
Brooklyn Pizza Film Festival 2025





Hotel Purgatorio
By Joey Agbayani
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST THRILLER, BEST ANIMATED FILM & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR
Mother, Mother
By Micki Dickoff
BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT
The Legend Of The Bum-Barian
By Kel Owens
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Short Film)
Christmas Card
By Kel Owens
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: Narrative Short Film)
A Pilgrimage Into Tibet
By Marc Gould
BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Documentary Short) & BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT
SOLDIERS, Six Stories, Six Wars
By Tony Villani
BEST DIRECOR (Category: Documentary Feature) & BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025
Cock Robin
By Frances Barth
BEST ORIGINAL COMEDY 2025
The Case of the Missing Pink Piggy
By Linda Harkey (Story Monsters Press)
BEST INDIE BOOK/MANUSCRIPT
The Sea of Hope
By Walid Salhab
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER (Category: Animation)
Nice To Meet You
By Noah Kara
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT (Category: Drama) & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER
I Swear
By Richard VanOverbroeck
BEST DIRECTOR (Category: MUSIC VIDEO) & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO
A Model Life
By Catherine Boruch
BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: International Comedy)
American Money
By Timothy A McGhee
BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER & BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
Iriso
By Mitsuo Kurihara
BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR & BEST DRAMA 2025
Roll The dice
By Federica De Stasio
BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL VIDEO POETRY
Bagliori – Flashes of Light
By Mattia Paone
BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Sun Never Sets in Happenstance
By Joe Territo
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT
Because We Are Too Many
By Eve Leonard
BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025
I Waited for You
By Jennifer Glee
BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST EDITING & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Experimental Film)
As predicted in prophecies
By Shihyun Wang
BEST DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: Documentary Feature)
The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers
By Vivian Tsang
BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL FIRST TIME 2025 & BEST SOCIAL FILM
What is Wrong With This Country
By Olaf Lenz
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE PRODUCER
Free Birds
By Olaf Lenz
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER 2025
Think Tank
By Olaf Lenz
BEST DIRECTOR (Category: International Indie Experimental Film)
The Rings
By Geoffrey Gould
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT
Chasing Truths
By Dennis Manning
BEST PICTURE, BEST LGBTQ+ FILM & & BEST SCREENPLAY
The Shakespeare Plays
By Martin Keady
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER 2025 (Category: International Biographical Script)
I/O (Input-Output) Proof of Concept
By Molly Vernon
BEST INDIE TELEVISION SCRIPT
Eyesolation
By Damiano Rossi
BEST EUROPEAN ARHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
Wave Man
By Anna Morelli
BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
The Reasons of time
By Pierpaolo Rospo
BEST INTERNATIONAL FANTASY
Mine
By John Johnson
BEST ANIMATION 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER
Planetary Rebellion
By Fabrizio Fuochi
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO & BEST EUROPEAN SONG 2025
Calamity & Mercy
By Daniel W Smith
BEST AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY FEATURE OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR
Cataclysm Down Under – Hero
By Akal Demir
BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR 2025
Garbage Rex
By Steve Hunyi
BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER
Asherah’s Colors
By Gary Mazeffa
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2025, BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Garden Court Guardians
By Yankee Zhou
BEST INDIE DRAMA
Revisited – Life is Short
By TerryLee WHETSTONe
BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Music Video) & BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025
Ballad of the Millennial Dream
By Yuliya Levashova
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST ACTRESS & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT
Credo
By Don Pasquale Ferone
BEST SONG WRITER & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SONG
Nelle Sue mani
By Don Pasquale Ferone
BEST SINGER & SPIRITUAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025
Power of Intimate Touch
By Les Dotson
BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: Documentary Short)
Soularis
By Janja Rakuš
BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHER
Man in a Can
By Henk Pringels
BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Animated Short Film)
Union
By Whitney Hamilton
BEST FILM 2025 & BEST COSTUME DESIGNER
Is He Cheating?
