See also
Best Female Director
Andrea Sambuccetti for Meant to Be (USA)
Angela Lavelle for Lost and Finders Club (USA)
Paula Randol-Smith for Forecast (USA)
Ryan Buffa for Hoteling (USA)
Valeria Cappuccino Cocos for Secret – Shaliy (Russia)





Best Male Director
Alfonso Otero Mireles for Luz (Mexico)
Christopher Schultz for Enemy No More (USA)
Jason King for Chum (Australia)
Luis Tovar for Transient (USA)
Quinn Sheehan-Hipple for The Botanists (USA)





Best Student Female Director
Ann Marie Martin for Baptism (USA)
Assel Nurlankyzy Omirserik for Bye, Boy (USA)
Jingxuan Qi for Butterfly: The King Of Yue (USA)
Lulu Chen for Butt (USA)
Zoe Heafner for Fishtail: The Last Best Place (USA)





Best Student Male Director
Francis Wu for Clown Orthodontist (USA)
Samer Saifan for Red Rain (USA)
Shengwen Ruan for Growing Pains (China)



Best First Time Female Director
Aline Smithson for Le Fardeau de la Memoire (The Burden of Memory) (USA)
Dan Su for The Engagement Banquet (China)
Genevieve Sulway for When Worlds Collide (UK)
Ingvill Thorson Plesner for The Acting Coach (Norway)
Iva Kevra for Love of Magdalena (Ireland)





Best First Time Male Director
Amirali Habibi for The Strange Case of Detective Jones (Iran)
John Brownell for Partly Hazy (USA)
Mark Buckland for Them Upstairs (UK)
Marko Bosanac for New Idea (Serbia)
Markus Schnatmann for Elteney (Germany)





Best Young Male Filmmaker
TBA
Best Actress
Iva Kevra for Love of Magdalena (Ireland)
Marisa Petroro for On The Margins (USA)
Zoe Agnew for Them Upstairs (UK)



Best Actor
André Landzaat for The Acting Coach (Norway)
Jake B. Miller for Enemy No More (USA)
Khary Payton for Hoteling (USA)
Patrick Sass for Tears of War (Germany)
Ryon Thomas for Partly Hazy (USA)





Best Supporting Actor
Jonathan Tanigaki for Enemy No More (USA)
Malcolm Rodgers for Clown Orthodontist (USA)
William Christopher Ford for On The Margins (USA)



Best Child/Young Actress
TBA
Best Child/Young Actor
TBA
Best Acting Duo
Bert James and Lillith Fallon for Lillith & Bert Go Nowhere (USA)
Devin Reeve and Daniel O’Reilly for Transient (USA)
Joanna Fyllidou and Garrison Lambert for The Dog Days (USA)
Matt Doran and Eliza South for Chum (Australia)
Robert P Zoppo and Hunter Shigley for The Stakeout (USA)





Best Ensemble Cast
André Landzaat, Denise Trankalis, Morten Rudå, Ed Lesemann, Casper Andreas, Lavleen Kaur, and Frida Vhile Hansen for The Acting Coach (Norway)
Cari Ramos, Danaé Ru, Alejandra Otero, Anna Daniela, and Ana Lancaster-Jones for Luz (Mexico)
Cassidy Spring, Drake Aasen, Parks Baird, and Chuck Sams for The Time We Met (USA)
Scarlette Zimmerman, Killian Thompson, Ella Hayes, Brady Molitor, and Camille Davis for Lost and Finders Club (USA)
Zachary Trotter, Zauriel Luna, Dalia Santana, Benjamin Comrie, Jasmine Basilan, Fernando Ayala, and Byron Bucao for Novelty (USA)





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