LAFA Winners - December 2025
- LAFA Team
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
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 Film
Beyond the Screen - Gyumin Kim
Best Sci-Fi
IBLIS - Matthew Stacey, Jay Smith Ackerman
Best Experimental Film
Hollow Earth - Chad Adair
Best Dance Film
Don't Look Down - Rosalind Joyce
Best Action Film
EHAM Classified - Eric Hamilton
Best Commercial
Happiness 40 - Hsun-Chun Chuang
Best Documentary Feature
Love Beyond Time - Amber Barbach
Honorable Mention: Documentary Feature
The 3100 - Mark Fisher
Best Documentary Short
Rhythms: An Indivisible Marathon Swim - Zayde Naquib
Honorable Mention: Documentary Short
Leave Them Wanting Less - Michael Malone, Tom Simmons
Best Animation
Nightmare of MOLOKA - Hsun-Chun Chuang
Honorable Mention: Animation
The Enclosure - Ran Zhang
Best Student Film
True Love Beneath the Sun - Ella Chen
Honorable Mention: Student Film
Last Cigarette - Yi He
Best Microfilm
Pieces of Me - Tzuyu Tung
Best First Time Director (Feature)
Field of Fears The Haunting of Randolph County Asylum - Matthew Sorge
Best First Time Director (Short)
Ready? Boom! - Zhencheng Chen
Honorable Mention: First Time Director
The Crossing - Bingan Li
Best Actor
This Is Birmingham - Kay S. Ubhi
Best Actress
Connie & Clyde - Lauren Call
Best Actor in an Indie Film
Sparkling Sea - Rummel Mor
Screenplay of the Month
Living Dead - Christopher Adam Shafer
Best Feature Screenplay
Living Dead - Christopher Adam Shafer
Honorable Mention: Feature Screenplay
To Die Is The Game - Nickolas Solan
Best Short Screenplay
Of Summer Storms & Salt - Jessica L. Folk
Honorable Mention: Short Screenplay
The Space Between - Ming Fen Congdon
Best Drama Screenplay
Contracted - John P McHale, Xavier Jackson, Lee Anne Hale
Best Horror Screenplay
The Lab - Nancy Lydia Kimmel
Best Sci-Fi Screenplay
Human Element - Dariusz Kraszewski
Best First Time Screenwriter (Feature)
Living Dead - Christopher Adam Shafer
Honorable Mention: First Time Screenwriter (Feature)
The Lost Team - Felipe Perrotta
Best First Time Screenwriter (Short)
403 - Natalia Samples
Honorable Mention: First Time Screenwriter (Short)
Red Lobster - Elaine Dale
Best Television Script
Darklings - Moonlit Haze - Ray Nag
Honorable Mention: Television Script
12:37 'Resistance Country' - Michael John Fedun, Nick Schönfeld
Special Jury Award - Film
Connie & Clyde - Christopher Long, Celeste Chaney
Special Jury Award - Screenplay
E.A.G.L.E - Stéphanie Cousté
Railbound - Trailer:
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