By Bill Morton
BEST LGBTQ+ FILM 2025
Josh’s Employment Agency of Brooklyn/the Hereafter
By Nancy Kimmel
BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: International Feature Script)
Theater 8
By John Martinez
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST MOVIEMAKER
Get out Breathing
By Nathan Benham
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DRAMA 2025
Potato Family
By Lori Hamilton
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Sicilians
By Frank Mancuso
BEST SUSPENSE (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT) & BEST AMERICAN WRITER 2025
Artists and Aliens
By Jaymz Bee
BEST SONG & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER
Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times
By Tom Gallagher
BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
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 ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST HISTORICAL SCRIPT
Running Out Of Time
By Jeremy and Christine Stork
BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG & BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO
Thankful
By Earnest Diaz
BEST ORIGINAL WRITER & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT 2025
The Mountain
By Ruth Finnegan
BEST SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER
The Girl Made of Earth and Water
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)
Q1
By Silvano Perozic
BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING
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 MUSICAL, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Dance Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL COREOGRAPHY
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
The Hallmark Couple
By Phoebe von Satis
BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT
Gold Glory & Nobility
By Phoebe von Satis
BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIP 2025
Only in Malibu
By Phoebe von Satis
BEST WRIER OF THE YEAR
Forevermore
By Danilo Del Tufo
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Fractures In Time
By Lesley Ann Albiston
BEST INDIE WRITER 2025, & BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT
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 Green Mill
By Michelle Lynn
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025
Secrets of Montmartre
By Michelle Lynn
BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)
An Ever After Drama
By Michelle Lynn
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST ORIGINAL ACTRESS, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA
The Good Americans
By Robert Tobin
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT
Wacko
By Matthew Roch
BEST INDIE INTERNATIONAL PICTURE 2025, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR, BEST CAST, BEST HORROR & BEST SUSPENSE
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 INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE 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 AMERICAN INDIE DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST LGBTQ+
Lambada The Dance Of Fate
By Kai Fischer
BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Eye of the Storm
By Brooke Wolff
BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025 & BEST DIRECTOR
NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story
By Chris Ross Leong
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE
See me
By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö
BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST SHORT FILM, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR
Medea
By Andronica Marquis
BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR
Dirty Revenge
By Gary St. Martin
BEST DIRECTOR (Category: PILOT TV) & BEST WRITING STYLE
Noise
By R. Scott MacLeay
BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Wild Blooms
By Cassandra Hodges
BEST PILOT TV & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWTITER (Category: Pilot TV/Television Script)
The Stones of Rome
By Sean Gregory Tansey
BEST POETRY SHORT FILM
The Pathos of Hamlet
By Sean Gregory Tansey
BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
The Arcangel Of Death
By Vincenzo Amoruso
BEST INTERNATIONAL 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 DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary Feature)
Le Cafe De Mes Souvenirs
By Valto Baltzar
BEST INDIE FILMMAKER 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
Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me
By Colleen Fuglaar
BEST EUROPEAN WRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL PROJECT OF THE YEAR
Sanctuary
By AnayaMusic Kunst
BEST VOICE OF THE YEAR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VIDEO
Effata
By Anaya Music Kunst
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2025
Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged
By Dean Morgan
BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR & BEST COMEDY SCRIPT
Precious the baby dragon
By Dr Dawn Menge
BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2025
Legends of the Land of Quails
By 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 ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER
Doctor Hyphoteses
By Vicentini Gomez
BEST ACTOR 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING
Urban Eats MTL
By Ioannis Koutroubis
BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES, BEST FILMMAKER & 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 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
Cassandra Venice
By Hugo Teugels
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST PRODUCER & BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
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
Katabasis
By Samantha Casella
BEST ARTHOUSE FILM, BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST SCRRENPLAY
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)
Fear not, my child
By Michaela Kuti
BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG 2025, BEST INDIE SINGER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Song)
Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 1 Salute to the 2025 Oscars
By Tommy Anderson Sherry Severs
BEST ORIGINAL WEB/TV SERIES 2025
Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)
By Carla Di Bonito
BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER
Brothers of Babylon
By Gabriel Womack
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE
Virulence
By Christopher Pennington
BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
The Rorschach Test
By Lena Mattsson
BEST IEUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST SPIRITUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Not Without Gloves
By Lena Mattsson
BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ACTRESS (Category: Experimental Film)
The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd
By Uwe Schwarzwalder
BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Film), BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE
The Duchess
By C. Arnold Curry
BEST DRAMA 2025 & BEST SCREENWRITER
The Golden Years
By Joseph Starzyk
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR
Mourning Coffee
By Denise Mack
BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
Something ain’t right
By Susan Downs
BEST DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR
Searching for Camelot
By Roger Paradiso
BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE PRODUCER
Out of State-A Gothic Romance
By Victoria Bugbee
BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE
Change The World
By Angelena Bonet
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR



American Money
By Timothy A McGhee
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER
Never say Never
By Stephen Karnaghan
BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT
Everland
By John Johnson
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025, BEST CAST, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST SOUND DESIGNER
Cette Vie Nouvelle
By Danilo Del Tufo
BEST NEW SCREENPLAY & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2025
6 Minutes
By Nancy Kimmel
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Short Script)
The New Immigrants- Hong Kongers
By Vivian Tsang
BEST DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary Short), BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2025 & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY
The Jaguar and the Dragonfly
By Pamela PerryGoulardt
BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM, BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA
Come un fiume
By Don Pasquale Ferone
BEST MUSIC VIDEO, BEST SINGER, BEST INTERNATIONAL VOICE & BEST EUROPEAN SONG 2025
Precious the baby dragon
By Dawn Menge
BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: Book/Manuscript)
Fire Flies
By Larry Gene Fortin
BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE
Riding on Duke’s Train
Ken Kimmelman
BEST AMERICAN INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR
See me
By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö
BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER & BEST NARRATIVE SHORT 2025
Wacko
By Matthew Roch
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST SUSPENSE & BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Is He Cheating?
