2024-2025
All seasonal winners (fall, winter, spring and summer) will compete to be the best of the best each year for the chance to be screened at the annual ceremony.
Ceremony on Saturday 25 October 2025
Annual Winners 2025
Best film (short) > “Eating Fish” by Hao Zhang
Best cinematography (short) > “Eating Fish” by Hao Zhang
Best filmmaker (short) > “Eating Fish” by Hao Zhang
Best actress (short) > Adele Marie “OCD & Chips” by Joe Borg
Best actor (short) > Nelson Avidon in “CONFESSION” by Paul Schwartz
Best screenplay short film > “CONFESSION” by Nelson Avidon
Best visual effects (short) > “The Silver Lining” by Mikey Aloft
Best production design (short) > “The Filmmaker” by Elcio Cabral Melo
Best costumes (short) > “Girls Will Be Girls” by Isabel Steuble-Johnson
Best makeup (short) > “73 Seconds” by Stacy Gardner
Best editing (short) > “Mise En Place” by Hannah Brannen & Andrew Brannen
Best sound (short) > “BIBLE CAMP” by Philip DeRise
Summer Winners 2025
Best drama (Short) > “CONFESSION” by Paul Schwartz
Best comedy (short) > “One Job” by Dinesh Arnold
Best romance (short) > “My 90s” by Jeryl Parade
Best sci-fi (short) > “Chronology” by Ricky Tyree
Best thriller (short) > “I read your future” by Enzo Bossio
Best fantasy (short) > “Miracles of Christmas” by Jarno Harju
Best action/adventure (short) > “Heist-School” by Loïc Emeric Dewaele
Best horror (short) > “Kreaster” by Jacob Cooney
Best filmmaker (drama short) > “Once a Year” by Caleb Keyte & Mertcan Omer Damoglu
Best filmmaker (fantasy short) > “Once Upon a Time” by Hussain Alahmed
Best filmmaker (sci-fi short) > “The Days of Knight: Chapter 3” by John P Martinez
Best filmmaker (thriller short) > “The Days of Knight: Chapter 3” by John P Martinez
Best filmmaker (action/adventure short) > “The Days of Knight: Chapter 3” by John P Martinez
Best actress (sci-fi short) > Nancy Good in “Ruined Earth - A Climate Crisis Short” by Shahab Zargari
Best actress (comedy short) > Hervine De Boodt in “Next Up” by Elisabeth Silveiro
Best actress (drama short) > Shelby Miller in “Like Fire” by Amy Serrano
Best actor (sci-fi short) > Anthony F Martinez in “The Days of Knight: Chapter 3” by John P Martinez
Best actor (action/adventure short) > Anthony F Martinez in “The Days of Knight: Chapter 3” by John P Martinez
Best actor (drama short) > Nelson Avidon in “CONFESSION” by Paul Schwartz
Best editing (short) > “Forgiving Retribution” by Curt Samlaska
Best cinematography (short) > “The Forgiven” by Burak Kablan
Best production design (short) > “The Filmmaker” by Elcio Cabral Melo
Best screenplay (short) > “CONFESSION” by Paul Schwartz
Best sound (short) > “WALK ALONE” by Anna Szurant
Best visual effects (short) > “Moonridge Manor” by Chris Chichester
Spring Winners 2025
Best costumes (short) > “Power Rangers Demorphed Fan Film” by Da'Rell Miller
Best editing (short) > “Mise En Place” by Hannah Brannen & Andrew Brannen
Best makeup (short) > 73 Seconds by Stacy Gardner
Best cinematography (short) > “Eating Fish” by Hao Zhang
Best production design (short) > “Chthonic” by Tremayne LaMont
Best screenplay (short) > “ESCUTA” by IZAH Izabel Neiva
Best sound (short) > “I Would Be The Bullet” by Ricardo Bouyett
Best visual effects (short) > “NEON HELL” by Dave Thomas & Juan Emilio Veliz
Best actor (drama short) > Andy Goldenberg “Lox” by Dan Pavlik
Best actress (drama short) > Bettina Devin “Lox” by Dan Pavlik
Best filmmaker (comedy short) > “No Heroes In The City” by Dexter Pierce Jr.
