Film Jury Awards
Best Picture - Ferryman (Darren Bender, UK)
Nominees: Sweet Disaster, Toprak, Love and Communication, Emily or Oscar?
Best Student Film - The Call of Water (Kaya Tone, USA)
Nominees: Call Now, Severance Bay, To the Wood, The Softest Blanket in All of Dingledorf, Fluffypunk, Reflections
Best Alternative Film - Break Any Spell (Anton Josef, Canada)
Nominees: This Vast and Mysterious Ocean, Break Any Spell, Click!, Composure, Make Up Your Mind
Best Short Film - For I Am Dead (Patricia Delso Lucas, Belgium)
Nominees: YuanYuan, Break Any Spell, Gregory, Paradisiac, Aion, American Dream
Best Short Short - The Little Drummer Boy (John Gray, USA)
Nominees: Paradisiac, The Inside Outside, Yo Andrea, Biased, Tainan Fantage, Signing Off, Gregory
Best Documentary - Frank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid (Tom Dwyer, Lisa Palattella, USA)
Nominees: Breaking the Silence, Frank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid, Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike, Raised Up West Side, My Rembetika Blues
Best Horror Thriller - 7 Minutes in Hell (Shane Spiegel, Justin Reager, USA)
Nominees: Wake, This Vast and Mysterious Ocean
Best Action Thriller - Something in the Clouds (Josh Sikkema, Johnny Ray, USA)
Nominees: BOXED, Utopia Planitia S1
Cultural Spirit - Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike (Samuel George, USA)
Nominees: Love and Communication, Raised Up West Side, Breaking the Silence, My Rembetika Blues
Best Short Documentary - The Shaker Legacy (David Gibson, David J. Goodwin, USA)
Nominees: We Decided to Become Farmers, Identity: The Andrew Nemr Story, From Darkness to Light: The Peter Krueger Clinic, The Fantastic, Mountains We Climb, Hello to Julia
Best Foreign Film - Sweet Disaster (Laura Lehmus, Germany)
Nominees: YuanYuan, Toprak, Cocoon, Ferryman, For I Am Dead, Therapy
Best Biographical Film - Identity: The Andrew Nemr Story (Jonathan Cipiti, USA)
Nominees: Frank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid, Fluffypunk
Best Experimental Short - Wake (Brendan Kissane, USA)
Nominees: The Inside Outside, Paradisiac, Walking Around, Composure, This Vast and Mysterious Ocean, To the Wood
Indie Spirit - Love and Communication (James Christy, USA)
Nominees: Toprak, Ferryman, Something in the Clouds, Emily or Oscar?, Frank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid
Best Animation - Tainan Fantage (Jason M. Tseng, Taiwan)
Nominees: The Softest Blanket in All of Dingledorf, You Knew Me, Sweet Disaster
Best Animated Film - The Softest Blanket in All of Dingledorf (Xan Rayne Poulsen, USA)
Nominees: Tainan Fantage, You Knew Me
Female Eye Filmmaking - YuanYuan (Shiyue Xu, China)
Nominees: Jaded, Severance Bay, Sweet Disaster, The Call of Water, The Sculptor, To the Wood, Toprak, YuanYuan, Make Up Your Mind
Best Sci-Fi Film - Utopia Planitia S1 (George Reese, USA)
Nominees: Utopia Planitia S1, Wake
Best TV Pilot - Tasteless (Amnon Carmi, Israel, USA)
Nominees: Saint of Lost Causes, Grafton
Best Comedy - I Mustache You (Shara Ashley Zeiger, USA)
Nominees: Biased, Aghast!, YuanYuan
Best Period Film - BOXED (Alyn Darnay, USA)
Nominees: For I Am Dead
Student Cultural Spirit - Reflections (J.W. Hill, USA)
Nominees: Fluffypunk
New Hope - Hello to Julia (Jenna A. Bush, USA)
Nominees: From Darkness to Light: The Peter Krueger Clinic, Hello to Julia, Mountains We Climb
Artistic Spirit - The Fantastic (Maija Blafield, Finland)
Nominees: Frank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid, Identity: The Andew Nemr Story, We Decided to Become Farmers, Raised Up West Side
GLBTQ Spirit - Flirting (With Possibilities) (Garrett Zuercher, USA)
Nominees: Cocoon Love, For I Am Dead, From Darkness to Light: The Peter Krueger Clinic
Best Supernatural Film - Sid Penrose (Drew Dull, USA)
Nominees: The Call of Water, Wake, The Inside Outside, 7 Minutes in Hell, Tainan Fantage, Gregory
Best Webisode - Utopia Planitia (George Reese, USA)
Best Music Video - Black City Nights (Nathan Castiel, USA)
Nominees: You Knew Me, Gravity, It Ain't Me, Money, Money, Money
Best Alternative Music Video - Money, Money, Money (Marvin Tablang Dumlao, Philippines)
Nominees: It Ain't Me, You Knew Me
Best Singer-Songwriter Video - Gravity (Danny S. Lynch, USA)
Nominees: It Ain't Me, You Knew Me
Best Inspirational Music Video - You Knew Me (Rodgers Dameron, USA)
Nominees: Money, Money, Money, Gravity, Black City Nights, It Ain't Me
Best Narrative Feature - Emily or Oscar? (Chris M. Allport, USA)
Nominees: Ferryman, Sweet Disaster, Toprak, Love and Communication
Best Director - Sevgi Hirschhauser (Toprak, Turkey)
Nominees: Laura Lehmus, Giulio Meliani, Sevgi Hirschhauser, Armando Valdes-Kennedy, Chris M. Allport, Darren Bender, Samuel George, Patricia Delso Lucas
Audience Choice Awards
Best Student Film - The Softest Blanket in All of Dingledorf (Xan Rayne Poulsen, USA)
Best Documentary - Breaking the Silence (Dara Sanandaji, Freddie Bell, USA)
Best Short Documentary - Mountains We Climb (Ryan Canney, USA)
Best Short Film - Aghast! (Andreas Quiroga, USA)
Best Narrative Feature - Love and Communication (James Christy, USA)
Best TV Pilot - Grafton (Bryan Santiago, USA)
Best Webisode - Utopia Planitia (George Reese, USA)
Script Jury Awards
Best Script - G.O.D. OS (David Christopher Loya, USA)
Nominees: Kent, Amy and Angel, Soulbreak, Family Embers, G.O.D. OS, Wake of the Quasimodo, Preacher's Daughter: Giant Slayer
Best Narrative Feature Script - Preacher's Daughter: Giant Slayer (Gregory Bonds, USA)
Nominees: Amy and Angel, Family Embers, G.O.D. OS, Kent, Soulbreak, Wake of the Quasimodo
Best Streaming/Premium TV Script - Transformed (Shannon TL Kearns, USA)
Best Period Script - Wake of the Quasimodo (Lorna Norrise, Lauren Rosson, USA)
Nominees: Family Embers, Kent
Best Short Screenplay - A Package of Dreams (Bradley M. Look, USA)
