See also
Best Director (Female)
Andrea Sambuccetti for The Water Wall (USA)
Federica Alice Carlino for After You (USA)
Masha Ko for Bona To Vada (USA)



Best Director (Male)
Ahmed Messoudi for Beneath Her Lipstick (Morocco)
Kyle Rayo and Quinn Wolverton for Golden (USA)
Michael Carnick for I See You (USA)



Best Student Director (Female)
Beidi Wang for Wax and Wane (USA)
Lyuwei Chen for Steel Magnolia (USA)
Weiduo Feng for The Dawn (USA)



Best Student Director (Male)
Anthony Garikayi West for Fall From The Gridiron (USA)
Charlie Laurie for Listen (New Zealand)
Christopher John Desiderio for The Sister’s Seance (USA)
George Leontakianakos for Timeless Dialogue (Greece)
Yixuan Tu and Simou Hu for W (China)





Best First Time Director (Female)
Elisheva Novella for Time Skipping (USA)
Laura Burnett for Blind Truth (USA)
Lionesse and Mario Rio Allen for Booked-N-Broke (USA)
Shereen Shaltout for The Advocates (Bahrain)
Stephany Barbalho for Private Audition (USA)





Best First Time Director (Male)
Ashley Dighton for A Stretching Moment (Australia)
DJ Pacileo for Outside the Box (USA)
Gio Ursino for The Man in the Mirror (USA)
Pierre Songy for Libre (France)
Walid Messnaoui for No Key (Morocco)





Best Young Filmmaker (Female)
TBA
Best Young Filmmaker (Male)
TBA
Best Actress
Areeta Asgharzadeh for Good Grief (USA)
Hailee Lipscomb for The Pussycat (USA)
Laura Burnett for Blind Truth (USA)
Manal Belhaj for Beneath Her Lipstick (Morocco)
Wendy Spielmann for Time Skipping (USA)





Best Actor
Chad Sellers for The Man in the Mirror (USA)
Charlie Laurie for Listen (New Zealand)
Houyao Yang for Underwater (China)
Matthew Wayne Roberts for Drifting (USA)
Tim McLaughlin for Fleeced (USA)





Best Supporting Actress
TBA
Best Supporting Actor
TBA
Best Child/Young Actress
Edie Yvonne for At Ease (USA)
Kayden Brenna Tokarski for I Miss Her, Too (USA)
Weiduo Feng for The Dawn (USA)



Best Acting Duo
Kayden Brenna Tokarski and Dylan Sharon for I Miss Her, Too (USA)
Makeda Declet and Will Ajax Harris for The Second Coming (USA)
Mayreni Sweis and Linda Maria Girón for Golden (USA)
Melissa Tucker and Daniel Joey Albright for Private Audition (USA)
Rachel Boudwin and Rachel Boeing for The Sister’s Seance (USA)





Best Ensemble Cast
TBA
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