7th Annual Top Shorts 2021 Nominations Announced

The nominations for the 7th Annual Top Shorts 2021 have been announced!

The Stranger, directed by Katherine Oostman, earned most nominations this year. Congratulations to all the nominees!

Best of Fest 2021

The Morning Walk - Louise Hylland, Marc Harpsøe

HotHed - David Spring

Pork Chop - Katherine Guggenberger

A Girl and a Gun - Pierre-Edouard Joubert

Monstrus Circus - Jordan Inconstant

The Peak - Satoshi Takahashi

ROAM - David Jung

The Last Step - Stanislav Matveev

The Great Artist - Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri

Pretty Metal - Mikhail Tot

The Stranger - Katherine Oostman

Inertia City - Vellas, Reinaldo Faria

Best Narrative Film of the Year

Sleepwalk - Filipe Melo

Windblown - Usher Morgan, Katie Vincent

Mabel - Kimberley Wintle

Breaking the Silence - Seayoon Jeong

Wireless - Criss Gidas

Bongo - Jacob Lallas

Paz - Andrew Gutierrez

Metamorphosis - Elaine Xia

RED - David Newton, Beau Fowler

Dress - Paulina Lagudi Ulrich

The Stranger - Katherine Oostman

I am - Ruan Yi

Best Indie Film of the Year

Summer Rain - Renzo Montoya

Hot Take - Arthur Glover

Blinded - Cecilia Choi

If You Love Her, Let Her Go - Ilan Zerrouki

Morti's Law - Marcel Wohlfahrt, Natalie Kölbl

A Threat to Justice - Chris Files

F8th (= Rebirth + Faith) - Glenn Plummer

To Kill a Truth - Kiriakos Kotsinis

Gunther - Ryan Rowley

Pebbles - Renee Bourke

Awakened - Yulian Mateo

How Was It For You? - LIM

Best Drama of the Year

Swann - Antonio Petrone

Something Safe - Shaun Lupton

Pentimento - Benjamin O'Donnell

The Monster's Club - Federica Alice Carlino

Heartland - Jahmil Eady

Miss Boundless - Qiyu Zhou

The System - Michael Cruz

Hurtful Truth - Marie France Louis, Eman Elsweisy

The Great Artist - Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri

Shevolution - Seidy Lopez

Becoming Everything - Dan Lowënstein

Maryam - Maza White, Doug Brooks

Best Comedy of the Year

Big Break - Dicle Ozcer

HotHed - David Spring

Free Desk* - Keith Macri

A Girl and a Gun - Pierre-Edouard Joubert

The Sister Solution - Casey Cooper Johnson, Antoneta Kastrati

Chronicles of Gnarnia: The Rex Chadwick Story - Brian Colin Foley

Bucko & Junior - Jordan Rader

Divorce School - Dana Marisa Schoenfeld, Julie Zelman

Ride the Wave - Colleen Davie Janes

Pretty Metal - Mikhail Tot

Matty Boy - Dr Shahid Kamal

New Growth - Karimah Westbrook

Best Thriller of the Year

Disconnected - Traci Hays

Countless Sheep - Rhett Wellington, Riley Robbins

Kongo - Bryan Wynn Sutton, John Roche

Velvet Farewell - Micheal Eastman

Fugitive Zero - Joe Lam

The Animal - Oscar Cowie

Windblown - Usher Morgan, Katie Vincent

The Climbing Perch - Daniel Gomez Bagby

A Bullet For Your Thoughts - Doug Williams

Non-transferable - Jack Veasey

The Wolf Delivers - Thomas Crouser Jr

Vincent - Nicholas Andrews

Best Horror of the Year

Orisha - Drew Anthony

Susie - Jordan Doig

Mark of the Rougarou - Erica Duke

Lies Inside - Corey Emanuel Jr.

