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Best Producer: Andres Romero, Gabe Valencia, Andrew Barahona, and Jorge Barahona for Once A Sinner (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Producer): Federico Meneghini, Ludovico Casalone, Giulio Maria Cavallini, and Riccardo Livermore for Ratavoloira (Italy)
Best Director (Female): Becca E. Davis for The unNatural Order (USA)
Best Director (Male): Tomas Simonsen for The Crossing (Norway)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Director – Male): Andrew Barahona for Once A Sinner (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Aleen Shoufani for Taqi (Israel)
Best Student Director (Male): Ezra Meijer for The Piano Man (Netherlands)
Best First Time Director (Female): Alison Yardley for Bellyful (USA)
Best First Time Director (Male): Côme Ferré for Booksmart (France)
Outstanding Achievement Award (First Time Director – Male): Flo Demmer for Infinity + 1 (Germany)
Best Young Filmmaker (Female): Sadie Rose Corrigan for The Vanishing Point (USA)
Honorable Mention (Young Filmmaker – Female): Camila Arriola Pomasoncco for Girl with the Blue Bow (USA)
Best Actress: Dina Grinberg for Peaks (Australia)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Actress): Riccarda Richter for Cord of Three (Germany)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Actor): Andy Ottenweller for The Conductor (USA)
Honorable Mention (Actor): Ryuhei Watabe for Imitation Yakuza (Japan)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Supporting Actress): Lucy Blehar for The Conductor (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Child/Young Actor): Micah Pedley for Mikey (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Kathrene Gawel and Mo Smead for The unNatural Order (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Acting Duo): Taylor Callahan and Gabriella Nail for Just Think About It (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Ensemble Cast): Kevin Corrigan, Elizabeth Berridge, Daniel Dale, Joe Bodnar, Immanuel Thomas, and Minna Friberg for The Vanishing Point (USA)
Honorable Mention (Ensemble Cast): Ryuhei Watabe, Shunsuke Tanaka, Yuta Kuba, Yutaka Shimizu, Woderu Ibaraki, Ryushin Hayashida, Taku Watanabe, Shodai Hirano, Hachizo Hino, Anon Shiina, and Takamaitsu Nonaka for Imitation Yakuza (Japan)
Best Production Design: Victoria Roman for Once A Sinner (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Production Design): Lorenzo Russo Rainaldi for Ratavoloira (Italy)
Honorable Mention (Production Design): The Last Woman (Belgium)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Screenplay): Graham Goldstein for The Conductor (USA)
Honorable Mention (Original Screenplay): Tianyao Tan for Colorball (China)
Honorable Mention (Adapted Screenplay): Cynthia D. Hilaire for A Sit Down With Cyn (USA)
Best Cinematography: Federico Meneghini and Ludovico Casalone for Ratavoloira (Italy)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Cinematography): Danielle Khan Da Silva for The Woman In White (Canada)
Best Editing: Once A Sinner (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Editing): Maxime Laurin for The White Rock (Canada)
Best Sound Design: Once A Sinner (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Sound Design): Alessio Foglia for Ratavoloira (Italy)
Best Sound Editing: My Brother, My Hero Forever! (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Sound Editing): Lake of Records (USA)
Best Sound Mixing: The Crossing (Norway)
Best Special FX: James Reta for Once A Sinner (USA)
Honorable Mention (Special FX): Michael Dinetz for The unNatural Order (USA)
Best Special Makeup: Yvette Rodarte and Laura Guzman for Once A Sinner (USA)
Honorable Mention (Special Makeup): Laurilee Brown for Scars (USA)
Best Original Score: Francesco Mo for Ratavoloira (Italy)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Score): Nomi Abadi for The unNatural Order (USA)
Best Original Song: And She Whispered Enough by Shidah Rose, for The unNatural Order (USA)
Outstanding Achievement Award (Original Song): Don’t Believe What They Told You by Keith Abrams and Pine Barons, for Mikey (USA)

























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