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