Winners - February 2025

Best Picture

The Price of Progress, LAX and its neighbors - Kevin Keith Williamson

Best Narrative Short

Tiny Teaching Tales - Julie Anne Burch

Best Indie Feature

If I Let It Win - Charles Lednicky

Best Indie Short

The Healing Process - An-J Hays

Best Dark Comedy

VIATICUM - Derek Frey

Best Thriller

Dakota Stone - Sherice Griffiths, Alfie Scattergood

Best Experimental Film

The Healing Process - An-J Hays

Best Inspirational Film

Pushing Up Daisies - Morgan Notari

Best Crime Film

For: LiLa - Kaitron Bryant, Malik Myers

Best Documentary Feature

The Price of Progress, LAX and its neighbors - Kevin Keith Williamson

Best Documentary Short

Peking Opera - Yiqing Wei

Best Animation

Tiny Teaching Tales - Julie Anne Burch

Best Music Video

What About Me - Alex Visani, Garry S Frost, Frances S Swan, Charles S D'Alberto

Best Student Film

The Waiting Room - Noah Friend

Best Director

LATE - Jacob Vincent Robicheau

Best First Time Director (Feature)

If I Let It Win - Charles Lednicky

Best First Time Director (Short)

The Guild - Malik Myers

Best Indie Filmmaker

The Guild - Malik Myers

Best Young Filmmaker

Light in The Dark - Jaythan Sutrisno, David Tahir Setiawan, Dylan Gunadi

Best Actor

If I Let It Win - Charles Lednicky

Best Actress

Don't Read my Diary - Maria Karolina

Best Supporting Actor

For: LiLa - Jose Eduardo Ramos

Best Young Actor

Finding Ava - Giovanni Siciliano

Best Young Actress

Finding Ava - Rylee McKinney

Best Duo

LATE - Bayden Slavik & Katie Boyle

Best Ensemble

For: LiLa - Edoardo Miranda, Manu Marquez, Adele Marie Ruiz, Jose Eduardo Ramos, Andrea Meireles, Rich Orlow

Best Cinematography

Dakota Stone - Matt Gatherpole

Best Score

If I Let It Win - Theo Kocher

Best Song

This Is Our Time - Debra Gussin, Dale Effren

Best Trailer

For: LiLa - Kaitron Bryant, Malik Myers

Best Original Story

The Waiting Room - Noah Friend

Screenplay of the Month

Dreme - Ashok Reddy

Best Feature Screenplay

Dreme - Ashok Reddy

Best Short Screenplay

Pockets - Erik Walker Neill, Anthony DeVine

Best Horror Screenplay

Inner Demons: The Exorcism of Cardinal Torres - Claudio Martinez Valle

Best First Time Screenwriter (Feature)

The Mist Beyond Our Window - Thomas Newman

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