
Malta International Seventh Art Awards 2025



The Delicacy of Sin
By Roger Woods
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT
In Paris
By Michelle Lynn
BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG
An Ever After Drama
By Michelle Lynn
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST ACTRESS OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY
Behind The Algorithm
By Michelle Lynn
BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
The Arcangel Of Death
By Vincenzo Amoruso
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
Virulence
By Christopher Pennington
BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST WRITING STYLE
Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me opener
By Colleen Fuglaar
BEST ANIMATED FILM & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA
Bagliori – Flashes of Light
By Mattia Paone
BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST INDIE CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST SCREENWRITER
Omnipotent Resolution
By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia
BEST DIRECTOR (CATEGORY: MUSIC VIDEO), BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST DANCE FILM & BEST VOICE OF THE YEAR
Darker Realities
By Pamela PerryGoulardt
BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER (Category: Original Feature Script)
American Money
By Timothy A McGhee
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER & BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT
Forevermore
By Danilo Del Tufo
BEST MOVIEMAKER, BEST SOUND DESIGN & BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Staycation
By Russell Emanuel
BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CAST, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST SCREENPLAY
Thankful
By Earnest Diaz
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE WRITER & BEST SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR
Alta California
By Lynn Elliott
BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT
“Only You Can Save Her,” pilot teleplay of series THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
By Lynn Elliott
BEST ORIGINAL TELEVISION SCRIPT OF THE YEAR
Pirandello’s Wife
By Lynn Elliott
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER
Colombano e la 21esima Fetta
By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti
BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILM & BEST FILMMAKER
AMERICA BOXED IN
By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams
BEST PRODUCER, BEST EDITING & BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025
Cassandra Venice
By Hugo Teugels
BEST EUROPEAN INDIE DIRECTOR 2025
Urban Eats MTL
By Ioannis Koutroubis
BEST WEB/TV SERIES OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER
Pulse: Young Authors Project, directed by writing teacher Sheila Rowe
BEST STUDENT POETRY & BEST ACTING



AMERICA BOXED IN
By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams
BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY
Noise
By R. Scott MacLeay
BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL ESPERIMENTAL FILM 2025
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 & BEST HISTORICAL SCRIPT
Thinking
By Valerie Knill
BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING
Something ain’t right
By Susan Downs
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR
Wacko
By Matthew Roch
BEST THRILLER FEATURE FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Horror)
Poo Pookudhu (From RAIL Movie) – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
By S. J. Jananiy
BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGNER
Hotel Purgatorio
By Joey Agbayani
BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM, BEST THRILLER & BEST ANIMATION
Tom and Luce
By Muxel Paule
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DRAMA
Potato Family
By Lori Hamilton
BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM
TinMan
By Kevin Tudor
BEST DIRECTOR, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER
Get out Breathing
By Nathan Benham
BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA & BEST SCREENWRITER
Eyesolation
By Damiano Rossi
BEST EUROPEAN SHORT SHORT FILM & BEST INDIE PRODUCER
TOKYO STRANGE TALE / 僕を呼ぶ声 Boku wo Yobu Koe
By Fumitaka Otoguro
BEST DIRECTOR (Category: NARRATIVE FEATURE) & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Fractures In Time
By Lesley Ann Albiston
BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 2025, & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)
Paco
By Cresencio Medina
BEST WRITER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INTERNATIONAL TV SERIES
63Geminorum
By Laura Calderini
BEST EUROPEAN SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL STORY
The Legend Of The Bum-Barian
By Kel Owens
BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Narrative Short)
Christmas Card
By Kel Owens
BEST CAST, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Narrative Short)
Walking With God
By Lois M. Banks
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025
A Pilgrimage Into Tibet
By Marc Gould
BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR
Thankful
By Earnest Diaz
BEST WRITER & BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025
SOLDIERS, Six Stories, Six Wars
By Tony Villani
BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Indie Documentary)
Cock Robin
By Frances Barth
BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR & BEST SCREENWRITER CATEGORY (Comedy)
The Case of the Missing Pink Piggy
By Linda Harkey (Story Monsters Press)
BEST INDIE WRITER & BEST INDIE BOOK/MANUSCRIPT
Nice To Meet You
By Noah Kara
BEST ARTHOUSE INDIE FILMMAKER 2025
I Swear
By Richard VanOverbroeck
BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO 2025
French Broad
By Reid Barwick
BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL PILOT TV/TELEVISION SCRIPT 2025
A Model Life
By Catherine Boruch
BEST ARTHOUSE COMEDY, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: International Comedy)
American Money
By Timothy A McGhee
BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE INTERNATIONAL
Out of control
By Bellopropello
BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL STYLE (Category: Animated Short Film)
A New You
By James Dubbeldam
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
Bagliori – Flashes of Light
By Mattia Paone
BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: Short Film)
The Sun Never Sets in Happenstance
By Joe Territo
BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT SCRIPT 2025
Because We Are Too Many
By Eve Leonard
BEST IINDI DRAMA OF THE YEAR
I Waited for you
By Jennifer Glee
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2025 & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Experimental Film)
The Quisling
By Lynn Elliott
BEST FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST AMERICAN WRITER OF THE YEAR
Alta California
By Lynn Elliott
BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT
Pirandello’s Wife
By Lynn Elliott
BEST AMERICAN INDIE WRITER
Katabasis
By Samantha Casella
BEST EUROPEAN FILM, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST SCRRENPLAY
As predicted in prophecies
By Shihyun Wang
BEST MOVIEMAKER 2025 (Category: Documentary)
The New Immigrant-Hong Kongers
By Vivian Tsang
BEST INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR
Eye of the Storm
By Brooke Wolff
BEST DIRECTOR, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025 & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR
The Rings
By Geoffrey Gould
BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT
Chasing Truths
By Dennis Manning
BEST PICTURE, BEST LGBTQ+ FILM & & BEST SCREENPLAY
The Shakespeare Plays
By Martin Keady
BEST INDIE BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT 2025
Union
By Whitney Hamilton
BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST CAST, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR
The Little Match-Seller
By Danilo Del Tufo
BEST ANIMATION
Forevermore
By Danilo Del Tufo
BEST EUROPEAN INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Everland
By John Johnson
BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY
Mine
By John Johnson
BEST ANIMATED FILM & BEST DIRECTOR
Planetary Rebellion
By Fabrizio Fuochi
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO & BEST EUROPEAN SONG 2025
Calamity & Mercy
By Daniel W Smith
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE OF THE YEAR & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR
Cataclysm Down Under – Hero
By Akal Demir
BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Garbage Rex
By Steve Hunyi
BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT
Asherah’s Colors
By Gary Mazeffa
BEST CAST, BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2025 & BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR 2025
Revisited – Life is Short
By TerryLee WHETSTONe
BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025 & BEST EDITING
Ricerca
By Don Pasquale Ferone
BEST HUMAN RIGHTS MUSIC VIDEO
Nelle Sue mani
By Don Pasquale Ferone
BEST GUITARIST & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO)
Power of Intimate Touch
By Les Dotson
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT OF THE YEAR
Soularis
By Janja Rakuš
BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Man in a Can
By Henk Pringels
BEST INDI ANIMATION 2025
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)
Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times
By Tom Gallagher
BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Mother, Mother
By Micki Dickoff
BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Short Film)
A Melody in the Bronx
By Frank Mancuso
BEST AMERICAN THRILLER SCRIPT
Roses are Blind
By Wendy White
BEST AMERICAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR 2025
The Mountain
By Ruth Finnegan
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
By Ken Kimmelman
BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING
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 INDIE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Indie Feature Script)
Q1
By Silvano Perozic
BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING
An Ever After Drama
By Michelle Lynn
BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST AMERICAN ACTRESS, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY& BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Secrets of Montmartre
By Michelle Lynn
BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)
The Green Mill
By Michelle Lynn
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025
In a Whole New Way
By Jonathan Fisher
BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM, BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM & DIRECTOR
Lambada The Dance Of Fate
By Kai Fischer
BEST ARTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2025
Colombano e la 21esima Fetta
By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti
BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FILM 2025 & BEST SCREENPLAY
Omnipotent Resolution
By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia
BEST HUMAN RIGHTS MUSIC VIDEO, BEST INDI FILMMAKER (Category: Dance Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Catgeory: MUSIC VIDEO)
Doctor Hyphoteses
By Vicentini Gomez
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING
The Dead Ringer
By Suzanne Lutas
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE WRITER 2025 (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)
The Arcangel Of Death
By Vincenzo Amoruso
BEST ORIGINAL ACTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM
Precious the baby dragon
By Dr Dawn Menge
BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: BOOK/MANUSCRIPT)
Legends of the Land of Quails
By Dr Dawn Menge
BEST INDIE DIRECTOR 2025
Running Out Of Time
By Jeremy and Christine Stork
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SONG & BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO
Mecca
By Monte Albers de Leon
BEST BEST LGBTQ+ & BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER
