Best Drama Short: Forever is a Delicate Thing by Cally Nguyen (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Still She Rides by Anya Ramani and Anya Kothari (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Sunday League by Jamie Bourne (UK)
Best Dark Comedy Short: LaLa on Facebook by Antonio De La Cruz (USA)
Best Crime Short: A Week by Tony Rakshith (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Paranoid by Junda Wu (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: The Will Beneath by Diag Mikelan Govender (South Africa and USA)
Best Horror Short: As Pale As Death by Ryan Kukec (Canada)
Best Western Short: Samuel Flint & the Magpie Gang by Alessia Devecchi (USA)
Best Experimental Short: The Sleep of Reason by Aleksandr Akhmedov (Kazakhstan)
Best Student Short: Hot Asphalt by Leah Kay (USA)
Best Microfilm: The Harpies by Rogan Lovse (Canada)
Best Animation Short: Why Are You Like This? by Sung Eun Park (USA)
Best Women Short: Zelzin, Footprints That Inspire by Zelzin Aketzalli Weeks and Adam Pawlikiewicz (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: When You See Me by Georgia Cotterill (New Zealand)
Best Music Video: Denali by Jiafan Lin (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: The Matinee by Blake Kaiser and Benny Flora (USA)
Best Male Director: Bastien Leblanc for Lucy (France)
Best Student Female Director: Jiafan Lin for Denali (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Zelzin Aketzalli Weeks and Adam Pawlikiewicz for Zelzin, Footprints That Inspire (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Zachry Kincaid for An Appeal to Heaven (USA)
Best Actress: Arica Anderson for Kinfolk (USA)
Best Young Actor: Alex Kerr for As Pale As Death (Canada)
Best Editing: Andre Dixon for Kinfolk (USA)
Best Original Score: Pie In the Sky (USA)
Best Short Script: Borderline by Donika Hunking (USA)
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