The following projects — spanning short films, TV & web series, and screenplays — are the finalists for the March/April season, competing across 65 categories. These works were selected from an official pool with a 48.8% acceptance rate, drawn from submissions across 11 countries, totaling 11:41:40 of runtime, plus short scripts.
The nominated projects rank within the top 32.9%.
Categories not listed have no submissions meeting the minimum score requirements.
Categories marked “TBA” have two or fewer qualifying projects. Winners in these categories will be announced alongside the award recipients for all other categories.
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Technical Categories: Nominations for March/April 2025
Best Indie Short
Every Dog by Sean Alexander May (USA)
No Mistakes by Graham Ros (USA)
Popcorn by Fangjian Li (USA)



Best Documentary Short
TBA
Best Comedy Short
TBA
Best Dark Comedy Short
TBA
Best Action Short
TBA
Best Thriller Short
TBA
Best Horror Short
Infectious Spirit by Emma Jocelyn Thornton (New Zealand)
Peeling Off by Yinghui Li (USA)
Tretten by Maxime Vaux (France)



Best Sci-Fi Short
TBA
Best Western Short
TBA
Best Experimental Short
The Butterfly Dream (胡蝶之夢) by Suhyeon Scholastica Jin and Aria Suhyun Kim (South Korea)
The Memory Experiment by Kerrilee Gore (USA)
When The Clocks Stop by Brett Willis (USA)



Best Microfilm
TBA
Best Music Video
A-F-R-O: Posse Part 3 (80 Emcees) by A-F-R-O (USA)
Copilot by Jeremiah Hammerling and Robert Devine (USA)
Oh Child by Anickan (USA)
Our Hands From Fallout: A New American Musical by Alex Teplish and Dmitry Koltunov (USA)
Smoldering-Smoldering by Ilya Noyabrev (Ukraine)





Best Web Series/TV Pilot
TBA
Best Short Script
TBA
Technical Categories: Nominations for March/April 2025
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