Vac Attack - Kyle Lane

Meanwhile At A Cabin Somewhere Near Fairplay, CO - Michael Chenette

Metamorphosis - Elaine Xia

What If - Tammy Klembith

The Invitation - Thorsten Schade

Vincent - Nicholas Andrews

Satanico - J.R. Curtis

Till Death - Andrew Thomas

Best Action Film of the Year

Battle - Emre Orun

Operation Shell Shock: Phantoms - Allan Riggs

Office 86 - Jyo Carolino

Saving Grayson - Breck Cuddy

RED - David Newton, Beau Fowler

Shadow Valley - Isaac Joel

Artificial Souldier - Jason Gonzalez

F I V E - Will Sidaros

Best Sci-Fi of the Year

Infinitus - Cameron Currin

Plant - Carlos Milite

River - Emily Skye

The Counterfeit Mind - Malek Haneen

Chronofilm - Robert Hypes

Finger Guns - Nikola Sreckovic

ROAM - David Jung

F I V E - Will Sidaros

(Dys)Functional - Adam Nowak

Ecclesiastes - Lola Rùi

Refuge - Sina Sultani

Volume Control - Giorge Souladze

Best Experimental Film of the Year

Collapse - Alberto Martín-Aragón

One Actor Short 3 - Yuval David

Spotted - Shranjay Arora, Seda Anbarci

Pandemia - Katerina Giannakopoulou

Isolation Animation - Ruth Ducker

Popped Culture - Spencer Flynn

Sin - Alberto Martín-Aragón

Returning Home - Bhushan Thakkar

The Accident - Paul Brian Osorio, Jayasinhji Jhala

Dû - Eric Marie Afer

clarity. - Daisy Paroczy Hickey

Mosaic - ZHUANG Guantianxia

Best Inspirational Film of the Year

To You, Me & The Next Generation. - Sam Akel

A Line Unbroken - David Earnhardt, Patricia Earnhardt

Making Waves - Laura Zéphirin

As the Wave Broke - Alexandra Bekiou

Come Back - Alban Pauly, Aurore Klein

clarity. - Daisy Paroczy Hickey

Xiety - Carlos Torres, Karen Torres

Ye Shall Be Hindered From Loving Me - Karlos Alastruey

Black Water - Jenn Xu

Looking Through the Trees - Justin Morfin

The Funny Runner - Rob Steger

Under The Same Sky - Alison Chace

Best Fantasy Film of the Year

Hollow - Nicholas Andrews, Rosie Keogh

Fulgidusen - Alexander Feichter

Virtually Together - John Argelander

Loop - Yanqing Chen

He/She - Norah Xi

Sawa - Harinarayan Rajeev

Fix Me - Woonyea Han

Come Home To Me - Gavin Bradley

31 - Joumana Rizk

Ecclesiastes - Lola Rùi

Best Romance Film of the Year

Spending Time With You - Josh Pafchek

Manasanamaha - Deepak

Heartstruck - Ian Thomas Kent

The Don't Call List - Tevin Everett

Stay Sane - Hana Wagner

One Last Shot - Saram Jaffery

He/She - Norah Xi

Wherever, Whatever - Broderick Angeles

Best Mystery Film of the Year

Acid Fantasy - Lorenzo Lanzillotti

Cherry Swamp Road - Josh Cummins

Life is a two-way dream - Gjert Rognli

Loop - Yanqing Chen

Hal - Josh Flaherty, Caleb Yellin-Flaherty

A Bullet For Your Thoughts - Doug Williams

Shutter - Andres Ramirez

Stalkers – Dongjun Kim

Best Parody of the Year

Coasters: A Film by Ben Kurns - J.G. Murphy, Nolan Pugh

Chronicles of Gnarnia: The Rex Chadwick Story - Brian Colin Foley

Rabbit Island - Ben Cichowski, Shan Harris

King of Angels - Fred Bonheim

Panic in Valley City - Antonio Harper, Abby Burton

Office 86 - Jyo Carolino

Best Dark Comedy of the Year

Office Manager - Shamus Maxwell, Lola-Rose Maxwell

The Axe and the Iron - Matthew Roseman

It's That Guy! - Jean Paul San Pedro

Neutrals - Jacob Horne

The Body - Adam Weber

Finger Guns - Nikola Sreckovic

Requiem for a Crab - Patrick Gehlen

The Funeral - Michael Filek

Wichita - Sergine Dumais

Hero - Jayson Martin

Wellness - Lindsay Gonzalez

Cult Following - Amy Parry

Best Romantic Comedy of the Year

Just Delivered - Rosie Gaunt-Mathieson

Girl Night Stand: Chapter Two - Jenna Laurenzo

