Winners – November 2025

Best Short Film / Detour | certificate
Best Feature Film / At the Edge | certificate
Best Short Director / Revenge Body | certificate
Best Short Screenplay (up to 45 pages) / Love, Robb | certificate
Best Feature Screenplay (45+ pages) / Who’s There? | certificate
Best Animation / Nana | certificate
Best Experimental Film / The Return of the Fireflies: World Premiere | certificate
Best Feature Documentary / THEY FIGHT WITH CAMERAS | certificate
Best Short Documentary / Defend the Deep | certificate
Best Actor / A Priest Walks into a Bar/Thomas Michael Perras | certificate
Best Actress / Unlatched/Bronwyn Turei | certificate
Best Cinematography / The Balloon | certificate
Best Student Film / Time Will Tell | certificate
Best LGBTQ+ Film / The Closet | certificate
Best Drama / The Act | certificate
Best Comedy / Super Sweet | certificate
Best Action, Sci-Fi or Fantasy / April X | certificate
Best Thriller / The Mystic | certificate
Best Horror / From you to you | certificate
Best Director Debut / Close to the Bone | certificate
Best Documentary Director / MORGAN WOOD “EVERYTHING ALWAYS HAPPENS SO MUCH” | certificate
Best Editing / Black Soil Rising: An Alabama Family’s Fight for a Legacy Stolen by Oil & Gas | certificate
Best Original Score / Anything At All | certificate
Best Poster / I’M NOT A GAMBLING MAN | certificate