2020 ShortList Award Winners
(From left:) “No More Wings” director Abraham Adeyemi, “-Ship: A Visual Poem” director Terrance Daye
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TheWrap’s online short film festival, The ShortList, features twelve of the top award-winning short films that have premiered at major festivals over the past year, making it the most highly-competitive film festival of its kind. In recent years, winners have gone on to win an Academy Award, a Cesar and to make features and series from the stories chosen as ShortList finalists. Films were streamed and voted for on ShortListFilmFestival.com and TheWrap.com from August 6-19, 2020.
2020 ShortList Finalists
Award-Winning Shorts
These 12 films from around the world have won awards at major film festivals, and are eligible for both an audience and industry prize.
Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa
Directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, Mike Attie
USA, 2019
Learn MoreStudent Shorts
These 4 shorts were selected by some of the top film schools in the country to represent The ShortList's student film category. They are eligible for an audience award, based on your votes.
2020 Jury

Gabriel Osorio
Academy Award-Winning DirectorGabriel Osorio won the audience and jury prizes at TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival in 2014, and went on to win more than 50 international awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. He graduated…
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Roger Ross Williams
Oscar & Emmy Winning DirectorRoger Ross Williams is an Oscar and Emmy award-winning director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Academy Award ®, with his film Music By Prudence. “Beautiful,” “Uplifting,” “Extraordinary,” “Triumphant,”…
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Gena Konstantinakos
Vice President, Originals | Topic StudiosGena Konstantinakos is an award-winning filmmaker and development executive. She is currently VP, Originals, for First Look Media’s Topic, where she develops and oversees a diverse slate of scripted and unscripted original programming for the…
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Trevor Groth
Film Executive, 30WESTTrevor Groth is an executive at 30WEST, an investment and advisory company with offices in Los Angeles and New York that provides capital and strategic guidance to high caliber creative projects and forward-thinking companies operating throughout…
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Dilcia Barrera
Film Programmer, Sundance Film FestivalDilcia Barrera is a Film Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. For over a decade, Dilcia has worked for international film festivals including a tenure as Programming Director of the Los Angeles Latino International Film…
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