A Bitter Pill
Director Keith O'Grady
Spotlight Gold Award
A Feast That Never Comes
Director Maria Juranic
Spotlight Gold Award
A Night at the Cemetery
Director Stelios Polychronakis
Spotlight Platinum Award
A Unspoken Truth
Director Nathaniel Horton
Spotlight Bronze Award
A World of Hurt
Director Rob Levinson
Spotlight Silver Award
After Sunset
Director Melo Zhang
Spotlight Silver Award
All Your Words
Director James Xander
Spotlight Gold Award
Amber
Director Sam Wilson
Spotlight Gold Award
Ataraxia
Director Haley Seppa
Spotlight Gold Award
Backpage Shawty 5
Director Mike Ekpoh
Spotlight Bronze Award
Bars and Tone Chapter Bridge
Director Sze Lung Ng
Spotlight Bronze Award
Based Yung Kadar- Lit Boy (Official Music Video)
Director Cracka Lack
Spotlight Gold Award
Be Careful What You Wish For
Director Liza Asner
Spotlight Gold Award
Before We Break
Director Jake Alexander Williams
Spotlight Silver Award
"BEING B'UCKED # 22"
Director Terrance Afer-Anderson
Spotlight Bronze Award
Belvedere
Director A.J. Ogilvie
Spotlight Gold Award
Big Rocks
Director Ethan Payne
Spotlight Gold Award
Biologic
Director Jeremy Speed Schwartz
Spotlight Silver Award
Black Dragon (Rồng đen)
Director Alexander Thompson
Spotlight Platinum Award
BLACK VENGEANCE
Director Anazia Akhalu
Spotlight Gold Award
BOZO
Director Ron Weisberg
Spotlight Silver Award
Branching Out With The Invisible Man
Director Jim & Nick Zounis
Spotlight Silver Award
Bro Binny
Director Nicholas Aska
Spotlight Silver Award
Broken Boy
Director Ahi Black
Spotlight Gold Award
Chinatown Auxiliary
Director Zijun Cathy You
Spotlight Silver Award
Clean Slate
Director Olubajo Sonubi
Spotlight Platinum Award
Crawdad
Director Jess Myers Rigoni
Spotlight Gold Award
Current of Chinatown
Directors Lavender Haoru Liu, Emily Zhang
Spotlight Silver Award
Daydreaming Nightmare
Director Mana Tagami
Spotlight Gold Award
Dead Celebrities and New Beginnings
Director Winchester 7
Spotlight Bronze Award
Deja Vu
Director Daniel Andre Sagona
Spotlight Gold Award
Destiny -from the musical "This is Love"
Director AKISAI M
Spotlight Silver Award
Discovery
Director Ashley P Causey
Spotlight Silver Award
Droid Story
Director Alexa Sheehan
Spotlight Silver Award
Eco Anxiety
Director Jean-Francois Rodrigues
Spotlight Silver Award
EGO
Director Claudio Mühle
Spotlight Gold Award
End Dead Job
Director Robert Howat
Spotlight Gold Award
Ever Since August
Director Jake Hotaling
Spotlight Silver Award
EXHAUSTED
Director Ryan Lee Cornnor
Spotlight Gold Award
Fabula
Director Sam Kumiko Sheridan
Spotlight Gold Award
FAST FIRST
Director Rowland Jordan
Spotlight Silver Award
Familiar
Director David J. Ellison
Spotlight Platinum Award
Fire-Man's Fetish
Director John Slover
Spotlight Platinum Award
Forest Under Stress
Directors Michal Joy Hall Bravo Ramírez, Rachel Lee Hall
Spotlight Silver Award
Final Touches
Director Corey Malone
Spotlight Gold Award
Fractal Visions
Director Tucker Clement
Spotlight Silver Award
Fringe
Director Grant Lee Bomar
Spotlight Gold Award
Happy Anniversary
Director Chris Borgo
Spotlight Silver Award
Hazard
Director Daniel Bergeson
Spotlight Silver Award
Hide and Seek
Director Melody Marie David
Spotlight Silver Award
I am that girl.
