The following projects — spanning short films, TV & web series, and screenplays — are the finalists for the November season, competing across 65 categories. These works were selected from an official pool with a 46.6% acceptance rate, drawn from submissions across 18 countries, totaling 34:04:43 of runtime, plus short scripts.
The nominated projects rank within the top 32.7%.
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 November 2025
Best Indie Short
A Recipe For Redemption by Will Scott (USA)
Background by Julian DeGuzman (USA)
Currents by Bailey Spore (USA)
Dizzy by Zac La Roc (USA)
Lottie by Bella Rieth (USA)
Best Drama Short
Echoes by Yuming Mai (China)
La Paura dei Numeri (The Fear of Numbers) by Mauro John Capece (Italy)
On Purple by Joe Quartararo (USA)
The Music of Life Itself by Duncan Briely Pulse and Ashley Tula Benem (USA)
What We Hide by Alexander Osman (UK)
Best Documentary Short
TBA
Best Comedy Short
A Film by Roland Wehap by Roland Wehap (Austria)
The Shallow End by Eddie Kisfaludy (USA)
Upside Down by Zachary Dade and Erica Dade (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short
Bulb by Guy Taylor (UK)
Rage Rhonda by Emily Troedson (USA)
The Alchemy of Strangers by Joshua Longfellow Wright (USA)
Best Thriller Short
Paranoid by Junda Wu (USA)
Scarecrow by Jax Azad (USA)
Sweet Molly by J.C. McNaughton (USA)
Best Film Noir Short
TBA
Best Horror Short
Crumbs by Marco Scannicchio (Italy)
Dry Stone by Vitaly Flipgraf (USA)
Secluded by Ethan Guetta (USA)
Best Fantasy Short
TBA
Best Western Short
TBA
Best Children Short
TBA
Best Women Short
TBA
Best LGBTQ Short
TBA
Best Experimental Short
Blanko. by Luca Flores Bortoluz (Mexico)
La Jet by Chris Merrill (USA)
Nem a Cores by Gabriela Bagrichevsky Callado (Brazil)
Best Microfilm
TBA
Best Music Video
Iradoh – 3 Acts of Brotherhood by Kaique Alves and Thiago Eva (Brazil)
Love Myself – Jeff Hilliard by Jeff Hilliard (USA)
Single for Life – Ava Della Pietra by Luke Orlando (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot
TBA
Best Web and New Media
TBA
Best Mobile Short
TBA
Best Short Script
Gators by Linda Kampley (USA)
Germaphobe in A Sex Club by Caitlin Cronenberg and Jessica Ennis (USA)
Labyrinth for the Beetle by Alexei Boiko (Kyrgyzstan)
Re.Soul by Jametria Mays (USA)
Unfolding by Nadja Elpida Murze (Cyprus)
Technical Categories: Nominations for November 2025
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