Trust Frank - Penny Moore

We Met in Quarantine - Rob Seiffert, Rob Wagner

I'm Press - Antaneise Henderson

Christopher Nolan is God - Javier Alegre

Screen Girl - J.D. MacNutt

Manasanamaha - Deepak

Best Crime Film of the Year

The Man That You Fear - Nicholas Kerekes

Salsero in Purgatory - Antonio De La Cruz

The Dentist - Lawrence Terrill

Wrangle - Alex Culberson

Aborted Traffick - Bea W Bliss

Hot Take - Arthur Glover

Lockbox - Jake Noecker

Morti's Law - Marcel Wohlfahrt, Natalie Kölbl

Best LGBTQ Film of the Year

You Boy - Juliette Labrousse, Sonia Guitz

Wherever, Whatever - Broderick Angeles

The Great Artist - Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri

Underneath - Lena Weller

The Acceptance of Suffering - Jason Klein

Swindled - Stanton Long

The Cruising Monologues - Jose Batista-Ayala

No Loss Here - Nathan Brewer

Bonnie & Bonnie - Lena Murisier

P98's Waltz Of The Flower - Praise

Best Film Noir of the Year

La Schema - Alex Bowling, Stephen Byrum

The Widow - Brendan Young

The Big Con - Augie Pagan

Acid Fantasy - Lorenzo Lanzillotti

bun·ny /’banē/ - lost girl - Anna Martin

Slice of Life - Dale Fabrigar

Best Web/TV Pilot of the Year

The Hinsdale Archives - Ryan Wefelmeyer

Texas High School Football - Peter Calvin, Brent Crable

Harbor Island - Tiffany Rhodes

Sharp - Sander Ligthart

In Two Minds - Fabian Schwab

Limbo - Ben R Johnson, Josh Demuele

The Romans - Maurice Micallef, Chris Micallef

The Gliwensbourg Chronicles - Emilie Tommasi

Wisecrackin - Angie McMahon

Atlas - Ayman Chaudhry

Something About Bubbles - Mark Cheng, Graham Brown

Unearthed - Tari K. Robinson

Best Web Series of the Year

The Honey Trapper Season 2 - Felise Garcia

Zader Law - William Woods, Shawn Bates, Stanley Sievers

Another Time, With Paul - Elena Saurel

Anacostia - Anthony Anderson, Martha Byrne

Incompleteness - David Ash

Divorce School - Dana Marisa Schoenfeld, Julie Zelman

Jade & Jaded - Sarah Franco

Diversity Hires - Tevin Everett

All In 3: A Fikowski & Vellner Documentary - S.J. Finlay

Good Monsters - Johannes Muhr, Julia Zimth

The Jersey Connection Season 2 - Tim Firtion

Chronofilm - Andrew Burkum, Robert Hypes

Best Documentary of the Year

Use Your Words - Lauren Layton

Rise - Hannah Byrd

Inhale - Brian Chambers

We to Me - Jade Chase

Time Matters - Mike King

Breathe, Nolan, Breathe - Daniel Catullo

ProDogTV - Randall Owens

Born From Junk - Mike Horn, Galin Foley

Dying Is Not Giving Up - Kelly Grosklags, Bryan Piatt

Tadpoles: The Big Little Migration - Maxwel Hohn

Driving La Carrera: Rally Brothers - Fernando Cum Marin

From the Ground Up - Trent Zulkiewicz, Will Brenninkmeyer

Best Animation of the Year

Stick To Manual - Christian Antonini, Tanice Arnold

The Train to Qinling - Shir Baron

Pork Chop - Katherine Guggenberger

Goalie - Maarten Lemmens

Two Different Kinds of Love - Alyce Vest

The Peak - Satoshi Takahashi

The Heretic - Veselin Efremov

The Last Step - Stanislav Matveev

Made With Love - Chloé Robichaud

Melted - Nikki Chapman

Hope - Abdulla Al-Janahi

Tides Are Changing - Dinah Kalaha, María Bjarnadóttir

Best Music Video of the Year

Happy Sad Face - Heart Shield - Rawn Erickson II

Mama - Tonio Krueger

Two Arms Apart - Renee Jonas, Sven Tydeman, Elizabeth Usher, Ben Chai

You're the Kinda Guy - Michelle Rose, Joshua McGrane

Superhuman - Hans Van Vliet, Natasha Parker

Drowning in Paradise - Drue de Milo

The Misunderstanding - Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Supersonics / Caravan Palace - Béchir "Jiwee" Jouini

