INDUSTRY AWARDS
Best Animation: Kim Denney Jones & Brian Rhodes (Presenters)
WILD ANIMAL - Winner
OROBORO - 1st Runner-Up
Flowers for Mom - 2nd Runner-Up
Best Comedy: Steven Peterman (Presenter)
Curtains - Winner
Royal Foot Guards - 1st Runner-Up
Last Words - 2nd Runner-Up
Best Drama: Fior Fabian (Presenters)
Neither Donkey Nor Horse - Winner
Trife - 1st Runner-Up
Mr. Floof - 2nd Runner-Up
Best Documentary: Sandrine Cassidy (Presenter)
Talk Straight, Duda - Winner
A Good Death - 1st Runner-Up
La Linea - 2nd Runner-Up
Best Social Change: Bobbi Broome (Presenter)
Many Thousands Lost - Winner
Silence = Death - 1st Runner-Up
NENA - 2nd Runner-Up
Best Genre: Kate Oh (Presenter)
THE THINGS WE KEEP - Winner
Model Citizen - 1st Runner-Up
Death Doula - 2nd Runner-Up
First Look Pitch & Panel Panavision Best Pitch Award
FOCUS Features Best Film Award
Faculty Award Winners:
Cinematography: Angelo Pacifici (Presenter)
Narrative Fiction
Winner: Many Thousands Lost, Cinematography by Caileigh Gold
1rst Runner up: Goodbye Stranger, Cinematography by, Ziqi Yang
2nd Runner up: Barbie Boy, Cinematography by Devon Johns
Documentary
Winner: La Linea, Cinematography by Abel Guan
1rst Runner up: Boil That Cabbage Down, Cinematography by Thom Kristensen
Directing: (Jeremy Kagan presenting via Video)
Winner: Royal Foot Guards, Directed by Pranay Mathur
1rst Runner up: Neither Donkey Nor Horse, Directed by Robin Wang
2nd Runner up: Barbie Boy, Directed by Remi Gabriel
Editing: Duwyane Dunham
Winner: Neither Donkey Nor Horse, Edited by Ted Beck & Avo John Kambourian
1rst Runner up: Last Words, Edited by Aric Lopez
2nd Runner up: Dear Mr. Hitman, Edited by Aanchal Ramchandani & Divyansh Singh
Producing: Brenda Goodman (Presenter)
Winner: Silence = Death, Produced by Kate Hanson & Adetola Omilana
1rst Runner up: Royal Foot Guards, Produced by Billy Tsiolis & Joe Grode
2nd Runner up: Neither Donkey Nor Horse, Produced by Robin Wang, Jesse Aultman, Aslan Dalgic, Chirsten Vanderbilt Ellis, Lilith Mo
Production Design: Michael Provart (Presenter)
Winner: Model Citizen, Production Designed by Jackson Dahl
1st Runner up: Barbie Boy, Production Designed by Melissa Housos
2nd Runner up: Ava, Production Designed by Kalina Kirkbridge
Screenwriting: Dave Weber (Presenter)
Winner: No Loose Ends, Written by Neil Zafar Haeems
1rst Runner up: Curtains, Written by Joanna Fernandez
2nd Runner up: Barbie Boy, Written by Remi Gabriel & Hand-Me-Downs, Written by Megan Dang
Sound: Richard Burton (Presenter)
Winner: Starting Line, Sound Design by Yorkson Yuxuan Liu & Model Citizen, Sound Design by Vincent Essid
1rst Runner up: M87, Sound Design by Jacob Piller & Su Lee
2nd Runner up: Ava, Sound Design by Wellesley Mobasser & Hector Martinez
List of 2025 Films:
Click the below boxes to learn more about the films and watch trailers from each category.
Drama
Two Breaths (18:29)
Starting Line (14:53)
MOURNING MOLLY (12:42)
The Last Sonata (17:59)
Brooklyn (20:32)
Goodbye Stranger (16:24)
Neither Donkey Nor Horse (28:29)
Barbie Boy (15:33)
Into Dust (13:36)
For Mr. Johnson (17:34)
Multo (16:05)
Trois (14:43)
Saturn's Return (12:53)
Mr. Floof (14:20)
Aura (16:07)
Trife (12:44)
LOCK (封锁) (18:16)
M87 (13:00)
A Thousand Years (30:26)
The Custodian (13:38)
Traingazing (14:10)
Corazón en el Diamante / Heart on the Diamond (12:56)
Hand-Me-Downs (13:31)