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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



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