Director Oriana Theo
Spotlight Gold Award
I Do Not Exist
Director Samuel J. May
Spotlight Silver Award
I ELECT: Power Every Four Years
Director Ricky J. Martinez
Spotlight Bronze Award
I'm So Glad To See You Again
Director Joy Gu
Spotlight Silver Award
I'm Still Here
Director Justin Suttles
Spotlight Gold Award
In My Heart: Better to Have Loved
Director Rodney Roldan
Spotlight Silver Award
Internal Sin
Director Mauricio Reyes
Spotlight Platinum Award
I Still Feel Alive
Director Christoph Salzmann
Spotlight Gold Award
Just This Once (Official Music Video)
Director Ken Stevenson
Spotlight Silver Award
Lana's Secret
Director Robert Samad Wilentz
Spotlight Silver Award
Left Side of Memory
Director Gustav Wilde
Spotlight Gold Award
Le Pompon
Director David Hourrègue
Spotlight Platinum Award
Life Recipe, 'Grandma Recipe'
Director Sung Hoon Choi
Spotlight Gold Award
Lilith
Director Adrian Marquez Barrios
Spotlight Gold Award
Little Drummer Boy
Director Sam Moore
Spotlight Gold Award
Living In A Bubble
Directors Natalie MacMahon, Nikola Drvoshanov
Spotlight Silver Award
Loose Change: A Memoir of Childhood
Director Andrew Bateman
Spotlight Gold Award
Lore
Director Christina Russo
Spotlight Gold Award
Love's Little Illusionists
Submitter Brooke Lawsing Miller
Spotlight Silver Award
MADAME MONSIEUR (A childhood dream)
Director Benz M Lutumama
Spotlight Gold Award
Magic Savior
Director Julien Drouin
Spotlight Gold Award
MAHTAB
Director Somaye Sepide Farahmandian
Spotlight Silver Award
Match Day
Director Clay Randel
Spotlight Gold Award
Maybe Next Year
Director CJ Colando
Spotlight Gold Award
Medea
Director 菲菲feifei 仲zhong
Spotlight Gold Award
Miracle
Director Shaofu Zhang
Spotlight Gold Award
Misfortune
Director Linda Kudzmas
Spotlight Gold Award
Misophonia
Director Angel Alvarez
Spotlight Gold Award
My Darling Jim
Directors Tomer Zvulun, Felipe Barral
Spotlight Silver Award
My Dinner With An Android
Director Grant Lee Bomar
Spotlight Silver Award
Navigator: Lt. Col. Ken Murray
Director Daniel Leonard Bernardi
Spotlight Gold Award
Neighborhood Racket
Director Robert Pralgo
Spotlight Gold Award
No Laughing Matter
Director Matthew James Long
Spotlight Gold Award
NORMAL
Director Cody Leveski
Spotlight Silver Award
/nôrˈmalədē/,
Director Kat Wilson
Spotlight Gold Award
Not So Fast, Not So Furious
Director Noah Goldsmith
Spotlight Silver Award
ó:nen í:ke’s
Director Brooke Rice
Spotlight Silver Award
One Wing
Director Gillian Moses
Spotlight Gold Award
On the Fence
Director Kipp Adler
Spotlight Gold Award
Operation Zeugung
Director Bruno Barranco
Spotlight Gold Award
Our World In Our Words
Director Chris Casaceli
Spotlight Gold Award
Out Of Order
Director Mason James Gillard
Spotlight Gold Award
Pep Step Pizza
Director Evan Ostrow
Spotlight Gold Award
Phantom Tension
Director Dennis Calvert
Spotlight Gold Award
Pride
Director Mike Lewis
Spotlight Silver Award
Pulling Daisies
Director Lilly Adams
Spotlight Silver Award
Purple and Orange
Director Yashira McCray
Spotlight Gold Award
Queenbird
Director Roxanna Dunlop
Spotlight Gold Award
Real Friends
Director John Hanninen
Spotlight Silver Award
RELATIVITY
Directors Jules Rebuffat, Hugo Astesano, Guillaume Hulot, Loic Remy, Loic Ciaux, Benjamin Matthys
Spotlight Platinum Award
Remember This | Short Film
Director Wilbur W Henderson
Spotlight Silver Award
Resonance
Director Kaveh Malek
Spotlight Silver Award
Salut, Gadou!
