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U.S. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT FILMMAKER AWARD

Click - Winner
Untitled Artist
A Space Age Love Story
To Drive or Not to Drive

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CALIFORNIA STUDENT YOUNG FILMMAKER AWARD

Illumination
(El Deseo) The Wish - Winner
Dear Etoile
Whiskers
Bound By Myth

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COLLEGIATE FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT AWARD

​Evil Eye
Mariposa
Where We Once Roamed
Palmas - Winner
Queen of Spades
Surrender to the Sound
Wings

 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN / ART DIRECTION

​Tracers
Mintrix and the Elven Figurine
The Open Door

Casual Vignettes of Gilded Vulgarity
Sequoia
Neither Donkey Nor Horse - Winner
Edge of Space

 

BEST FAITH-BASED FILM

​Lights Up - Winner
The Shepherd and the Sound
Almost Home
The Reach

 

BEST TELEVISION PILOT SCRIPT

​Officer X Pilot
Paging Faith - Winner
Monstra 

Burns and Song
Sepia Frontier

 

BEST FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY

The Ghost of You - Winner
The Other Half
Beneath the Dust
Kick Rocks
Escape to Hollow Earth

 

BEST LGBTQ SHORT FILM

​Arman
Drugs Are Fun
Argie Berman
Dandelion - Winner
The Yellow Sponge is the Dish Sponge

 

BEST COMEDY SHORT FILM

Fireflies In The Dusk - Winner
Steps
Mondays At The Office
Black Hole
My Little Hobby
Maggie’s Not OK

 

BEST FEMALE ARTISTS AWARD

Hasta la Raíz
Palmdale - Winner
Death in the Desert
Day 35
Surrender To The Sound
SHE DEVIL

 

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Black Man, Black Man
Escape Artist
Amped
Forevergreen - Winner
Blacky The Metal Arm Cat

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BEST SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY SHORT FILM

Inventing
Mintrix and the Elven Figurine
Wings
Battle of L.A. - Winner
Strangers at Sundown
ANACHRONISM

 

BEST HORROR/THRILLER SHORT FILM

The Itch
Cruelty - Winner
The Open Door
The Worm
Harvester
Blind Date

 

TIM BURTON “NATIVE BURBANK” VISIONARY AWARD

Chatbot DeeDee
DIS•EASE
Dick Bunny - Winner
Sequoia

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 Mistura - Winner
EDGE OF SPACE
The Ride
The Shepherd & The Sound
Cruelty

 

BEST FILM SCORE / MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Mintrix and the Elven Figurine - Winner
A King’s Curtain
The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio
The Escape from Myrtle Broadway

The Shepherd and the Sound

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

Island of Hope
Sandy Powell: Dressing The Part - Winner
The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio
The Faith of the Dreamer
Sundown To Eleven

 

BEST FOREIGN SHORT FILM

Bobblehead
Come Back
The Reach - Winner
The Perfect Fourth
My David
Blacky the Metal Arm Cat​​​

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AUDIENCE AWARD FOR SHORT FILM​

Faith Of A Dreamer

 

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR FEATURE FILM​

Dust To Malibu

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BEST DRAMA SHORT FILM 

Watching Walter
Courage
A King’s Curtain - Winner
Spring
Superman Doesn’t Steal
Sometimes I Imagine Your Funeral
Thistle

 

BEST ACTOR

​Charles E. Gerber - A King's Curtain - Winner
Austin Pendleton - A King's Curtain
Stephen McKinley Hendersen - A King's Curtain
Cesar Ballumbrosio - Mistura

 

BEST ACTRESS

Barbra Mori - Mistura - Winner
Alycia Conrad - Hello_from.m4a
Isabelle Marchand - Palmdale

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BEST DIRECTOR

Jean de Meuron - Edge of Space
Hugo Andre - Happy as Larry
Grant M Johnson - A King’s Curtain
Slava Denisov - The Ride - Winner
Leah R Gallegos - Burnt
Sam Das - Cruelty

 

BEST FEATURE FILM

Splinter
Dust to Malibu
Mistura
Due West - Winner
Happy as Larry
Toy Guns