The following projects (short films, TV & web series, and screenplays) are the finalists of the round of April competing in 63 different categories. These projects were shortlisted from a 38,2% acceptance rate official selection pool, based on submissions from 48 countries with a total runtime of 132:41:49. These nominees represent 20,9% of all submitted projects.
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Best Short (Overall)
A Greenhouse by Francisco Pereira Coutinho (USA)
A Kept Boy by Peter Chapman (USA)
A Strange Calm by Austin Rourke (USA)
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away by Thad Lee (USA)
Bombs Bursting in Air by Lidiya Korotko (USA)
Buffalo & Trout by Presley Paras (USA)
Spindletop: The Beginning by Jason Leal (USA)
The Re-Education of Jane Brown by MK McGehee (USA)
Best Foreign-Language Short (Overall)
Bora Bora by Frédéric De Pontcharra (France)
L’Escale by Pieter De Cnudde (Belgium)
Mum’s Hairpins by Tatiana Fedorovskaya (Ukraine)
Silence by Yuyan Guo (China)
Tension by Michal Starý (Czech Republic)
The Barber by Sergiy Pudich (Ukraine)
The Edge by Rodrigo Tavares (Portugal)
The Mother by Le Huy Anh (Vietnam)
Best Indie Short
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away by Thad Lee (USA)
Cringe by Leo Ramsey (USA)
Gold by Luca Pizzoleo (USA)
In The Mud by Dominic Yeh (China)
Mum’s Hairpins by Tatiana Fedorovskaya (Ukraine)
Perghuzat by Pierluigi Muscolino (Germany)
Ruth by Shannon Jarrell-Ivey (USA)
Sofa Queen by Jenny Kleiman (USA)
Best Drama Short
Brut by Nick Chartrand (USA)
Coming Home by Daniel Pattison (USA)
Daily Dose by Igor Correa (Brazil)
Faithfully by Chad Smathers and Kirstin Pfeiffer (USA)
Lonely Encounter by Jenny Wan (Hong Kong)
Planet Earth Calling Ana by Fernando Bonelli (Spain)
Silence by Yuyan Guo (China)
The Edge by Rodrigo Tavares (Portugal)
Best Documentary Short
Capitaine by Johann Vorster (South Africa)
Dream With One Eye Open by Even Wu (USA)
India on a Rickshaw by Shy Brameli (Israel)
Line 881 by Ron Goldin (Israel)
Operation Overlord: OSS and the Battle for France by Carl Colby (USA)
Reclaiming The Negative by Mike Beech (UK)
Sockeye Salmon: Red Fish by Dmitriy Shpilenok and Vladislav Grishin (Russia)
The Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People by Juan C. Dávila (USA)
Best Comedy Short
Bumpy Rhodes by Patrick Coleman (USA)
Call Danny by Jesse Galofaro (Australia)
HighBread: C’est La Weed by Jayesh Jaidka (USA)
How Toilet Sensors Actually Work by Randy Nguyen (USA)
Ladies Room by Christine Santora and Alex Behles (USA)
Not Just Meena by Sandra Shelly (USA)
Patricia by Cameron Fife (USA)
T.I.O.L.I. Revolt: We’re Not Going To Take It (Or Leave It) by Andrew Cromartie and Janet Forest (USA)
Best Romantic Comedy Short
Colors by Pedro Cuesy Celma (Mexico)
Girl Tuesday by Dan Turner (UK)
Neext! by Leoni Tenius (UK)
Reveal by Rich Varville and Jeff Willy (USA)
Sophie & Stephen by Rob Perri (USA)
The Portrait by Taylor Meskimen (USA)
The Women’s Room by Kathy DiStefano (USA)
Try Again by William Green (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short
All This Surveillance by Adel Jervis (China)
Intergalactic Chronicles by Kenneth Castillo and Jeff Willy (USA)
L’Escale by Pieter De Cnudde (Belgium)
Not Just Meena by Sandra Shelly (USA)
Ratmom by Dominique Generaux and Anabella Casanova (USA)
Sofa Queen by Jenny Kleiman (USA)
The Cataclysm by Alexander Frasse (USA)
