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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
ReBirth by William Brooke (UK)
Best Short of the Season – Runner-up (Special Jury Award)
The River by Joseph Paul Alvarado (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Always, Already by Ken Sackheim (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Next, Please by Rishav Kapoor (India)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Vital Instruments by Greg Kase (USA)
Best Student Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Our Snowstorm by Chunzi Wang (China)
Best Indie Short: The River by Joseph Paul Alvarado (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): Lose Me Not by Desmond Hudson and Nina Zogg (Switzerland)
Honorable Mention (Indie Short): Little Hearts Seeking Love by Lye (China)
Best Drama Short: On The Paths Awakened by Axel Dahan (France)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): Everything Is Not What It Seems by Anton Chernonog (USA)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): Cozy Eurekas by Marco Felipe (Brazil)
Best Documentary Short: Cannabis + Creativity by Elana Frankel (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): What Happened To You by Alec Goldberg (USA)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): Tiger Run: The Untold Story by Dee Brown and Omarosa Manigault Newman (USA)
Best Romantic Short: Next, Please by Rishav Kapoor (India)
Best Student Romantic Short: After All by Amanda Villalpando (USA)
Honorable Mention (Romantic Short): Finding Dan by Abraham Lopez (USA)
Best Comedy Short: CPA by Gabriela Revilla Lugo (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Kombucha! by Jake Myers (USA)
Honorable Mention (Comedy Short): The Feature by Derek Diamond (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Therapist of the Year by Abel B. Padilla (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): Paint It, Black by David Shen Miller (USA)
Honorable Mention (Action Short): Space Monkey by Gavin Hansen (USA)
Best Crime Short: The Drop by Jack Parr (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Crime Short): The Other Guy by Ken Kimura (Australia)
Best Film Noir Short: Blue Bell Hill by Geoff Bell (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Film Noir Short): The Face of Death by Zachary Chilcote (USA)
Honorable Mention (Film Noir Short): The Shower by Bo Sanders (USA)
Best Mystery Short: ReBirth by William Brooke (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Mystery Short): I Know What You Need by Julia Marchese (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Vital Instruments by Greg Kase (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short): Monster In the Closet by Neil Miguel Watson (USA)
Honorable Mention (Thriller Short): The Diary by Fozan Khan (Pakistan)
Best Horror Short: Vital Instruments by Greg Kase (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): Eyecatcher by Jun Shimizu (USA)
Honorable Mention (Horror Short): You’re On Your Own, Kid by Michael Matsui (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Outer Reaches by Karl Redgen (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Sci-Fi Short): Press 1 by Danny Erb (USA)
Best Student Sci-Fi Short: To The Moons And Back by Owen David Solomon (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: The Wine Worm by Xi Wenting (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Fantasy Short): Dante, El Prisionero De La Torre by Frank Reyes (Spain)
Honorable Mention (Fantasy Short): Adversary: Wanted Dead or Alive by Korea Black (USA)
Best Animation Short: Foreigner by Giovanni A Lodigiani (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Animation Short): Play Dead by Zijiang Yang (China)
Best Student Animation Short: The Funlandia Incident by Ido Montaniez (Israel)
Honorable Mention (Animation Short): Beauty by Aitana Belda Camós and Aroa Celdrán López (Spain)
Best Children Short: Make a Wish by Bo Peng and Guoqing Li (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Children Short): Slay Slay by Michael Isaac Jacobs (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Women Short): The Cycle by Vilma Jackson (UK)
Honorable Mention (Women Short): Cats and Husbands by Grace Samson and Barry Samson (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: 43 York Road by Alex Figueiredo and Charleen Elea (UK)
Best Experimental Short: Always, Already by Ken Sackheim (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): Rust by Tim Mountain (UK)
Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): Painful Flavours by Julian Hand (UK)
Best Microfilm: Rust by Tim Mountain (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): Cats and Husbands by Grace Samson and Barry Samson (USA)
Honorable Mention (Microfilm): Take Oveer’ by Ish Schacher (USA)
Best Screendance Short: Re:birth by Laticia Fan (Taiwan)
Best Music Video: Don’t Worry by Elise Felber (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Won’t Be Around by Terry Blade (USA)
Honorable Mention (Music Video): Talk It Out – Ava Della Pietra by Adam Lukowski (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Calabasas Criminals by Brennan Karem (USA)
Best Student Mobile Short: Beyond the Gate by Hunter Nickless (USA)
Honorable Mention (Mobile Short): Blowing off the Lake by Maria Brandt (USA)
Best Mockumentary/Docucomedy Short: The Funlandia Incident by Ido Montaniez (Israel)
Honorable Mention (Mockumentary/Docucomedy Short): The Coven by Melissa Vitello (USA)
Best Short Script: Meteor by Line Rainville and Franco Pirrone (Canada)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): Machines by Izabela Borowska (Poland)
Best Student Short Script: Under the Moon by Julie Sandrine Montarnal (France)
Honorable Mention (Short Script): You Are Going To Die Today by Elise Felber (USA)
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