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Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Abrazo by Paola Baldion (USA)
Best Foreign-Language Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)
Online by Bianka Bereczky (Hungary)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
Azadi by Anshul Vijayvargiya (India)
Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)
I Know What You Need by Julia Marchese (USA)
Best Short of the Season – Runner-up (Special Jury Mentions)
Nemorise by Vladi Haivoronski (Canada)
Night Hawkes by Atlas Ferrera (USA)
Shadow Under the Bed by Yu-Le Chang (Taiwan)
Still Scattered by Dominic Burgess and Jeff Lorch (USA)
The Other Shore by 盼 胡 (China)
The Suck by Chris Merrill (USA)
Best Indie Short: Azadi by Anshul Vijayvargiya (India)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Indie Short): The Other Shore by 盼 胡 (China)
Honorable Mention (Indie Short): Welcome To The Neighborhood by Jason Lee Segal (USA)
Best Drama Short: Abrazo by Paola Baldion (USA)
Honorable Mention (Drama Short): Roberta’s Rules by Derrex Brady, M.D. Walton, and Mayon Denton (USA)
Best Student Short: Online by Bianka Bereczky (Hungary)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Student Short): Luminous Bird by Zimeng Li and Ruixi Zhou (China)
Honorable Mention (Student Short): The Dragon’s Dance by Sean Jasper Lim (USA)
Best Documentary Short: The Perfect Shot: Antarctica by Quinn Halleck (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): The Curse Effect by Gregg Jaden (USA)
Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): The Present by Timothy Dhalleine (Chile)
Best Comedy Short: Festival by Michael Bromberg (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Into The Wild by Max Woods (USA)
Honorable Mention (Comedy Short): Five Stars by Kenny Williams and Ryan Hepkema (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short: Still Scattered by Dominic Burgess and Jeff Lorch (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): The Suck by Chris Merrill (USA)
Honorable Mention (Dark Comedy Short): Ooze by Matthew Rollins (USA)
Honorable Mention (Action Short): Status: Retired by Joey Min (USA)
Best Film Noir Short: Double Nickel by Mark Tomov (USA)
Best Thriller Short: I Know What You Need by Julia Marchese (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short): The Tree by Vijay Singh (USA)
Best Mystery Short: The Nightmare by Xi Wenting (China)
Honorable Mention (Horror Short): The In-Between Place by Noah Sokolsky (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short: Nemorise by Vladi Haivoronski (Canada)
Honorable Mention (Sci-Fi Short): The Film by Nadia Guo (China)
Best Fantasy Short: Shadow Under the Bed by Yu-Le Chang (Taiwan)
Honorable Mention (Fantasy Short): Y by Tamara Cook (Australia)
Best Animation Short: Off-Camera by Vishal TM (India)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Animation Short): Mr Nullus From Nusquam by Chenjia Ren (USA)
Honorable Mention (Animation Short): Knightlights & Teddy Bears by Mackenzie K. Wertman (USA)
Honorable Mention (Children Short): Bunny-Man & Co. Ep. 1: Enter The Hype League by Henry Black (USA)
Best Women Short: Faultline by Ella Mikayelyan (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short: Night Hawkes by Atlas Ferrera (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (LGBTQ Short): Daddy by Jay Beckett (USA)
Best Microfilm: No Flies On Me by Lars Magnus Holmgren (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Microfilm): On the Road by Xiangyi Zhu (USA)
Best Experimental Short: Best Self by Phebe Schmidt (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): Surface or Wasting Time in the Most Gleaming Spaces by Mauricio Uribarri (Mexico)
Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): A Tropical Flower: In III Chapters by Aaron Thomas Fisher-Cohen (USA)
Best Screendance Short: Tides by Xinge Li and Ginny Jiang (China)
Honorable Mention (Screendance Short): The Reflection Of Francisca Newman by Jon Frenkel Garcia (USA)
Best Music Video: Venom by Alfredo Vidal (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Ego – Ava Della Pietra by Adam Lukowski (USA)
Best Web Series & TV Pilot: Wake Up Call by Matthew Panepinto (USA)
Honorable Mention (Web Series & TV Pilot): WordLotto by Johnny Baca (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Web and New Media): Why Jerusalem Matters by Rebecca Pettit (USA)
Honorable Mention (Web and New Media): To Esteban by Héctor Almeida (Cuba)
Honorable Mention (Mobile Short): 10 Hours by Apurva Singh and Eshaan Ghosh (India)
Honorable Mention (Trailer/Teaser): The Water Shaman Eternal Love Oath (Spain)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): Viri Utopia by Azhin Shekhi (Luxembourg)
Honorable Mention (Short Script): Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow, Maybe Never by Tim Cairns (USA)
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