Month: September 2025

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST FILM 2025, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER, BEST EDITING, BEST SUSPENSE & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature)

The New Immigrants- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL YOUNG DIRECTOR 2025

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: DANCE FILM), BEST EDITING, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST POETRY MUSIC VIDEO

See me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

BEST INDIE SHORT FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER 2025

Flashes of Light (Bagliori)

By Mattia Paone

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Precious the Baby Dragon Legends of the land of Quails

By Dawn Menge

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ARTHOUSE BOOK 2025

I Just Want To Be With You

By Jeremy and Christine Stork

BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE SONG

Balkan Jazz

By Jacky Comforty

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Documentary Feature)

Monument to Love

By Jacky Comforty

BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY 2025

Fire Flies

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

The Legend of Ranger: The Reindeer Who Couldn’t Fly by Major General Alan B. Salisbury (Ret.)

By Linda Radke

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE

Johnny Vet: America’s Newest Hero by Major General Alan B. Salisbury (Ret.)

By Linda Radke

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR

Q1

By Silvano Perozic

BEST INDIE EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2025

Walking With God

By Lois Banks

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN INDIE SHORT FILM, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST

Secrets of Montmartre 4

By Michelle Lynn

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Lucky in Long Island

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY

In a Whole New Way

By Jonathan Fisher

BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM 2025 & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Tic Tac

By Emilio Mercanti

BEST ORIGINAL EUROPEAN DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT OF THE YEAR

The Sicilians

By Frank Mancuso

BEST AMERICAN ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT

A Melody in the Bronx

By Frank Mancuso – (From the Book by Rocco Trombetta)

BEST AMERICAN BYOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

The Mountain

By Ruth Finnegan

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT 2025

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Feature Script)

Something ain’t right

By Susan Downs

BEST INTERNATIONAL CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Documentary)

More Going Down

By Dennis Manning

BEST LGBTQ+ ORIGINAL PROJECT & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR

Mikey Blue Eyes

By Stephen Kelly

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER 2025 (Category: Short Script)

No Mas

By Stephen Kelly

BEST ACTOR 2025

Soularis

By Janja Rakuš

BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER 2025 & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Experimental)

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

The Duchess

By Arnold Curry

BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA & BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY OF THE YEAR

Connor and Sonia

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

Super Mashugee and Freeky Passover

By Dean Morgan

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY 2025

Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times

By Thomas Gallagher

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Documentary) & BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE ACTOR 2025

Lambada the dance of fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST SCREENWRITER 2025 (Category: International Biographical Script)

Malibu Madam

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Only in Malibu

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Gold, Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST WRTING STYLE (Category: International Feature Script)

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER (Category: ANIMATION)

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCRENNPLAY

Neverwere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Gipsy

By AnayaMusic Kunst

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MUSIC VIDEO 2025

The Mongrel

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV/TELEVISION SCRIPT 2025

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: Experimental Film)

Come un fiume

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO 2025 & BEST INDIE SINGER

Garbage Rex

By Steve Hunyi

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST EDITING

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST LGBTQ+ SCRIPT 2025

The Aesthetics Of Failure

By Lena Mattsson

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST POETRY FILM

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST DIRECTOR

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTRESS

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER (Category: VIDEO POETRY)

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILM 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL PROJECT, BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER & BEST EDITING

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE ACTOR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTING

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST EDITNG & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: HISTORICAL SHORT FILM)

Fear not, my child

By Michaela Kuti

BEST INDIE SONG 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGNER

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL MOVIEMAKER 2025

Revisited – Life is Short

By TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER (Category: International Music Video)

