The following projects — including short films, TV and web series, and screenplays — are the finalists of the February/March monthly round, competing across 62 categories.
These finalists were selected from an official selection pool with a 45.9% acceptance rate, drawn from submissions representing 20 countries and a combined runtime of 49:17:28, in addition to short script entries.
The nominees represent the top 29.1% of all submissions.
Unlisted categories had no submissions meeting the minimum score requirements.
Categories marked TBA had two or fewer projects qualifying for awards consideration. Winners in these categories will be announced alongside the rest of the award recipients.
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Best Indie Short
Advisory by John M. Goodner (USA)
Aguska by Tristan Loraine and Hannah Baxter-Eve (UK)
Next Up by Marion H von Loewenstern (UK)
Best Drama Short
Alright by Caleb Clowe (USA)
Dad’s Last Beach Trip by Matt Webb (USA)
Isle Of The Dead by Jeremy Braunsberg (Austria)
Sagdid by Taylor John (China)
Wisps by Haoran Chen (USA)
Best Student Short
Chimera by Mandy C White (USA)
Envy by Randeep Nagi (USA)
Handle with Care by Sydney Gordon (USA)
Last Words by Inez Franco (USA)
The Crushed Tea by Yecheng Qu (USA)
Best Documentary Short
Little Planet: A Tale of Frogs by Suhas Premkumar (India)
One of Ours – The Story of Private Fred Lee by Jack Gin (Canada)
Our Tea by An Rong Xu (Taiwan)
Peace Wilderness Man by Tim Millard (Australia)
Simple Machine by Sara Hendren (USA)
Best Comedy Short
Inflight Inflatables by John Mac Menamie (USA)
Return to Sender by Lee Vander Boegh (USA)
Step-Dog-Father by Eric Colton (USA)
The Mime and the Clown by Jonathan Morgan Heit (USA)
Zapinos by Matt Bruggeman (USA)
Best Romantic Comedy Short
TBA
Best Dark Comedy Short
Attempted Murder by Gavin J. Konop (USA)
Jo by Haohan Ding (USA)
O.C.D. by Luca Pizzoleo (USA)
Sweet Cesspool by Daniel Paredes (USA)
Thanks For Eating Me by Louis English (UK)Attempted Murde
Best Film Noir Short
TBA
Best Mystery Short
TBA
Best Thriller Short
TBA
Best Horror Short
Dog People by Bradley Stryker (USA)
LA After Midnight by Corey J Wayne (USA)
Quarantine by Russ Emanuel (USA)
Symbio by Austin Matthew Phalin (USA)
The Light of Things by Manoel Rocha (Brazil)
Best Sci-Fi Short
TBA
Best Fantasy Short
TBA
Best Western Short
TBA
Best Animation Short
Debris by Xi Feng (China)
Testimony by Su Min Ha (USA)
Tiny Teaching Tales by Julie Anne Burch (USA)
Best Children Short
TBA
Best Women Short
Abby’s Way by Neera Zaveri (USA)
Tallulah Park by David Guillermo Borges (USA)
The Abiding by Ally May (USA)
The Star by Cecilia Säverman (Sweden)
Ura by Abrielle Kung-En Kuo (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short
Chrysalis by Arantxa Ibarra and Naz Tokgoz (Turkey)
Frosting by Ian Harvie (USA)
Gloss by Grace Smith (USA)
So To Speak by Celine Parreñas Shimizu (USA)
The Last Chance by Tiecheng Gu (USA)
Best Microfilm
Beyond the Pain by Farah Tagauly and Annaëlle Maillot (France)
Forgot by Jiahe Guo (China)
SOS, But Don’t Worry If Not by Florence Poppy Deary (UK)
Best Experimental Short
Ancress by Liam “Lilo Ghul” Doheny (USA)
Out of the Fire by Maximilian Curnow (UK)
Still Rolling by John Brownell (USA)
Temple by Yohanan Doron (USA)
When The Clocks Stop by Brett Willis (USA)
Best Screendance Short
TBA
Best Music Video
TBA
Best Web Series & TV Pilot
Abstory – Season 1 by Chloé Boutet (Canada)
Chiminey Tales by Kristen B. Adams, Joshua Paul Messarge, Sharai Corral, and Esmeralda Elsa Morales (USA)
Get a Real Job by Sam Lochs and Yogi Paliwal (USA)
Best Mobile Short
TBA
Best Short Script
Agora Dysphoria by T Manwill (USA)
Mystic Masala by Sadhana Singhal (USA)
Pick Me Up by Dominick Matthew Levy (USA)
The Breakup by Carla Curado (USA)
The Policy by Julian Johnson (USA)
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