The following projects (films and scripts) are the finalists of the round of August competing in 62 different categories. These projects were shortlisted from a 34,9% acceptance rate official selection pool, based on submissions from 17 countries with a total runtime of 45:28:39.

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Best Horror Short

Doll Baby by Grayson Wolfe (USA)

Domestic by Malachi Pulte (USA)

I Hear Footsteps by Sal Genna (USA)

The Escape Room by Bessy Adut (USA)

Working Title by Matthew Monelli and Kyle Ziton (USA)

 

Best Sci-Fi Short

Adversary by Korea Black (USA)

Memory Man by Christopher M Armstrong (UK)

Ryoko’s Qubit Summer by Yuichi Kondo (Japan)

Secret Space by Cameron Mitchell Elmore (USA)

The Virgin Amus by Malie Mason (USA)

 

Best Comedy Short

Cold Storage by Thomas Freundlich (Finland)

COP-DOC by Doug Bost (USA)

Distinguished Feelings by Keren Marciano (France)

Saving Santa by Lauren Richards (USA)

The Screaming Monster in the Closet by Alex Tasker (USA)

 

Best Dark Comedy Short

1UP by Edward Halstead (USA)

Fox and The Rabbit by Joseph Channell (USA)

Pâté by Matthew Emery (USA)

Saving Santa by Lauren Richards (USA)

Wonderwood by Tara Lynn Rye (USA)

 

Best Thriller Short

Nowhere To Run by Mason T. Howard (USA)

The Difference by YuBin Zheng (Canada)

They Broke In by Jeremy Reyes (USA)

Vendetta by Andres Jarrin (USA)

Who Is In? by Daniel Parra (Chile)

 

Best Mystery Short

Down The Narrow Walkway by Diego Olivares (USA)

Fisherman by Brandon Jarrett Lawrence (USA)

Mr Kunibert by Tapio Antere (Finland)

The Escape Room by Bessy Adut (USA)

The Monarch Guild by Jason Ancona (USA)

 

Best Crime Short

Cowardice by Frankie Oatway (UK)

Past Consumption by Chad Todhunter (USA)

Rotten by Alejandro Gonzalez (USA)

Rush by Adam Brashaw (UK)

Volkov by George Dibble (USA)

 

Best Action Short

Downstream by Scott D Clark (Australia)

Rebuild by Shannon Kohli (Canada)

Rush by Adam Brashaw (UK)

The Koi by Qiyu Zhou (USA)

Wasters by Molotov Mitchell (USA)

 

Best Fantasy Short

Adversary by Korea Black (USA)

Bucky by Geoffrey Gould (USA)

Ian’s Realm by Chris Love (USA)

Neutropia by Malique Harris (USA)

Secret Space by Cameron Mitchell Elmore (USA)

 

Best Indie Short

Lost by Bi Cheng (China)

Method by Robert Grabow and Corinne Schneider (USA)

Resolve by Austin Dragovich (USA)

Tribe of Terribles by T. R. Murphy (USA)

Wonderwood by Tara Lynn Rye (USA)

 

Best Drama Short

A Clown’s Tale by Alexander Frank (Germany)

Séance by Johannes Franke (Germany)

Wish by Kaustuv Mukherjee (USA)

 

Best Women Short

Back to the Wall by Brian Drillinger (USA)

Resolve by Austin Dragovich (USA)

Submerged by Angie Nicholas (USA)

The Lioness by Richard Poche (USA)

Wonderwood by Tara Lynn Rye (USA)

 

Best Animation Short

Dancer By The Sea by Barbara Mones (USA)

Division by Jonathan Reser (USA)

The Screaming Monster in the Closet by Alex Tasker (USA)

 

Best Documentary Short

59 1/2 by Diamond Allen (USA)

Akuy Eenda Maawehlaang by Brooklyn Demme (USA)

I Dream of Vietnam by Jiayu Yang (USA)

Rooted in Arizona by Christian Ely (USA)

White Bicycle by Pablo Manrique (Mexico)

 

Best Experimental Short

Resolve by Austin Dragovich (USA)

When I Was 5 or 6 Years Old by Dieter Michael Grohmann (Austria)

White Bicycle by Pablo Manrique (Mexico)

 

Best Web Series/TV Pilot

Dr. Friday by Nathan DuConge (USA)

Minerva Black and the Killer Robot Army by John Aden (USA)

Moving On by Jamieson Allen, Nikolas Trusko, Laura Torres, Elizabeth Rezende, Conor Twohy, and Julia San Andres (USA)

 

Best Web and New Media

Minerva Black and the Killer Robot Army by John Aden (USA)

Sweet Isolation by Jesse James Barth (Canada)

White Bicycle by Pablo Manrique (Mexico)

 

Best Microfilm

Fox and The Rabbit by Joseph Channell (USA)

iCANDY by Gavin Jennings Harwell (USA)

Opposition by Justin Jahn (USA)

Paying the Ferryman by Alfonso “Cronopio” Moreno (USA)

Who Is In? by Daniel Parra (Chile)

 

Best Music Video

Asian She: Competitive Mourning by Kevin Beauchamp and Mando Lopez (USA)

I, Wretched Man by Bastian Wilplinger (Austria)

Linoleum by Niki Noves (France)

Mutts: Better Believe It by Nick Rush (USA)

Paying the Ferryman by Alfonso “Cronopio” Moreno (USA)

 

Best Parody Short

COP-DOC by Doug Bost (USA)

J City Heights: Bear And Bitcoin by Kyle John Blake and Kenyon Hoag (USA)

The Colour Red by Ugrin Vuckovic and Casey Israelson (New Zealand)

 

Best Trailer/Teaser

2 Below 0 (USA)

Attack of the Cat People (Australia)

Hellcats Highway! (USA)

 

Best Short Script

Betsy by Salvatore Genna (USA)

Blind Vampire by Eric White (USA)

Cavendish, Pepys, and the Zombie Kiss of 1666 by James Fitzmaurice (UK)

Showtime at Midnight by Jesse James Barth (Canada)

The Freezer by Martin Keady (UK)

 

See also TECHNICAL CATEGORIES: NOMINATIONS OF AUGUST 2019

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