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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Maryla by Guillaume Heulard (France)
Best Foreign-Language Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Valkyries by Joscha Seehausen (Germany)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
First Time Caller by Nate Allison (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
tRuth by Sylvie Zaidman and Nic Shake (Belgium)
Best Shorts of the Season – Runners-up (Special Jury Mentions)
Backlog by Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal (USA)
Cupcakes by Brit Morgan (USA)
Renaissance by Yu Liao (China)
Sage by Skylar Piela (USA)
The Crowd by Tony G (China)
The Taste of the Sea by Xuezhou Miao (China)
Rising Star Award (Special Jury Mention)
Shauna Couch for First Time Caller and Like No Place (USA)
Best Indie Short: The Taste of the Sea by Xuezhou Miao (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): The Time Traveling Beach Bum by Bryan Suarez (Cuba)
Best Drama Short: Renaissance by Yu Liao (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): The Crowd by Tony G (China)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): Everything In Its Right Place by Alexander Clavijo (USA)
Best Student Short: Backlog by Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Student Short): Cells by Sitong Xue (China)
Honorable Mention (Student Short): You, Protagonist by Zibo Fan (China)
Best Documentary Short: Woyane by Jonathan Stern (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): Father Fotso by Noumo Willy Stephane (Cameroon)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): I Was One of Them… by Carol Ciancutti (Kenya)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): The Other V Word by Kristin Goodman (USA)
Honorable Mention (Comedy Short): Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours (A Critique of the Passive Bourgeois) by Tenzing Michael Drolet (USA)
Best Romantic Comedy Short: Cupcakes by Brit Morgan (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Romantic Comedy Short): Lonely Mary by Vika Stubblebine (USA)
Honorable Mention (Romantic Comedy Short): 26 by Zachary Slingsby (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): All We Have to Do is Kill One Guy by Jason Dugre (USA)
Honorable Mention (Action Short): The Inevitable by Jamaal Fields-Green (USA)
Honorable Mention (Crime Short): Under by Abraham Lopez (USA)
Best Thriller Short: First Time Caller by Nate Allison (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short): Road Kill by Steve Ramsden (UK)
Honorable Mention (Thriller Short): The Cadaver by Volkan Özgümüş (Turkey)
Best Horror Short: Maryla by Guillaume Heulard (France)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): Latch by Ashton Arthur Shemet (USA)
Honorable Mention (Horror Short): Like No Place by Dominic Czarnota (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: tRuth by Sylvie Zaidman and Nic Shake (Belgium)
Honorable Mention (Sci-Fi Short): The Reset by Chetan Tankaria (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Western Short): The Hawthorne Bounty by Rick Shepherd, Jarred Harper, and Benjamin Steeper (USA)
Best Children Short: Son of the Sea by Ping Wang (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Children Short): Building a Bridge by Qingning Xiang (China)
Honorable Mention (Children Short): Hello, Mom by Zhifan Zhang (China)
Best Women Short: Cupcakes by Brit Morgan (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Women Short): Laundry by Victoria Zubick (Canada)
Honorable Mention (Women Short): Bliss and Sad by Chenxing Yang (China)
Best LGBTQ Short: Sage by Skylar Piela (USA)
Best Microfilm: Life of a Stranger by Roman Daniel Rütten (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): Dumdum by Giancarlo Diaz (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Heavy Eyes by Leonardo Graziosi (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): Roots Out by Ivan Knyazev (Russia)
Best Screendance Short: Topia by Jessie Lee Thorne and Justin Thorne (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): Vividream by Matteo Di Loreto (Denmark)
Best Web Series & TV Pilot: Live To Farm by Jared Gagnon-Palick (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series & TV Pilot): Kombucha Cure by Cecilia Choi (USA)
Honorable Mention (Web Series & TV Pilot): Bento Banana: Ep. 1-4 by Ari Grabb (USA)
Best Web and New Media: Kombucha Cure by Cecilia Choi (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Mobile Short): A Device To Save The World by Walter David Jones and Kevin Michael Jones (USA)
Honorable Mention (Parody Short): True Stories With Titles: Episode 1 – Space by Rob McLean (Canada)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Trailer/Teaser): Kombucha Cure (USA)
Best Short Script: Billy Buys A Horse by Sid Kramer (USA)
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