21st edition of Venice Shorts competition

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