See also
Best Female Director
Ivana Rauchmann for 5 Minutes (Austria)
Kate Spates and Carolyn Moloshco for Exit Interview (USA)
Natasha Kaminsky for The Swap (Australia)
Sedona Feretto for Treatment (USA)
Shilpa Johar for Bageecha (USA)





Best Male Director
Gavin Chief Meredith and Mark D. Bonner for Angeleno (USA)
Jack Szarabajka for Runaways (USA)
Nando Dietz for Walther (Germany)
Thomas Dunzendorfer for Pinheiro: Ep04 – Abyss (Austria)
Vugar Tahirov and Elmar Bayramov for Sidewalk Stories (USA)





Best Student Female Director
Fiona Paskoff for Something Blue (USA)
Hailey Reese Hameetman for The Fish Collectors (USA)
Katherine Fan for Stressy Squishy (USA)
Michelle Manxue Ma for Blue Desert (USA)
Sophie Kairis for She Who Raised Me (USA)





Best Student Male Director
Chengyu Lu for Oyster Sea (USA)
Hou Zongkun for Just for a While (China)
Jack Geary for A List of Towns (USA)
Miguel Vega for Los Malcriados (USA)
Nathan Siskel for Doh, God (USA)





Best First Time Female Director
Amy Cheung for TimeBank, The Game – The Record of an Experiment (Hong Kong)
Fernanda Gonçalves for Ocaso (Brazil)
Katherine King for The Delicate Cycle (USA)
Maren Emiko Elardo for Ikigai (USA)
Zirui Li for Descendants (China)





Best First Time Male Director
Burke Doeren for The Possible Life (USA)
D (Edduardo Viera) for Àsaka (Spain)
Mark Henderson for Crestfallen Leaves (UK)
Nick Fascitelli for King Ed (USA)
Zach Sung Jin Meyer for Star Night (USA)





Best Young Female Filmmaker
Daoyuan Chi and Yaran Zhou for The Drum Song of the Hani (China)
Maria Fedorovskiy for Fantasy of Two (USA)
Sukie Gethin for Where the Water Runs (USA)



Best Young Male Filmmaker
Aidan Rutman for Picturesque (USA)
Bryce Adam Brown for Party Animal (USA)
Daoyuan Chi and Yaran Zhou for The Drum Song of the Hani (China)



Best Actress
Elena Gallino for Blocked (USA)
Lauren Call for The Possible Life (USA)
Lexi Minetree for Miss Mary Mack (USA)
Morgan Kisner for I’m Not A Bad Person (USA)
Rebecca Galcik for Medea (USA)





Best Actor
A.C. Peterson for Pay Your Bill (Canada)
David Lancelin Guerrero for Les Comediens (France)
David Wright for Easter Bunny (USA)
Gabriel Rysdahl for Vic’s Vac Shack (USA)
Qin Yaohua for Just for a While (China)





Best Supporting Actress
Amy Benedict for Runaways (USA)
Olivia Sprague for Miss Mary Mack (USA)
Patricia Swanson for Something Blue (USA)



Best Supporting Actor
TBA
Best Child/Young Actress
Angela Smith for Too Close to the Sun (USA)
Julia Saito for Ikigai (USA)
Lila Van Frachen for Safety Patrol (USA)



Best Child/Young Actor
TBA
Best Acting Duo
Emma Elizabeth Steiger and Jessie Gill for Runaways (USA)
Haiden Pederson and Jen Greenfield for Something Blue (USA)
Natalia Faura and Julia Viejo for Àsaka (Spain)
Patrick Gorman and Talita Maia for Galaxies (USA)
Vandit Bhatt and Sarah Street for Star Night (USA)





Best Ensemble Cast
A.C. Peterson, Sabrina Knappet, James Smith, Hank, Helga, Lorne Fortune, Anne Biondich, Anne Biondich, Gianni Aprile, Madeleine Brown, Mark Bromacher, and Jabair Bains for Pay Your Bill (Canada)
Anthony Barnett Riggins Jr., Deb Snyder, Allan Wasserman, and Michael J Gonzales for The Uninvited (USA)
Brendan Scannell, Sufe Bradshaw, and Jack Plotnick for King Ed (USA)
Kyle Roark, Ivyanna Harris, and Todd Jackson for Dead Crush (USA)
Shea Smith, Sedona Feretto, Alexandra Luccetti, Quinn Cooke, Geoffrey Davin, Lindsey Shope, Aaron Herling, Kathryn James, Steven Garland, Riley Jade Howard, Alicia Haymer, Ben Winters, Joy Todd, Kyle Rankin, James Jericho, Kenzie Wynn, and Whitni Resides for Treatment (USA)





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