WINNERS DIARIO ITALIANO Script Awards

2025 October 1

WINNERS DIARIO ITALIANO Script Awards

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