Best Indie Short: Spending Time With You by Robert Joshua Pafchek (USA)
Best Drama Short: Relapse by Aron Davidsson (USA)
Best Documentary Short: The World Is (Y)Ours by Tanya Noushka (UK)
Best Romantic Short: A Laundry Connection by Rodney Cox (USA)
Best Comedy Short: American Vice by Emma Gobillot (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Hunched Heart by Emre Özerden (Turkey)
Best Thriller Short: Efsun by Bahri Baykal (Turkey)
Best Film Noir Short: Reyna by Akinola Hassan (USA)
Best Crime Short: Lizard by Darrin Williams and Curtis Leitch (USA)
Best Mystery Short: Desolation Throe by Veronika Waga and Sebastian Waga (Sweden)
Best Horror Short: The Marker by Casey Alexander (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Sentris by Ian Harrington (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Collapse by Alberto Martín-Aragón (Spain)
Best Student Short: Lip Reader: Game Of Detective by Tanxuan Shi (China)
Best Animation Short: Isle of Chair by Ivyy Chen (Taiwan)
Best Children Short: Mimi Meets Books by Yih-Fen Chou (Taiwan)
Best Women Short: The Boy Who Thought He Could Fly by Emma Pitt (UK)
Best LGBTQ Short: Stallion by Zachary Smith (USA)
Best Microfilm: Muted Walls by Elisa Sofia Fioretti (USA)
Best Screendance Short: Resilient by Lexa Davis (USA)
Best Music Video: Moon Bay by Summa Cilem (Germany)
Best Mobile Short: Quarantine by Rik Zak (Canada)
Best Web and New Media: Be Water by Cheuk Ying Cherie Chan (Hong Kong)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Visible Farmer by Gisela Kaufmann (Australia)
Best Director (Female): Summa Cilem for Moon Bay (Germany)
Best Director (Male): Mattia Fiumani for Notebook (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Jordan Pfeifer for Necromantic (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Cole Bacani for Like You Said You’d Be (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Polina Buchak for Pool Party (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Bahri Baykal for Efsun (Turkey)
Best Young Filmmaker (Female): Brianna Brann for Sketch (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker (Male): D.J. Holman for A Quartet Supreme (USA)
Best Actress: Emma Richardson for Mixed Reception (UK)
Best Actor: Tom Bull for Relapse (USA)
Best Supporting Actress: Maxie Ouyang for Dead in the Water (New Zealand)
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Henley Starr for Driver’s Ed (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Swami Fusaroli for 9A (Italy)
Best Child/Young Actor: Archie Sanders for The Boy Who Thought He Could Fly (UK)
Best Acting Duo: Diahanna Davidson and Talia Saraceno for American Vice (USA)
Best Acting Ensemble: Madison M. Bowman, Ariany Cespedes, Danielle J. Bowman , Parker King, and Savannah Grace Elmer for Resilient (USA)
Best Cinematography: Rômullo Furtado Beltrame for Smithereens (Brazil)
Best Editing: Wisher Zhu for Tomorrow (Germany)
Best Visual FX: Das Fuerst for When Fire Flies (USA)
Best Production Design: Julie de Oliveira for Smithereens (Brazil)
Best Sound Design: Rhys Ward for Welcome To The Deadzone (Australia)
Best Original Score: Cali Wang for Mathilda (USA)
Best Original Story: Emma Pitt for The Boy Who Thought He Could Fly (UK)
Best Short Script: Not a Creature was Stirring by Michael W Hogan (USA)
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