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Best Female Director
Carolina Pereira for What We Carried (Palestine)
Khushi Manish Gandhi for The Mud Flower (India)
Ruiying Sun for To The End (USA)
Sabrina Lassegue for All the Men’s Hangers (USA)
Sally Dora Clack-Manning for Losing Ace (UK)
Best Male Director
Gregory Caruso for Coconut + Pistol (USA)
Hansjoerg Thurn for Treu (Faithful) (Germany)
Joshua Mueller for Clocking Out (Germany)
Sandrick Mathurin for Chorale (Canada)
Will Hammond for The Night Herons (USA)
Best Student Female Director
Alison Church for Peripheral (USA)
Annie Liones Nguyen for The Victim (USA)
Kimberly Olsen for The Emerald Purse (South Africa)
Meilin Shen and Dylan Han for What We Choose Not To See (USA)
Sofia Tonin for Praying For Love (USA)
Best Student Male Director
Ben Arndt for Breakups Suck (USA)
Caleb McCarthy for Huff (USA)
David Alan Stanek for Tatters!: A Puppet Story (USA)
Kunlang Tian for The Scream (UK)
Tyler Coon for I Love You More Than Dinosaurs (USA)
Best First Time Female Director
Jamie Manelis for My Dead Dad’s Funeral (USA)
Kassidy Slaughter for Salt & Pepper (USA)
Keilah Ayum for (Almost) A Star (USA)
Myriam Hasson for The Darkness Before Dawn (Israel)
Pele Alexandria Kudren for Playland (USA)
Best First Time Male Director
Charles Logan Clare for The Iron Snail (UK)
Connor Storrie for Jerry the Ginger Eater (USA)
Gordon Phillips for The Itch (Mexico)
Jon Ollom for Magdalene’s Total Home Cleaning (USA)
Vatsal Gaur for The Session (India)
Best Young Female Filmmaker
Ariana McCants and Amiko Muscat for Are We Distinct? (USA)
Khloe Hicks for Day One (USA)
Sarina Braun for Erasable (USA)
Yiyi Wang for Audition (China)
Zara P Bharadwa for Humanity Over Hate (USA)
Best Young Male Filmmaker
TBA
Best Actress
Laurén Carter for Log Off (USA)
Macy Jahoda for (Almost) A Star (USA)
Satori Rekstad for Conspirituality (USA)
Best Actor
TBA
Best Young Actress
TBA
Best Acting Duo
Alaina Wis and Joelle Velez for Connection at the End of the World (USA)
Camille Pham and Jade Phan-Gia for (+33) (France)
Eugene O’Meara and Cathal Fahey for Bridget (Ireland)
Grace Jenkins and Penn Black Howard for I Love You More Than Dinosaurs (USA)
Jared Boghosian and Magali Trench for 4 Parties (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast
Dylan McTee, Sierra Swartz, and Kevin Changaris for Coconut + Pistol (USA)
Jamie Manelis, Connie Ennis, Cooper Tomlinson, and John Ennis for My Dead Dad’s Funeral (USA)
Maura Fallon, Cameron Hayes, Alex Crawford, Billy Hirsch, and Dakota Loesch for Magdalene’s Total Home Cleaning (USA)
Rance Nix, Thomas Everett, and Tatiana Turan for Forward Thinking (USA)
Steven Ogg, Kayla Dawn Marcus, Johnny Gaffney, Eve Harlow, Max Baumgarten, Doug Lussenhop, and Demorge Brown for Playland (USA)
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