​​ Best Picture Last Shot - Todd Friedman, Andy Palmer Best Narrative Feature Last Shot - Todd Friedman, Andy Palmer Best Narrative Short HEADBANG - Anna Khaja Honorable Mention: Narrative Film Before The Party's Over - George Welsby, Dane Del Deo Best Indie Film Formidable - Tomorris Ellis, Jordan Scott Honorable Mention: Indie Film Perception - Kevin Austra Best Drama Before The Party's Over - George Welsby, Dane Del Deo Best AI Film Before - Giuseppe Celestino Be

​​ Best Picture Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare - Scott Chambers Best Narrative Feature Written in the Sand - Robert Vaughn, Rickie Castaneda, Megan Hocking Best Narrative Short Catch and Release - Tinker Lindsay, Cameron Keys Best Indie Feature Spades - Johnny Yong Bosch Best Indie Short Tagnuul - Paolo Pagliacolo Best AI Film VoidBorn - Frank Bruno Houbre Best Romance Film Written in the Sand - Robert Vaughn, Rickie Castaneda, Megan Hocking Best Inspirational Film

​​ Best Picture Love Beyond Time - Amber Barbach Best Narrative Film Shallow End - Maria de la Cruz Rudloff Honorable Mention: Narrative Film Bounded - Margaret Sanchez Best Indie Feature The Heiress - Lee Harry Best Indie Short The Bee - Ben Rejzer Honorable Mention: Indie Film The Fa’a’amu Children - Frank Doucet Best Drama Shallow End - Maria de la Cruz Rudloff Best Comedy The Heiress - Lee Harry Best AI Film Railbound - Jonathan Perry, Alex Naghavi Best Romance F

Rising filmmaker Mingfeng Li makes a powerful entrance with So Long, a beautifully crafted black-and-white drama that has already begun capturing attention for its emotional honesty and stunning cinematography. As co-writer, co-director, and director of photography, Li brings a unique visual clarity to this story of an undocumented immigrant family navigating danger and impossible decisions. His work transforms a student project into a cinematic experience filled with heart,

​​ Best Picture Pinocchio and the Water of Life - Victor Luckysov Best Narrative Film In The Small Hours - Jake Marone Honorable Mention: Narrative Film The Opaque - Broderick Russell Jr. Best Indie Feature EGWA - V.K Raju Honorable Mention: Indie Feature MFA: The Terminal Degree - Kevin Carey, Peter Sampieri Best Indie Short The Alchemy of Strangers - Joshua Longfellow Wright Honorable Mention: Indie Short What Was - Adam Courtney, Riley Jack Thompson Best Drama The

“Born Racer” directed by Bobby Shibo Yu is a special little film. Not your typical documentary by any means, director Yu seems to have captured lightening in a bottle with this very real and very present documentary about the growing sport of professional motor kart racing in China. The film centers, in particular, around one exceptional racer as we delve into the intricacies of the motor sport. We watch in real time as the young and determined racer, Daniel Wang, grinds away

​​ Best Picture Deepfaking Sam Altman - Adam Bhala Lough Best Narrative Feature LA Jesus - Richard David Charles Boddington Best Narrative Short Hurt - Jeremy Kunkle Honorable Mention: Narrative Film 4 Long Years - David DeSantos, Molly Durand Best Indie Feature Lost with You - Mike Southerly Honorable Mention: Indie Feature Blair County: A People's History - Mark Andrew Frederick Best Indie Short The Bell Rings - Qianyunuo Qiu Honorable Mention: Indie Short KAMARIA -

“The Making of Star Among the Cosmic Clouds: from Song to Symphony” by Susan Lim is an epic behind the scenes look at the magic and magnitude of just what happens when a collaboration of artists and creators come together out of a shared interest and vision to help uplift the world. It is not only a love letter to these beautiful creative beings, but also to the notion that there is good in humanity and in the very stars from which we once came and will go again.  The film ex

In the current landscape and industry of filmmaking bigger, faster, better seems to be winning out. Audiences have shorter attention spans and demand bigger “bang” for their buck. Fewer and far between are the films that take their time and weave a story, allowing it to flow and unfold in a natural way. Specifically, with documentary filmmaking there also seems to be a trend toward flashier, more fast-paced story telling. Cramming in high-tech edits and sound and special effe

“Summer Triangle” is a new film from director Takeru Nakazawa and a film that is entirely visually generated by Artificial Intelligence. There is plenty of buzz around A.I. in the filmmaking world. Will it work? Will it capture the minds of viewers? Will it hold up against traditional filmmaking? With Summer Triangle, Nakazawa seems to endeavor to tackle some of these big questions. Making a film that he helmed entirely himself, with the help of professional voice artists and