PAST WINNERS
2025 Winners
Best Web Series - Slick
Best AI - The Somniloquist: Sunday Paper
Best Music Video - Inside The Mirror
Best Short by Ad Agency - Lost & Found
Best Experimental - MAGAS (Fly)
Best Horror/Sci-fi - Lochia
Best Documentary - The Letter
Best Animation - Playing God
Best Comedy - The Weather Up There
Best Drama - Dreamscape
Best International - Inside the Déjà Vu
Halyna Hutchins Cinematography Award - The Sounds of New York
Best Actor - Hal Robinson - Memory Room
Best Actress - Priscila Buiar - A Matter of Time
Grand Prize - Memory Room
2024
Grand Prize
ANUJA by Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai
Best International
The Professional Parent (Slovakia) by Erik Jasaň
Best Drama
Love Without Borders by Joe Epstein
Best Comedy
The Day Keeper by Mark Kiefer
Best Animation
Tennis, Oranges by Sean Pecknold
Best Documentary
Daughter of Mine by Vanessa Martino
Best Experimental
TLT by Dean Woodhouse, Hugo Bierschenk
Best Sci-Fi
Inversion by Linzhe Zhang
Best Horror
Infestation by Yana Sar
Best Music Video
Under The Crosswalk Lights by Peter Chung
Best AI
The Prompt by Francesco Frisari
Halyna Hutchins Cinematography Award
Red Sky at Night by Kieran Stringfellow
SPECIAL MENTION
The Wilde Sisters by Táine King
Shakes Versus Shav by Damian Farrell, Gerry Hoban
2023
Grand Prize
Bad Mother by Molly Longwell
Best International
Mother (Ukraine) by Salomon Ligthelm
Best Drama
The Old Young Crow (USA/Japan) by Liam LoPinto
Best Comedy
It's About Time (Canada) by Adam Pedersen
Best Animation
Aero Orange (Canada) by Marcus Benny Feher
Best Documentary
Duet by Lyuwei Chen
Best Horror
Resurrektor by Angad Aulakh
Best Sci-Fi
Slinkers (Finland) by Vesa Manninen
Best Experimental
Emmity Djinn (Mauritania) by Mohamed Echkouna
Best Music Video
Diva by Jonathan Fine
Halyna Hutchins Cinematography Award
Night Road (Poland) director of photography Krzysztof Bukowski
Best Performance by an Actor
Kate Goehring in “Bad Mother”
SPECIAL MENTION
Sister by Shane Andries
2022
Grand Prize
Ball and Vase
Best International
The Red Suitcase
Best Drama
The Sweet Taste of Freedom
Best Comedy
The Punch of Respect
Best Documentary
MINK!
Best Animation
Hardboiled
Best Experimental
Vultures
Best Sci-Fi
Night of the Cooters
Best Horror
PG 13
Best Web Series
The Missus Downstairs
Best Music Video
Donnie Dix
Halyna Hutchins Cinematography Award
Why
Special Mention
The New Yorker Presents: Dear Max
Draw Up and Stare
A Father's Son
2021
BEST FEST
Monkey Business (Netherlands)
BEST INTERNATIONAL
Things I Never Told My Father (United Kingdom)
BEST DRAMA
Leylak (USA)
BEST COMEDY
Toshie The Nihilist (Japan)
BEST ANIMATION
Mr. Spam Gets a New Hat (United Kingdom)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Sitting Tall: The Patrick Anderson Story (Canada)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
New York Minute (USA)
BEST SCI-FI
Porter (USA)
BEST HORROR
Visitors (Japan)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Sound of Silence (USA)
2020
Best of Fest
Gifts of the Heart / USA / Director Chris Craymer
Best International
Blue Moon of Kentucky / Germany / Director Josef Brandl
Best Drama
The Birthday Cut / USA / Director Eva Midgley
Best Comedy
Eat Your Heart Out / USA / Director Abby Pierce
Best Animation
Per Aspera Ad Astra / France / Director Franck Dion
Best Documentary
The Grass is Always Greener on TV / USA / Director Matt Pizzano
Best Experimental
Dear Covid-19 / Canada / Director Mark Watt
Best Web Series
Production Incorporated / USA / Director Jonathan Avigdori
Best Sci-fi
Home / United Kingdom / Director Ben Craig
Best Horror
Goodnight Death / USA / Director Elsa Levytsky
Most Views
Hey Mama! / USA / Director Pepper Binkley, Delavega