LAFA Winners - October 2026
Best Picture
Radical - Aizen Malki
Best Narrative Film
Radical - Aizen Malki
Best Drama
This Is How It Happened - Christopher Goutman
Best Comedy
Seat Covers - John Norris Ray, Maria Victoria Sanchez
Best Sci-Fi
Confetti Star-ion: The NASA COSI & Cosmic Rhapsody Initiative - Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan
Best Inspirational Film
Pao. Driven by Passion - Jose Francisco Malave
Best Dance Film
Butterfly - Guan Fang
Best AI Film
Nothing to Celebrate - Jose Francisco Malave
Best Commercial/Promotional Video
Resilient Taiwan. Sustainable Future. - Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
Best Romantic Comedy
The Talk - Jonathon Taylor Jones, Iman Nazemzadeh
Best Documentary Feature
Boris & Rocky - Chris Claudio
Best Documentary Short
Back In The Saddle - Joel Oelze
Best Animation
MILLGOOD - Hsun-Chun Chuang
Best Music Video
The Hole in One: A Golf Song - Eytan Ribner, Kev Miles
Best Director
Radical - Aizen Malki
Best First Time Director
A Black Box - Peiyi Yao
Best Young Filmmaker
Hereafter, Three Two Years - Shuxuan Wang
Best Actor
Radical - Swen Temmel
Best Actress
Radical - Taissa Zveiter
Best Supporting Actor
The Talk - John Cutolo
Best Child Actor
Lebedynske - Victor Kozlowski
Best Duo
The Talk - Jonathon Taylor Jones & John Cutolo
Best Song
Confetti Star-ion: The NASA COSI & Cosmic Rhapsody Initiative - Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Joi Barua, Manu Martin, Tom Ball
Best Visual Effects
Sins of Dorian Gray - JEYNIX
Screenplay of the Month
Gehenna - Aizen Malki
Best Feature Screenplay
Gehenna - Aizen Malki
Best Short Screenplay
UNDERTOW - Jason Bickings
Best Drama Screenplay
For Your Tomorrow - Jonathan Fear
Best Comedy Screenplay
Cooked - John Francis Czarnik
Best Dark Comedy Screenplay
MexCapades - Jennifer Titus
Best Horror Screenplay
Things Kept Inside - Naomi Neddow
Best Thriller Screenplay
Deadwater Run - Henry Sarwer-Foner
Best First Time Screenwriter (Feature)
Second Chances - John Raymond Rogers
Best First Time Screenwriter (Short)
Pseudologia Fantastica - Elizabeth Klingele
Best Television Script
This Is The Fun Part - Stacey Harman
Honorable Mention: Television Script
Rose & 5th - Tracy Leinbach
Special Jury Award - Screenplay
Viral Code - Amy Kinney
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* Winners may order an official LAFA statuette
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* Selected projects will qualify for the 13th Annual LAFA 2028
