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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Some Kind of Paradise by Nicholas Finegan (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Did You Remember The Cat? by Daniel B Foster (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Last Encounters by Rosie Day (UK)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
There’s Always Something by Redamo Rosa (USA)
Best Short of the Season – Runner-up (Special Jury Mentions)
Bubble by Yang Wang (China)
Dans by Maria Garcia (Mexico)
Less Than Three by Dan Martin, Sofia Pessoa Pádua, Mariana Cabecinha, and Cláudio Monteiro (Portugal)
The Day of Cucurbitaceae by Emilio Landi (UK)
Best Indie Short: There’s Always Something by Redamo Rosa (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): Less Than Three by Dan Martin, Sofia Pessoa Pádua, Mariana Cabecinha, and Cláudio Monteiro (Portugal)
Honorable Mention (Indie Short): Vasomotor Rhinitis by Mikheil Gabaidze (Georgia)
Best Drama Short: Last Encounters by Rosie Day (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): Clockwork by Ross Luttrell (Australia)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): Happy Pals by Ryan Palmer (USA)
Best Student Short: The Day of Cucurbitaceae by Emilio Landi (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Student Short): Aro’s World by Vibha Kulkarni (USA)
Honorable Mention (Student Short): The 7th Avenue by Roger Escalante (Spain)
Best Documentary Short: Find Yourself by Seth Deter (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): Persistence of Vision by John Paul Marsonet (Canada)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): What Does Education Mean to Afghan Women? by Alaa Adam Elhiraika (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Errand by Nicholas Goodwin Hutchison (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): The Vacuum Salesman by Ty Pierson (USA)
Honorable Mention (Comedy Short): #Intimacy by Jared N. Wright and Eric Ivey (USA)
Best Romantic Comedy Short: Conversations Between You and I by Lou Barogi (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Romantic Comedy Short): I Thought You’d Never Ask by Jamal Trulove (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: The Gap by Karen Wilmer-West (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): Banjo by Cameron Poletti (USA)
Honorable Mention (Dark Comedy Short): A Death Of The Cartoonist by Zichuan Huang (South Korea)
Best Action Short: Rise Of Chow by Hymnson Chan (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Film Noir Short): Rita by Christina Ledo (USA)
Honorable Mention (Film Noir Short): Tenebrae Aeterna by Alisa Lein (Serbia)
Honorable Mention (Mystery Short): Finale of the End by Ryan Policky (USA)
Best Horror Short: Did You Remember The Cat? by Daniel B Foster (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): Dans by Maria Garcia (Mexico)
Honorable Mention (Sci-Fi Short): Entanglement by Darlene Conte (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Triggered 2.0 by Mario Ricardo Rodriguez and Marcus Nel-Jamal Hamm (USA)
Best Animation Short: Tigre by Maria Victoria Sanchez (Mexico)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Animation Short): Apoptosis by Brenda N. Lopes Bastos (Brazil)
Honorable Mention (Animation Short): Nocturnal by Big Howl (USA)
Best Women Short: When Last Seen by Donna Di Novelli (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Women Short): Next Steps: How to Live Your Life and (Maybe) Even Like It by Natasha Luttjeboer (South Africa)
Honorable Mention (Women Short): All the Time in the World by Anqi Cao (China)
Best LGBTQ Short: Some Kind of Paradise by Nicholas Finegan (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): Late Bloomer by Robert Murphy and Merrell M Molly (USA)
Honorable Mention (Microfilm): Fine by Channing Powell (USA)
Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): The Three Inches by Craig Trumbo (USA)
Best Music Video: Jólakötturinn by Dan Hertzog (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Ancestral Thatched Hut by Yuge Ge (China)
Honorable Mention (Music Video): Wish by Janelle Christa (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series & TV Pilot): Lim Mart by Jun Yu (South Korea)
Honorable Mention (Mobile Short): Finding Amber Dong by Amber Dong (China)
Honorable Mention (Parody Short): Omelet Sunday by Nolan Ladison (USA)
Honorable Mention (Trailer/Teaser): Gunner’s Lament by Jeremiah Zeier (USA)
Best Short Script: Burned by Loren Davis (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): Connection at the End of the World by Sean Slimak (USA)
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