Best Narrative Film & Best Director 

Rare Land
Director: Efthimis Hatzis

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Best Documentary

The Walk
Director: Jonny Stern

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Best Indie Short

The Rocking Chair
Director: Jeno Hodi

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Best First-Time Filmmaker

Cottonmouth
Director: Hailey Naomi Irvin

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Best Actress

Lidia Vitale             

Judgement     

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Best Actor 

Mundo

Bobby Soto

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Honorable Mention Actor                       

Andrew King Bach Bachelor            

Miles Ryder

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Best Experimental

Welcome To Hell
Director: Zachary Bradtke

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Best Animation

The Last Set

Director: Aisling Conroy 

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Honorable Mention Animation 

Bloom In
Director: Avery Robinson Rouda

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Best Web/TV Pilot-Series

Sidewinder

Director: Milo Edwards

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Best LGBTQ

The Last Take

Director: Brian Foyster

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Best Thriller

Blood on the leaves

Director: Sharieff Salaam Walters

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Best Science Fiction

Summerville

Director: Anthony Di Pietro

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Best Music video 

LASTRY - Look at me now!
Director: Amber Simone Theisen
 

Honorable Mention Music Video 

Celebrated (All The Way Up)

Director: D. Christopher Campbell

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Best Horror

13 Steps

Director: David Lawrence

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Best Comedy

I'm Glad That You're Sorry
Director: Jourdan Henderson

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Honorable Mention Comedy

Pee Pee Platter
Director: Jon Conklin

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Honorable Mention Comedy

Long Beach Vice
Director: Skylar Adams

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Best Producer

Nourah Al Hasawi

Everything Is Not What It Seems
 

Best Cinematographer

Kevin Kohjus

Because We Were Happy

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Best Editor

Federico Lagna

PENTACLUB (The Club of Five)

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Best Composer

Jimmie LeBlanc

Light

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Best Youth Actor/Actress

Actress: Allegra Cockcroft        Sand Castles

Actor: Theologos Hatzis           Rare Land

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Best Student Film

Online

Director: Bianka Bereczky

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Best Female Director

Jess Fritz

Sane Men

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Honorable Mention Documentary

A Proper Education
Director: MaryLanae Linen

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Best Screenplay (Produced)

Black Metal

Michael Hyon Johnson

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Best Unproduced Script

Ashes to Dust

Clark Childers