• Soularis – Janja Rakuš
• Dreaming Vincent – Christian Candido
• Boombox (The God of THe Dance) – TV Series Opening – Christian Candido
• Union – Whitney Hamilton
• Mine – John Johnson
• The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers – Vivian Tsang
• Because We Are Too Many – Eve Leonard
• The Rings – Geoffrey Gould
• I/O (Input-Output) Proof of Concept – Molly Vernon
• Cataclysm Down Under – Hero – Akal Demir
• Asherah’s Colors – Gary Mazeffa
• Flannel & Rue – Larry Gene Fortin
• Sonnets (words in despair) – Larry Gene Fortin
• Fire Flies – Larry Gene Fortin
• Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times – Tom Gallagher
• Ballad of the Millennial Dream – Yuliya Levashova
• Nelle Sue mani – Don Pasquale Ferone
• The DNA of Love – Kevin Romano-Huhn
• Bagliori – Flashes of Light – Mattia Paone
• Blooming Sisters, Phoebe’s Echo – May Liu
• Eyesolation – Damiano Rossi
• Credo – Don Pasquale Ferone
• Man in a Can – Henk Pringels
• Ghost Chef – Alberto Martín-Aragón
• Josh’s Employment Agency of Brooklyn/the Hereafter – Nancy Kimmel
• Sanctuary – AnayaMusic Kunst
• Effata – Anaya Music Kunst
• Hot Air Hippo – Nicholas Snyder
• Theater 8 – John Martinez
• The Green Machine – Part 1 – John Martinez
• Potato Family – Lori Hamilton
• Change The World – Angelena Bonet
• The Sicilians – Frank Mancuso
• Roses are Blind – Wendy White
• Running Out Of Time – Jeremy and Christine Stork
• Thankful – Earnest Diaz
• The Mountain – Ruth Finnegan
• The Jaguar and the Dragonfly – Pamela PerryGoulardt
• Calamity Jane: Queen of Spades – Pamela PerryGoulardt
• Wave Man – Anna Morelli
• Artists and Aliens – Jaymz Bee
• Q1 – Silvano Perozic
• In a Whole New Way – Jonathan Fisher
• Colombano e la 21esima Fetta – Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti
• Omnipotent Resolution – Uniqueness Heiress & Azia
• Fractures In Time – Lesley Ann Albiston
• The Dead Ringer – Suzanne Lutas
• Precious the baby dragon – Dr Dawn Menge
• Croix – The Prequel: Kiss The Ring – Charli Brown
• Forevermore – Danilo Del Tufo
• Wacko – Matthew Roch
• You Are Here – Dylan Brody
• Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld – Alexander Senicki
• The G-FILES – John Johnson
• Sequoia Spirits – Cherie Carson
• The Quisling – Lynn Elliott
• Alta California – Lynn Elliott
• Water – Gary Beeber
• Indie Jax Grind – Royce Freeman
• The Priory of Sion and the treasure of abbey Sauniere of Rennes the Castle France – Florence Cazebon-Taveau
• The Good Americans – Robert Tobin
• Medea – Andronica Marquis
• Dancing with Spies @Goddess – Francis Billingsley
• The Ballad of Wonderhussy and Other Desert Tales – Michael Mayhan
• In Search of A P-I-G – Keith Szarabajka
• The Second Coming – Keith Szarabajka
• Routine – Russell Emanuel
• The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands – Russell Emanuel
• Staycation – Russell Emanuel
• Katabasis – Samantha Casella
• Mecca – Monte Albers de Leon
• Lambada The Dance Of Fate – Kai Fischer
• Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me – Colleen Fuglaar
• Eye of the Storm – Brooke Wolff
• See me – Anton Svantesson-Helkiö
• The Hallmark Couple – Phoebe von Satis
• Gold Glory & Nobility – Phoebe von Satis
• Only in Malibu – Phoebe von Satis
• Dirty Revenge – Gary St. Martin
• Noise – R. Scott MacLeay
• Wild Blooms – Cassandra Hodges
• NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story – Chris Ross Leong
• The Arcangel Of Death – Vincenzo Amoruso
• Le Cafe De Mes Souvenirs – Valto Baltzar
• Hope! – Shaun Guzman
• Alone – Shaun Guzman
• We are Rivers – Graciela Cassel
• Secrets of Montmartre – Michelle Lynn
• An Ever After Drama – Michelle Lynn
• The Green Mill – Michelle Lynn
• Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths) – Carla Di Bonito
• Legends of the Land of Quails – Dr Dawn Menge
• No Mas – Stephen Kelly
• Mikey Blue Eyes – Stephen Kelly
• Voyage in the desert – ΕΛΠΙΔΑ ΑΜΙΤΣΗ
• Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana – Ken Kimmelman
• Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged – Dean Morgan
• Urban Eats MTL – Ioannis Koutroubis
• Calamity & Mercy – Daniel W Smith
• Love Is My Gun – Valérie Verseau
• Out of State-A Gothic Romance – Victoria Bugbee
• The Case of the Missing Pink Piggy – Linda Harkey
• Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem? – Michał Kucharski
• Monument to Love – Jacob Comforty
• Uncle Franco’s Birthday Suit – Lynn Elliott
• Pirandello’s Life – Lynn Elliott
• Ghost Town, N.M. – Lynn Elliott
• Doctor Hyphoteses – Vicentini Gomez
• The Days of Knight: Chapter 1 – John Martinez
• Sinestesìa – Gianni Salamone
• The Stones of Rome – Sean Gregory Tansey
• The Pathos of Hamlet – Sean Gregory Tansey
• Fear not, my child – Michaela Kuti
• Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 1 Salute to the 2025 Oscars – Tommy Anderson Sherry Severs
• Brothers of Babylon – Gabriel Womack
• Virulence – Christopher Pennington
• The Rorschach Test – Lena Mattsson
• Not Without Gloves – Lena Mattsson
• The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd – Uwe Schwarzwalder
• The Duchess – C. Arnold Curry
• The Golden Years – Joseph Starzyk
• Cassandra Venice – Hugo Teugels
• Something ain’t right – Susan Downs
• Searching for Camelot – Roger Paradiso
• Mourning Coffee – Denise Mack
• “Hey Mommy” Theme Song Inspired by the book “I Know What You Do When I Go to School” – Siona Talekar / Zachary Simpson / Erin Rementer / Linda F. Radke

