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Best Female Director: Sabrina Lassegue for All the Men’s Hangers (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Female Director): Khushi Manish Gandhi for The Mud Flower (India)
Best Male Director: Joshua Mueller for Clocking Out (Germany)
Best Student Female Director: Kimberly Olsen for The Emerald Purse (South Africa)
Best Student Male Director: Tyler Coon for I Love You More Than Dinosaurs (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Keilah Ayum for (Almost) A Star (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Jon Ollom for Magdalene’s Total Home Cleaning (USA)
Best Young Female Filmmaker: Khloe Hicks for Day One (USA)
Best Young Male Filmmaker: Noam Rignault Clement for The Buttercup Mafia (USA)
Best Actress: Macy Jahoda for (Almost) A Star (USA)
Best Actor: Anthony Arndt for Treu (Faithful) (Germany)
Best Young Actress: Afra Tahir Khan for The Mud Flower (India)
Best Acting Duo: Camille Pham and Jade Phan-Gia for (+33) (France)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Acting Duo): Grace Jenkins and Penn Black Howard for I Love You More Than Dinosaurs (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Steven Ogg, Kayla Dawn Marcus, Johnny Gaffney, Eve Harlow, Max Baumgarten, Doug Lussenhop, and Demorge Brown for Playland (USA)
Best Producer: Kanghui Gao for The Scream (UK)
Best Production Design: Treu (Faithful) (Germany)
Best Original Screenplay: Sean Nam for (+33) (France)
Best Cinematography: Alyssa Iglesias for All the Men’s Hangers (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Cinematography): Lorenzo Pace for First Light (USA)
Best Editing: Lu Li for Azul (USA)
Best Sound Editing: Joshua Mueller for Clocking Out (Gerrmany)
Honorable Mention (Visual FX): Nike Superrep Go3 Flyknit (USA)
Honorable Mention (Special FX): Ben Arndt and Souren Colburn for Breakups Suck (USA)
Honorable Mention (Costume Design): Laila Hamdan and Laurén Carter for Log Off (USA)
Honorable Mention (Makeup and Hairstyling): Laila Hamdan and Laurén Carter for Log Off (USA)
Best Special Makeup: Raùl Muñoz for The Itch (Mexico)
Best Original Score: John W Bushell for Swift Current Swimmer (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Score): Lucie Tenet for (+33) (France)
Best Original Song: Revenge Bedtime Procrastination by almost a.m. (USA)
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