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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
We’ve Been Trying to Reach You by Kat Broyles (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Billie by Safi Tobi (UK)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
For: LiLa by Kaitron Bryant and Malik Myers (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
The Memory Experiment by Kerrilee Gore (USA)
Best Short of the Season – Runner-up (Special Jury Mentions)
Glodok ’98 by Nicholas Tjen (USA)
In Jeff We Trust by Blake Jarvis (USA)
Mustang by Dylan Hayes (USA)
Silim by Alexander Cruz De Ocampo (USA)
Best Indie Short: Billie by Safi Tobi (UK)
Honorable Mention (Indie Short): Every Dog by Sean Alexander May (USA)
Best Drama Short: For: LiLa by Kaitron Bryant and Malik Myers (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): Glodok ’98 by Nicholas Tjen (USA)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’ by Angel Cesar Morales (USA)
Best Student Short: Getting Back to You by Miranda Clapp (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Student Short): Hula Soup by Neo Shen (China)
Best Documentary Short: The River Raisin: A Comeback Story by Bradley M Egen (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): High Stakes: How the U.S. Accidentally Legalized Weed by Rob Rosen (USA)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): Persistence of Vision by John Paul Marsonet (Canada)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Slow Draw by Jordan Rader (USA)
Best Romantic Comedy Short: Single Buffalo by Laura Anastasia Jones (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: In Jeff We Trust by Blake Jarvis (USA)
Honorable Mention (Dark Comedy Short): Thank You Come Again by Tyler Kinjo Heydon and Andrew Badami (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: In The Small Hours by Jake Marone (USA)
Honorable Mention (Mystery Short): Nahual by Jacob Holmquist-Franco (USA)
Honorable Mention (Thriller Short): Breaking Character by Joseph Ray Buzzella (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): Dark Palette by Lucas Pelizaro (UK)
Honorable Mention (Sci-Fi Short): Millimeters by Nicola Tasso (Italy)
Best Fantasy Short: Scars by Rob Scerbo and Michael Christian (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Fantasy Short): Pool House by Adam Willis (USA)
Honorable Mention (Fantasy Short): Beyond the Green Door by Katelyn Lexant (USA)
Best Western Short: Mustang by Dylan Hayes (USA)
Honorable Mention (Animation Short): Rebirth by Xixi Li (China)
Best Women Short: We’ve Been Trying to Reach You by Kat Broyles (USA)
Honorable Mention (Women Short): Mama by Ericka Kreutz (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Silim by Alexander Cruz De Ocampo (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): The Hotel by Juliet Lucas (USA)
Honorable Mention (Microfilm): Belonging by Clément Oberto (Mexico)
Best Experimental Short: The Memory Experiment by Kerrilee Gore (USA)
Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): Mist by Xixi Li (USA)
Honorable Mention (Screendance Short): Sparta by Nastia Yavorski (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Beautiful Chaos by Pernille Andersen (Denmark)
Honorable Mention (Music Video): Smoldering-Smoldering by Ilya Noyabrev (Ukraine)
Best Web Series & TV Pilot: La Dernière Communion by Eli Jean Tahchi (Canada)
Honorable Mention (Web Series & TV Pilot): Too Late With Andrew Badami by Andrew Badami and Tyler Heydon (USA)
Honorable Mention (Web and New Media): Epigenetics: Is Our Mental Health Written In Our Genes? by Suhana Malicka Arora (USA)
Best Short Script: The Boots by Ruby Lovell and Jaskaran Bahia (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): A Thousand One Men by Rosalyn Rosen (USA)
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