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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
The Ripper by Harrison Ellis (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
A Guest In My Country by John Gray (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
All the Colours by Leo De Haan (UK)
Best Indie Short: Strange Attractor by Hadley Perkins (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): The Parable of the Green Rooster by Ítalo Almeida (Brazil)
Honorable Mention (Indie Short): One Of One by Daniel Kyle Mccartney (USA)
Best Drama Short: A Guest In My Country by John Gray (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): The Race by Zoran Pribičević (Croatia)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): Serenity’s Song by Christopher Andrew Schultz (USA)
Best Student Documentary Short: The Finish Line by Ruchi Srivastava (Canada)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): Magnetic Mountain by Karol Stępniewski and Bartłomiej Walerczuk (Poland)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Cardboard by Julie Hoang (USA)
Best Student Dark Comedy Short: Catch the Thief: Hearts & Diamonds by Howon Jung (South Korea)
Best Student Action Short: Centica Emily Murdock by Jaynit Prashant Parmar (Spain)
Best Crime Short: The Ripper by Harrison Ellis (USA)
Best Thriller Short: All the Colours by Leo De Haan (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short): Harder! by Divyansh Dubey (India)
Best Mystery Short: Raven’s Room by Jawsh Ojeda (USA)
Best Student Mystery Short: Flora by Sam Zheng (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Mystery Short): The Black Tooth by Anita Serrano (Argentina)
Best Student Horror Short: Who Goes There? by Gage Looney (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): Pop by Alwin Firmansyah (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Sci-Fi Short): Ether by Christopher Levoy Bower (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: The Dandelion Girl by Rogan Lovse (Canada)
Best Western Short: When The Moon Goes Down by Trever Riney (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Animation Short): Reflection by Daniel Robichaud (USA)
Honorable Mention (Animation Short): The Studio Family by Daun Kim (South Korea)
Best Children Short: Our Monsters by Mia Petrovic (Canada)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Children Short): Before by Freja Majlund Westh (Denmark)
Best Student Women Short: Run Behind The Curtain by Valentina Mosqueda (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Women Short): Olive View by Janet Craig (USA)
Honorable Mention (Women Short): Only Me by Subho Basu (India)
Best Romantic Short: Love Spells by Michael Plewa (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Romantic Short): The Dandelion Girl by Rogan Lovse (Canada)
Best Student LGBTQ Short: Grey Zone by Yohann Perez (France)
Honorable Mention (LGBTQ Short): We Are Not the Same by Jesús Castillo (Panama)
Best Experimental Short: A Lasting Place by Juwan Rashaad Howard (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): C.Y.N.D. by Ju Conci (Brazil)
Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): Hierophany by Alberto Martín-Aragón (Spain)
Best Microfilm: Baby Boy by Michael Anthony Carter (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): The Harpies by Rogan Lovse (Canada)
Best Music Video: Dance on My Own by Dinley Jones (Australia)
Honorable Mention (Music Video): Just Like Selma by Nolan Williams, Jr. (USA)
Best Screendance Short: Embodied Landscapes by Laura Sukowatey and Jessalyn Finch (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Screendance Short): Want You by Tavia Christina (Canada)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series/TV Pilot): The Independent Newspaper Company by Frank Muller and Dan Husted (USA)
Honorable Mention (Web Series/TV Pilot): Mental by Suzanna Turner (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Awful Dreams by Michael Hess (USA)
Honorable Mention (Mockumentary/Docucomedy Short): Massage Baby! by Ke Zhang (USA)
Honorable Mention (Trailer/Teaser): Dive by Jeremy Greenberg and Jesse James Crook (USA)
Best Short Script: Into the Fog by Rade Mileusnic (Serbia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): The Report by Nathaniel Sejin Kim (South Korea)
Honorable Mention (Short Script): Watch Me by Sabrina Wright (USA)
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