Love´s worst nightmare (ft. Liz Kretschmer) - Philippe Funk

Woman's Enlightenment - Koutaro Ishida

Bloodvape - Maxson Jarecki

Never Ever - Evgenii Bakirov

Best Student Film of the Year

Mathilda - Yaqi Tao

Tic Talk: Time to Heal - Maria Florencia Smith

Pork Chop - Katherine Guggenberger

Lockbox - Jake Noecker

Stay Sane - Hana Wagner

The Night Shift - Jinwei Fan

Paz - Andrew Gutierrez

Cocoon - Maxfield Cooper Smith

Wailing - Charley Parker

Mama - Delores M. Flynn

Way Back Home - Yanyan Zhao

Astral - Morgan M. Montgomery

Best Microfilm of the Year

Uber Thoughts - Meredith Koch, Victor Zachary

Unapeeling - Amber Baris

Chums - Olivia Perkins

Melted - Nikki Chapman

To Whom it May Concern - Daniel G. Roberts

With Love - Kirana Rafli

Stranger Strings - Ava Salomon

Masks - Carolyn Bridget Kennedy

Made With Love - Chloé Robichaud

The Game - Tim Moldenhauer

Unspeakable BLM - Emmai Alaquiva

Long Way Down - Brandon Lopez

Best Director of the Year

Sleepwalk - Filipe Melo

Windblown - Usher Morgan, Katie Vincent

Mabel - Kimberley Wintle

A Girl and a Gun - Pierre-Edouard Joubert

Monstrus Circus - Jordan Inconstant

Lea's Secret - Rico Gutierrez

ROAM - David Jung

Metamorphosis - Elaine Xia

RED - David Newton

Pretty Metal - Mikhail Tot

The Stranger - Katherine Oostman

Inertia City - Vellas, Reinaldo Faria

Best First Time Director of the Year

Big Break - Dicle Ozcer

Letters from a Father - Andrea Fantauzzi

Cherry Swamp Road - Josh Cummins

Melted - Nikki Chapman

Aborted Traffick - Bea W Bliss

Andean Condor - William Mazzola

This is how I lost my virginity - Claire Chubbuck

LIFE... - Mirlande Amazan

Strung - Joseph Bezenek, Ryan H. Reid

Wichita - Sergine Dumais

In Isolation - Edmund C. Short

I am - Ruan Yi

Best Indie Filmmaker of the Year

Speechless - Jane Chai

Astray - Josh Brainin, Ernest Kabashi

Lifeless - Alex Fedosov, Elvira Sinelnik

Claire. - E. A. Dodson

The Robot Vacuum - Daniel G. Roberts

Elizabeth - Jamal Rahman

Denver to Boston - Joseph Anthony Marcello

Nightswimming - Eoin Bourke

Amy From Outer Space - Eric Urbiztondo

With New Eyes - George Leontakianakos

Impermanence - Josh Yellin-Flaherty

Where's Kate? - Keith Macri

Best Young Filmmaker of the Year

The Friday Night Escape - Billy Tsiolis

What Are You Waiting For? - Ella Jerrier

