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2025 Winners and Nominees

Here are the nominees and award winners for each month. Please note that the ceremony is a limited screening of award-winning films and will be scheduled twice per year.

January

Best Short:

Award Winner – La valse des adieux version anglaise – By Louis Salvatore Bellanti
Selected – Bored. – By Adam Marley
Selected – Dune Forest – By Liener Van Hauwaert
Selected – In the Name of the Past, Present and Future – By Dora Finns
Selected – Rouge – By Nicholas Jackson
Selected – The Fish Atop

Best Feature:

Award Winner – A Fragile Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland  – By Rory Duffy
Selected – Souls Of The Damned – By Frank Palangi

February

Best Short:

Award Winner – The Deadline – By Catherine McGovern, Teresa Varadan
Selected – Building Bub’s Grubs – By Loye Miller
Selected – Conquering Kili – Why I Climbed to the Roof of Africa – By Preston Rudie
Selected – Dating in LA: Episode 1 – By Oboatarhe Ebiye Ikuku
Selected – Seventy-Four – By Bill Thibeault
Selected – Tailgunner – By Serena Y. Cheng
Selected – Weight of the Badge – By Paul Dean Johnson

March

Best Short:

Award Winner – EXPENSIVE SMILE – SONRISA CARA – By Nico Gallegos Anda
Selected – 8 Minutes – By Charles Irvin
Selected – Distant Blueshift – By ALOYSIUS ONG
Selected – Julian Bah • Evolution – By Brandon Andersen, Julian Bah
Selected – Last Choice – By Josh Ingle Jr.
Selected – Locked – By Mia De rauch
Selected – Ocean of Sounds – By Jackson Kingsley
Selected – Those Unsaid – By YONGCHEN TAN
Selected – West Landing – By Doug Gallo

Best Feature:

Award Winner – The Eternal Song – By Zaya Ralitza Benazzo, Maurizio Benazzo
Selected – THE SECURITY GUARD – By Wilfred La Salle

April

Best Short:
Award Winner – Identity – By Kurt Grech
Selected – BEAVERFEST | A Whitewater Campaign – By Kathleen Thompson
Selected – GOOD FATE – By Daniel Sandoval
Selected – In Heaven One Day – By Kyle Chase
Selected – Tending the Tides: Maine’s Aquaculture Apprenticeship – By Trixie Betz
Selected – Unreachable – By Jared Hedges

Best Feature:

Award Winner – Finn – By Travis Ketzak
Selected – Not a Love Story – By Brian Lutes
Selected – T.G. – By Gregory Gullo
Selected – Wallie’s Gals – By Mary C. Ferrara

May

Best Short:

Best Feature:

December

Best Short:

Best Feature: