Venice Shorts Festival is based in California and is an annual event and a seasonal competition which has turned into a very popular emerging international short film festival. The festival recognizes and promotes the winners to thousands of film industry professionals and artists every season. The annual festival selects films for its live screening in LA which happens every December.
Best Narrative Film
The Things We Can't Forgive
Director: Zach Cox, Jeff DuJardin
Best Documentary
The Battle of Red Buttes
Director: Robert E. Noll
Honorable Mention Documentary
A Touch of Kindness: Man of Fire Director: Justin Rowe Tolliver
Best Indie Short
Brothers till the End
Director: Roman Mitichyan
Honorable Mention Indie Short
You Can't Be Here Director: Zachary A Pope
Best Director
MADLEEN
Director: Wesley Tc Howard
Best First Time Filmmaker
Just the Negatives
Director: Andrea Sabatino
Best Actress
Kristina Miller-Weston
To Say Goodbye Is To Die A Little
Best Actor
Will Sayegh
Rorschach
Best Experimental
RAY
Director: Jesse Deganis-Librera
Best Animation
Mud on My Shoes
Director: Rosie Geozalian
Best Web/TV Pilot-Series
Web Crawler Episode One Series One White lies
Director: Paul J Lane
Best LGBTQ
VIRIUM
Director: Margarita Faneitte
Best Thriller
Hannah's Wild Fire
Director: John Jaret
Best Science Fiction
Second Life
Director: Darrin Rose
Honorable Mention Science Fiction
Mir Director: Nicolaus Taylor
Best Music Video
MACHEN Director: Tarek Shayne Tabet
Honorable Mention Music video
Scegli Me
Director: fabrizio fanelli
Best Horror
Red Wash
Director: Philip Ledeboer
Best Comedy
A Future In Question Director: Chris Wilson Orr
Best Producer
Eden River
Jack Evans, Logan Young, Mike Evans, Wade Lynton, James Arran Bevis, Tito West
Best Cinematographer
Gabi Kislat
Darwin's Fox
Best Editor
J.C. Doler
The Blue Dress
Best Composer
Maurice Heerdink
Property for Sale
Honorable Mention Composer
Kit Conway-Colin Fraser-Jim White
Friday Night
Best Youth Actress
Nora Harriet
The Astronaut
Best Youth Actor
Aidan Wallace
Virgil
Best Student Film
El Mozote
Director: Jasmine Galdamez
Honorable Mention Student Film
The night before tomorrow Director: Ruijing Bu
Best Screenplay (Produced)
3:14
Leigh Reddick
Best Unproduced Script
Coyote
Dana Maree Olita
