WINNERS San Francisco Film Achievement Awards 2025

Tic Tac

By Emilio Mercanti

BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: Arthouse Short Film)

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST LGBTQ SCRIPT 2025 & BEST AMERICAN ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Sanctuary

By AnayaMusic Kunst

BEST MUSIC VIDEO 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE SINGER

Black Wolf

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST FILMMAKER & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Indie Short Film)

Flashes of Light (Bagliori)

By Mattia Paone

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENPLAY 2025 (Category: Narrative Short), BEST ORIGINAL INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER

Soularis

By Janja Rakuš

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2025 & BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR

Fishbowl

By Ugrin Vuckovic

BEST INDIE SUPER SHORT FILM 2025

Doctor Hypotheses 2 – The Breakdown

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY SCRIPT 2025 & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Comedy)

Medea

By Andronica Marquis

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Short), BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CAST, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE WRITER 2025

In a Whole New Way

By Jonathan Fisher

BEST SOCIAL SCREENPLAY, BEST HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT & BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM 2025

Heat and Love

By Michał Kucharski

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2025, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA

Something Ain’t Right

By Susan Downs

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY 2025

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST SUPER SHORT FILM, BEST EDITING & BEST FILMMAKER

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2025

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Experimental Film)

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SONG 2025, BEST EUROPEAN SONG WRITER & BEST SPIRITUAL MUSIC VIDEO

Routine

By Russell Emanuel

BEST DIRECTOR 2025, BEST PRODUCER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST NARRATIVE SHORT 2025

The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST ACTING (Category: International Indie Narrative Short Film)

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING STYLE

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY 2025, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER, BEST STORYTTELING & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Documentary Feature)

Sheldon Mashugana Gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST AMERICAN ACTOR 2025 & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Comedy)

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR 2025 & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Indie Short Film)

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: Feature Script)

Borderline Justice

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

The Days of Knight: Chapter 1

By John Martinez

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY

The Call Center

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST PILOT TV

Sky Walker

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SCRIPT 2025

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ARTHOUSE ACTOR, BEST INDIE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM & BEST ACTING

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY FILM, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: Experimental)

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST SOUND DESIGN

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST WRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Original Feature Script)

Hummel

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT 2025, BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER

K Bender (The Bloody Benders)

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

The Insomnia Experiment

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Short Script)

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Only in Malibu

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Gold,Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2025

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST SOUNDTRACK, BEST SOUND DESIGN, BEST INDIE MUSICAL & BEST INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY

The Lost Village

By Roger Paradiso

BEST AMERICAN PRODUCER & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST EUROPEAN PRODUCER

WINNERS FRIDA FILM FESTIVAL 2025

Then & Now

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST CAST

Lambada The Dance of Fate

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURE SCRIPT & EUROPEAN BEST WRITING STYLE

Running in circles

BEST SCREENWRITER 2025 (Categoy: Web/TV Series)

The Taste Of Rain

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Walking In Memphis

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV

Wacko

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025, BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

BEST ARTHOUSE WRITER 2025

The Pathos of Hamlet

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL ACTOR

The Stones of Rome

BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST AMERICAN INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM

The Solomon Project

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

The Dream

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST WRITING STYLE

Cassandra Venice

BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Josh’s Employment Agency of Brooklyn/the Hereafter

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Senility

BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR

Ragzi & The Danseuse

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Wave Man

BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER 2025

Planetary Rebellion

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Arthouse Music Video)

I Can’t Save You

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Super Short Film)

Monument to Love

BEST DOCUMENTARY, BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025 & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary)

Shucks

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER, BEST FANTASY & BEST SOUND DEISGN

Sinestesìa

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Music Video)

Voyage in the desert

BEST INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

Elevation to the Depths III

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST EDITING, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: International Indie Narrative Short Film)

Routine

BEST AMERICAN INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST INDIE PRODUCER, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST EDITING

Not Without Gloves

BEST DIRECTOR 2025, BEST PRODUCER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Rorschach Test

BEST EDITING & BEST SPIRTUAL FILM

Brothers of Babylon

BEST AMERICAN WRITER 2025

Darker Realities

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER (Category: Indie Feature Script)

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

BEST EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER

Water

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025 & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Urban Eats MTL

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES, BEST PRODUCER, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: Web/Tv Series)

Hoplove — A Journey through the hop year at Lake Constance

BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST DIRECTOR

Le disubbidienti del San Zaccaria

BEST EUROPEAN WERITER OF THE YEAR

Cock Robin

BEST ORIGINAL COMEDY 2025

Something Ain’t Right

BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY 2025

Get out Breathing

BEST DRAMA 2025

Effata

BEST VOICE, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR (Category: Music Video) & BEST INDIE SINGER 2025

2020: life and death of a virus

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Indie Experimental Film)

The reasons of time

BEST INTERNATIONAL FANTASY, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: Fantasy)

The Dragonfly Dreaming Project

BEST FILMMAKER, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary Short)

Out of State-A Gothic Romance

BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

The Liminal Space

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER & BEST EDITING (Category: Experimental Film)

Iriso

BEST DIRECTOR2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025

Chateau De Tarot

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER

Magic Moment

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG & BEST ARTHOUSE SINGER

In a Whole New Way

BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

Boxed In

BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2025)

Déjà Vu On The Ledge

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2025

Can’t Figure It Out

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST EDITING (Category: EXPERIMENTAL FILM)

In Search of A P-I-G

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Web/TV Series)

Eye of the Storm

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL STORYTELLING, BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: Documentary)

Borderline Justice

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Alta California

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT

Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE

Prodigio

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG WRITER, BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER & BEST MUSICIAN

Fortezza

BEST EUROPEAN SINGER 2025

Nossos Caminhos

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

The Arcangel Of Death

BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL ACTOR

Phoebe’s Echo

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Indie Narrative Feature)

Heat and Love

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Animation)

Omnipotent Resolution

BEST MUSICAL SHORT FILM, BEST DANCE FILM, BEST ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST PRODUCER

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY

The Days of Knight: Chapter 1

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST MOVIEMAKER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST EDITING

The Days of Knight: Chapter 3

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER, BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY & BEST DIRECTOR

The Duchess

BEST INTERNATIONAL CAST & BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA 2025

The way of Mizoguchi

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY 2025 & BEST MOVIEMAKER

Katabasis

BEST FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST ACTING, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature) & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

Colombano & La 21Esima Fetta

BEST FILMMAKER & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Indie Film 2025)

Thankful

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER