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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Generation Well by Jack Serra (USA)
Best Foreign-Language Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Dolldays by Morten Hansen (Norway)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Poolboy by Haoran Ma (USA)
Best Short of the Season – Runner-up (Special Jury Mentions)
Afters by Hannah Jane Doyon (USA)
Her Silent Feast by Qiongyao Shao (China)
Sing With Your Eyes, You Beautiful Mistake! by Joseph J Cash (USA)
Best Indie Short: Generation Well by Jack Serra (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): Dolldays by Morten Hansen (Norway)
Honorable Mention (Indie Short): Crop Duster by Leonid Okhitin (Armenia)
Best Drama Short: Poolboy by Haoran Ma (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): Say Something in German by Amit Barnathan and Mila Stephan (Germany)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): He by Yihui Hu (USA)
Best Student Short: Her Silent Feast by Qiongyao Shao (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Student Short): Mourning Molly by John Say (USA)
Honorable Mention (Student Short): Aberrant by Marco Leung (USA)
Best Documentary Short: National Inventors Hall of Fame docuseries: Changing the Film Landscape: The Garrett Brown Story, An Idea That Sticks: The Story of Arthur Fry, Exploring and Evolving: Frances Arnold and the Future of Enzymes, and James West and the Electret Microphone by Andrew Blike (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): Aguasal by Camila Pardo Cerezo (Mexico)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): Moving Arts – Setting Hearts Ablaze by Zac Cornfield (USA)
Best Comedy Short: I Never Give You My Pillow by Jonathan Hurtado (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Apple Pi by Ivan Rivero and Jonathan Tippett (USA)
Honorable Mention (Comedy Short): Cohousing by Leah Gouin (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Poolboy by Haoran Ma (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): Sing With Your Eyes, You Beautiful Mistake! by Joseph J Cash (USA)
Honorable Mention (Dark Comedy Short): Afters by Hannah Jane Doyon (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Action Short): Lola Grey by Caine Sinclair (USA)
Honorable Mention (Crime Short): River: The Last Butterfly by Chad Ansermet (Switzerland)
Honorable Mention (Film Noir Short): Seconds in Eternity by Christian Schu (Estonia)
Honorable Mention (Mystery Short): The Perfect Family by Danielle Israde (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short): Morph by Bryce Adam Brown and Sydney Broyls (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): Birdsong by Lavinia Tan (USA)
Honorable Mention (Horror Short): Coulrophobia by Christopher White (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Sci-Fi Short): Mya: The Beginning by Frederick Taouil (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Fantasy Short): The Vanishing by Adam Dillon (USA)
Honorable Mention (Fantasy Short): Wilting Words by Kenna Wertheimer (USA)
Honorable Mention (Western Short): No Mercy by Regan Adams (USA)
Best Animation Short: Ascendance by Hee Seung Chung (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Animation Short): Gibbous by Ang Yi Benet (USA)
Honorable Mention (Animation Short): Homeless Man by Youngin Lee (USA)
Honorable Mention (Children Short): Is Anybody Out There by Susan Mey Lee Lim (Singapore)
Best Women Short: Bridget by Anne Williamson (Ireland)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Women Short): Charlie by Nicole Field (Canada)
Honorable Mention (Women Short): Mango Chile Pie by Karan Sunil (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (LGBTQ Short): The Space Between by Luke Baker (USA)
Honorable Mention (LGBTQ Short): The Last Bus by Nathalie Dupoirier (Luxembourg)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): Better Or Worse by Riaz Solker and Marlisa Doubell (South Africa)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): Great Minds by Alice Marks (USA)
Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): No.1614 by Junhao Fu (UK)
Best Music Video: Alasong by Yun Yan Zeng (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Marionettes – Marquis of Vaudeville by Toby Lawhon and Geneva Arena (USA)
Honorable Mention (Music Video): My Confession by Tom Flynn (USA)
Honorable Mention (Screendance Short): No.1614 by Junhao Fu (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series & TV Pilot): Pancho & Stoltz by Dylan Santa Cruz (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web and New Media): Walkers by William Mesa (USA)
Best Trailer/Teaser: What They Say About Carmen by Eve Ferretti and Pedro Mota Teixeira (Portugal)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Trailer/Teaser): Heaven’s Edge by Sam Clark (USA)
Best Short Script: Still Morning by Pam Renall (USA)
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