Award Winners: November 2022

Best Short of the Month (Special Jury Award)

The Chieftain Of The Pudding Race by Shane Crosland (USA)

Best Foreign-Language Short of the Month (Special Jury Award)

A Yemeni by Alyssa Amer (USA)

Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)

Letters for Lost Lovers by Faisal Ahmad (UK)

Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)

This Little Girl by Annette Westwood (UK)

Best Student Short of the Month (Special Jury Award)

Vacationland by Joseph Louis Coleman (USA)

Best Horror Short: This Be The Verse by Noah Chandler Hense (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): Gulabo Rani by Usman Mukhtar (Pakistan)

Honorable Mention (Horror Short): 1848 by Alfonso Otero Mireles (Mexico)

Honorable Mention (Sci-Fi Short): Shadow Legacy by Aaron W Small (USA)

Best Comedy Short: The Chieftain Of The Pudding Race by Shane Crosland (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): The Guitar Thief by Miguel Lepe Jr (USA)

Best Student Comedy Short: Mr. and Mrs. by Weihao Wang (USA)

Honorable Mention (Comedy Short): Good Neighbors by Juan Mas (USA)

Best Dark Comedy Short: Mort by Charlie Queen (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Crime Short): The Better to Eat You With by Paolo Cerrino (USA)

Honorable Mention (Crime Short): Fender Bender by Chad Ansermet (USA)

Best Film Noir Short: The Fourth is of a Devil by Revaz-Giorgi Arveladze (Georgia)

Best Thriller Short: One More Minute by Srishti Chhabria (UK)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short): Fish Out Of Water by Sasha Nelson (USA)

Best Mystery Short: Dahlia by William Hawks (USA)

Honorable Mention (Mystery Short): Product Replacement by Victor Botelho and Simran Chandher (Canada)

Honorable Mention (Western Short): All In by Salvatore Rubinetti (USA)

Best Fantasy Short: John by Yoson An (New Zealand)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Fantasy Short): Aquae Vitae by Jay William Thomas (USA)

Best Indie Short: The Chieftain Of The Pudding Race by Shane Crosland (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): A Little Inflamed by Thomas Allen (USA)

Honorable Mention (Indie Short): Maqluba by Shady Mawajdeh (USA)

Best Drama Short: Letters for Lost Lovers by Faisal Ahmad (UK)

Best Student Drama Short: Vacationland by Joseph Louis Coleman (USA)

Honorable Mention (Drama Short): Escorted by Adrian Antonsen (Norway)

Best Student Animation Short: Clicker by Charles Kugler (USA)

Honorable Mention (Animation Short): B Positive by Frances Chang (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Children Short): As Simple As This by Raha Razavi Ghashghai (Iran)

Honorable Mention (Children Short): Timeless, in the Metaverse by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, and Christina Teenz Tan (Australia)

Best Women Short: This Little Girl by Annette Westwood (UK)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Romantic Short): Wants and Needs by Julian Vargas (USA)

Best LGBTQ Short: The Wall by Valeska Miller (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (LGBTQ Short): Virium by Margarita Faneitte (Spain)

Best Documentary Short: Beirut ’22 by Patrick H. Kohl (Lebanon)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): Human 2.0 by Nourah Al Hasawi (USA)

Best Experimental Short: Safer This Way by Danny Erb (USA)

Best Student Experimental Short: Sewn With Scarlet Strings by Lillianna Munro and Nasir Simmons (UK)

Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): Scraggliness by Johanne Chagnon (Canada)

Best Microfilm: Red Hollow by Revaz-Giorgi Arveladze (USA)

Best Student Microfilm: Scared To Death by Flame Brewer (UK)

Best Web Series/TV Pilot: The Cloaked Realm – The Knight and the Queen by Marisa Cohen and Peter Issac Alexander(USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series/TV Pilot): Blackwater Blues by Stephen Wise (USA)

Honorable Mention (Web and New Media): Olivia’s Journey: Believing to Dream by Sophia Louisa Lee (USA)

Best Mobile Short: My Name is Shaun by Ann Topolsky (Poland)

Best Music Video: Kylie Love: Complete Me by Brad Hammer (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Ghost by Charles Billot (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Mockumentary/Docucomedy Short): Missing Manhood by Joshua Nelson (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Parody Short): Play the Game of Thrones by Leigh Roberts (USA)

Best Short Script: Sven by Jesse Dorian (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): Three Manikins by Abass Abass (Australia)

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