Last Summer - Adamson Novak

bun·ny /’banē/ - lost girl - Anna Martin

Immaculate - Joshua Albalos

Sweet 15 - Brianna Reed

Crisis In The City By The Bay - Vishal Krishnaiah

Consent - Georgia Kate Sasso

The Unwanted Guest - Max Willocx

Help - Magnolia Ellenburg

The Waiting Room - Ella Jerrier

Spoon - Edwin Ramirez

Best Actor of the Year

A Person With Feelings - Trent Culkin

Countless Sheep - Marco Delvecchio

Pentimento - Toby Truslove

Lockbox - Justin Schilling

Shadow Valley - David Samson

RED - Beau Fowler

ROAM - Josh Connor

Cocoon - Christopher Brian

The Great Artist - Matthew Postlethwaite

Until - Kevin Bacon

Grandpa's Long March - Andy Sun

Vincent - Dilshan Rain

Best Actress of the Year

Dress - Tess Sullivan

Windblown - Katie Vincent

Mabel - Kimberley Wintle

Clean - Amber Gaston

Wireless - Annaliese McGuire

This Is How I Lost My Virginity - Sofia D'Marco

LIFE... - Stacy Ann Rose

Junior - Beteal Sharon Mahari

Shevolution - Minerva Vier

The Honey Trapper Season 2 - "Secrets Surface" - Felise Garcia

The Stranger - Melissa Saint-Amand

Vincent - Rosie Keogh

Best Actor in an Indie Film

Thereafter - Johnny Gilligan

Heartstruck - Jeremiah O'MaHony

Seermass - Kerwin Gonzalez

The Man That You Fear - Michael L. McNulty

Better Late Than Dead - Julian Crouser

Come Home To Me - Lance Caver

First Time - Germano Blanco

Slice of Life - Christopher Dukes

Morti's Law - Michael Marwitz

Gunther - Joel Wetterstein

Amy From Outer Space - Eric Urbiztondo

Awakened - Adam Race

Best Actress in an Indie Film

Cradle - Ava Fay

River - Mary Cameron Rogers

You Up? - Lindi Cecile

The Basement - Naïma Pöhler

Cranberry - Sarah Buchanan

bun·ny /’banē/ - lost girl - Brooke Michelle

Waiting Games - Nicole Massie

Gunther - Brittany Underwood

Andean Condor - Vika Mora

Alison - Jessica Rose

Do It Again - Cecilia Cereijido-Bloche

Maryam - Maza White

Best Supporting Actor of the Year

The Only Competent Person In This Entire Country - Bryan Wynn Sutton

If You Love Her, Let Her Go - Fred Tousch

As the Wave Broke - Micky Jukovic

Vincent - Jordan Rainford

Countless Sheep - Rhett Wellington

RED - Ian Reddington

Wireless - Giuseppe D'Allura

Mark of the Rougarou - Marcus T Thomas

A Girl and a Gun - Michael Gantz

HotHed - Alexander Neal

Paz - Armando DuBon Jr.

