Best Indie Short: The Words of Stone by A Jun (China)
Best Drama Short: Unforgiven by Justin Suttles, Bryan Tan, and Jesse Scimeca (USA)
Best Documentary Short: In It 2 Win It by Pete Kolopenuk (Canada)
Best Comedy Short: Pickleball: Death in the Kitchen by Paul Taft (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Japanese Punishment by Hugo Will (USA)
Best Action Short: Target Jeremy by Edwin Velez (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Goodnight Darling by Jef Ross Doebler (USA)
Best Horror Short: Out To Run: A Tale of Blood Velvet by James Berry (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: The Lady of the House of Love by Selena Xin Jin (UK)
Best Experimental Short: The Conscious Movie by Harsh Mamata (USA)
Best Student Short: Street Vendor by Stella Moira Atmadja (Indonesia)
Best Animation Short: Stressy Squishy by Katherine Fan (USA)
Best Children Short: Safety Patrol by Nell Geer (USA)
Best Women Short: Dollhouse by Audrey Cardinal (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: I Don’t by Kuan Wei Yu (USA)
Best Microfilm: Fig Island by Brendan Void (UK)
Best Music Video: Suki Joplin Sex Goblin by Brendan Void (UK)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Malibu Mother of Two by Cybil Lake (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Heavy Load by Alisher Mishelyov (Kazakhstan)
Best Mobile Short: What’s Left by Lauren Louna Geoffroy (Egypt)
Best Female Director: Sandy Ismail for Mother of Mothers (USA)
Best Male Director: Benjamin R. Munz for Ticket, Please! (Germany)
Best Student Female Director: Audrey Cardinal for Dollhouse (USA)
Best Student Male Director: Crispin Kerr-Dineen for Shattered Expectations (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Zizhao Yuan for Eunoia (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Henry Brower for Snug Fit (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Nate Berman for Anything is Possible (USA)
Best Actress: Cybil Lake for Malibu Mother of Two (USA)
Best Actor: Justin Berti for Japanese Punishment (USA)
Best Child/Young Actress: Rory Salazar for Goodnight Darling (USA)
Best Child/Young Actor: Jarvis Chan for Up, Up and Away (Hong Kong)
Best Acting Duo: Jade Soto and Jaclyn Hamric for The Ange and Addi Show (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Raphael Grosz-Harvey, Lynne Adams, Nobuya Shimamoto, Jason Hsu, Akote Chanoine, Penande Estime, and Jean Drolet for Deja Vu (Canada)
Best Cinematography: Stella Moira Atmadja for Street Vendor (Indonesia)
Best Editing: Sebastian Wild, Robin Alting van Geusau, Kai Bogatzki, and Lena Wimmer for Ticket, Please! (Germany)
Best Production Design: Jessica Peter for The Conscious Movie (USA)
Best Sound Design: Who Knows? (USA)
Best Original Score: Ed Hartman for The Scalpel (USA)
Best Original Story: William Bright for The Caregiver (USA)
Best Short Script: Yellow Tinted Glasses by Julia Song (USA)
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