WINNERS
Best Short Film (Live Action)
Once Ethereal (Directed by Matthew Higgs)

Best Short Documentary
Culture vs war. Liberov (Directed by Kadim Tarasov)

Best Short Animation
Butterfly Business (Directed by Amanda Elizabeth Mai)

Best TV Pilot
Captain Freckles and Applesauce - Pilot (POC) (Directed by Brenton Feeser)

Best Experimental Film
The Painted Man (Directed by Dan Colley)

Best Horror Film
Mean Ends (Directed by Émile Lavoie)

Best Action Film
Dojo (Directed by Armin Alic)

Best Drama Film
Skin & Blister (Directed by Jake De Agrela)

Best Crime FIlm
The ICK (Directed by Mansi Mehta)

Best Sci-Fi
Remembering Tomorrow (Directed by Shane Chotirmal)

Best Fantasy Film
Blood and Foam: Not Just a Game (Directed by Jim Capewell)

Best First Time Filmmaker
Bardo (Directed by Mishki Vaccaro)


Best LGBTQ film
Single Use (Directed by Finn Hyndman)

Best Inspirational Film
House of Hope (Directed by Eric Bugbee)

Best Student Film
Pinky Pop (Directed by Sol Rain Hibberd)

Best Actor
Kataem O’connor (In film ZURY, Directed by Thyrone Tommy)

Best Actress
Shanuka Nagaratnam (In film SoulSync, Directed by Corina Choy)

Best Young Actor
Jarvis Chan (In film Up, Up and Away, Directed by Kai Yin Canice Tam)

Best Young Actress
Carly Censi (In film Hot Tuna Meltdown, Directed by Colin Hodgson)

Best Director
Elias Kelleher (For film Lady May)

Best Editing
Rescuers (Directed and Edited by Alexandra Savu)

Best Cinematography
Ozmar (Directed by Joshua Urquhart, Cinematography by Connor Jansen)

Best Sound Design
Sandcastle - The Secret Life Of Potter Wasps (Sound designer : Roman Willi)

Best Production Design
A NEW DAY (Directed by Gema Hernandez Felipe)

Best Production
FROSTBYTE (Directed by Hannah Papa, Victor Uzcategui)


Honorable mention
Last Leg (Directed by Matthew Steacy)
Dinner Date (Directed by Darcy Fehr)
Rostrum (Directed by Daniel Kuberek)
FOREVERTOWN (Directed by Oona Garthwaite)
Dirty Rotten Tofu and the Gohan Girls (Directed by June K Inuzuka)
Here Comes the Son (Directed by Delmar Gustav Terblanche)
The 12th Round (Directed by Harry Duckworth)
PATIENCE (Directed by Louis Chan)
Have a Good Day (Directed by Lisa Soper)
Lines of a Woman (Directed by Melissa Gagliardi)