of the Same Night (USA)
Best Editing: Rike Boomgaarden, David Asambadze, Tamara Jatchvadz, and Francisco Rodriguez/Prime Studios for Bring Them Home (USA)
Best Production Design: Florida (USA)
Best Sound Design: George Ramishvili for Guest (France)
Best Sound Design: Sam Auguste for More Than Time (UK)
Best Original Score: Danika Starrharrt for Did/Didn’t (USA)
Best Original Score: Jack Broza for Olive & Lynn (USA)
Best Original Story: J. Kiernan O’Brien for The Yellow Wallpaper (USA)
Best Original Story: Michelle L. Silva for Honey (USA)
Best Short Script: Harold, Electra and our Lord, David Attenborough by Kirsty Zane (Australia)
Best Short Script: How to Lie to Yourself in Three Maybe Four Easy Lessons by Stoney Forde (USA)






























































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