Award Winners: February 2023

Best Short of the Month (Special Jury Award)

Fog of War by Steven Lundgren (USA)

Awards of Excellence (Special Jury Mentions)

Home by Shari Coleman (USA)

Loved by David Joseph Higgins (USA)

The Cannibals by Kim Hopkins and Abigail Breslin (USA)

Best Horror Short: Fog of War by Steven Lundgren (USA)

Best Student Horror Short: It Lives With Me by Kenneth Ikaika Aune (USA)

Honorable Mention (Horror Short): The Guest Bedroom by Rob Campoy (USA)

Best Sci-Fi Short: Desert Sky by David Hartstone (USA)

Best Student Sci-Fi Short: Between the Black Keys by Aaron Brewer (USA)

Best Indie Short: Loved by David Joseph Higgins (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): Welcome To Hollywood by Cam Duncan (USA)

Honorable Mention (Indie Short): Mersey Boys: A Letter from Al Moran by Paddy Murphy (Ireland)

Best Documentary Short: 45 Mill Street by Daniel E Catullo III (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): Finding Fred Lee by Jack Gin (Canada)

Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): Pioneering Spirits by Stephan Blinn (USA)

Best Comedy Short: Le magasin des compliments by Titouan Laporte (France)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): A Brush With Death by Yuval Sol Boker (Israel)

Honorable Mention (Comedy Short): Palabres by Raphael Dussud (France)

Best Dark Comedy Short: The Cannibals by Kim Hopkins and Abigail Breslin (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): Incorrigible by Robert Jauregui (USA)

Honorable Mention (Film Noir Short): The Fate Keeper by Priscilla Ford (USA)

Best Student Thriller Short: Family Business by Jessica Herlitz and Cian Collins (USA)

Honorable Mention (Thriller Short): Tune Up by Stefan Perez (USA)

Honorable Mention (Fantasy Short): The Red Dahlia by Richard Poche (USA)

Best Animation Short: Earth Girl Mission by Liz Courtney (Singapore)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Animation Short): The Alan Song by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, and Samudra Kajal Saikia (Singapore)

Honorable Mention (Animation Short): Silent Sirens by Neil Sandhoefner (USA)

Best Women Short: Home by Shari Coleman (USA)

Honorable Mention (Women Short): Walking in the Wrong Direction by Lisa Singletary (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (LGBTQ Short): Walking in the Wrong Direction by Lisa Singletary (USA)

Honorable Mention (Romantic Short): I’ve Been Great by Troy Young (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): Silent Sirens by Neil Sandhoefner (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): Opa by Merivelle Hannah (USA)

Best Student Microfilm: Countdown by Milan Tangirala (USA)

Honorable Mention (Microfilm): Holiday Dada by Daniel Milligan (Canada)

Best Screendance Short: Home by Shari Coleman (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Screendance Short): Elements: Beautiful Untrue Things by Amelia Finngåård (Sweden)

Best Music Video: The Alan Song by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, and Samudra Kajal Saikia (Singapore)

Best Web Series/TV Pilot: The Cannibals by Kim Hopkins and Abigail Breslin (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Mockumentary/Docucomedy Short): The 6th Finger of Tommy the Goose by Colin Dodds (USA)

Honorable Mention (Mockumentary/Docucomedy Short): Grassroots by Jesse Fox (UK)

Best Short Script: The Man From Hell’s Kitchen by Valerii Georg Zhmak (Bulgaria)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): In The Corner Of My Eye by Bret A. Arnold (USA)

Honorable Mention (Short Script): Der Beker – A Gangster Short in Yiddish by Ruben Levi (Sweden)