AUDIENCE AWARDS:

Best Short Trailer: PAPA HEAR ME
Best Comedy Trailer: THE GRANNY JJ ADVENTURES: GUYANA’S DAILY DETECTIVE
Best Coming of Age Trailer: IMMA/JESUS AND ME
Best Crime/Mystery Trailer: CARONTE
Best Direction: MAY, 25TH
Best Experimental Trailer: RESURGE
Best Family Trailer: A COMPLICATED EVENT
Best Fantasy Trailer: GHOSTED
Best Friendship Trailer: MOONLIGHT PEOPLE
Best Horror Trailer: JOLLY COLD SOUL
Best Human Interest Trailer: CONCRETE ROSE
Best Quest Trailer: THE JEWELED BIRD
Best Romance Trailer: I SWIPED THE WRONG ONE
Best Sci-Fi Trailer: WORDSPEAKER
Best Slasher Trailer: MCKENZIE
Best Society Trailer: SCHOOL BELL
Best Sports Trailer: ¡Indestructible!: Baseball on the Isthmus
Best Story: NICE TO MEET YOU, MOM
Best Sound & Music: FISHMAN ALLEN
Best Thriller/Suspense Trailer: NEVER

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Concrete Rose
Directed by Amanda M. Ramírez
This documentary short follows Christina Green’s journey from incarceration to empowerment as she leads a supportive housing program, highlighting resilience and community in the face of systemic injustice.

MAY, 25TH, Italy
Directed by Antonio Montefalcone
“May 25” tells of Laura, a depressed and desperate wife and mother, whose life is turned upside down when a sudden, unpredictable and dramatic event related to her only son, plunges her family into anguish.

PAPA HEAR ME, South Korea
Directed by KiHwa Ei
Twenty-one years old, my father died as soon as I entered the university again.

SCHOOL BELL, India
Directed by B. Suresh Kumar
Importance of education is conveyed through a Child Laborer’s Point of View.

NICE TO MEET YOU, MOM, USA
Directed by Isaul Beltran
An imaginative eleven year old boy travels from Mexico to the U.S. to meet his mom for the first time. However, he starts to wonder what kind of a person she is, and becomes reluctant to meet her.

IMMA/JESUS AND ME, UK
Directed by Joshua Cartwright
AD32. An impulsive and opinionated twelve-year-old Jewish girl rejects Jesus as Messiah after suffering a personal tragedy which she thinks “he” could have prevented. Can “he” help her come to faith in Him before His time on earth is done?

NEVER, USA
Directed by Emma Ward, Janaun Melvin
When you hear “suspense”, naturally ‘Peter Pan’ is the first thing to come to mind, right? No? Just me, huh? Trust me: There is a LOT of things that are NOT ok with shadows running loose in children’s rooms and children trying to escape through 2nd story windows…

CARONTE, Spain
DIrected by Julen González
Asier has just moved into a new city where he meets a new group of friends. Together they decide to play an old board game that Asier has found in the house. This game will not rest until everyone finishes the game dead or alive.
https://www.instagram.com/zinesionfilms/

JOLLY COLD SOUL, USA
Directed by Robert Cunniff
Trailer / proof of concept teaser for a Christmas Horror film.

I SWIPED THE WRONG ONE, USA
Directed by Don Swanson
The trailer for the movie within the The Haunting of Prince Dom Pedro feature film, I Swiped the Wrong One is the story of four people who discover around the holiday season that dating in the physical world is much different than dating online. Their first dates begin and end in ways that they did not anticipate.
https://www.thehauntingofprincedompedro.com/
https://www.instagram.com/princedompedro/

RESURGE, Canada
Directed by Charles-Edouard Vasquez, Philippe Vasquez
“Do you see the animal?”
http://movartemstudios.com/
https://www.instagram.com/movartemstudios

MCKENZIE, USA
Directed by Gunnyone
A killer is slashing his way through the town of Shadow Hills in search for his missing arm.
https://www.instagram.com/mckenziekills/

FISHMAN ALLEN, Canada
Directed by Mingqian Zhang
This is a story about Allen’s “alien” secret got exposed and how he learned to embrace who he actually is.
https://www.instagram.com/miji_home/

WORDSPEAKER, USA
Directed by Dennis Sparks
WORDSPEAKER is a short Sci-Fi film in which an isolated radio talk show host makes his last stand as the world around him collapses.

A COMPLICATED EVENT, Iran
Directed by Reza Arzhang
A father comebacks from trip and adventures

GHOSTED, Canada
Directed by Eden Kannistan
A young man stuck in a depressed state has to pick up himself when a ghost suddenly sets him up for a date with his crush tonight.
https://www.instagram.com/ghosted.studentfilm/

THE GRANNY JJ ADVENTURES: GUYANA’S DAILY DETECTIVE, UK
Directed by Joshua Cartwright
A cantankerous old Creole woman takes up the role of local detective after finding the police can’t be bothered with ‘small’ problems.

MOONLIGHT PEOPLE, Russia
Directed by Dmitri Frolov
Two young men and two girls on a moonlit night confess to each other in their strange fantasies and loves that go beyond the usual standards..
http://dmitrfrolov.narod.ru/moonlight/people.html
https://www.instagram.com/moonlight_peopl/

¡Indestructible!: Baseball on the Isthmus. USA
Directed by Eric Soussanin
The mighty history and uncertain future of baseball in the Republic of Panamá, and those fighting to recapture the sport from the grips of crisis.
http://www.panamabaseballmovie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/panamabaseball/

THE JEWELED BIRD, USA
Directed by Suzy Sachs
A brothel madam tries to save her young daughter from a life of prostitution by stealing her away to a mission house, and secretly joins with its leader to rescue girls and bring down the most powerful man in the 1900’s San Francisco Chinatown sex trade–her pimp. A story still relevant today.