Thank you to the filmmakers and attendees for making 2022 LA Shorts a very memorable event. 

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Winner Screenplay Competition - Last Ship East by Eris Qian

Best Actress - Julia Garcia Combs - American Dream
Best Actor - Austin Pendleton - Ball and Vase

Best High School Film - When Night Falls (USA) by Luke McKinley, Cesar Renteria
Best Music Video - Headless (Korea) by Bason Baek

Best Web Series - Grey Nomads (Australia) 7 by Felix Williamson

Best Horror - The Unusualist (USA) by Mike Simses

Best Sci-Fi - Night of the Cooters (USA) Sci-Fi by Vincent D'Onofrio

Best Experimental - Let's Bring Them Alive! (USA) by Eli Sokhn

Best Documentary - My Disability Roadmap (USA) by Dan Habib, Samuel Habib

Best Animation - Mr. Spam Gets a New Hat (UK) by William Joyce

Best Comedy - Moles (Switzerland) by Vanja Victor Kabir Tognola

Best Drama - Sideral (France) by Carlos Segundo
Best Drama - Monkey Business (Netherlands) by Everon Jackson Hooi

Best Foreign Film - One Small Visit (Hong Kong) by Jo Chim

Best of Fest - Ball and Vase (USA) by David Baram

LA Shorts International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious and largest short film festivals in the world. The festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain.

Now in its 26th year, LA Shorts is the longest-running short film festival in Los Angeles.