HOLLYWOOD ARTHOUSE YEARBOOK 2025

2025 October 21

HOLLYWOOD ARTHOUSE YEARBOOK 2025

French Broad

By Reid Barwick

BEST ORIGINAL PILOT TV/TELEVISION SCRIPT 2025

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Casey & Ian S. Williams

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025 & BEST PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

The Ballad of Wonderhussy and Other Desert Tales

Michael Mayhan

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Indie Musical)

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST SPIRITUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ACTRESS (Category: Experimental Film)

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST INDIE INTERNATIONAL PICTURE 2025, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR, BEST CAST, BEST HORROR & BEST SUSPENSE

Something ain’t right

By Susan Downs

BEST DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Garbage Rex

By Steve Hunyi

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER

TinMan

By Kevin Tudor

BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER, BEST INDIE PRODUCER, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST ARTHOUSE FILM, BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST SCRRENPLAY

Paco

By Cresencio Medina

BEST INTERNATIONAL TV SERIES & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Legends of the Land of Quails

By Dr Dawn Menge

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING

Revisited – Life is Short

By TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Music Video) & BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Thinking

By Valerie Knill

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT

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

Urban Eats MTL

By Ioannis Koutroubis

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

Hotel Purgatorio

By Joey Agbayani

BEST FANTASY OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR, BEST ANIMATED FILM & BEST SCREENPLAY

63Geminorum

By Laura Calderini

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT 2025

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER & BEST FEATURE SCRIPT

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

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

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)

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST WRITER 2025 (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

Fear not, my child

By Michaela Kuti

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG 2025, BEST INDIE SINGER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Song)

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST ACTOR 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

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 INDIE MOVIEMAKER OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: Narrative Short Film)

Forevermore

By Danilo Del Tufo

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

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 Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN INDIE WRITER

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

The Mountain

By Ruth Finnegan

BEST SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST PRODUCER & BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR

Malibu Madam

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT

Only in Malibu

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR

Gold Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: International Feature Script)

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Wave Man

By Anna Morelli

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Ricerca

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST INTERNATIONAL VOICE , BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST GUITARIST

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SONG WRITER & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SONG 

Nelle Sue mani

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST INDIE SINGER & SPIRITUAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR 2025

Dancing with Spies @Goddess

By Francis Billingsley

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

Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL PROJECT OF THE YEAR

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST EDITING & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Experimental Film)

Sands of time

By Kevin Wang

BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM, BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Poo Pookudhu (From RAIL Movie) – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

By S. J. Jananiy

BEST INTERNATIONAL SOUNDTRACK OF THE YEAR