See also:
Best Producer
Czarina Liu for Rescue Master Tang (Taiwan)
Gao Jun and Joe Zheng for Rekindle (Singapore)
Mirlande Amazan for Life… (USA)
Nikki Blacklock, Zachary Smith, and Susannah Joffe for Falling Sparrow (USA)
Olivia Hantken for Kilter (Australia)





Best Production Design
Fubar (Belgium)
Jackson Lowen for Falling Sparrow (USA)
Jeremy Fuller for Kilter (Australia)
Johanne Chagnon for Caring for Your Carcass (Canada)
Katarzyna Tomczyk for Investigative Experiment (Poland)
Natasha Ponce for Bringer Of Life (USA)
Pröwess – Let It Ride (USA)
This One’s for Emily Post (USA)








Best Original Screenplay
Arthur James for The Church Up Peaky Road (USA)
Christopher Long for Thirty Seconds (USA)
David Ash for Incompleteness (USA)
Fan Xun Lilac for Rekindle (Singapore)
Margarita Zhitnikova for 2 Weeks (USA)
Mirlande Amazan for Life… (USA)
Peter Zhou and Qi Zhu for Rifle (USA)
Samantha Burgos and Julia Perez-Chavez for Ill Will (USA)








Best Adapted Screenplay
Andrew J. Cowin for Jesus of New York (USA)
John Alan Andrews for Yearning To Exhale – Twenty Twenty Lockdown (USA)
Kurt Gerard Heinlein for Between the Creag and the Sky (USA)
Martinko for In A Pickle (USA)
Sean Silleck for A Good Man Is Hard To Find (USA)





Best Cinematography
Aaron Mclisky for Kilter (Australia)
Edgar Grishchuk for Investigative Experiment (Poland)
Joe Toto for Obsession (USA)
TinNgai Chan for Mary Mary Quite Contrary (USA)
Tom Delich for Alaska Long Hunters 44 (USA)





Best Editing
A Poo Film (USA)
Carl Eneroth for Vocal Painting (Sweden)
Covid, Tango and The Lagom Way (UK)
Dillon Petrillo for Mothica – Blackout (USA)
Joseph Switak for Driven (Australia)
Kai Stoeckel for Uncle in L.A. (Germany)
Nicolas Bier and Aurian de Wouters for Suave (Belgium)
Roderick D. Rascoe V for Withered (USA)








Best Sound Design
Joe Mount for Kilter (Australia)
Pneuma (Israel)
Siegen Bretzke for Falling Sparrow (USA)
Suave (Belgium)
Vocal Painting (Sweden)





Best Sound Mixing
TBA
Best Special FX
TBA
Best Visual FX
TBA
Best Costume Design
TBA
Best Special Makeup
Sasha Glasser and Chelsea Delfino for Mothica – Blackout (USA)
Divan Camli for Fubar (Belgium)
Tom von Dohlen for Door to Door (USA)



Best Original Score
Alan Williams for Moving Art: Underwater (USA)
Cora Chung for Obsession (USA)
Declan Harsent for Kilter (Australia)
Elia Cmiral for Altered Mind of 20-20 (Czech Republic)
Emiliano Mazzenga for Landing (USA)
Fan Xun Lilac for Rekindle (Singapore)
Greg Camp for In A Pickle (USA)
Li Xun for Falling Sparrow (USA)








Best Original Song
“Be You” by Nancy Snipper, for Fowl Crossing (Canada)
“Bloodvape” by Original Peaches (USA)
“Let It Ride” by Pröwess (USA)
“Life After Oblivion” by Tina Hargett, Mark Ontiveros, and Nicholas Ontiveros, for Life After Oblivion (USA)
“Miss The Heat” by Debra Gussin and Stacy Hogan (USA)
“Straight Into The Ocean” by Allen Lin (USA)
“The Gift of Years” by Anya Kenner, for The Gift of Years (Australia)
“Where I Should Begin” by Mariella Perrotta and Jen Drummond, for Resolution (USA)
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