Best Drama Short: Broken Together by Gina DeCesare (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Out-Casted by David Zheng (USA)
Best Comedy Short: We’re Fine, Thanks by Terence Lee (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Hero Killer by Daniel Ibanez (USA)
Best Animation Short: Two of a Kind by Emma Breslauer (USA)
Best Children Short: Lyric by Susan Daniel (Australia)
Best Women Short: Blue House by Sophia Chambers (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Smoker by Ollie Alexander (Canada)
Best Experimental Short: Despite It All by Bridget Avildsen (USA)
Best Student Short: Before I’m 30 by Olivia Martini (Brazil/USA)
Best Microfilm: Night, Hawks by Hailey Ng (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Rose by Susan Daniel (Australia)
Best Parody Short: Budget Date by Kathryn Soler Beer (USA)
Best Female Director: Susan Daniel for Rose (Australia)
Best Male Director: Christian Allen for The Grey Area (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Bridget Avildsen for Despite It All (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Jake Alda for November Men (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Sofiya Odintsova and Michael Popov for Noise (Russia)
Best Actress: Maria Smal for Pretty, Perfect & Polished (USA)
Best Original Story: Allen Szema for Debra (USA)
Best Editing: Charles Kaufmann for A Colony of Radicals (USA)
Best Original Score: Pavel M Mirga for Echoes Toward the Light Visual (Czechia)
Best Short Script: Spilt Milk by Rachel Walsh-Williams (UK)
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