The DNA of Love

By Kevin Romano – Huhn

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY 2025

Bagliori – Flashes of Light

By Mattia Paone

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR (Category: Narrative Short)

Blooming Sisters, Phoebe’s Echo

By May Liu

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FILMMAKER 2025

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST INTERNATIONAL POETRY FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING

Mine

By John Johnson

BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATION & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER

Because We Are Too Many

By Eve Leonard

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

The Rings

By Geoffrey Gould

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT

I/O (Input-Output) Proof of Concept

By Molly Vernon

BEST INDIE TELEVISION SCRIPT

Wave Man

By Anna Morelli

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER

Asherah’s Colors

By Gary Mazeffa

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2025, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING

Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times

By Tom Gallagher

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Ballad of the Millennial Dream

By Yuliya Levashova

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST ACTRESS, BEST SOUNDTRACK, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST

Nelle Sue mani

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SPIRITUAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SINGER & BEST INDIE MUSICIAN 

Soularis

By Janja Rakuš

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE FILM PRODUCER

Man in a Can

By Henk Pringels

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Animated Short Film)

Union

By Whitney Hamilton

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY

Ghost Chef

By Alberto Martín-Aragón

BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE CINEMATOGRAPHER

Josh’s Employment Agency of Brooklyn/the Hereafter

By Nancy Kimmel

BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: International Feature Script)

Hot Air Hippo

By Nicholas Snyder

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Theater 8

By John Martinez

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST MOVIEMAKER

The Green Machine – Part 1

By John Martinez

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR (Category: Short Film), BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST SCREENWRITER 

Potato Family

By Lori Hamilton

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Change The World

By Angelena Bonet

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER

The Sicilians

By Frank Mancuso

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT

Roses are Blind

By Wendy White

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Thriller)

The Priory of Sion and the treasure of abbey Sauniere of Rennes the Castle France

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Running Out Of Time

By Jeremy and Christine Stork

BEST INDIE SONG & BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

The Mountain

By Ruth Finnegan

BEST SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

The Jaguar and the Dragonfly

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR

Calamity Jane: Queen of Spades

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Indie Feature Script)

Artists and Aliens

By Jaymz Bee

BEST SOUNDTRACK, BEST EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER

Q1

By Silvano Perozic

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER

In a Whole New Way

By Jonathan Fisher

BEST DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: EDUCATIONAL FILM) 