Countless Sheep - Jeremiah Jahi

Best Supporting Actress of the Year

Sleepwalk - Joy Green

Lockbox - Anna Horsey

Fugitive Zero - Georgina Elizabeth Okon

Company - Nina Paw Hee Ching

Dress - Madeline Dennison

The Stranger - Autumn Dial

The Great Artist - Marimar Vega

Windblown - Susan Gallagher

The Stranger - Ashley LeConte Campbell

HotHed - Victoria Broom

Maryam - Roxie Mohebbi

RED - Jennifer Lim

Best Young Actor of the Year

Letters from a Father - Cam Burns

The Garage - Jack Coghlan

Son of Oakland - Joël Friebe-Makinto

Fulgidusen - Jona Eisenblätter

Solitaire - Jacob C. Schultz

Wrangle - Ty Culberson

A Child’s prayer - Jack Botros

Finger Guns - Oliver Patry

Strung - Wyatt Darling

Gift - Patrick Zhou

The McHenry Trial - Kaleb Alexander Roberts

Junior - Carter Young

Best Young Actress of the Year

Mathilda - Laurel Badenell

Letters from a Father - Katie Coryell Hall

Harbor Island - Lacey Caroline

The Sister Solution - Jana Kastrati Cooper Johnson

Finger Guns - Ava Bowen

Lonelyboy - Cali Jennings

Waiting Games - Erin Addison

Slice of Life - Madison Ekstrand

Pebbles - Yasmin Polley

Becoming Everything - Diaana Babnicova

Gift - Anna Feng

Come Home To Me - Jamilia Caver

Best Duo of the Year

The Morning Walk - Louise Hylland & Amalie Gissel

Until - Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick

Till Death - Emma Maddock & Andrew Thomas

Do It Again - Cecilia Cereijido-Bloche & David Socolar

Velvet Farewell - Sasha Andreev & Maggie Bearmon Pistner

Wireless - Annaliese McGuire & Giuseppe D'Allura

One Last Shot - Saram Jaffery & Aniqa Khwaja

The System - Ashley Olivia Fisher & Daniel Puig

Speechless - Ke- yen Hsu & Ben Wang

Windblown - Katie Vincent & Jacob A. Ware

Dress - Tess Sullivan & Madeline Dennison

The Argument - Shalini Bathina & Vance Lovett

Best Ensemble of the Year

Sleepwalk - Greg Lucey, Durant McLeod, Joy Green, William Knight

Countless Sheep - Marco Delvecchio, Rhett Wellington, Anna Daines, Jeremiah Jahi, Ryan Ramirez, Lucas Royalty

A Girl and a Gun - Olivia Buckle, Anand Mahalingam, Michael Gantz, Stephen Schlager, Michael J. Sielaff

Pretty Metal - Angela Cole, Lina Edwards, Katelynn Newberry

Something About Bubbles - Vivan Dugré, Abigail Marlowe, Mikel Miller, Kristin Vahl, Mikel Parraga-Wills, Graham Brown

Estilo Americano - Lidia Porto, Antonio Jaramillo, Zuleyka Silver, Lombardo Boyar, Goya Robles, Ruben Garfias, J. Teddy Garces, Jessica Meza

LIFE... - Stacy Ann Rose, Mirlande Amazan, Gordon Greene, Shawn Lockie, David Beyersforfer, DeinRene Amazan, Ashna Sharan, Poorva Waach, Barry Newell, Coventry Halcyon

Three-Second Rule - Carina Yang, Maggie Yu, Allison Qu, Anthea Best, Christopher Louis Srasin, Marvin Brown, Ashlynn He, Kayla Kim, Candice Peng

Kicks - Maria Soccor, Scott Albrecht, G.K. Williams, Vanessa Bontea, Lou Martini Jr., Anthony Chisholm, Perry Young

HotHed - Nimisha Odedra, Victoria Broom, Amber Doig-Thorne, Jonathan Hansler, Alexander Neal

The Stranger - Melissa Saint-Amand, Autumn Dial, Ashley LeConte Campbell

New Growth - Nikea Gamby Turner, Tiffany Snow, Eddie Goines, Timon Durrett, Zoey Boyce, Karimah Westbrook

