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Venice Shorts

    • 2020s
    • 2010s
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    Venice Short Film Award

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    Best Cinematography

    • Winner

      Darwin's Fox

      Gabi Kislat

    Best Composer

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      La Línea Imaginaria

      6.2 (8)
      Marcel Barsotti(composer)
      Super Seven Films

    Best Narrative Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      War of Colors

      7.6 (37)
      Emir Kumova

    Best Science Fiction

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Summerville, the movie

      Paul Darrigo
      2 Wolves Productions

    Best Screenplay

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Black Metal

      Michael Hyon Johnson

    Best Thriller

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      A Call

      Chengyu Guo(director)
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      A Call

      Chengyu Guo(director)

    Best U.S. LGBTQ

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Like Son, Like Father

      Mark Bethea(Director)
      Blue Ascot Media

    Best Web/TV Pilot - Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Kombucha Cure

      8.2 (19)
      Cecilia Choi(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      The Dark Ages

      Ivan Lee Gartner(executive producer)
      Brian Larios(director)

    Best Web/TV Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      White Lies

      Paul J. Lane
      Tony Fadil
      indie film rocket
      The Film Actors Club

    Best Youth Actor

    • Aidan Wallace
      Winner
      • Aidan Wallace
      • Virgil
      Allegory Picture Company

    Best Youth Actress

    • Lauren Jude Rosa wins Best Young Actress at the 2024 Independent Shorts Awards in Los Angeles.
      Winner
      • Lauren Jude Rosa(actress)
      • Five and a Half
      River Place Productions

    Best Experimental

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      I am become Death

      Gloria Trinidad Deocón

    Best Indie Short

    • [object Object]

      Drawback

      8.8 (14)
      Caroline Bevaart(director)
      Harald Swinkels(director)
      Exosphere Entertainment
    • [object Object]

      Ashes on the Highway

      Sohm Kapila(Actor)
      Lara Clear(Actor)
      Rupert Smith(Director)
      Sibyl Santiago(Producer)
      SoKaSen Productions
      Whispering Birch Productions
      Sitting Cat Productions
      Dreadnought Films
      Mercury Pictures
    • [object Object]

      Enemy No More

      Christopher Schultz
      Vince Palomino
      Julia Schklair
      Michael A. Casey
      Cadillac Pictures

    Best International Indie Short Film

    • [object Object]

      I See You

      Michael Carnick

    Short Film

    • [object Object]

      Loved

      Joseph Sernio
      D.J. Higgins
      Holly Lake Films

    October Award

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    Best Thriller

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Blood on the leaves

      Sharieff Walters
      48 Mile Productions

    Best Indie Short

    • [object Object]

      Terrible Children

      Johnson Cooley(Producer)
    • [object Object]

      Swindle

      9.9 (9)
      Zach Koepp(writer/director)
      P.J. Schulte(producer/actor)
    • [object Object]

      The Living Room

      Joseph Salvatore DiBartolo(Director)
      JDB Productions

    Best Narrative Film

    • [object Object]

      The Redemption

      Peter Cameron
      Trish Ostigh
      Little Biddy Pictures
      Little Red Truck Productions

    June Award

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    Best Actress

    • Kate Hardy
      Winner
      • Kate Hardy
      • Clingy
      Lechè Productions
    • Winner
      • Desiree Coleman
      • Two Little Fish
      Hollywood Mix Studios

    Best Edit

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      ZIB

      6.9 (19)
      Rob Kraut(editor)
      Blackspot Productions

    Best Experimental

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Who Is God?

    Best Science-Fiction

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Dark cell

      7.8 (21)
      Jean-Michel Tari(director)
      AJM Studio

    Best Screenplay (Produced)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Recruit

      Christina Connerton(writer)

    Best Youth Actress

    • Sophia Nesterova
      Winner
      • Sophia Nesterova(actress)
      • Receding
      • Alexandra Kulikova(actress)
      • Dream

    Best Comedy

    • [object Object]

      So Help Me

      Amanda Beardsley

    Best First Time Film Maker

    • [object Object]

      Tell Me You Love Me

      Lee Morgan(producer)
      Lee Morgan Management

    Best Indie Short

    • [object Object]

      Ave Gradiva

      8.7 (8)
      Yuri Riklis
    • [object Object]

      Dojo

      9.5 (71)
      Jon Paul
    • [object Object]

      The 13

      Margaux Le Bail
      Clément Beauvois
    • [object Object]

      Two Little Fish

      Farzam Salami
      Hollywood Mix Studios
    • [object Object]

      ZIB

      6.9 (19)
      Jonathon Gauthier(writer/director)
      Rob Kraut(producer/editor)
      Connor Paterson(producer)
      Blackspot Productions
    • [object Object]

      The King's Sacrifice

      8.3 (7)
      Raphaël Houde-Belle-Isle(Director)
      Les Productions HLV

    Honorable Mention

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    Best Actor

    • Shadow C. LaValley
      Winner
      • Shadow C. LaValley
      • The Can

    Best Composer

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Kristopher Carter: Boreal Twilight

      Kristopher Carter

    Best Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Foreign Planetary

      Chelsea Sik
      Tiffany Lin

    Best Short Film Director

    • Winner
      • Richard Bazley(director)
      • Confines

    July Award

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    Best Indie Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      To Kyiv and Back

      Ricardo Kauffmann Lee(Director)

    September Award

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    Best LBTQ

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Last Take

      8.5 (6)
      Michael McCartney
      Brian Foyster
      Hicks Street

    Best Student Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Online

      9.7 (12)
      Bianka Bereczky(director)
      Jenõ Hódi(executive producer)
      Viktória Jánoki-Kis(writer, producer)
      Budapest Film Academy
      CinePartners Enterntainment

    Best Horror

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      The Need

      Michael Rognlie
      E.E. Tallent
      Sam Arias Mostovoy
      On The Fence Productions
      Tapped House TV

    Best Music Video

    • [object Object]

      Dirty Freaken Joe: Sci-Fi Sam

      9.4 (19)
      Juan M Gonzalez
      Timothy A. Bennett

    March Award

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    Best Actress

    • Shanie Schwartzman
      Winner
      • Shanie Schwartzman
      • Because of This

    April Award

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    Best Youth Actor

    • Winner
      • Navi Mbakop
      • Numb
      Mbakop Films

    Fall Award

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    Best Composer

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Light (opera film)

      Jimmie LeBlanc

    Best Editing

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Pentaclub

      7.9 (8)
      Federico Lagna(Editor)

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