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST EUROPEAN ORIGINAL FILM 2025 & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Dance Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL & BEST SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST WRITER 2025, BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST WRITER 2025 (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

Precious the baby dragon

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2025

Croix – The Prequel: Kiss The Ring

By Charli Brown

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST AMERICAN INDIE MOVIEMAKER, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

Forevermore

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST INTERNATIONAL PICTURE 2025, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CAST, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST AMERICAN INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

You Are Here

By Dylan Brody

BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld

By Alexander Senicki

BEST MUSICAL 2025 & BEST EDITING (Category: Musical)

The G-FILES

By John Johnson

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST STORYTELLING

Sequoia Spirits

By Cherie Carson

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: DANCE MOVIE)

Indie Jax Grind

By Royce Freeman

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

The Good Americans

By Robert Tobin

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

Medea

By Andronica Marquis

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CAST, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

Dancing with Spies @Goddess

By Francis Billingsley

BEST BOOK/MANUSCRIPT 2025, BEST ARTHOUSE WRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

The Ballad of Wonderhussy and Other Desert Tales

Michael Mayhan

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Indie Musical)

In Search of A P-I-G

By Keith Szarabajka

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: Web/Tv Series)

The Second Coming

By Keith Szarabajka

BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Dance Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL & BEST SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST CAST (Category: Narrative Feature)

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER 2025 & BEST LGBTQ+

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCREENPLAY & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST EUROPEAN WRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025, SPECIAL POSTHUMOUS AWARD TO ROBIN WILLIAMS & BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER

See me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SHORT FILM, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT

Gold Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY 2025

Only in Malibu

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

Dirty Revenge

By Gary St. Martin

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: PILOT TV) & BEST WRITING STYLE

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF THE YEAR

Wild Blooms

By Cassandra Hodges

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWTITER (Category: Pilot TV/Television Script)

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACTOR & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE SHORT FILM

The Quisling

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER OF THE YEAR

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST SOCIAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Water

By Gary Beeber

BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR (Category: Indie Documentary), BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025 & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary Feature)

Le Cafe De Mes Souvenirs

By Valto Baltzar

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Hope!

By Shaun Guzman

BEST AMERICAN INDIE DRAMA OF THE YEAR

Alone

By Shaun Guzman

BEST YOUNG SCREENWRITER 2025 (Category: International Feature Script)

We are Rivers

By Graciela Cassel

BEST DIRETCOR (Category: DOCUMENTARY SHORT), BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING & BEST PRODUCER

Secrets of Montmartre

By Michelle Lynn

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST ACTRESS, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Sanctuary

By AnayaMusic Kunst

BEST VOICE OF THE YEAR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VIDEO

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SCRIPT 2025

Legends of the Land of Quails

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING

No Mas

By Stephen Kelly

BEST INTERNATIONAL BEST SHORT FILM, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

Mikey Blue Eyes

By Stephen Kelly

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT

Sonnets (words in despair)

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST AMERICAN WRITER 2025

Fire Flies

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Voyage in the desert

By ΕΛΠΙΔΑ ΑΜΙΤΣΗ

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST COMEDIAN 2025

Urban Eats MTL

By Ioannis Koutroubis

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER (Category: Web/Tv Series)

Calamity & Mercy

By Daniel W Smith

BEST FILMMAKER (CATEGORY: Documentary)

Love Is My Gun

By Valérie Verseau

BEST EDITING (Category: MUSIC VIDEO) & BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

By Michał Kucharski

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Monument to Love

By Jacob Comforty

BEST DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: Documentary Feature) & BEST PRODUCER

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST EUROPEAN PICTURE, BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER, BEST SOUND DESIGNER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST MAKE-UP

Uncle Franco’s Birthday Suit

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Pirandello’s Life

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN INDIE WRITER

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST ARTHOUSE ACTOR 2025, BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTING & BEST ORIGINAL COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR

The Days of Knight: Chapter 1

By John Martinez

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2025, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST EDITING & BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY

Sinestesìa

By Gianni Salamone

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR (Category: MUSIC VIDEO)

The Stones of Rome

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