2024 Filmmakers Awards Winners

Filmmakers Awards

Outstanding Short Film – Animation – Anansi the Spider
Outstanding Director – Animation – Moving Day – Sean Mirkovich
Outstanding Screenplay – Animation – Hinter-Land – Christopher Angus
Outstanding Cast Performance – Animation – Anansi the Spider – Daniel Jennings, Elijah Gallimore-Repole & Jared Hall
Outstanding Originality – Animation – Nostalgia Transplant
Outstanding Short Film – Comedy – V-Card
Outstanding Director – Comedy – The Word – Rob M. Neilson
Outstanding Screenplay – Comedy – The Word – Colin Ochs, Rob M. Neilson, Sam Demaris & Billy D. Washington
Outstanding Cast Performance – Comedy – The Word
Outstanding Originality – Comedy – V-Card
Outstanding Short Film – Drama – Rites of Passage
Outstanding Director – Drama – On Earth, as it is in Heaven – Michael Cudlitz
Outstanding Screenplay – Drama – The Unreliables – Jen Robyn Jacobs & Adam Linkenhelt
Outstanding Cast Performance – Drama – On Earth, as it is in Heaven
Outstanding Originality – Drama – Intertitle
Outstanding Short Film – Experimental/Arthouse – PANG
Outstanding Director – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis – Brennan Thomas McGee
Outstanding Screenplay – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis – Brennan Thomas McGee
Outstanding Cast Performance – Experimental/Arthouse – Wesley Loses His Penis
Outstanding Originality – Experimental/Arthouse – PANG
Outstanding Short Film – Horror – The Wheel
Outstanding Director – Horror – Wake
Outstanding Screenplay – Horror – The Wheel
Outstanding Cast Performance – Horror – Vessel
Outstanding Originality – Horror – You’re Dirty Now
Outstanding Short Film – Sci-Fi – OVERCLOCKED : Origins
Outstanding Director – Sci-Fi – ID EST – Shayda Frost
Outstanding Screenplay – Sci-Fi – REVERIE – Kelli Horan
Outstanding Cast Performance – Sci-Fi – REVERIE
Outstanding Originality – Sci-Fi – Somniscience

Filmmakers Awards – Determined by a panel of filmmakers whose films have been Official Selections previous years and given only to short films.