WINNERS San Francisco Film Achievement Awards 2025

2025 July 3

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