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Best Female Director: Danni Wang for Anyways (China)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Male Director): Sophiane Afroun for No Mercy (France)
Best Student Female Director: Brynne Eliza Rardin and Patrick Joseph Krum for The Rebel Reef: Seeds of Hope (USA)
Best Student Male Director: Mar Kourouma for This House Creaks (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Ana Soares Coelho for Nocturnal Cheetah (Portugal)
Best First Time Male Director: Al Chang for Cindy (USA)
Honorable Mention (Young Female Filmmaker): Catherine Marie Curry for Last Chance Love Letter (USA)
Honorable Mention (Young Male Filmmaker): Peter Shen for Beneath the Surface: An Underwater Hockey Story (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Actress): Iris Cayatte for Nocturnal Cheetah (Portugal)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Actor): Gabriel Sousa for Code E414 (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Iva Viskovic Krizan and Zoran Pribičević for The Race (Croatia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Acting Duo): Mackenzie Mercer and Chloe Robbin for Pinky Swear (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Diba Beihaghi, Harrison Fuller, Ali Habib Shreim, and Veronika Bellova for You Are Free to Leave (Czechia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Screenplay): Joel Junior for Code E414 (USA)
Best Cinematography: Patrick Joseph Krum and Joseph Aurelio Henry for The Rebel Reef: Seeds of Hope (USA)
Best Editing: Andrés López Guzmán for The Rebel Reef: Seeds of Hope (USA)
Best Producer: Tiffany Tuong Vi Duong, Sivani Babu, Sabine Bergmann, Joseph Aurelio Henry, Brynne Eliza Rardin, Vinh Pham, and Juli Minette Berwald for The Rebel Reef: Seeds of Hope (USA)
Honorable Mention (Producer): Anna Chacon for America’s Dermatologist (USA)
Best Production Design: Emmanuelle Néron for Escape Artist (Canada)
Best Original Score: Chad Cannon for The Rebel Reef: Seeds of Hope (USA)
Best Original Song: No Other Gods by 13FOUR (USA)
Honorable Mention (Original Song): Bulay Nanta Pinuyumayan by JR Cheng and Akawyan Pakawyan, with Pinuyumayan people from the ten tribes, for Miss You in Dancing Cross-stitch (Taiwan)
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