By Bill Morton
BEST LGBTQ+ SCRIPT 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER
Flashes of Light (Bagliori)
By Mattia Paone
BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM, BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST INDIE PRODUCER
The Quest For Camelot
By Roger Paradiso
BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER
Virulence
By Christopher Pennington
BEST CHARACTER CREATOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025
Lambada The Dance Of Fate
By Kai Fischer
BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE SCRIPT
Pirandello’s Wife
By Lynn Elliott
BEST HISTORICAL SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER
Secrets of Montmartre 3
By Michelle Lynn
BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY, BEST DRAMA SCRPT & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT
An Ever After Drama
By Michelle Lynn
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST ACTING, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST AMERICAN MOVIEMAKER
Lucky in Long Island
By Michelle Lynn
BEST WRITING SYLE (Category: IINTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT)
NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story
By Chris Ross Leong
BEST WRITING STYLE, BEST EDITOR & BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025
Fractures In Time
By Lesley Ann Albiston
BEST WRITER & BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT
Walking With God
By Lois Banks
BEST ORIGINAL FILM, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged
By Dean Morgan
BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR
Colombano e la 21esima Fetta
By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti
BEST ITALIAN INDIE FILM 2025 & BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2025
Mecca
By Monte Albers de Leon
BEST INTERNATIONAL LGBTQ+ SCRIPT 2025 & BEST INDIE WRITING STYLE
Doctor Hypotheses 2 – The Breakdown
By Vicentini Gomez
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Feature Script)
The Dead Ringer
By Suzanne Lutas
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR
Staycation
By Russell Emanuel
BEST AMERICAN FILM, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING
Omnipotent Resolution
By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia
BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VIDEO, BEST SPIRITUAL COREOGRAPHY, BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM & BEST EDITING
Thankful
By Earnest Diaz
BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST AMERICAN ORIGINAL WRITER
The Duchess
By C. Arnold Curry
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DRAMA SCRIPT
The Legend of Ranger: The Reindeer Who Couldn’t Fly (Animated Adaptation)
Author: Major General Alan B. Salisbury (Ret.)
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2025
“The Magical Garden” – taken from Cate and the Garden Bandits: The Musical” and the book written by award-winning author, Betsy Coffeen —feature music and lyrics from the musical: Cate and the Garden Bandits the Musical,
By the gifted Zachary Simpson
BEST INDIE INTERNATIONAL SONG
Little Lucy Ladybug: Where Are My Spots? – by Judy Cunningham and Angie Ford-Green, narrated
By Heidi Immler BEST INTERNATIONAL AUDIOBOOK


63Geminorum
By Laura Calderini
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST EUROPEAN WRITER
Malibu Madam
By Phoebe von Satis
BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT
Gold, Glory & Nobility
By Phoebe von Satis
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENPLAY
Full Circle
By Colleen Fuglaar
BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE WRITING STYLE
You Are Here
By Dylan Brody
BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY
Fractures In Time
By Lesley Ann Albiston
BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
Noise
By R. Scott MacLeay
BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER
Josh’s Employment Agency of Brooklyn/the Hereafter
By Nancy Kimmel
BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER (Category: International Feature Script)
Virulence
By Christopher Pennington
BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER
The Mountain
By Ruth Finnegan
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER
See me
By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER
Asherah’s Colors
By Gary Mazeffa
BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST ACTING
Monument To Love
By Jacob Comforty
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DOCUMENTARY 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER (Category: Documentary)
Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged
By Dean Morgan
BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY, BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER (Category: Comedy) & BEST ORIGINAL ACTOR
Forevermore
By Danilo Del Tufo
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER
Thankful
By Earnest Diaz
BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER
Sequoia Spirits
By Cherie Carson
BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE MOVIE 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER
Credo
By Don Pasquale Ferone
BEST INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL SONG, BEST SONG WRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER
Eye of the Storm
By Brooke Wolff
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL FILM & BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER
Something ain’t right
By Susan Downs
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY 2025, BEST STORYTELLING & BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER
Lambada The Dance Of Fate
By Kai Fischer
BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Fear not, my child
By Michaela Kuti
BEST INDIE SONG 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGN
Mecca
By Monte Albers de Leon
BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE, BEST LGBTQ+ & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2025
Doctor Hyphoteses
By Vicentini Gomez
BEST ACTOR 2025 & BEST INDIE COMEDY 2025
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
By Ken Kimmelman
BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER 2025 & BEST VIDEO POETRY
Fire Flies
By Larry Gene Fortin
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE FANTASY SCRIPT
Effata
By Anaya Music Kunst
BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2025
Boxed In
By Steve Hunyi
BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR
The Rorschach Test
By Lena Mattsson
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