Staycation
By Russell Emanuel
BEST INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST CASTCINEMATOGRAPHER
Seasoning of the Soul
By Charli Brown
BEST INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Croix – The Prequel: Kiss The Ring
By Charli Brown
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER
Free Birds
By Olaf Lenz
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER 2025
You Are Here
By Dylan Brody
BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld
By Alexander Senicki
BEST ARTHOUSE MUSICAL 2025 & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Musical)
The G-FILES
By John Johnson
BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Documentary
Sequoia Spirits
By Cherie Carson
BEST DANCE FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST SOUND DESIGNER
The Good Americans
By Robert Tobin
BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT
Indie Jax Grind
By Royce Freeman
BEST DIRECTOR & BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025
Malibu Madam
By Phoebe von Satis
BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
Only in Malibu
By Phoebe von Satis
BEST AMERICAN WRITER
Gold Glory & Nobility
By Phoebe von Satis
BEST WRITING STYLE
The Hallmark Couple
By Phoebe von Satis
BEST SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR
Wave Man
By Anna Morelli
BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
Dancing with Spies @Goddess
By Francis Billingsley
BEST ORIGINAL WRITER (Category: BOOK/MANUSCRIPT)
The Ballad of Wonderhussy and Other Desert Tales
Michael Mayhan
BEST MUSICAL 2025, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: MUSICAL)
In Search of A P-I-G
By Keith Szarabajka
BEST SCREENWRITER, BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER
The Second Coming
By Keith Szarabajka
BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR
Roll The dice
By Federica De Stasio
BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR
Out of State-A Gothic Romance
By Victoria Bugbee
BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE
Urban Eats MTL
By Ioannis Koutroubis
BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER (Category: Web/Tv Series)
NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story
By Chris Ross Leong
BEST WRITER, BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SYLE
See me
By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö
BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER
Dirty Revenge
By Gary St. Martin
BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV 2025
Wild Blooms
By Cassandra Hodges
BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWTITER (Category: Pilot TV/Television Script)
Fear not, my child
By Michaela Kuti
BEST VOICE 2025, BEST ORIGINAL SONG 2025 & BEST SONG WRITER
Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 1 Salute to the 2025 Oscars
By Tommy Anderson Sherry Severs
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER & ORIGINAL WEB/TV OF THE YEAR
Brothers of Babylon
By Gabriel Womack
BEST WRITER 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
Virulence
By Christopher Pennington
BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025
The Rorschach Test
By Lena Mattsson
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2025
Not Without Gloves
By Lena Mattsson
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: EXPERIMENTAL)
The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd
By Uwe Schwarzwalder
BEST INDIE EUROPEAN DIRECTOR (Category: Indie NARRATIVE FEATURE)
The Duchess
By C. Arnold Curry
BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025, BEST ORIGINAL WRINTING SYLE & BEST SCREENWRITER
The Golden Years
By Joseph Starzyk
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST CAST
The Stones of Rome
By Sean Gregory Tansey
BEST ACTOR 2025
The Pathos of Hamlet
By Sean Gregory Tansey
BEST ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER
Pirandello’s Wife
By Lynn Elliott
BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT
Water
By Gary Beeber
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER 2025 (Category: DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR
Le Cafe De Mes Souvenirs
By Valto Baltzar
BEST INDIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Mission
By John Alden
BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
We are Rivers
By Graciela Cassel
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST EDITING
Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me
By Colleen Fuglaar
BEST HISTORICAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING SYLER
Sanctuary
By AnayaMusic Kunst
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SINGER 2025 & BEST POETRY MUSIC VIDEO
Effata
By Anaya Music Kunst
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2025
Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged
By Dean Morgan
BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDIAN 2025
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
Fire Flies
By Larry Gene Fortin
BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
Voyage in the desert
By ΕΛΠΙΔΑ ΑΜΙΤΣΗ
BEST ORIGINAL INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE
The Sea of Hope
By Walid Salhab
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER (Category: Animation)
See Me Once More,My Dear Kid
By Geyang (Elizabeth) Wang
BEST INDIE FEATURE FILM
Searching for Camelot
By Roger Paradiso
BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE PRODUCER
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 ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2025
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
Sinestesìa
By Gianni Salamone
BEST INDIE EUROPEAN DIRECTOR (Category: MUSIC VIDEO)
Mourning Coffee
By Denise Mack
BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
Change The World
By Angelena Bonet
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR
Ballad of the Millennial Dream
By Yuliya Levashova
BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY SHORT
Garden Court Guardians
By Yankee Zhou
BEST ARTHOUSE DRAMA
Hope!
