2025 AWARD NOMINEES

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*BEST FEATURE FILM

Chainsaws Were Singing (Sander Maran) WINNER!

Head Like A Hole (Stefan MacDonald-Labelle)

Labinak: They Are Almost Us (Azhar Kinoi Lubis)

Sugar Rot (Becca Kozak)

Crookedfinger (Julia Halperin & Jason Cortlund)

 

*BEST FEATURETTE

Till Death Do Us Part (Jacob Hamblin) WINNER!

The Butcher Of Thane (Aaradhya Dev Shandilya)

 

*BEST SHORT FILM

Island Life (Gavin Michael Booth)

Bunker Baby (Conor McCormick)

The Nature Of Death (Sean Cruser)

Slush (Ashley George)

The Shadow Of Us (Adam Belmabkhout) WINNER!

 

*BEST MINI-SHORT FILM

Bath Bomb (Colin G. Cooper)

Moving (Nat Rovit)

Strip Mall (Andrew Appelle) WINNER!

Restraining Order (Sharon Maymon & Tal Granit)

Vowels (Rafael De Leon)

 

 BEST WEB SERIES

Cafe Chronicles: The Loop Must Be Closed (Joseph Schlapsi)

The Madness Of David Judge - CHAPTER ONE: Suddenly There Came A Tapping (Mike Mayhall) WINNER!

 

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Murder's Not So Bad (Justin Miller)

Grayshapes - Blade (Ihor Zhebko) WINNER!

Veiled In Shadows (Sami Ylönen)

Killers (August Falcon)

Walk Me Through The Fire - The Curse Of KK Hammond (Kris Hammond)

 

BEST FILM TRAILER

The Crime Family (Jason Markowitz) WINNER!

The Bone Eater (Varaprasad Jonna Venkata)

 

BEST DIRECTOR

Gavin Michael Booth (Island Life)

Ashley George (Slush)

Jacob Hamblin (Till Death Do Us Part) WINNER!

Julia Halperin & Jason Cortlund (Crookedfinger)  

Conor McCormick (Bunker Baby)

 

 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Jackson Dean Ahlander (Till Death Do Us Part)

Sean Cruser (The Nature Of Death)

Oscar Ignacio Jimenez (The Angel) WINNER!  

Matt Labra (The Shadow Of Us )

Maria Mora (Long Journey Till Dawn)

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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Ashley George (Slush)

Jacob Hamblin (Till Death Do Us Part)

Jack Kuhlenschmidt (In The Flesh)

Sharon Maymon & Tal Granit (Restraining Order)

Andres Cabrera Rucks (Island Life) WINNER!

 

BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY

Blood Of The Oak (Laura Cooper)

Iniquitous (N'cee van Heerden) 2ND RUNNER UP

One For The Box (Kevin Machate)

Rise Up Little Girl (Matthew Avant) 1ST PLACE - WINNER!

Toilet Sharks (Bruce Griffiths) 1ST RUNNER UP

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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Jaysen Lewis (The Nature Of Death)

Edward O'Mahony (Bunker Baby) WINNER!

Zach Sundwall (Till Death Do Us Part)

Caden Stone (Undertone)

Daniel Walter (Moving)

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BEST EDITING

Costantino Ciminiello & Mitchell Vincent Slan (Rough Cut) WINNER!

Sander Maran (Chainsaws Were Singing )

Shaun Munro (Undertone)

Gordon Phillips (The Itch)

Ihor Zhebko (Grayshapes - Blade)

 

BEST SFX MAKEUP

Jan Andresson, Rauno Linnamae & Elsa Levo (Chainsaws Were Singing)

Victoria Arias (Moving)

Raul Munoz (The Itch)

Ernaka Puspita Dewi, Jacky Farhan, Defi, Nanda, Panjul & Putri (Labinak: They Are Almost Us) WINNER!

Molly Vendettuoli (Vines)

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BEST TITLE / CREDIT SEQUENCE

Tyler Boren (Till Death Do Us Part)

Sohil Chhabra (Obsidian)

Rob Hyland (Strip Mall)

Shaun Munro (Undertone) WINNER!

Aidan Russell Campbell (Rough Cut)

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BEST ACTOR

Jacob Klick (The Shadow Of Us)

Stevie Kuca (Obsidian)

Logan Miller (In The Flesh)

Diarmuid Noyes (Bunker Baby)

Ben Peters (Island Life) WINNER!

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​BEST ACTRESS

Nerea Barros (Berta)

Emily Bennett (Slush)

Paula Jon DeRose (Crookedfinger) WINNER!

Jane Moffat (Time Eater)

Cecilia Ramírez Romo (Long Journey Till Dawn)

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Ciaran Bermingham (Bunker Baby) WINNER!

Jeff McDonald (Head Like A Hole)

John Potvin (The Itch)

Jasen Wade (Till Death Do Us Part)

Cotton Yancey (The Madness of David Judge - CHAPTER ONE: Suddenly There Came A Tapping)

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 Anissa Eisenberg (Salt Circles)

Lipei Gao (Black Fog)

Nayla Purnama (Labinak: They Are Almost Us)

Jessica Staples (The Angel)

Welker White (Crookedfinger) WINNER!

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BEST FILM POSTER

Head Like A Hole (Mike Laderoute)

In The Flesh (Cherry Panther)

Moving (Pete Ware) WINNER!

Stargazer (Keller Spitts)

Undertone (Shaun Munro)

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BEST ATMOSPHERE

Barrett Burgin, Jessica Burgin & Oscar Ignacio Jimenez (The Angel)

Sean Cruser (The Nature Of Death)

Jacob Hamblin & Jackson Dean Ahlander (Till Death Do Us Part)

Justin Robert Vinall & Kevin O' Donnell (Stargazer)

Jud Willmont, Nicholas Z. Scott & Kirtan Hummelen (Black Fog) WINNER!​​

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BEST ACTING DUO

Joel Austin & Lowell Deo (Vines)

Zoe Koep & Anissa Eisenberg (Salt Circles) WINNER!

Murphy Martin & Tyler Beveridge (The Nature Of Death)

Logan Miller & Samantha Robinson (In The Flesh)

Anders Yates, Daniel Henkel (Bath Bomb)

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BEST ENSEMBLE

Ben Peters, Frederique Dufort, Tamara Sevunts, Lucas Ditecco,

Jonathan Vanderzon & Sam Lemieux (Island Life)

Paula Jon DeRose, Welker White & Blake DeLong (Crookedfinger)

Tatum Langton, Jessica Staples, Edwin Modlin II & Doug Jones (The Angel)

Karl Ilves, Laura Niils, Janno Puusepp, Martin Ruus, Rita Ratsepp, Peeter Maran, Ra Ragnar Novod, Henryk Johan Novod (Chainsaws Were Signing) WINNER!

Chloe Macleod, Drew Forster, Michela Ross, Charles Lysne, Tyson Storozinski, Magalie, Jen Shirley, Rebekah Scheffelmaier (Sugar Rot)

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BEST STUDENT FILM

Long Journey Till Dawn (Luis J. Arellano) WINNER!

Obsidian (Sohil Chhabra)

The Baby (Taylor Bustamante)

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​AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

Berta (Lucía Forner Segarra) WINNER!

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