2025 Award Winners

SHORTS

Best Web Series

Lost Again

Best Super Short

Spur

Student

Me & You

Experimental

Suspicious Minds

Sci-Fi

Bathed in the Night

Thriller

Face to Face

Animation

Hephestus and Aphrodite

International

Convoluted

Cinematography of a Short

Echo

Ensemble

Coming Out Polyamorous for Thanksgiving

Actor in a Short

Keith David, Don’t Pick Up

Actress in a Short

Delissa Reynolds, Cascades

Writer of a Short

Eliza Gibson, Symptoms

Director of Documentary Short

Ash Yip, Common Ground

Director of Narrative Short

Maren Lavelle, Coming Out Polyamorous for Thanksgiving

Documentary Short

#WAY_Aurelio

Comedy Short

Gibranistan

Drama Short

Blue Evening

FEATURES

Cinematography of a Feature

Toby Romero, The Ladder

Ensemble in a Feature

Universal

Actor in a Feature

Logan Pepper, Lovebug

Actress in a Feature

Kristin Griffith, The Reckoning

Writer of a Feature

Michael Weaver, The Reckoning

Director of a Documentary Feature

Will Chase,

Coming Home: The Guggenheim Grotto Back in Ireland

Director of a Narrative Feature

Alex Breaux, The Reckoning

SIGNATURE AWARDS

Personal Stories

Land of the Mustaches

Original Ideas

Two Chains

New Work

When a Doveweed Blooms

Helena Weinrauch Humanitarian Award

Lina.

Oleksiy Oliyar & Nykola Nosok, directors

NY Filmmaker

Jennifer Plotzke

Best International Feature

Water Lilies

Best Documentary

Ojakh, on the other side of the silence

Best Narrative Feature

The Reckoning

Audience Choice

Land of the Mustaches

Filmmaker Favorite

Battle of L.A.

Best of Fest

Vanishing: A Love Story