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Best Female Director
Heather Waters for A Mother’s Promise (USA)
Sue Ann Pien for Once More, Like Rain Man (USA)
Zinzi Gugu Johnson for Tears (USA)



Best Male Director
Angelo Donzella for Broken (Italy)
Clayton Henderson for Fast (USA)
Lap Fung Cheung for River (Hong Kong)



Best Student Female Director
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\Best Student Male Director
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Best First Time Female Director
Eloise Lola Gordon and Rose Trimboli for Talk to Me Like the Rain (USA)
Fariba Farjam for Redacted Dreams (Canada)
Yuer Zhao for Rabbit in Silence (China)



Best First Time Male Director
Leonard Alecu for Ice Breath (Romania)
Luke Stone for Retrieving Roadie (USA)
Sergey Sergeevich Valikov for Conductor (Russia)



Best Young Female Filmmaker
Megan Campbell for What About Us? (USA)
Mia Ramos for Uniquely Free: The U.S Constitution’s Influence on American Lives in Global Perspective (USA)
Neha Yalamanchi for The Civil Civic Chronicles (USA)
Qianran Li and Ruixuan Hu for Sail Alone (China)
Wanze Li and Xuanyi He for Whence the Wind Blows (China)





Best Young Male Filmmaker
Christian Yoder for Running with the Lions (USA)
Eduard Bukhanets for After Me (Netherlands)
Justin Michael Dyer for Emotions (USA)



Best Actress
Bella Zoe Martinez for Once More, Like Rain Man (USA)
Karla Vieira for Mute (Venezuela)
Naosheen Ahmed for Pandaal (USA)



Best Actor
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Best Young Actor
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Best Supporting Actress
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Best Supporting Actor
Matt Jones for Once More, Like Rain Man (USA)
Richard Norton for Sauvetage (Australia)
Todd Lien for EKG (USA)



Best Acting Duo
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Best Ensemble Cast
Brake, Sof Puchley, Kyle Metz, Matthew Tyler Voyce, and Ryan Watson Henderson for Density (USA)
Jerome Preston Bates, Marjorie Johnson, Francis C. Edemobi, Mason Heidger, Jordan Amanda Hall, Sherri Lubov-Ripps, Christopher Inlow, Bob Rumnock, and Richard K. Baylor for Socrates (USA)
Karla Vieira, Antonio Cuevas, and Delcarys Omaña for Mute (Venezuela)



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