2023
Jury Award Winners
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Best Documentary Short
Creating Things
Directed by Bryan Simpson, Taylor Simpson
Juror: Njaimeh Njie
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Best Live Action Short
Paris 70
Directed by Dani Feixas Roca
Juror: Sharon Badal
Programmers' Choice Winner
Audience Award Winners
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Best Overall Short
Paris 70
Directed by Dani Feixas Roca
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Best Live Action Short
Infraction
Directed by Timothy Blackwood
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Best Student Short
Blue Hour
Directed by J.D. Shields
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Best Chiller Theater Short
Get Away
Directed by Michael Gabriele
2022
Jury Award Winners
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Best Narrative
An Irish Goodbye
Directed by Tom Berkeley & Ross White
Juror: Maria Brendle
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Best Documentary
Lalito 10
Directed by Jordan Matthew Horowitz
Juror: Brian Broome
Programmers' Choice Winner
Audience Award Winners
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Best Narrative
Triggered
Directed by Tara Westwood
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Best Documentary
Powers
Directed by Paige Morrow Kimball
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Best Student
Magdalena
Directed by Michael Lazovsky
2021
Jury Award Winners
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Best Narrative
The Ephemeral
Directed by Jorge Muriel
Juror: Kristen Bedno
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Best Documentary
The Box
Directed by James Burns, Shal Ngo
Juror: Mridu Chandra
Programmers' Choice Winner
Audience Award Winners
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Best Animated
Migrants
Directed by Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte, Zoé Devise
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Best Specialty
"enough."
Directed by Caleb Slain
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Best Chiller Theater
The Sale
Directed by Max Cianci
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Best All Ages
Windup
Directed by Yibing Jiang
2020
Jury Award Winners
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Best Documentary
LIV
Directed by Alan Hicks
Juror: Martha Rial
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Best Animated
Pangu
Directed by Shaofu Zhang 张少甫
Juror: Michael Killen
Programmers' Choice Winner
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Misfits
Directed by Ciani Rey Walker
Audience Award Winners
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Best Animated
Umbrella
Directed by Helena Hilario, Mario Pece
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Best Specialty
Human
Directed by Erin Brown Thomas
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Best All Ages
Zog
Directed by Max Lang, Daniel Snaddon