Best Cinematography of the Year

Monstrus Circus - Jordan Inconstant

HotHed - Beatriz Delgado Mena

Inhale - Nik Pilecki

Lockbox - Gabriella Megni

The Garage - Lucas Miller

Bongo - Mitch Storey

A Girl and a Gun - Sophian Belgarbi

Returning Home - Bhushan Thakkar

Fulgidusen - Knut Adass

The Morning Walk - Sophie Caroline Gohr

The Stranger - Layne Inselman

Fugitive Zero - Jeremy Royce

Best Editing of the Year

The Morning Walk - Martha Fjeldmose

HotHed - James A Bull

Pentimento - Richard Learoyd, Harry Learoyd

A Girl and a Gun - Romain Boileau

We Met in Quarantine - Rob Seiffert

A Threat to Justice - Chris Files

XIETY - Carlos Torres, Karen Torres

Born From Junk - Mike Horn, Galin Foley

Obsession - Ariana Malik

Shevolution - Jeff Mizushima

The Stranger - Carolina Garrigo

Agent - Matt Hartle

Best Score of the Year

Dentist Show - Wonji Lee

Plant - Fabrizio Licheri

Pentimento - Andy Scott

Fugitive Zero - David Fesliyan

Monstrus Circus - Sylvain Ott

The Great Artist - Richi Carter

Moving Art: Underwater - Alan Williams

Hope - Caturadi Septembrianto

The Morning Walk - Mathias Binggeli

RED - Nina Humphreys

The Peak - Tomoko Sasaki

Mabel - Alex Baranowski

Best Sound Design of the Year

Ecclesiastes - Álvaro de Iscar

Mabel - Jamie Ganache

Pork Chop - Steve Yannacone

Clean - Bin Lin

Skin Hunger - Xueying Ou

Drifting - Shiheng Xu

52 - A Tale of Loneliness - Jeremy S. Bloom

RED - Dean Covill

Pretty Metal - Henri Rapp

Until - Rich Macar

The Sister Solution - Brandon Griffith

My Demons - Nils-Peter Vaggelyr

Best Song of the Year

Straight Into The Ocean - Allen Ling Ghosted

Stay Sane - "Sane" - Tea Wagner, Tea Belle

Always By Your Side - Katie Hardyman, Mick Evans, Anna Weatherup

There's No Place for a Uke on Halloween - Elizabeth Usher

My Amazing Grace - Debra Gussin, Dale Effren

Unseen - Naïma Pöhler

Something About Bubbles - Six Bottles of Wine - Chelsea Williams

Face to the Sun - J Edna Mae

Banana - HIRO

Best Visual Effects of the Year

Plant - Carlos Milite

Made With Love - Chloé Robichaud

The Heretic - Veselin Efremov

If You Love Her, Let Her Go - Ilan Zerrouki

Popped Culture - Spencer Flynn

Fulgidusen - Alexander Feichter, Marlon Finger, Alina Hanna Fischer, Pagotto Guido, Matthias Schilder, Paul Caspar Weiss

Best Commercial of the Year

Archetypes - Carlo De Agostini

Operation Chrono - Irmaos Meirelles

Wanna Get Away - Alfonssette Medina

Meet Orwell - Thomas Stachura

Inertia City - Vellas, Reinaldo Faria

Where the Miracles Live - David E Nault

L'Heure Esquise - Carlo Guttadauro

The Reason - Noah Conopask

Made With Love - Chloé Robichaud

Beyond Frames - Carlo Guttadauro

Pin Galant 30th Season - Brice Blanloeil

Glamping - Magdalena Wodzisz

Best Original Story of the Year

The Morning Walk - Louise Hylland

Until - Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon

Grandpa's Long March - Bolun Wei

Breaking the Silence - Seayoon Jeong, Sandra Philip

We Met in Quarantine - Rob Seiffert, Rob Wagner

He/She - Norah Xi

Paz - Andrew Gutierrez

LIFE... - Mirlande Amazan

Trust Frank - Penny Moore

Wichita - Bo Price

Company - Tony Lam Tsz Him, June Chung Hoi Man

Mosaic - Zhuang Guantianxia

Best Screenplay of the Year

The Drowned Man - Warren Paul Glover

Josie's Date With Death - Lisa Marie Tedesco

TheoMORPHIS - Sam Moony

Unjustice - Jennifer Milne

Currently Katie - Hannah Petosa

The Lesson - Kimberly Kalaja

Anya - Mike Greenwood

The Rest is Silence - Aayushi A. Shah

Carrion - Lacey Taylor

Motor Inn - Michael Hurley

Come Closer - Pierre Langenegger

Argie Berman - Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez

Best Television Script of the Year

The Perfect Time - Scott Nelson

Reaper Mom - Ben Patrick Yates

Black Rose - Uzair Merchant

Currently Katie - Hannah Petosa

Multiplex - Jennifer Milne

Anya - Mike Greenwood

I am Cham-Cham - Audra Wheeler

The Booksellers Daughters - Julie Samuel, Dee Scott

Monkey InthE Middle - Suzan Averitt, Jeff G Peters

Back in Business - Jim Norman

Jury President Award 2021

Sleepwalk - Filipe Melo

Gift - Ikou Yui

The McHenry Trial - Ken Sagoes

Distance - Jesse Edwards

Inhale - Brian Chambers

The Stranger - Katherine Oostman

Monstrus Circus - Jordan Inconstant

The Morning Walk - Louise Hylland, Marc Harpsøe

Pork Chop - Katherine Guggenberger

Divorce School - Dana Marisa Schoenfeld, Julie Zelman

Pretty Metal - Mikhail Tot

Dress - Paulina Lagudi Ulrich

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