The Spanish Connection by Eigil Hedegaard (Denmark)
Best Crime Short
All About Frank Avenue by Jing Guo (USA)
Fade by Gregory Alexander Roybal (USA)
Gambit by Brandon Ross (USA)
Kapara by Steven Hudson (Australia)
Nature or Nurture by James A.E. Fuentez (USA)
Ramone by Alejandro G. Estrada (Mexico)
The Eyes On Me by Zane Van Cleave and Devin Van Cleave (USA)
Violent Nights by Christian Ghosn (USA)
Best Action Short
TBA
Best Film Noir Short
Reyna by Akinola Hassan (USA)
Tension by Michal Starý (Czech Republic)
Viridian by Mikael Drobny (USA)
Best Mystery Short
Brut by Nick Chartrand (USA)
Desolation Throe by Veronika Waga and Sebastian Waga (Sweden)
Far Away by Rodrigo Urriolagoitia (Bolivia)
Ghost Town by Christopher M Halligan (USA)
Magenta by Gabriele Tacchi (Italy)
Mischief by Ou Dingding (China)
Viridian by Mikael Drobny (USA)
When You Get Home by Deborah LaVine (USA)
Best Thriller Short
A Strange Calm by Austin Rourke (USA)
Bernie by Luis Blackaller (USA)
Black Heart, Red Hands by Russell Southam (Australia)
Brut by Nick Chartrand (USA)
Express by Nimi Lkhagva (USA)
Kapara by Steven Hudson (Australia)
Nemesis by Tim Earnheart (USA)
The Chair That Killed Faye by Taylor Allison (USA)
Best Horror Short
Feed by Will Lee (USA)
Moving Pains by Michael Gould (USA)
Ramona by Nicole Harris (USA)
Tales of a Falling Man by Luca Nicolosi and Andrea Dragoni (Italy)
The Barber by Sergiy Pudich (Ukraine)
The Door Down The Hall by Christian Vetrone (Canada)
The Invitation by Thorsten Schade (Germany)
The Re-Education of Jane Brown by MK McGehee (USA)
Best Fantasy Short
Buffalo & Trout by Presley Paras (USA)
Closed by Sungwoo Yun (South Korea)
Far Away by Rodrigo Urriolagoitia (Bolivia)
Folie Marty Me by Will Akbar (UK)
Happiness Without Colors by Farida Gamal (Egypt)
Inside the Notebook by Alejandra Hou (USA)
Nacre by Ben Johnson (USA)
She Wolf by Jesse La Flair (USA)
Best Sci-Fi Short
A Light In The Dark by William Blackwell Kinney (USA)
Amara by Ethan Chancer (USA)
Far Away by Rodrigo Urriolagoitia (Bolivia)
Intergalactic Chronicles by Kenneth Castillo and Jeff Willy (USA)
Metrics by Grant Bergland (USA)
Paternitas by Jung Yoong Kang (USA)
Scars by Jonny Zeller (USA)
U17 by Ajay Patel (UK)
Best Western Short
Ghost Town by Christopher M Halligan (USA)
Spindletop: The Beginning by Jason Leal (USA)
Troublemaker by Shane Peltzman (USA)
Best Children Short
A Bootless Grief by Nick Milczarczyk (Canada)
Das Kleid (The Dress) by Ethan Ardalan (Canada)
Junu Ko Jutta (The Shoes of a Little Girl) by Kedar Shrestha (Nepal)
Monkey and Cat by Artie Romero (USA)
Sara Asman by Neha Dwivedi (India)
Sixth Grade by Yuzhuo Wang (China)
The Wish by Regan Patterson (USA)
The Youth by Sean Garcia (USA)
Best Animation Short
Bada by Songji Kim (South Korea)
Destroy The New World Order by Ludovic Noble (UK)
Dwayne and Ollie’s Dumpster Disco by Camilo Anaya (USA)
I Was Born (Misfit) by Gaele Sobott (Australia)
Monkey and Cat by Artie Romero (USA)
Rambling Man by Hantine Hsu (USA)
Sheltering Sky by Marc Russo (USA)
The Prisoner by Majid AlYousif (Bahrain)
Best Women Short
An Uncomfortable Woman by Meghan Ross (USA)
Cool for Five Seconds by Dani Wieder (USA)
Micky by Aimee Hoffman (USA)
Ruth by Shannon Jarrell-Ivey (USA)
Sofa Queen by Jenny Kleiman (USA)
Tacet by Maria Paula Arboleda (USA)
The Hostess by Rosalie Alspach (USA)
The Virgin by Tang Yuying (China)
Best LGBTQ Short
A Kept Boy by Peter Chapman (USA)
Fog by Ribhu Ghosh (India)
