The following projects (short films, TV & web series, and screenplays) are the finalists of the round of January competing in 62 different categories.
These projects were shortlisted from an official selection pool with a 49,3% acceptance rate, based on submissions from 23 countries and a total runtime of 34:30:03.
The nominees represent 31,9% of all submitted projects.
***Categories not listed have no submissions meeting the requirements***
***Categories TBA have 2 or less projects with eligible scores for awards. The award winner(s) announcement for these categories is done along with the award winners of all of the other categories***
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Best Indie Short
Blind Spots by Danny McCrea (USA)
Lonely Season by Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi (Iran)
Walking Around by Gilles Bovon (USA)
Best Drama Short
90 Miles by Leslie Lluvet (Puerto Rico)
Be Still by Ben Hess (USA)
Just This Once by Hollie Bahar (USA)
No Goodbyes by Billy Clift (USA)
The Masterpiece by Paul Myzia (USA)
Best Documentary Short
From Darkness to Light: The Peter Krueger Clinic by Joe Fox (USA)
Ink by Mateo Martinez (Colombia)
Nanmin by Adam Shaw (USA)
The Roll Out by Dewayne Force (UK)
Two Pandemics by Robert Landau (USA)
Best Comedy Short
Anon Believers by Brando Topp (USA)
Bloom by Paul De Cinque (Australia)
Folding In by Kelton White (USA)
Modern Living & You! by Lucio Fonza (USA)
Since Last Tuesday – Episode 1: Confession by Robbie Barnes (USA)
Best Romantic Comedy Short
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Best Dark Comedy Short
2 Psychos in a Pod by Kurt Collins (USA)
Birdy by Lydia Wei (UK)
Crackle by Anais Thomassian (USA)
Square by Brian Norris (USA)
Vancouver by Ralph B. Peña (USA)
Best Crime Short
TBA
Best Thriller Short
TBA
Best Film Noir Short
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Best Mystery Short
Balise by Henry Valo (Finland)
Feuerkreis by Jasper Graeve (Germany)
Limbo by Scott Slone (USA)
Best Horror Short
Dark Lights by Deborah Richards (USA)
Escalation by Christian Bachini (Italy)
La Santa Muerte by Oscar A Ortiz (USA)
Red by Jacob A Perkins (USA)
The Seer by Sergei Protasov (Russia)
Best Sci-Fi Short
Bahamas by Fabio Orefice and Rodolfo “Belusci” Croce (Italy)
Mute by Wesley Wang (USA)
Umbilical Cord by Ivan Nevesenko (Ukraine)
Best Fantasy Short
TBA
Best Animation Short
TBA
Best Children Short
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Best Women Short
Mobius by Hui Ming Zhou (China)
Mother in the Mist by Kay Niuyue Zhang (USA)
Woman To Woman by Alexandria Collins (USA)
Best LGBTQ Short
Esther Eats the Bible by Paloma Gonzales (USA)
From Darkness to Light: The Peter Krueger Clinic by Joe Fox (USA)
In The Gray by Yolanda Buggs (USA)
Intended Parents by Jabari Redd and Louis Deon Jones (USA)
The Elevator by Victor Santos (Canada)
Best Microfilm
Raisins by Vankshita Mishra (UK)
Surviving Myself by Reza Tavakoli (Sweden)
Transcendance by Javier Antonio Castro (Costa Rica)
Visual Poetry: Self Love by Sofia Monzerratt (USA)
Young Love In a Dirty Place by Reinis Spaile (Latvia)
Best Experimental Short
In The Gray by Yolanda Buggs (USA)
Revisiting T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land by Steve Dixon (Singapore)
Transcendance by Javier Antonio Castro (Costa Rica)
Visual Poetry: Self Love by Sofia Monzerratt (USA)
Yang by Jin Li and Jingyan Lin (China)
Best Student Short
Blind Spots by Danny McCrea (USA)
I Dream in Color by Madison DeCory (USA)
Merry Go Round by Kara M. Canton (USA)
Peaches by Benjamin Hunt (USA)
Umbilical Cord by Ivan Nevesenko (Ukraine)
Best Music Video
Keep Burning by Young-Wook Paik (Israel)
One:Fifty – XTC by Sage Morei (Germany)
Sky Fashion – Back to Life by Edward Vladimirovich Krakow (Russia)
TikTok Rollie Viet Mix MV by Linh Manh Tong (Viet Nam)
Wax by Aurelia (Gabriella Bavaro) (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot
Anon Believers by Brando Topp (USA)
Lost/Found – Season 1 by Brian Christopher White (USA)
Since Last Tuesday – Episode 1: Confession by Robbie Barnes (USA)
Best Mobile Short
TBA
Best Trailer/Teaser
TBA
Best Short Script
Anthony’s Heroes by Melanie Sovran Wolfe (USA)
No Biscuits in Heaven by Ruth Finnegan (UK)
The Mountain by Ruth Finnegan (UK)
The Paradise Road by Lisa Tedesco (USA)
Wake-up Call by Alexandra Salkin (France)
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