Genre Categories: Nominations for March/April 2025

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

Semi-Finalists

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

Semi-Finalists

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