Best Indie Short: Pit by Min Kim (South Korea)
Best Drama Short: Broken Boy by Ahi Black (USA)
Best Documentary Short: The Dilemma of Extra-Curricular Institutions in China by Huanshuo Wang (China)
Best Comedy Short: Dad Jokes by Ryan Margetts (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Love Potion by Stephen Wayne and Jeff Querin (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: Noir by Mateusz Aleksander Nowikow (Poland)
Best Mystery Short: Blinded by Jim Morton and Jesse James (USA)
Best Thriller Short: The Devil’s Whiskey by Tommy Jackson (USA)
Best Horror Short: Imajuik by Marc Fussing Rosbach (Greenland)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Show Me the End of Time by Jack Benjamin Murphy (UK)
Best Fantasy Short: White Mule by Peter Dobson (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Into You by Jennifer Massaux (Belgium)
Best Student Short: Show Me the End of Time by Jack Benjamin Murphy (UK)
Best Animation Short: The Silence of Day by Niranjan Raghu (India)
Best Children Short: Sonder by Isa Grassi (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Unbarred by Melissa Davidson (Australia)
Best Microfilm: Dad Jokes by Ryan Margetts (USA)
Best Music Video: When Skies Were Blue by Rhode Breaker (USA)
Best Screendance Short: Consciencia by Lea Hinz (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Secretly Sweetly – Season 1 by Young Man Kang (South Korea)
Best Director (Female): Jennifer Massaux for Into You (Belgium)
Best Director (Male): Peter Dobson for White Mule (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Jack Benjamin Murphy for Show Me the End of Time (UK)
Best First Time Director (Female): Lea Hinz for Consciencia (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Michael Monteiro for To Kill A Cop (USA)
Best Actress: Maria Fernanda Diez for DIVR (USA)
Best Actor: Justin Mobley for The Devil’s Whiskey (USA)
Best Supporting Actress: Rhian Winfrey for Flora’s Spell (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Erin Clark and Michael Moskewicz for Forest Giants (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Batya G Cruz, Pam Renall, Marty Lindsey, and Tami Nichols Reilly for Blood Dust (USA)
Best Cinematography: Miguel Tafich for Forlorn (USA)
Best Editing: Chris Wilton for Real Story: IAW (Canada)
Best Production Design: Escalation (Italy)
Best Visual FX: Marc Fussing Rosbach and Angutinnguaq Filemonsen for Imajuik (Greenland)
Best Sound Design: Liana Dietar for The Internal Void of a Damaged Mind (Norway)
Best Original Score: Caleb Parker for Echoes (USA)
Best Original Story: Michelle L. Silva for Flora’s Spell (USA)
Best Trailer/Teaser: Bracewater (Canada)
Best Short Script: The Cleaner by Jan Birley (UK)




























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