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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Loved by David Joseph Higgins (USA)
Best Foreign-Language Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Masks of the Gods by Qihang Wang (China)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Half-meter by Zebang Yang (China)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Hang Up by Tsarina Merrin (USA)
Best Short of the Season – Runners-up (Special Jury Mention)
Banning by Tim T. Cahill (USA)
Man Made by Jordan Coolbear (UK)
Mingming by 荣欣 张 (China)
Slipping by Roshanak Jaberi and Karen Kaeja (Canada)
Best Indie Short: Hang Up by Tsarina Merrin (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): The Dinner Party by Cooper Fitch (USA)
Honorable Mention (Indie Short): Banning by Tim T. Cahill (USA)
Best Drama Short: Loved by David Joseph Higgins (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): Mingming by 荣欣 张 (China)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): Bon Appetite by Zikun Wu (China)
Best Student Short: Masks of the Gods by Qihang Wang (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Student Short): Half-meter by Zebang Yang (China)
Honorable Mention (Student Short): Yellow’s Foghorn by Anthony D’Eredita (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Powering Puerto Rico by Adam Fischer (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): Motus Avium: A Mission to Save California’s Last Wetlands by Rob McAllister (USA)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): Talk to Your Body by Xiaoxiao Liu and Tong Deng (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Perfect by Luis Almeida (Brazil)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Romantic Comedy Short): Stealing My Heart by Terence Digan (USA)
Honorable Mention (Romantic Comedy Short): Thirty by Oluwatoyin Giwa (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Safe Space by Ryan Koch (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): Bowling 4 Eva by Aelfie Oudghiri (USA)
Honorable Mention (Dark Comedy Short): Sad Sally’s Peering Plan by Luis Sanchez-Canete (USA)
Honorable Mention (Action Short): One Shot by Banghui Zhang (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Loved by David Joseph Higgins (USA)
Honorable Mention (Thriller Short): A Tiger in the Subway by James Abrams (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): It Lives With Me by Kenneth Ikaika Aune (USA)
Best Animation Short: Block 170: The First Transaction by Jonathan Plesel and Thibault Zeller (France)
Best Women Short: Not a Teacup by Mattan Cohen (USA)
Honorable Mention (Women Short): Sueños De Mi Hija by Cecilia Romo (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Soap by Lulu Wei (Canada)
Outstanding Achievement Award (LGBTQ Short): Every Morning by Kelly Lohman (USA)
Honorable Mention (LGBTQ Short): Lux Freer by Cynthia Gibb (USA)
Best Microfilm: Block 170: The First Transaction by Jonathan Plesel and Thibault Zeller (France)
Honorable Mention (Microfilm): 37 by Roy Boucher (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): Tenderness by Adam William Wilson (USA)
Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): Wish You Well by Nadia Guo (China)
Best Screendance Short: Slipping by Roshanak Jaberi and Karen Kaeja (Canada)
Best Music Video: Abandon by Jeff Hilliard (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Finger Bang Your Day by Jeff Hilliard and John Orphan (USA)
Honorable Mention (Music Video): Consensual by Jeff Hilliard and Joey Danger (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Events at Hemlock Manor by Katie North (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series/TV Pilot): Pinheiro | Ep02 – Refresh by Thomas Dunzendorfer (Austria)
Honorable Mention (Web Series/TV Pilot): Workforce by Phil Kwarta (USA)
Honorable Mention (Web and New Media): We Have To Eat That Puppy by Sathya Bharath Balan (India)
Best Mobile Short: Tremor by Rob Scherer (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Mobile Short): The Country House and Its Karma by Juan Pablo Bornio (Uruguay)
Best Short Script: Macho by Francisco Solorzano (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): Der Beker – A Gangster Short in Yiddish by Ruben Levi (Sweden)
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