Best Picture

Parisian Jam

Rohan Bates

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Best Narrative Film

Butterfly

Bonnie Foster

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Honorable Mention: Narrative Film

The Long Game

Mustafa Abbas

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Best Indie Film

Parisian Jam

Rohan Bates

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Honorable Mention: Indie Film

If We Have Next Life

Mingzhu Ye

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Best Drama

The Unknown Mother

Wai Yin Wong, John Y

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Best Thriller

Parisian Jam

Rohan Bates

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Best Horror

The Ways of Misery

Erik de la Serna

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Best Sci-Fi

Safety Space

Rohil Aniruth

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Best Experimental Film

About Maddy

Sage Drake

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Best Documentary

In the Same Direction: Jeff Pifher & Socrates' Trial

Alexander Craven, Jeff Pifher, Merlin Showalter

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Best Student Film

Abroad

Enrique Suarez

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Honorable Mention: Student Film

What We Talk About When We Talk About Lights, Camera, Action

Jianle Liu

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Best Director

Birthday

Mojtaba Mirshekari

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Honorable Mention: Director

Parisian Jam

Rohan Bates

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Best Actor

Birthday

Joseph Lopez

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Honorable Mention: Actor

Forest of Light

Roberto Rios

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Best Actress

Tell Tale

Ashley Bilik

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Honorable Mention: Actress

Ethnically Ambiguous

Tiffany Phillips

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Best Supporting Actor

Forest of Light

Allan Riggs

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Best Supporting Actress

Parisian Jam

Freyja Benjamin

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Best Duo

Butterfly

Micah Fitzgerald & Jade Lorna Sullivan

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Best Ensemble

What We Talk About When We Talk About Lights, Camera, Action

Thomas Alexander, Chengjin Zhuang, Xiaoshiyan Liang, Ruoxi Yang, Banghui Zhang, Ling Lin

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Best Editing

Birthday

Mojtaba Mirshekari

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Best Cinematography

Butterfly

Sean McDaniel

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Best Score

CAPCOM GO! The Apollo Story

Rhian Sheehan

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Best Song

My Amazing Grace

Debra Gussin, Dale Effren

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Best Original Story

Butterfly

Bonnie Foster

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Best Screenplay

In Your Dreams

Arteta Stephane

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Best First Time Screenwriter

Chukchi Made Vlog in America

Gankhulug Mahanaim Baatar

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