Four films have booked passage into the Oscar race after taking home awards at the prestigious HollyShorts festival in Los Angeles.

Trapped , a drama directed by Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz, won the Grand Prix Award. The short starring Javier Molina and Keith William Richards centers on a “high school janitor [who] runs into a series of dangerous obstacles.” Trapped also won Best Drama. Scroll for the full list of winners.

“At the end of the day, the thing that I’m most grateful for is just the film has resonated with so many people,” David Cutler-Kreutz told Deadline after winning the two honors. “The goal is that people see the film and find that it impacts them, that it makes them want to think about the world or see the world a little bit differently. That’s why I

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