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2025 Awards

WINNERS ARE IN YELLOW

BEST STUDENT FILM

Fine Dining

God Dam

The Remover

Indulgence

Irma

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Coppola Mecanique

Breaking the Cycle

Rolling Film, Rocking History, Al Maysles Captures the Beatles

​Thanksgiving for Angels

BEST ANIMATION

Flocky

Lifted

Sean the Baby

Forevergreen

POW!

He Slipped

BEST ACTRESS (SHORT)

Lydia Kelly (The One That Got Away)

Alycia Conrad (hello_from.m4a)

Sarah Goeke (Forked)

Rebecca Jimenez (The Spanish Lesson)

Keona Castro (The Remover)

BEST ACTOR (SHORT)

Jon Hook (Man of God)

Evan Williams (Steps)

Steve Brustien (Meatball)

Sebastian Betancur (Who I Should Be)

Luca Irvin (The Day is Young)

BEST DRAMA (SHORT)

Two Breaths

RUN

Red Lillies

I'm Sorry About Your Marriage

Sonata

Mania

BEST COMEDY (SHORT)

Cast & Brew

Meatball

Man of God

Hey HeLP-O! Let's Go!

In Case of Emergency

Shaba Daba

BEST THRILLER (SHORT)

Spool

Lifeguard

The Passenger

Animal Games

Why Those Crops Grow Taller

BEST DIRECTOR SHORT 

Jeff Osborne (Anesthesia)

Alejandra Lopez (Brotherly Blood)

Maria Luisa Alves (Mania)

Matt O'Shea (Why Those Crops Grow Taller) Victoria Barabas/Katherine Cronyn (RUN)

BEST DIRECTOR FEATURE

Kellen Gibbs (The Novel)

Gayatri Everitt Bajpai (Designed by Preeti) Cameron Andrews (Missing Pieces)

Will Sterling (A Cell Phone Movie)

Jon Salmon (The Mother, the Menacer and Me)

BEST ACTRESS FEATURE

Reilly Anspaugh (Homewrecker)

Hayley McFarland (Anywhere)

Zoe Manzotti (Sugar Beach)

Jordan Knapp (The Novel)

Yasmin Flohr (Missing Pieces)

BEST ACTOR FEATURE

Joseph Nuzzolo (The Ashes of a Dream)

Michael Coppola (That Creep from the Bar Last Night)

Jacob Loeb (Killing Off Connor)

Will Sterling (A Cell Phone Movie)

Ka'Prise Colvin (The Novel)

BEST DOUMENTARY FEATURE

399 FOREVER

72 MILES

A DIVINE JOURNEY TRILOGY

BEST PICTURE

The Mother, the Menacer and Me

The Novel

Homewrecker

That Creep from the Bar Last Night

The Ashes of a Dream

Sugar Beach

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