Award Winners: September 2025

Best Short of the Season (Special Jury Award)

The Second Oldest Man Alive by Jeremy Max (USA)

Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)

Kinfolk by Andre Dixon (USA)

Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention)

The Mortician’s Daughter by Elwood Quincy Walker (USA)

Best Indie Short: Kinfolk by Andre Dixon (USA)

Best Drama Short: The Second Oldest Man Alive by Jeremy Max (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Drama Short): Taap by Aditya Kumar (India)

Honorable Mention (Drama Short): The Silence Between Us by Devansh Saraf (India)

Best Documentary Short: City of Smoke by Nadia Akbar and Alicia Chiang (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Documentary Short): Alaska Rescue Story by Mark D Rose (USA)

Honorable Mention (Documentary Short): Still She Rides by Anya Ramani and Anya Kothari (USA)

Best Comedy Short: Tooth Jerry by Ruya Yaman (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Comedy Short): Kicking Toward Tomorrow! by Yunbin Na (South Korea)

Best Student Comedy Short: Sob Story by Cooper Jesse Silverman (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Dark Comedy Short): The Self Starter by Ben Heller and Daniel Calcagne (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Film Noir Short): In The Small Hours by Jake Marone (USA)

Best Student Film Noir Short: The Will Beneath by Diag Mikelan Govender (South Africa)

Best Horror Short: The Mortician’s Daughter by Elwood Quincy Walker (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Horror Short): MotherWound by Hana Holloway and Camille Zapata (USA)

Best Fantasy Short: 15 to Sunrise by Joel Austin (USA)

Honorable Mention (Fantasy Short): Conductor by Sergey Sergeevich Valikov (Russia)

Best Animation Short: Where the Rain Stops by Dojin Kim (South Korea)

Best Student Animation Short: Praying For Love by Sofia Tonin (USA)

Honorable Mention (Animation Short): Game Boys by Millie Munoz, Kylie Mundell, and Ava Schneiderman (USA)

Honorable Mention (Women Short): Home Stranger by Maria Samaia (USA)

Honorable Mention (Experimental Short): Beyond The Field of Grass by Felicia Varlotto (USA)

Honorable Mention (Microfilm): Art, not Stain by Seung Min Lee (South Korea)

Best Music Video: Marionette – Ava Della Pietra by Nathan Levine-Heaney (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Music Video): Sakura Gansha by Sijin Liu (Taiwan)

Best Student Music Video: Why Me by Xinran Gu (USA)

Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Name The Price by Thomas Trelet (France)

Honorable Mention (Web Series/TV Pilot): ImSoTyRell Make Some Noise by Garral Odunlade and Nopi Phannavong (USA)

Honorable Mention (Parody Short): The Paradox Of Choice by Liliana Berman (USA)

Best Short Script: Counting by Yixian Guo (USA)

Outstanding Achievement Award (Short Script): Moments Recalled Before They’re Lost by Christopher Loveland (USA)

Honorable Mention (Short Script): Miss Buttercup by William James Strickler (USA)

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