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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Dark Cell by Jean-Michel Tari (France)
Best Foreign-Language Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Code 103 by Romana Vujasinovic (Serbia)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
El Paso 11:55 by Keith Jardine (USA)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Old Time Radio: Your Move by Joel Harlow (USA)
Best Shorts of the Season – Runners-up (Special Jury Mentions)
August by Eli McGowan (USA)
Daedalus by Katerina Munis (USA)
Forgive Us Our Transgressions by Walter Richardson (USA)
Half Samurai by Rashad Haughton (Japan)
Mudi by Qin Luo (China)
Water Dawg by Christopher Baiza (USA)
Best Indie Short: Code 103 by Romana Vujasinovic (Serbia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): To Say Goodbye Is To Die A Little by Michele Ly (USA)
Honorable Mention (Indie Short): Heroes And Puppets by Shang Jung Wu (Taiwan)
Best Drama Short: August by Eli McGowan (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): Forgive Us Our Transgressions by Walter Richardson (USA)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): The Return by Bo Tanas (Canada)
Best Student Short: August by Eli McGowan (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Student Short): Mudi by Qin Luo (China)
Honorable Mention (Student Short): An Ideal of Liberty by Noel Paganotti (USA)
Best Documentary Short: Oppenheimer After Trinity by Trent J. DiGiulio and Larry L. Sheffield (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): Walt’s Disenchanted Kingdom by Jason Killian Meath (USA)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): When Wire Was King: The Transformation of Telecommunications by Jennifer A. Manner (USA)
Best Comedy Short: Murphed by Hadley Ian Perkins (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Full Disclosure by Mia Rovegno (USA)
Honorable Mention (Comedy Short): Big Fat Joke by Charlie Gudgeon and Tavish Gudgeon (Canada)
Best Romantic Comedy Short: That’s Enough Now Thanks by Aquila Chase-Daniel (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Romantic Comedy Short): Girl in the Lake by Max Gold (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Old Time Radio: Your Move by Joel Harlow (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): Men in Cars by Molly Vernon (USA)
Best Action Short: Half Samurai by Rashad Haughton (Japan)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Action Short): The Wrong Guy by Alberto Scisco and Andrea Navicella (Italy)
Honorable Mention (Action Short): The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands by Russ Emanuel (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Film Noir Short): Awakening by Venkata Mangalagiri (USA)
Honorable Mention (Film Noir Short): The Viridian Jewel by Shelbi Addison Glover and Adam Craig (USA)
Honorable Mention (Mystery Short): Ma’at by Anthony Thambynayagam and Audrey Weber (USA)
Best Thriller Short: El Paso 11:55 by Keith Jardine (USA)
Honorable Mention (Thriller Short): The Tipping Point by Yuhang Chen (China)
Best Horror Short: Water Dawg by Christopher Baiza (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): The Field by Isaac Stovall (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Dark Cell by Jean-Michel Tari (France)
Honorable Mention (Sci-Fi Short): Simulacrum by Matthew Barry (USA)
Best Fantasy Short: Daedalus by Katerina Munis (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Fantasy Short): Half Samurai by Rashad Haughton (Japan)
Honorable Mention (Fantasy Short): Like No Place by Dominic Czarnota (USA)
Best Animation Short: Italian Slow Journey by Leonardo Simone Ponzano (Italy)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Animation Short): Timeless (Orchestral Version) by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, and Samudra Kajal Saikia (USA)
Honorable Mention (Animation Short): Billy Buckaroo by Mike Maloney (USA)
Best Children Short: Wei-Lai by Robin Wang (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Children Short): Pinto the Mean Bean by R.J. Sullivan (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Women Short): Something Wild by Emily Jayne Adams (USA)
Honorable Mention (Women Short): Escape by Andres Di Bono (USA)
Best Microfilm: It Was Us by Robert dos Santos (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): Italian Slow Journey by Leonardo Simone Ponzano (Italy)
Honorable Mention (Microfilm): Iscariote by Louis Tolleron (France)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): Gynarchy by Kelly Sarri (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Screendance Short): Collection of Plunges by Kayla De Vos and Chick Snipper(Canada)
Best Music Video: The Rebellion by Gabriel Hostetler (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Hands On Me by Tre Major (USA)
Honorable Mention (Music Video): If I Fall For You by Olivia Mitchell and Kerry Furrh (Slovakia)
Best Web Series & TV Pilot: Badvertisements by Tyler Council (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series & TV Pilot): Conspiracy Cases: The Wasp Woman by Jeffrey Paul Agosta (USA)
Honorable Mention (Web Series & TV Pilot): Runestone by Robert C Bruce (USA)
Honorable Mention (Mobile Short): One Room by Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid (USA)
Honorable Mention (Parody Short): Kyle Goes To Mars! by David C.C. Erickson (USA)
Honorable Mention (Trailer/Teaser): Walt’s Disenchanted Kingdom (USA)
Best Short Script: Once Upon a Time in Russia by Valerii Georg Zhmak (Bulgaria)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): In The Corner Of My Eye by Bret A. Arnold (USA)
Honorable Mention (Short Script): Zaheera and The Jinn by Victoria Dook (Singapore)
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