American Short Film Awards Announce 2015 Winners

LOS ANGELES, January 6, 2016 (Newswire.com) - ​The American Short Film Awards have announced the winning short films from 2015. 

The awards are given in 8 different categories, including Best Short Film, Best Short Documentary, Best Experimental Short Film. 

The winner as the best short film of 2015 was "Notes on Blindness". Directed by Pete Middleton and James Spinney, the semi-documentary chronicles writer John Hull's experiences going blind. The semi-documentary is based on Hull's audio diaries from the 1980s.  

Other 2015 winners include "Ballad of the Homeless" as best animated short, "Teeth" as the best experimental short, and "Solemates" as the best ultra short. 

The full list of 2015 winners can be found below:

Best short film: NOTES ON BLINDNESS
Best Drama: SKUNK
Best Comedy: HARD MONEY
Best Horror: THE SMILING MAN
Best Animation: THE BALLAD OF THE HOMELESS
Best Documentary: I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP
Best Experimental: TEETH
Best Ultra short: SOLEMATES

The American Short Film Awards were founded in 2011 by short film festival programmers from around the United States, who aimed to bring attention and award the best short films of the year.