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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Ellie by Fernando Bonelli (Spain)
Best Foreign-Language Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Takbir by Jordi Calvet (Spain)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Hóng by Xiao Han (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
IMRC (Involuntary Murder Recovery Center) by Maxi Mastrángelo (Argentina)
Best Short of the Season – Runners-up (Special Jury Mention)
#screenlife by Antonis Karathanasopoulos (Greece)
Cigarette by Lama Naamneh (Palestine)
I Have One Thing To Tell You by Huai Gu (China)
Play This At My Funeral by Ray Smiling (USA)
Rorschach by Steffi West Harshberger (USA)
The Muse by Max Karpylev (USA)
Best Indie Short: Ellie by Fernando Bonelli (Spain)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): Play This At My Funeral by Ray Smiling (USA)
Best Drama Short: Rorschach by Steffi West Harshberger (USA)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): Bound Legs by Karoly Palfai (Hungary)
Best Student Short: I Have One Thing To Tell You by Huai Gu (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Student Short): No Uniform Day by Yunqu Wang (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): Rehumanize by Kelsey Darragh (USA)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): The Poison Garden by Chris James Mancini and Evellyn Santos (USA)
Best Comedy Short: A Brush With Death by Yuval Sol Boker (Israel)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Meet Carly W. by A.J. Hartman (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Romantic Comedy Short): So, I Met This Guy… by Max Lauren Rosenbaum (USA)
Honorable Mention (Romantic Comedy Short): Oopsy Daisy by Devin Gillis (Canada)
Best Dark Comedy Short: IMRC (Involuntary Murder Recovery Center) by Maxi Mastrángelo (Argentina)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): Salz Got Herpeez by Ravin Vythelingum (UK)
Honorable Mention (Dark Comedy Short): Gotcha by Scott Thomas Kennedy (Australia)
Best Crime Short: Re-Entry by RJ Zabasky (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Crime Short): Brothers till the End by Roman Mitichyan (USA)
Honorable Mention (Crime Short): Goodbye Susan by Yi Xia (China)
Best Thriller Short: Takbir by Jordi Calvet (Spain)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short): The Call by Tom Balsamides (USA)
Best Mystery Short: The Muse by Max Karpylev (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Mystery Short): Tempest by Mark Petersen and Dina Fox (USA)
Honorable Mention (Fantasy Short): Walkdown by Jash Shah (USA)
Honorable Mention (Western Short): All In by Salvatore Zeppi Rubinetti (USA)
Best Animation Short: Robo99 by Kim Sung-Cheol (South Korea)
Best Children Short: One Day by Jiaxuan Bai (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Children Short): American Halloween by Ben Julian Ephraim (USA)
Best Women Short: Tommies by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston (UK)
Honorable Mention (Women Short): Back to Apirol by Luoxi Liu (USA)
Best Microfilm: Pinheiro: Ep. 01 – Soul by Thomas Dunzendorfer (Austria)
Best Experimental Short: Cigarette by Lama Naamneh (Palestine)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): Self-Portrait by Casey Puhr (USA)
Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): Lost by Yujia Tan (China)
Best Music Video: If I Die Tonight by The 11th (Hong Kong)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Self-Made (Something pt.2) by Tyson Yoshi and The 11th (Hong Kong)
Honorable Mention (Music Video): I Don’t Smoke and I Don’t Drink by Tyson Yoshi and The 11th (Hong Kong)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series/TV Pilot): Robo99 by Kim Sung-Cheol (South Korea)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Mobile Short): Walkdown by Jash Shah (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Parody Short): America Unanswered by Jessi Gotta and Patrick Shearer (USA)
Honorable Mention (Parody Short): Nature Is Cruel by Ryan Worsley (USA)
Best Short Script: Touch of Fear by Marc Castaldo (Canada)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): Sven by Jesse Dorian (USA)
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