Best filmmaker (horror short) > “The Days of Knight” by John P Martinez
Best filmmaker (drama short) > “DROPS OF LIFE” by Fred RAYNAUD
Best filmmaker (fantasy short) > “Eating Fish” by Hao Zhang
Best filmmaker (sci-fi short) > “Moonridge Manor” by Chris Chichester
Best sci-fi (short) > "Lifeboat" by Nick Payne
Best thriller (short) > “Ever There” by Daniel Grace
Best fantasy (short) > “Eating Fish” by Hao Zhang
Best horror (short) > “On Halloween Night” by Matthew Speak
Best fan film (short) > “Power Rangers Demorphed Fan Film” by Da'Rell Miller
Best romance (short) > “Against the Fate” by Mila Paulman
Best comedy (short) > “The Stork” by Stephen Gallacher
Best drama (Short) > “The Girl from Fedamore” by Matthew Rockett
Winter Winners 2024
Best drama (Short) > “THE LAST RANGER” by Cindy Lee
Best sci-fi (short) > “The Silver Lining” by Mikey Altoft
Best thriller (short) > “In Monster’s Hands” by Christopher Sheffield
Best fantasy (short) > “Drip Drip Drip” by Julia Quayle
Best horror (short) > “Rejected” by Rene Rivas
Best romance (short) > “Far from it” by Mario Ghabali
Best comedy (short) > “OCD & Chips” by Joe Borg
Best costumes (short) > “The Part of me” by Vikram Bhandari & Dennis Reinick
Best cinematography (short) > “The Pencil” by ahmet Serhat ak
Best screenplay (short) > “Beyond the Book” by Raquel Vaught
Best sound (short) > “BIBLE CAMP” by Philip DeRise
Best visual effects (short) > “The Silver Lining” by Mikey Altoft
Best actor (sci-fi short) > Alex Petrovich in “The Internet of Everything” by Yusuf Begg
Best actor (comedy short) > Carter Jenkins in “Back in Baby's Arms” by Jackson Giuricich
Best actor (drama short) > Shahbaz Sarwar in “Mashallah!”
Best actress (thriller short) > Pamela Fields in “In Monster’s Hands” by Christopher Sheffield
Best actress (comedy short) > Adele Marie in “OCD & Chips” by Joe Borg
Best actress (fantasy short) > Raquel Vaught in “Beyond the Book”
Best actress (drama short) > Erika Dietz in “73 seconds” by Stacy Gardner
Best actress (horror short) > Bianca Topor in “Sit” by Andrea Ciobanu
Best filmmaker (comedy short) > Angelina Templar for “Live, Laugh, Love!”
Best filmmaker (drama short) > Tristan Barrocks for “Sugar Dumplin”
Best filmmaker (fantasy short) > Raquel Vaught in “Beyond the Book”
Best filmmaker (sci-fi short) > Christopher Matthew Spencer for “The Red Market”
Best filmmaker (thriller short) > Angela Andronache for “THE BOX”
Fall Winners 2024
Best costumes (short) > “Girls Will Be Girls” by Isabel Steuble-Johnson
Best editing (short) > “You Sock!” by Stella Birrenkott
Best screenplay (short) > “Where We Go Next” by Camila Barandearan
Best sound (short) > “Sound Riddle #1” by Alexandre Mahutte
Best cinematography (short) > “A Day Like Tonight” by Patricia Allison & Philipp Walsch
Best visual effects (short) > “Colors” by Manju Subberwal
Best filmmaker (drama short) > “APART” by Luca Pirero
Best filmmaker (sci-fi short) > “Heart-Ware” by Jii Zhang
Best filmmaker (comedy short) > “Just a sec” by Alexandra Konopleva
Best actress (fantasy short) > Rachael Lohrius in “Resonance” by Jonathan R Bauman
Best actress (drama short) > Samara Cannan in “The Remains of Yesterday” by Samara Cannan & Stephen Mylonas
Best actress (horror short) > Cathy Sole in “Haunted” by Rohan Laser King
Best actor (drama short) > Joel Combes in “The Remains of Yesterday” by Samara Cannan & Stephen Mylonas
Best actor (sci-fi short) > Reiji Kurosawa in “Heart-Ware” by Jii Zhang
Best actor (thriller short) > Aaron Dalla Villa “Kid Prosper” by Aaron Dalla Villa & Jesse Pimentel
Best sci-fi (short) > “Ida” by Javier Ideami
Best thriller (short) > “The Trunk” by Tony Susi
Best fantasy (short) > “Where We Go Next” by Camila Barandearan
Best action/adventure (short) > “The Option” by Enzo Bossio
Best horror (short) > “Lucky Devil” by Peter Koevari
Best romance (short) > “Somewhere in Brooklyn” by Brandon D. Wilkerson
Best comedy (short) > “Missing the Trailers” by Max Walters
Best drama (Short) > “The hard art to say goodbye” by Rafael Reis