WINNERS – Special Event in LAS VEGAS, 8 & Halfilm Awards 2025

2025 December 12

WINNERS – Special Event in LAS VEGAS, 8 & Halfilm Awards 2025

Rethink – Philosophical web series

By Olaf Lenz

BEST ORIGINAL WEB SERIES & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Web Series)

TinMan

By Kevin V Tudor

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Film), BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR, BEST COSTUME DESIGNER & BEST SOUNSTRACK

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: International Screenplay)

Christmas Card

By Kel Owens

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM, BEST CAST, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Narrative Short)

The Legend Of The Bum-Barian

By Kel Owens

BEST MOVIEMAKER, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Short Film)

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHER

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY, BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST AMERICAN PRODUCER & BEST POETRY DOCUMENTARY

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST EDITING

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST ESPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Documentary Feature)

The Priory of Sion and the treasure of abbey Sauniere of Rennes the Castle France

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER & BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR & BEST AMERICAN WRITER 2025

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

The Mongrel

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST PILOT TV

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST AMERICAN ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SCREENPLAY, BEST ACTING & BEST SCREENWRITER

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SONG WRITER, BEST GUITARIST & BEST SPIRITUAL SONG 

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Plumeria Aesthetics

By Lilith Ivy von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR & BEST AMERICAN WRITER

Malibu Madam

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Only in Malibu

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT)

Gold Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INDIE WRITER OF THE YEAR

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILM 2025, BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST DIRECTOR 2025, BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST PRODUCER

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST GLOBAL ACTRESS, BEST CINEMATOGRAPH Y& BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Secrets of Montmartre

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER 2025 (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT) & BEST INTERNATIONAL ROMANCE SCRIPT

Water

By Gary Beeber

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST EDITIND, BEST PRODUCER & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: International Documentary Feature)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025, BEST ORIGINAL WRINTING SYLE & BEST SCREENWRITER

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: EXPERIMENTAL)

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR, BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE ACTRESS

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Dance Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL EDITING & BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE HISTORICAL SHORT FILM

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INSIPRATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER

The Queen of Camelot

By Roger Paradiso

BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER 2025

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST INTERNATIONAL HORROR & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: Thriller)