Best Picture
I AM DUCK
Nicholas Zweig
United States
(tie)
Best Picture
FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS
Matthew Doherty & Simin Dolatkhah
Australia
(alphabetical order by Film's title)
Best First Time Director
Gold Award: Short Film
A BOOK BY THEIR COVER
John Tedeschi
United States
Honorable Mention
A GUARDIAN'S HEART
Wayne D Burdette Jr
United States
Silver Award: Indie Feature Film
A MATADOR IN PARIS
Troy Henriksen
France
Best Comedy
A NOT SO CRYPTIC RELATIONSHIP
Jack Judd
United Kingdom
Gold Award: First Time Director
Silver Award: Short Film
ACTION JUICE
Jake Bongiovi
United States
Gold Award: Cinematography (Rohan Guha Ramabhadran)
ALIVE - MARKYB
Charles Walker
United States
Best Feature Documentary
BEYOND ETERNITY - ARCHITECTURE FACING THE IMPERMANENCE
Arian Lehner
Austria
Best Drama
BURN-OUT BLUE
Sarawut Thongsrikum
Thailand
Silver Award: Super Short Film
COLD CRUEL DAY
Greg L Hines
United States
Best Indie Short Film
COFFEE BLACK
Bobby Schmidt
United States
Silver Award: Comedy
COMMUNICATION
Dogan Yildiz
Denmark
Silver Award: Indie Short Film
DESERT HAREM
John Angell Grant
United States
Honorable Mention
DEVIL'S HEIR: RETRIBUTION
Written by Wayne D Burdette Jr
United States
Best Short Script
DISTRACTIONS
Written by Bob Messinger
United States
Gold Award: Short Script
FIDO
Written by John Norris Ray
United States
Best Short Documentary
HOT AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN IN MONTANA
Ken Kimmelman
United States
Gold Award: Super Short Film
I DON'T WANT TO BE CRUEL
Daniel Mejia
Colombia
Gold Award: Feature Film
LILITH
Dale Edward Crawford
Australia
Best Music Video;
Best Original Song
LISTEN NOT
Hao Li
United States
Silver Award: Feature Documentary
LOOK UP - THE SCIENCE OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold & Espen Jan Folmo
Norway
Gold Award: Indie Short Film
Silver Award: Experimental Film
LOTUS
Bryce Mackie & Brennan Collins
United States
Best Short Film
LULLABY (2024)
Tak Inagaki
United States
Best Super Short Film
LURK
John Angell Grant
United States
Gold Award: Feature Script
MECCA
Written by Monte Albers de Leon
United States
Silver Award: Short Documentary
MISSING WITH PRIVILEGE
Kat Fitzgerald
United States
Gold Award: Music Video
NEIGHBOR
Adar Wadislavski
Israel
Silver Award: Original Song (Christopher R. Owens & Wendy A. Ward)
Silver Award: Animated Film
ORANGE BLUES 24
Alyssa Dann
United States
Best Student Film
Silver Award: First Time Director
OZ DOESN'T EXIST
Mikel Capriano
United States
Best Feature Film
PEGAME
Dylan Verrechia
Mexico
Gold Award: Short Documentary
PRIMAL ALCHEMY: COOKING WHAT NATURE PROVIDES EPISODE 2: FIVEPOINT
Paige Glasser Boyd
United States
Silver Award: Student Film
REFLECTION
Yana Toyber
United States
Gold Award: Student Film
REMEMBER ME
Lauren P. Tyree
United States
Gold Award: Experimental
RETHINK - PHILOSOPHICAL WEB SERIES
Olaf Lenz
Germany
Gold Award: Director
ROOMPACT
Divit Jozef
United States
Gold Award: Feature Documentary
SEMITJOV - DREAMS FOR A BETTER WORLD
Micke Engström
Sweden
Gold Award: Horror
SMUGGLERS REST
Steven Lancefield
United Kingdom
Best Indie Feature Film
STAR SWORD: THE HIGH TABLE
Emre Oran
United Kingdom
Best Feature Script
STRANDED
Written by Line Rainville & Franco Pirrone
Canada
Gold Award: Animation
TAICHUNG GIN-NA
Tomas Lin
Taiwan
Silver Award: Horror
THE BASKET LADY
Jerilynn Arnold & Joey Lopez
United States
Gold Award: Comedy
THE CUPCAKE CHRONICLES VOL. 1
Kevin Byrnes
United States
Silver Award: Feature Film
THE FAMILY BUSINESS
Joe Hollow
United States
Gold Award: Drama
THE LAST RANGER
Cindy Lee
United States
Silver Award: Drama
THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE
Joshua Parham
United States
Best Horror
THE SHADOW PEOPLE: HEART OF DARKNESS
Joe Yates
United Kingdom
Honorable Mention
THE SILENT REBELLION
Christan Van Slyke
United States
Silver Award: Feature Script
THE STYROFOAM SHAMAN
Written by Christopher Manydeeds
United States
Best Experimental Film
THE SUMMER OF LOVE
Fraser Kershaw
United States
Best Animated Film
WALL UNIT
Joanna Polak
Poland
Silver Award: Music Video
Gold Award: Original Song
WHERE THE HEART GOES
PJ Bracco
United States
Best Director
Best Cinematography (Charles Hiddleston)
Silver Award: Feature Film
Gold Award: Indie Feature Film
YOU ARE HERE - A DYLAN BRODY PROJECT
Dylan Brody
United States