Annual Award Winners 2023/2024

Best Indie Short: Who Followed Us Home by John Gowan and Neil Gowan (USA)

Best Drama Short: Matthew by Matt Servitto (USA)

Best Student Short: The Last Nora by Pauline Zihan Zhang (USA)

Best Documentary Short: Woyane by Jonathan Stern (USA)

Best Comedy Short: Goomah by Joshua David Goodman (USA)

Best Romantic Comedy Short: Sweet Rose by Gustavo Sampaio (USA)

Best Dark Comedy Short: The Tenant by Brigg T Bloomquist (USA)

Best Action Short: Collector by Silas Dunn (USA)

Best Crime Short: In the Valley of the Moon by Luca Pizzoleo (USA)

Best Mystery Short: She Who Sees All by Gordy Shor De St. Jeor (USA)

Best Thriller Short: Out There by Laila Iravani (USA)

Best Horror Short: Stefan The Vampire by Andrei Vasilevich (USA)

Best Sci-Fi Short: Dark Cell by Jean-Michel Tari (France)

Best Fantasy Short: Drawback by Caroline Bevaart and Harald Swinkels (Netherlands)

Best Western Short: Sister by Payten Brewer (USA)

Best Animation Short: Pacemaker by Brian Vincent Rhodes and Christopher Lennertz (UK)

Best Children Short: Pink Flamingos Everywhere by Jordan Vescio (USA)

Best Women Short: Wax and Wane by Beidi Wang (USA)

Best LGBTQ Short: Benny & James by Logan Vaughn (USA)

Best Microfilm: Life of a Stranger by Roman Daniel Rütten (UK)

Best Experimental Short: One White Feather by Florence Rose Broomfield (UK)

Best Music Video: Mendirman (I’m The One) by Nadir Sabirov and Khurshid Sabirov (Uzbekistan)

Best Screendance Short: Topia by Jessie Lee Thorne and Justin Thorne (USA)

Best Female Director: Jiwon Lee for Call for Cassie (USA)

Best Male Director: Matt Servitto for Matthew (USA)

Best Student Female Director: Katerina Munis for Daedalus (USA)

Best Student Male Director: Andrei Vasilevich for Stefan The Vampire (USA)

Best First Time Female Director: Beidi Wang for Wax and Wane (USA)

Best First Time Male Director: John Gowan and Neil Gowan for Who Followed Us Home (USA)

Best Actress: Emilie Mørkøv Ullerup for Anti-Social (USA)

Best Actor: Jesse Wang for After Sunset, Dawn Arrives (USA)

Best Supporting Actress: Roslyn Gentle for She Who Sees All (USA)

Best Supporting Actor: Alex Emanuel for Just in Time (USA)

Best Child/Young Actress: Gigi Puana for Daedalus (USA)

Best Child/Young Actor: Devin Looc for Anti-Social (USA)

Best Acting Duo: Kristina Miller-Weston and Gregg Daniel for To Say Goodbye Is To Die A Little (USA)

Best Ensemble Cast: Dorthy Zixuan Wang, Allen Theosky Rowe, Mardy Ma, Harley Haibin Li, Lulu Jovovich, Erma Yao, Phillip-Charlie Daniell, and Wuqiu Fu for The Last Nora (USA)

Best Original Screenplay: Tom Slevin for Matthew (USA)

Best Cinematography: Basil Schneeberger for Daedalus (USA)

Best Editing: Daniel Merlot for House of the Unholy (USA)

Best Original Score: Bob Thole for Drawback (Netherlands)