Best Indie Short: The Hat by Collin Chute (USA)
Best Drama Short: A Mother’s Promise by Heather Waters (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Huliyappa by Sourabha Rao (India)
Best Romantic Short: Central Time by Daryl Lefever (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Forward Thinking by Antonio Harper and Abby Burton (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Marla and Darla by Ava Nielsen (USA)
Best Action Short: SwordPlay by Noah Sutton and Matty Wint (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: Solus by Tommy Jay Dwyer (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Broken by Angelo Donzella (Italy)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Artificial Autonomy by Ryan Konig (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Gutter by Jevon Edward Donaldson and Jordan Nicolas Donaldson (USA)
Best Student Short: Wisdom Teeth by Lily Micheline Kaplan (USA)
Best Animation Short: Un-Brella by Kaixi Cathy Yang (USA)
Best Women Short: In Me I Trust by Frederique Amelie Attuel (France)
Best Music Video: Embers by Wesley Crutcher, Javon Everett, and Tionnedre Tribble (USA)
Best Female Director: Ivana Rauchmann for Corazon De Piedra (A Heart Of Stone) (Austria)
Best Male Director: Angelo Donzella for Broken (Italy)
Best Student Male Director: Ömer Korman for The Silk Handkerchief (Turkey)
Best First Time Female Director: Eléonore-Emmanuella Bilambo and Judah Eric Meade for A Love Letter to My Brother (UK)
Best Actress: Frederique Amelie Attuel for In Me I Trust (France)
Best Actor: Tommy Jay Dwyer for Solus (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Charis Petousi, Anastasia Pagoni, Manos Paralaimos, Aria Tzortzaki-Pantelous, Marga Tseliou-Siniorou, and Byron Chelidonis for Gods Have Problems Too (Greece)
Best Cinematography: Sandrine Maltais for In Me I Trust (France)
Best Editing: Vangelis Katsiyiannis for Gods Have Problems Too (Greece)
Best Original Score: Luca Patrizio Taylor for The Pursuit Of Forgiveness (Ireland)
Best Original Story: Eslam Hozayen for All Kinds (USA)
Best Short Script: Canada Remembers: In The Promise of A Better Tomorrow by Al Raif (Canada)





















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