Directors Hélène Matte, Jérémie Thibault, Marco Chantal
Spotlight Silver Award
Sensual Tension
Directors Joseph Allen Wedge, Blessing Assan, Jeremy Ratzlaff
Spotlight Bronze Award
Scatterbrain
Director Brandon Watts
Spotlight Gold Award
Screamer Box
Director Tom Griffin
Spotlight Silver Award
Sex Change
Director Timothy OShea
Spotlight Gold Award
Shock
Director Júlia Deák
Spotlight Silver Award
Shocker
Director Jake Alexander Williams
Spotlight Gold Award
Simpson's Point Short Film
Directors Gianfranco Sorrentino, Justyna Lepa
Spotlight Silver Award
Sloth
Director Jaylen Thomas
Spotlight Silver Award
Smiles and Shoeshines
Directors M.S. Kerr, Laurence Wallace
Spotlight Bronze Award
Something in the Clouds
Directors Josh Sikkema, Johnny Ray
Spotlight Gold Award
Sonate Tableaux: Mouvement 1
Director Carlos Ferrand
Spotlight Silver Award
Sorry for your Birthday
Director Chloe Zubiri
Spotlight Gold Award
Sticks and Stones
Director Jason Kelly Lee
Spotlight Silver Award
Stuck
Director Gabriela Lopez
Spotlight Bronze Award
Substereo - Renaissance
Director Chris Angel Walker
Spotlight Gold Award
Sugar
Director Josiah Paul
Spotlight Gold Award
Talk To Me In Silence
Director Julia Ngeow
Spotlight Platinum Award
TECATA
Director Mario Theodosio Gallegos
Spotlight Gold Award
Temecula
Director CJ Colando
Spotlight Gold Award
TENZIJA
Director Timna Tomiša
Spotlight Gold Award
The 31st Amendment
Director Marc Danbury
Spotlight Gold Award
The Acts of Life
Director Felix Crumbsy
Spotlight Gold Award
The Ballerina
Director Shan Li
Spotlight Gold Award
The Book of Joshua
Director Paul Kim
Spotlight Gold Award
The Boston Photograph
Director Clennon L King
Spotlight Silver Award
The Coach
Director Ray Taylor
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Confessionist
Directors Sean Perez, George Zhao
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Day the Bough Broke
Director Kevin Whitley
Spotlight Silver Award
The Death of James Dean
Director Joe Nolan
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Fall From Grace
Director John Sexton
Spotlight Gold Award
The Fifth Shot
Director Robert Howat
Spotlight Gold Award
The Last Photo Walk
Director Mazen Hamed Alhaj Salem
Spotlight Gold Award
The Light To The Guide
Director XIANG CAO
Spotlight Gold Award
The Line Between Us
Director Josiah Paul
Spotlight Silver Award
The Little Drummer Boy
Director John Gray
Spotlight Platinum Award
The Missing Dildo
Directors Vseant Nath, Robert Pralgo
Spotlight Gold Award
theMISSINGmarble
Director Peter Evanchuck
Spotlight Gold Award
The Passage
Director Lance J Reha
Spotlight Silver Award
The Pencil Pouch Project
Director Ellis Flurry
Spotlight Silver Award
The Pit and the Pendulum - a musicabre
Director Danny Ashkenasi
Spotlight Gold Award
The Radio
Director Alisanna Vincent
Spotlight Silver Award
The Reading
Director D. F. Wright
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Reel In the Flickering Light
Director Rossa Lundberg
Spotlight Gold Award
The Show Must Go On
Director Cody Myers
Spotlight Silver Award
The Thrift Shop
Director Kiya Sabet
Spotlight Gold Award
The Urn
Director Ningkun Sun
Spotlight Gold Award
The Wise Guys
Director Jonathan Smathers
Spotlight Gold Award
Time Capsule
Director Sho Watanabe
Spotlight Gold Award
Time To Grow Up
Director Thomas Hibner
Spotlight Silver Award
Titan
Director Valéry Carnoy
Spotlight Platinum Award
Trapped Tight
Director Juming Delmas
Spotlight Gold Award
Tristan's Plight
Director Curtis K Case
Spotlight Gold Award
Twinsies
Director Tiana Stuart
Spotlight Gold Award
Two Anxious Bisexuals
Director Megan A. Zebrowski
Spotlight Silver Award
User
Directors Kevin Saunders, Peter Luis Zimmerman
Spotlight Gold Award
Virgil
Director Christopher Stevens
Spotlight Platinum Award
Visage
Director Jason Tran
Spotlight Silver Award
We Used to Waltz
Director Jonathan Moffett
Spotlight Gold Award
When
Director Alexa Sheehan
Spotlight Silver Award
When You Visit Your Grandma
Director Brooke Rice
Spotlight Silver Award
Where Monsters Lurk
Director Beth Ashby
Spotlight Gold Award
Where's Weirdo
Director Duncan Peake
Spotlight Gold Award
Will You Be My Friend?
Director Mabel Ryu
Spotlight Gold Award
Worn In
Director William Jones
Spotlight Silver Award
Xpendable
Director Walter Ernest Haussner
Spotlight Silver Award
XX LAB, A Scream into the future
Director Anne RAFFIN
Spotlight Gold Award
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