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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Satya by Naveen Vijay Krishna (India)
Best Foreign-Language Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Marie s’envole by Léa Sassi (France)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
July 4th, 2020 by Joe Juanyao Zheng (China)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Transcendent by Janelle Christa (USA)
Best Short of the Season – Runner-up (Special Jury Mentions)
Cherry Kompot by Teddy Robert Schaffer (USA)
Elisai by Sabrina Joseph (UK)
Family Ties by Shalom Korem (Israel)
Slough by Yuzhu Lan and Yutong Wang (China)
The Java Plum Tree by Rafay Rashdi (Pakistan)
The Jump by Ryan Serrano (USA)
Best Indie Short: July 4th, 2020 by Joe Juanyao Zheng (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): The Java Plum Tree by Rafay Rashdi (Pakistan)
Honorable Mention (Indie Short): Family Ties by Shalom Korem (Israel)
Best Drama Short: Satya by Naveen Vijay Krishna (India)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): Burden by James Nanney Jr (USA)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): Sunbathe by Lucas Gonzalez (Brazil)
Best Student Short: Slough by Yuzhu Lan and Yutong Wang (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Student Short): Shayna Punim by Emilie Anderson (USA)
Honorable Mention (Student Short): Renascence by Cindy Tang (Canada)
Best Documentary Short: The River’s Edge by Levi Bechtel and Cory Schuver (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): On My Road to Dharma by Yihuan Zhang (USA)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): The Most Important of All by Yi Jiang (China)
Best Comedy Short: Cherry Kompot by Teddy Robert Schaffer (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): The Life of Lester Wink by Cassidy C Harrison (USA)
Honorable Mention (Comedy Short): Concept High by Amos Posner (USA)
Best Romantic Comedy Short: Mangu Aqui 2 by Luke Bond (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): Amy John and Jiu Jitsu Dave by Ruby Vincent (New Zealand)
Honorable Mention (Dark Comedy Short): Grim by Clayton Conroy (USA)
Honorable Mention (Action Short): Zero Hour by Ali Ahmed (USA)
Best Crime Short: Easy Action by Angela Vasquez (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Crime Short): Brotherly Blood by Alejandra Lopez (USA)
Honorable Mention (Crime Short): Still Yesterday by Giulio Maria Cavallini (Italy)
Best Thriller Short: Of Gods & Pens by Mark Foscolo and Pete Sussi (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short): Exhibit A by Matthew Morley Daniel (USA)
Best Mystery Short: There’ll Be No Divorce by Noelle Clarke (Ireland)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Mystery Short): Red Rectangle by Diego Cardenas (USA)
Honorable Mention (Mystery Short): Lucinda’s Pandora by Sylvia Piechocki Gonzalez (Germany)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): Jinn – Chapter 1 by Hamid Baig (India)
Honorable Mention (Horror Short): Open Pages by Paul Bukoskey (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: The Jump by Ryan Serrano (USA)
Honorable Mention (Sci-Fi Short): We Need Mirrors by Caleb Turner (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Fantasy Short): Smack-Man Resurrected by Jay Nagjee (USA)
Honorable Mention (Fantasy Short): Grim by Clayton Conroy (USA)
Best Animation Short: The Burial of Natty Bumppo by Fred Burns (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Animation Short): Tree by Jeongmin Koo (USA)
Honorable Mention (Animation Short): Adam & Eve by Kim Young Sik, Byun Yoonjeong, and Kim Hyungbin (South Korea)
Best Women Short: Marie s’envole by Léa Sassi (France)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Women Short): What Design Can Do by Mary M Murphy (USA)
Honorable Mention (Women Short): There’ll Be No Divorce by Noelle Clarke (Ireland)
Best LGBTQ Short: Elisai by Sabrina Joseph (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (LGBTQ Short): Cross by Hyunjin Lee (USA)
Honorable Mention (LGBTQ Short): Boyfriends by C.J. Arellano (USA)
Best Microfilm: Opus 1: f.u.n by Lux Carroll (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): Lost and Found by Isabelle Cotney (USA)
Honorable Mention (Microfilm): Under Pressure by Ozzie Jauregui (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Transcendent by Janelle Christa (USA)
Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): Omara by Abel Janos Santa (Hungary)
Best Screendance Short: Dancing With My Mother by Richard de Carvalho (Australia)
Best Music Video: Linger by James Arthurs (Canada)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): The Girl Who Faded Away by Brent Heise (USA)
Best Web Series & TV Pilot: AI vs Deep State by Katalin Weith (Hungary)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series & TV Pilot): The Voice Inside: The Graduation Dilemma by Gena Sims (USA)
Honorable Mention (Web Series & TV Pilot): Captain Freckles and Applesauce by Brenton Feeser (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web and New Media): Manage This! by Michael Monks and Richard Waterhouse(USA)
Honorable Mention (Web and New Media): The Next by Tuo Fu (China)
Honorable Mention (Mobile Short): Missing Me Someplace by Catherine Phillips (UK)
Honorable Mention (Parody Short): Cinching Saddles by Kevin Sengara and Aman Pannu (Canada)
Best Short Script: The Split by Lindsay Kent and Lauren Kent (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): We Sprang From the Same Roots by Clytze Sun (USA)
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