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Best Short of the Season
All Blood Runs Red by Paul Mignot (France)
Best Foreign-Language Short of the Season
The Bloody Peace by Sayed Zuhair Mousavi (Afghanistan)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
American Immigrant by Shady A Mawajdeh (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Maija by Nkanya Nkwai (Cameroon)
Runner-ups (Best Short of the Season)
Kaleidoscope by Axel Rydén (Sweden)
One More Night by Erik Warolin (Sweden)
Ringo by Ren Akiba (Japan)
Sunshine by Adam Gibson (Australia)
Best Indie Short: All Blood Runs Red by Paul Mignot (France)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): Maija by Nkanya Nkwai (Cameroon)
Best Student Indie Short: Ringo by Ren Akiba (Japan)
Best Drama Short: The Bloody Peace by Sayed Zuhair Mousavi (Afghanistan)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): One More Night by Erik Warolin (Sweden)
Best Documentary Short: Unemployment Hotline by Nikos Campbell (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): The Lady from Zeri by Emilio Pallavicino (Italy)
Best Student Documentary Short: The Next Wave by Vegard Billing (Norway)
Best Comedy Short: Revenge by Zhang Heng (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Bots by Steve Beta (USA)
Best Student Comedy Short: Balls by Jennifer Fahey (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Speaker by Henrik Johansson (Sweden)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): Trunk by Isaac Ruth (USA)
Best Student Dark Comedy Short: The Butcher by Bruce Liang (USA)
Best Action Short: All Blood Runs Red by Paul Mignot (France)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Action Short): Balance of the Force by Steven LaMorte (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Crime Short): Party To A Crime by Louis Lartigue (USA)
Best Student Crime Short: The Butcher by Bruce Liang (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Mystery Short): The Punishment by Steven Gwanhoo Kim (USA)
Honorable Mention (Mystery Short): I..I..I… by Suresh Makkar and Ashish Sharma (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short): Maya by Jacquile Kambo (Canada)
Best Student Sci-Fi Short: Shadowbirth by Zac Stracener (USA)
Honorable Mention (Sci-Fi Short): Faultless by Barry Heins (USA)
Honorable Mention (Fantasy Short): Innerlocking by Paul Scott (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Western Short): Fable of The Hired Guns & The Woman Who Cried Witch by Timothy A. Coons (USA)
Best Animation Short: Forget Me Not by Courtney LeBlanc and Saige Guevara (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Animation Short): Symfaunic by Erin Bergin and Darby Kate Snyder (USA)
Best Student Animation Short: Rawr Rawr Land by Antonio Montilla (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Children Short): The Gangbuster by Mark Adderley (UK)
Best Women Short: Love Letter by Veronica Badell (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Women Short): Body of Mine by Sean Patterson (Canada)
Best Student Women Short: Roberta on the Road by Livi Nichols (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (LGBTQ Short): Goodnight by Revell Carpenter (USA)
Best Microfilm: The New Normal by Anushka Shivdasani Rovshen (India)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): Ideas by Francisco Palacios Reyes (Chile)
Best Experimental Short: In_Sect Day by Polina Dvoretskaya (Russia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): Les Dieux Changeants by Lucio Arese (Italy)
Best Student Experimental Short: The Caretaker by Emil Engesnes Bråthen (Norway)
Best Student Short: When The Devil Makes Your Bed by Zachary Tarrant (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Student Short): Body of Mine by Sean Patterson (Canada)
Best Music Video: Shadow by L.J. Wang (Taiwan)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Jordan Hart – Freedom by Michael Joseph McDonald and Joe Bluhm (Canada)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Tapu by Hinano Tekurio Tanielu and Manu Tanielu (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series/TV Pilot): Literally Annoyed by Logan Alexander and Jayce Baron (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web and New Media): In the Zone: Rick Kilburn by Kerilie McDowall (Canada)
Best Mobile Short: Impasse by Aleksei Podturkin and Olga Burenkova (Russia)
Best Trailer/Teaser: Providence (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Trailer/Teaser): Last Orders (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): All Aboard! by Jim Norman (USA)
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