The following projects — spanning short films, TV & web series, and screenplays — are the finalists for the September season, competing across 65 categories. These works were selected from an official pool with a 65.8% acceptance rate, drawn from submissions across 15 countries, totaling 20:54:43 of runtime, plus short scripts.
The nominated projects rank within the top 41.6%.
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 September 2025
Best Indie Short
City of Visions by Joslyn Rose Lyons (USA)
Kinfolk by Andre Dixon (USA)
Sob Story by Cooper Jesse Silverman (USA)
Best Drama Short
Taap by Aditya Kumar (India)
The Second Oldest Man Alive by Jeremy Max (USA)
The Silence Between Us by Devansh Saraf (India)
Best Documentary Short
Alaska Rescue Story by Mark D Rose (USA)
City of Smoke by Nadia Akbar and Alicia Chiang (USA)
Still She Rides by Anya Ramani and Anya Kothari (USA)
Best Comedy Short
Kicking Toward Tomorrow! by Yunbin Na (South Korea)
Sob Story by Cooper Jesse Silverman (USA)
Stall Buddies by Glenn McBride Jr (USA)
The Paradox Of Choice by Liliana Berman (USA)
Tooth Jerry by Ruya Yaman (USA)
Best Dark Comedy Short
TBA
Best Film Noir Short
In The Small Hours by Jake Marone (USA)
Seconds in Eternity by Christian Schu (Estonia and Germany)
The Will Beneath by Diag Mikelan Govender (South Africa)
Best Horror Short
Familiar by Julien Homère (France)
MotherWound by Hana Holloway and Camille Zapata (USA)
The Mortician’s Daughter by Elwood Quincy Walker (USA)
Best Fantasy Short
TBA
Best Animation Short
Game Boys by Millie Munoz, Kylie Mundell, and Ava Schneiderman (USA)
Praying For Love by Sofia Tonin (USA)
Where the Rain Stops by Dojin Kim (South Korea)
Best Women Short
TBA
Best Experimental Short
TBA
Best Microfilm
TBA
Best Music Video
Losing Ace by Sally Dora Clack-Manning (UK)
Marionette – Ava Della Pietra by Nathan Levine-Heaney (USA)
Moon Over Capri – Ava Della Pietra by Nathan Levine-Heaney (USA)
Sakura Gansha by Sijin Liu (Taiwan)
Why Me by Xinran Gu (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot
TBA
Best Parody Short
TBA
Best Short Script
Counting by Yixian Guo (USA)
Hodag by Jake Bernstein (USA)
Miss Buttercup by William James Strickler (USA)
Moments Recalled Before They’re Lost by Glenn McBride Jr and Brannon Brass (USA)
The Old Man And The Paintbrush by Christopher Loveland (USA)
Technical Categories: Nominations for September 2025
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