Best Indie Short: All’s Well by Paulina May Casey (USA)
Best Drama Short: Mute by Andrea Borbolla (Mexico)
Best Documentary Short: Voices by Randy Field (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Without You by Al Friedman (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Dine and Die by Marcel Flock (Germany)
Best Thriller Short: Diabolika by Dexter Wilson (Canada)
Best Experimental Short: Do You Remember Dad? by Jay Sung (USA)
Best Student Short: Shayna Punim by Emilie Anderson (USA)
Best Animation Short: Hinter-Land by Christopher Angus (Canada)
Best Women Short: 6 Weeks by Caroline Lannes (USA)
Best Screendance Short: Syntropia by Andrea Pellerani (Switzerland)
Best Music Video: The Girl Who Faded Away by Brent Heise (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Captain Freckles and Applesauce by Brenton Feeser (USA)
Best Parody Short: Jeannine Candy by Alyssa Donovan (USA)
Best Female Director: Marta Świerczyńska and Anna Watkins for Shimmer (UK)
Best Male Director: Leandro Rial for While Fingernails Grow (USA)
Best Student Female Director: Caroline Lannes for 6 Weeks (USA)
Best Student Male Director: Steven Chau for Drama Boy (Canada)
Best First Time Female Director: Vicky Anastasiadou for Bad Kids with Saint Names (Greece)
Best First Time Male Director: John-Carlos Estrada and Zak Zeh for Barbette + Fontaine (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Zakariya Al-Bashar for A Taste of Tradition (UK)
Best Actress: Kyra Morling for All’s Well (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Hunter Nickless for Gone (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Helena Jones and Petra Szicso for Crossfire (UK)
Best Ensemble Cast: Muhammed Mehai, Janelle Christa, Tiffany Thomas, Shannon Loar Cote, Susi Oldenkamp, Jack Bernstein, Ivy Vahanian, Mike Huth, Leslie Zemeckis, Wendy James, Will Hugh’s, Ed Kasper, Natalie Schlute, Leo Bottelsen, Lydea Perez, Poppy Plummer, James Ladin, Dylan Ladin, Ossian Sverdrup, Viggo Sverdrup, Jasmine Bottelsen, Hudson James, India Darling, and Tristen Fleming for Transcendent (USA)
Best Cinematography: When We Get Home (USA)
Best Editing: Taylor Lyons for Noteworthy (USA)
Best Production Design: My Rockstar (USA)
Best Visual FX: Markus Schnatmann for Elteney (Germany)
Best Sound Design: Elteney (Germany)
Best Original Score: Cerys Mckenna for Crossfire (UK)
Best Original Story: Nefeli Athanasaki and Thanasis Vosnakis for Bad Kids with Saint Names (Greece)
Best Short Script: Devious by Martina Lisec (Austria)



























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