Spring 2024: Award Winners

Best Narrative Short (Grand Jury Prize)

Ana Paula by Leigh Marling (USA)

Best Foreign Short (Grand Jury Prize)

A Show of the Stray by Qi Tan (China)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Grand Jury Prize) for Narrative Short

Her by Chu Qiang (China)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Grand Jury Prize) for Foreign Short

Song of the Conscripts by Chonglang Fan (China)

Honorable Mention (Grand Jury Prize) for Foreign Short

The Roses by Qiao H (China)

Best Documentary Short: Judging Juries by Abby Ginzberg (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): The Future of Fashion for All: Creating Safe Spaces by Mei Ling Marzonie (USA)

Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): The Dolphin Dilemma by Olivia Andrus-Drennan (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Aunt Liz by Suhana Chander and Shobana Rao (USA)

Honorable Mention (Comedy Short): Feet On The Street with Alyssa Poteet by Jessie Sanchez (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Crime Short): The Plan by Angelo Donzella (Italy)

Best Thriller Short: Target Jeremy by Eddie Velez (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Thriller Short): Artifact by Jack Pochop (USA)

Honorable Mention (Thriller Short): The Grey Room by Daniel De’Ath (UK)

Best Sci-Fi Short: Them Upstairs by Mark Buckland (UK)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Animation Short): Love of the Land by Travis Van Alstyne (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Children Short): Kindness Crossing by Xi Nan and Ke Liu (China)

Best Women Short: The Engagement Banquet by Dan Su (China)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Women Short): Screaming Silence by Kalyn Elizabeth Wood and Hal Waghorn (UK)

Honorable Mention (Women Short): Andie & June by Mitchell Aaron Gonzalez (USA)

Best Experimental Short: Screaming Silence by Kalyn Elizabeth Wood and Hal Waghorn (UK)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Experimental Short): 9/10: Love Before the Fall by Daron Hagen (USA)

Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): Three by Scott Petill (USA)

Best Student Short: Nonchalance by Kin Ming Lo (Hong Kong)

Best Newcomer Short: Partly Hazy by John Brownell (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Newcomer Short): Them Upstairs by Mark Buckland (UK)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Fade by Vugar Tahirov (Azerbaijan)

Honorable Mention (Music Video): A Celebration of Great Artists in Alan’s Universe by Susan Mey Lee Lim and Samudra Kajal Saikia (Singapore)

Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Target Jeremy by Eddie Velez (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series/TV Pilot): Cause Celebre by Patrick John Donnelly (USA)

Honorable Mention (Web Series/TV Pilot): Fractured Turnstile by Trenton J Brisco and Joseph Charafi (USA)

Best Short Script: Shooting Star: Star Seeds by TJ Morehouse (USA)

Cal Film Festival