By Shaun Guzman
BEST AMERICAN INDIE DRAMA OF THE YEAR
Alone
By Shaun Guzman
BEST INDIE YOUNG SCREENWRITER 2025
I/O (Input-Output) Proof of Concept
By Molly Vernon
BEST ARTHOUSE TELEVISION SCRIPT
Iriso
By Mitsuo Kurihara
BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025


Mother, Mother
By Micki Dickoff
BEST INDIE SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER 2025
Brothers of Babylon
By Gabriel Womack
BEST SCREENPLAY 2025, BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST WRITING STYLE
Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged
By Dean Morgan
BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Comedy), BEST AMERICAN ACTOR 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY
Omnipotent Resolution
By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia
BEST MUSIC VIDEO 2025, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST SONG & BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER
Life’s Mapped Out
By Akal Demir
BEST INDIE DIRECTOR 2025, BEST PRODUCER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Christmas Card
By Kel Owens
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER
The Girl Made of Earth and Water
By Pamela PerryGoulardt
BEST DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: SUPER SHORT FILM)
Effata
By Anaya Music Kunst
BEST VOICE OF THE YEAR & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: INDIE MUSIC VIDEO)
The Legend Of The Bum-Barian
By Kel Owens
BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR
Hotel Purgatorio
By Joey Agbayani
BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR 2025
Staycation
By Russell Emanuel
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER, BEST CAST, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST AMERICAN INDIE SCREENWRITER
Katabasis
By Samantha Casella
BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL FILM 2025
The Pathos of Hamlet
By Sean Gregory Tansey
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR
The Stones of Rome
By Sean Gregory Tansey
BEST EDITING, BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM & BEST INDIE EDITOR
The Priory of Sion and the treasure of abbey Sauniere of Rennes the Castle France
By Florence Cazebon-Taveau
BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER
Lambada The Dance Of Fate
By Kai Fischer
BEST BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER
NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story
By Chris Ross Leong
BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER
The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers
By Vivian Tsang
BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG FILMMAKER
The Edge “Into The Past”
By Gary St. Martin
BEST INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT 2025
Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?
By Michał Kucharski
BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST PRODUCER, BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST EDITING
Wacko
By Matthew Roch
BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, BEST HORROR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Thriller)
Not Without Gloves
By Lena Mattsson
BEST POETRY SHORT FILM, BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR
The Rorschach Test
By Lena Mattsson
BEST ORIGINAL INSPIRATIONAL FILM 2025
Alta California
By Lynn Elliott
BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT
Pirandello’s Wife
By Lynn Elliott
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER
“Only You Can Save Her,” pilot teleplay of series THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
By Lynn Elliott
BEST ORIGINAL TELEVISION SCRIPT OF THE YEAR
S2 E1 Premiere: Halloween Hotness with Brian Sikoff
By Tommy Anderson Sh
BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES 2025
The Little Match-Seller
By Danilo Del Tufo
BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATION
Chasing Truths
By Dennis Manning
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE 2025 & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR
An Ever After Drama
By Michelle Lynn
BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST ACTING, BEST EDITNG & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Secrets of Montmartre 3
By Michelle Lynn
BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
Silver Heels
By Michelle Lynn
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER (Category: Book/Manuscript)
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
By Ken Kimmelman
BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Inspirational Film) & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING
American Money
By Timothy A McGhee
BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT
Eye of the Storm
By Brooke Wolff
BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR 2025, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Colombano e la 21esima Fetta
By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY
The Duchess
By C. Arnold Curry
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL WRINTING STYLE
Virulence
By Christopher Pennington
BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY
The Dead Ringer
By Suzanne Lutas
BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE
Mecca
By Monte Albers de Leon
BEST INDIE WRITER & BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY



Tom and Luce
By Muxel Paule
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DRAMA
Mother, Mother
By Micki Dickoff
BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Short Film)
Something ain’t right
By Susan Downs
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR
Wacko
By Matthew Roch
BEST THRILLER FEATURE FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Horror)
Poo Pookudhu (From RAIL Movie) – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
By S. J. Jananiy
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