Best Indie Short: Grief by Tailiah Breon (USA)
Best Drama Short: A Horse Called Possum by Tori Layne (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Thoughts in the Wind by Xiang Sun (China)
Best Romantic Short: Hey Sarah by Dominick Ottone (USA)
Best Comedy Short: I Love Louie by Jill Jaress (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Welcome, Megan by Lily Richards (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: Moida She Dunnit by Tess Paras (USA)
Best Crime Short: Gamin by Ryan Murtha (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Bot by Phil Miller (USA)
Best Mystery Short: Stairs by Jeph Porter (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Paper Hawk by Shuwen Qiu (Australia)
Best Experimental Short: No More by Fabricio Estevam Mira (Brazil)
Best Student Short: Crooked River by Henry Shriber (USA)
Best Animation Short: Nomad by Abdulrahman El Abyad, Lynne Zakhour, and Tamara Qaddoumi (Lebanon)
Best Children Short: Whenever the Wind Blows by Ruitong Zhao (USA)
Best Women Short: Just This Once by Hollie Bahar (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Finding the Lighthouse by Michael Cox (New Zealand)
Best Microfilm: Pandemic Love by Darlene Lori DuCharme (USA)
Best Music Video: Nirvana by Amir Hossein Nouri (Iran)
Best Screendance Short: Body Chronicle by Sakurako Shibata (Japan)
Best Web and New Media: Sibs by Derek Johnson (USA)
Best Mobile Short: Spatiohumanism by Moses Parlindungan Ompusunggu (Indonesia)
Best Parody Short: Moida She Dunnit by Tess Paras (USA)
Best Director (Female): Patricia Delso Lucas for For I Am Dead (Belgium)
Best Director (Male): Paul Persic for The Joytale (Canada)
Best Student Director (Female): Darlene Lori DuCharme for Pandemic Love (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Troy Charbonnet for Where The Bird Goes (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Vincent Meilac for Amorphe (France)
Best Actress: Joyce Porter for Stairs (USA)
Best Actor: Tavis Doucette for A. Jacks (USA)
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Bailey for A. Jacks (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Grey Miller for Bot (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Amir Hossein Ezatollah Pour and Lauren Aqui for Missing Piece (Canada)
Best Ensemble Cast: Katerina Camejo, Chantal Van Zyl, Elizabeth Sun, Emily Hope, Aynsleigh Weller Haines, Rayanna Griffith, and Paige Susan Anderson for Beneath The Surface (USA)
Best Cinematography: Sébastien Pins for Amorphe (France)
Best Editing: Jiahui Huang for Thoughts in the Wind (China)
Best Production Design: Riley Del Rey and Violet Martinez for Capitol Barbie (USA)
Best Special FX: Organic (USA)
Best Visual FX: Andrew Larson for Parallel (USA)
Best Sound Design: Michael Spencer for A Little Tent (USA)
Best Original Score: Nathan Cummins for Scooter (Australia)
Best Original Story: Robert Gilbert and Griffin Stevens for Thrill of Missing Out (UK)
Best Short Script: Nana by Sonny P. Louis (USA)
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