See also
Best Female Director
Ayanda Halimana for Sent (South Africa)
Jiamin Qiu for Off We Go (China)
Keenan Ferguson for R.E.S.C.U.E. (Kenya)
Lauren Sick for The Meeting Spot (USA)
Lital Mizrahi for Nerot Shel Shabbat (USA)





Best Male Director
Dan Hertzog for The Fries Rebellion (USA)
Edzel Rebamontan for Mi Unico Hijo (Philippines)
Jean de Meuron for Edge Of Space (USA)
Pedro Maldonado for Corkscrew (Peru)
Tristan Michael Corrigan for Don’t Tell Mom! (USA)





Best Student Female Director
Andrea von Siebenthal for More Than Brothers (USA)
Isabela Paião for Sweet Tooth (Czechia)
Phaedra Crowe for I Want To Be Fish (UK)
Xiaojing Wang for Fresh Green on the Grave (China)
Yuexin Bian for Blue Time (China)





Best Student Male Director
Anthony Sforza for Growing Green (USA)
Ben Elliot Sibulkin for Static (USA)
Bjorn Christians for Bakkie (Netherlands)
Oscar Kingsley for Eldred (USA)
Vidhu Kota for Fool’s Gold (USA)





Best First Time Female Director
Kateryna Kurganska for Two Breaths (USA)
Lauren Goetzman for Giselle (USA)
Nadin Tsarinova for The Cake (USA)
Sonya Yasmeen Ghori for Under the Influence (USA)
Vanessa Zamarripa for Pretty Please (USA)





Best First Time Male Director
Hamilton McAfee for Frontman (USA)
Michael Raymond-James for The Missing Peace (USA)
Nathan Meredith for Clownhouse (UK)
Paul Christopher Wagner for 5 Days on the Pile (USA)
Sukha Mahendra for The Monkey (USA)





Best Young Female Filmmaker
Camille Blundell for Bark (USA)
Qintong Dai for The Sound of Crossing History (China)
Rongyi Shen for The Last Tattooed Woman (China)



Best Young Male Filmmaker
TBA
Best Actress
Anastasia Ovsienko for The Cake (USA)
Samantha Green for What I Want (USA)
Sebiye Behtiyar for Laura, 29 Old Compton Street (USA)
Yidda Beatriz Eslava for Corkscrew (Peru)
Zuzana Páleníková for Sweet Tooth (Czechia)





Best Actor
Andrew Beall for The Straight & Narrow (USA)
Davyd Markovich for The Monkey (USA)
John Henry Richardson for Still Hunting (USA)
Kyle Anderson for Knightmare (USA)
Tye Alexander for The Missing Peace (USA)





Best Supporting Actor
Chad Darnell for Eldred (USA)
Obum Éji for What I Want (USA)
Romeo Garcia for Two Breaths (USA)



Best Child/Young Actress
Avela Cele for Sent (Siouth Africa)
Evelyn Wray for Don’t Tell Mom! (USA)
Maia Ann Pu’uwai for Two Breaths (USA)



Best Acting Duo
Jake I. Garcia and Kadan Well Bennett for Alpha 27 (USA)
Jeanna Schweppe and Snezhana Chernyavskaya for My Friend Doubt (USA)
Jenelle Smith and Kayla Backer for Maddie’s Cards (USA)
Rik Zaal and Zaya Sabrina for Bakkie (Netherlands)
Tim Casper and Alexia Valente for Frontman (USA)





Best Ensemble Cast
Balan, Quinn Nehr, Hannah Pech, and Dylan Watson for Fool’s Gold (USA)
Kyle Roark, Cameron Kauffman, Jasmin Please, and William Fix for Holiday Feast (USA)
Melissa Collins, Mona Lee Wylde, and Diana Angelina for (God)Mother The Series (USA)
Tye Alexander, Naiya Ortiz, Joseph Russo, Dave Shalansky, Javier Molina, and Gabriel Furman for The Missing Peace (USA)
Veronica Reyes, Carl Mamawag, Jing Diaz, Jef Gaitan, Kevin Regalado, Vee Rolle, and Jen Pauline Lopez for Mi Unico Hijo (Philippines)





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