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2025 Award Winners

  • Rules of Living

    BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE

    Greg Dale, Director/Writer
    Jeffrey Rowe, Producer
    Katie Rong, Producer

    WEBSITE

  • Snowbird

    BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

    Patrick Curran, Director/Writer/Producer
    Devin Skrade, Producer
    Jay Seals, Producer
    Julia Schott, Producer

    TRAILER

  • Capturing Kennedy

    BEST DOCUMENTARY

    Steele Austin Burrow, Director/Writer/Producer
    Erin O'Connor, Writer
    Andrew Lawton, Producer
    Keith Soucy, Producer
    Kelly O'Donnell, Producer
    Miriam Horn, Producer

    WEBSITE

  • Overripe: The Rise and Fall of AppHarvest

    BEST STUDENT FILM

    Luke Dixon, Director/Writer/Producer
    Evan Glover, Director/Writer/Producer
    Connor Hammons, Director/Writer/Producer
    Danyon Snell, Director/Writer/Producer

  • Shuffle

    HONORABLE MENTION

    Benjamin Flaherty, Director/Producer/Writer
    Carra Greenberg, Producer
    Scott Paskoff, Producer
    Harris Fishman, Producer

  • My So-Called Iraqi Wedding

    HONORABLE MENTION

    Ayser Salman, Director/Writer/Producer
    Sarah Siadat, Producer

    INSTAGRAM

  • The Little Things That Run The World

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

    Doug Hawes-Davis, Director/Camera & Sound
    Dru Carr, Editor/Camera & Sound
    Damon Ristau, Camera & Sound
    Ken Furrow, Camera & Sound

    WEBSITE

  • Freeman Vines

    BEST SOUND/MUSIC

    André Robert Lee, Director
    Tim Kirkman, Director
    Gill Holland, Producer

    TRAILER

  • K'uchu: A Childhood Place

    BEST ANIMATION

    Alessio Del Pozo Temoche, Director/Writer
    Bárbara Linda Rios Tamayo, Producer

    TRAILER

  • The Ladder

    BEST CAST

    Emilio Miguel Torres, Director/Writer
    Alexandria Hellman, Producer

    WEBSITE

  • Freeman Vines

    AUDIENCE CHOICE

    André Robert Lee, Director
    Tim Kirkman, Director
    Gill Holland, Producer

    TRAILER

2025 Festival Finalists

A Good Dark Roast: A Mr. Henderson Story
Appalheads
Backside
Bible Camp
Bob Morgan's Just Going to Tell Some Stories
Cactus in Need
Capturing Kennedy
Cell Buddies
Freeman Vines
K'uchu: A Childhood Place
Over
Overripe: The Rise and Fall of AppHarvest
Pierre West
Rules of Living
Snowbird
The Funeral of Kwadae
The Ladder
The Little Things that Run the World
Unstable: A Ponytale
Vadakkan
Vita Nova
Your Last Best: A Memphis Rox Story

2025 Official Selections

A Good Dark Roast: A Mr. Henderson Story
Appalheads
Backside
Bible Camp
Bob Morgan's Just Going to Tell Some Stories
Breakroom
Cactus in Need
Capturing Kennedy
Cell Buddies
Collage
Distilling Augusta
Do You Ever Think About Flying?
Escaping Gravity
Eugene O'Neill's The First Man
Everything in its Place
Fisherman's Dream
Forememberence
Fortunas
Freeman Vines
From The Cowboy's Boot Heel: The Musical Journey of Rob McNurlin
In Service to Others
K'uchu: A Childhood Place
Love at First Sight
Mace
Maitighar
Mary Alice
My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is: The Legacy of Dr. Jane Ellen McAllister
My So-Called Iraqi Wedding
Nani
Nora: A Craft Story
Over
Overripe: The Rise and Fall of AppHarvest
Pierre West
Quest for Beauty
Rules of Living
Shuffle
Snowbird
Spectrum of Consumption: A Conservation Story
The Funeral of Kwadae
The Ladder
The Lantern Man
The Reach
The Little Things that Run the World
To Be a Kid Again
Unstable: A Ponytale
Vadakkan
Vita Nova
Your Last Best: A Memphis Rox Story