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Best Producer: Luca Pizzoleo and Bridget Sonobe for O.C.D. (USA)
Best Female Director: Zoe Peng for Not Bad (China)
Best Male Director: Luca Pizzoleo for O.C.D. (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Male Director): Louis English for Thanks For Eating Me (UK)
Best Student Female Director: Colleen Ryan for El Alma de la Sed (Panama)
Best Student Male Director: Hungyu Kuo for Turn (USA)
Best First Time Female Director: Abrielle Kung-En Kuo for Ura (USA)
Best First Time Male Director: Maximilian Curnow for Out of the Fire (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Young Female Filmmaker): Suhana Malicka Arora for Epigenetics: Is Our Mental Health Written In Our Genes? (USA)
Honorable Mention (Young Female Filmmaker): Cassie Wang for Dream (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Young Male Filmmaker): Solomon Fezer for What Remains of Us (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Actress): Hervine De Boodt for Next Up (UK)
Best Actor: Keon Alexander for How Soon Is Now (USA)
Best Supporting Actor: Steven Ogg for O.C.D. (USA)
Best Young Actress: Mellony Ledo for What Remains of Us (Australia)
Best Young Actor: Solomon Fezer for What Remains of Us (Australia)
Best Acting Duo: Igor Rubashkin and Mykhailo Kukuyuk for The Last Wish (Ukraine)
Best Ensemble Cast: Ben Smith-Petersen, Ines English, Penny Ryder, Will Matthews, Daniel Granville, Ron Downey, Alex Jayes, and Alex Morrison for Thanks For Eating Me (UK)
Best Production Design: Nicole Marinescu for The Crushed Tea (USA)
Best Original Screenplay: Mia Holly Kim for How Soon Is Now (USA)
Best Cinematography: Louis English for Thanks For Eating Me (UK)
Best Editing: Luca Pizzoleo for O.C.D. (USA)
Best Sound Design: Ando Johnson for O.C.D. (USA)
Honorable Mention (Sound Design): Spencer Lunde for Symbio (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Sound Editing): Corey Wayne for LA After Midnight (USA)
Honorable Mention (Sound Editing): Return to Sender (USA)
Best Costume Design: Isabel Miksic for Clock Shop (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Special Makeup): Cacá Grandinetti for The Light of Things (Brazil)
Best Original Score: Maximilian Curnow for Out of the Fire (UK)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Score): Chia-Chi Hsu for 250 Sqft (USA)
Best Original Song: Danger by Maximilian Curnow, for Out of the Fire (UK)




















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