In The Garden by Dominique Carrieri (USA)
LoverGirl by Shawna Khorasani (USA)
Mermaid by Fia Perera (USA)
Pastel by Michael Guillod (Switzerland)
Reveal by Rich Varville and Jeff Willy (USA)
Thoughts by Harsh Gupta (USA)
Best Microfilm
Feed by Will Lee (USA)
Full Disclosure by Kenneth Castillo and Jeff Willy (USA)
Kamakura, 1956 by Lauren Shigeko Gaskill (USA)
Peanut by Jose Feng (USA)
The Mother by Le Huy Anh (Vietnam)
The Organization by Kevin Wu (USA)
There Are Two Theories by Ashton Sterling Bingham (USA)
Unreachable by Yuxue Li (Canada)
Best Experimental Short
Artificial by Lena Baikova (Belarus)
At the Turn of a Century by Majid AlYousif (Bahrain)
Lamentation by Marissa J. Williams (USA)
Nowhere by Juseung Kim (South Korea)
Olfaction by Beboon Bahk (South Korea)
Simulation Hypothesis by Andrzej Dragan (Poland)
To A God Unknown by Samantha Casella (Italy)
To Her by Jacopo Ardolino (Italy)
Best Student Short
A Strange Calm by Austin Rourke (USA)
Bai Bai by Andrew Heitzman (USA)
On a Journey by Andrea Carolina (Puerto Rico)
Our Song by Sophie Fazio (Sweden)
Sixth Grade by Yuzhuo Wang (China)
Tacet by Maria Paula Arboleda (USA)
Trip To The West by HuHaoNan (China)
Under Heaven by Hamza Faraz Karamat (Pakistan)
Best Screendance Short
TBA
Best Music Video
Already Seen by Rodrigo Fleury (Brazil)
Highland Home by Dan Schaefer (USA)
João Ventura starring Lia Paris – counterpoint of “ne me quitte pas” with “fantasy impromptu” by Leonardo Fiorito and Alexandre Moretzsohn (Brazil)
Jump Go by Anne Stott and Lise King (USA)
Loss Jungle: The Astronaut’s Tear by Felipe Fonseca (Brazil)
Manifesto by Les Owen (USA)
We Don’t Talk by Roxy Sorkin (USA)
Youra – Net by Mariia Dmitrova and Anatolii Belikov (Ukraine)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot
Fuck Nice Guys by Kendall Payne (USA)
Fuzz & Malloy by Daniel J. Pico (USA)
HighBread: C’est La Weed by Jayesh Jaidka (USA)
Magenta by Gabriele Tacchi (Italy)
Monkey and Cat by Artie Romero (USA)
Remotely Working Pilot by Garrett Tripp (USA)
Reveal by Rich Varville and Jeff Willy (USA)
The Undead Series by Juliet Landau (USA)
Best Web and New Media
An Introduction to Thribing: Snapshots of Kiren by Rohil Aniruth (USA)
Dragons New Heights by Sean Rice (USA)
India on a Rickshaw by Shy Brameli (Israel)
Memorio by Vadim Gordt (Russia)
Overlooked by Oliver J Hughes (USA)
The Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People by Juan C. Dávila (USA)
War Peace by Jasmine McCullough (USA)
Who Killed Romeo and Juliet? by Mark Deere (Australia)
Best Mobile Short
TBA
Best Parody Short
Couch’s Crazy Cartoon Commercials by Steve Couch (USA)
Day of the Raccoon by Cole Carbone (USA)
Ed Gein In Hollywood by William Stancik (USA)
Fantasy Pony by Caitlin Carleton (USA)
Raiders of the Lost Tomb by Guile Branco (USA)
The Ghosted by Mary Syring (USA)
The Watchmaker by Charlie Fonville (USA)
Trillo and Suede by Ophir Ariel and Ryan Collins (USA)
Best Trailer/Teaser
A New Sound (USA)
Happiness Without Colors (Egypt)
Metrics (USA)
Best Short Script
Chaos And The Spark by Damian Overton (Australia)
Honeymoon, Utah by Joe Eckstein (USA)
Jane by Alex Hodgson (Canada)
Last Thursday by Kevin Machate (USA)
Mino by Yi Zhang (USA)
Not a Creature Was Stirring by Michael Hogan (USA)
Stoney Jack’s Secret London by Jim V Hart and David Long (UK)
We’re Making A Movie by Lara Patricia Maamoun (USA)
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