Best Narrative Film & Best Actor
Better Half
Directors: Pete Johnson, Adam Jones
Starring: Tom Mardirosian
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Best Documentary Film
The Advocate
Director: UNHCR
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Honorable Mention Documentary
Protect the living, Honour the dead
Director: Melina Huet
Best Indie Short & Best Poster
A Soldier's Letter
Director: Calvin Yearsley
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Honorable Mention Indie
The Present Mind
Director: Chris Shaw
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Honorable Mention Indie Short:
Undertow
Director: Fareed Kairon
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Best First Time Filmmaker
Pictures Only
Director: Charles A. Honeywood
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Honorable Mention First Time Filmmaker
A Mother’s Nature
Director: Brody Bernheisel
Best Experimental
Brèves histoires de pierres muettes (Brief Stories of Silent Stones
Director: Mario Côté
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Honorable Mention Experimental
PORTALS
Director: Adam Hans
Best Animation
Forgive Me
Directors: Michael Covello, Elizabeth Schneider
Best Web/TV Pilot-Series
One Woman
Directors: Dana Lerer, Michal Gassner, Ilana Reina, Limor Shmila, Tal Brenner
Best Narrative LGBTQ
Trashed
Director: Kate Johnston
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Best Documentary LGBTQ
AB HEUTE - Der lange Weg zum eigenen Namen
Directors: Sophia Emmerich, Samuel Arndt
Best Thriller
Gus and Chloe
Director: Christopher Bates
Best Music video
Director: Vasco Mendes
Best Horror
Father Time
Director: Thomas Pickering
Best Science Fiction
ZERO
Director: Tim Hamilton
Honorable Mention Science Fiction
El Camino
Directors: Fernando Campos, Jaime Jasso
Best Comedy
Best Friends
Director: Craig Talbot
Best Script
END OF DAYS – SHORT
Writer: DANNY ALEX
Best Trailer
Better Half
Directors: Pete Johnson, Adam Jones
Best Director
LOLA
Director: Nicolas Bosc
Best Producer
Human Condition
Producer: Aneka Manners
Best Actress & Best Cinematographer
Jump Seat
Actress: Alexa Ré
DOP: Dru Williams
Director: Aaron Colborn
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Honorable Mention Best Actor
Dust To Dust
Director: Claudia Selby
Actor: David Westhead
Honorable Mention Cinematographer & Best Student Film
Walk Alone
Director: Lamu Shangchoo
DOP: Evan Feng
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Best Editor & Honorable Mention Indie
A Nice Jew
Director: Sam Syrett
Best Female Director & Honorable Mention Student Film
Bea, Seriously
Director: Hanna Gray Organschi
Best Composer:
George Kostopoulos for Prelude & Fugue in Dm
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Best Youth Actress
Kayden Tokarski for
Message from the Mermaids
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