Top Shorts Winners - December 2025
- Top Shorts Team
- 11 hours ago
- 2 min read
Film of the Month
The Bee - Ben Rejzer
Best Narrative Film
The Black Door - Shannon Denise Evans
Best Indie Film
IBLIS - Matthew Stacey, Jay Smith Ackerman
Best Drama
The Sun Comes Up - Su Zhen
Best Comedy
Inside the Mind of a Chronic Overthinker - Austin Okazaki
Best Thriller
Blood in the Pines - Brandon Faulk, David Borges
Best Horror
RED - Borja Ros
Best Inspirational Film
Message on the Waves - Frank Louis Passalaqua
Best Dark Comedy
The Bee - Ben Rejzer
Best Crime Film
Bloodbound - Mustafa Abbas
Best AI Film
When the Emergency Alert Came - Taejin Ahn
Best Documentary
The Patron - Massimiliano Finazzer Flory
Best Director
The Bee - Ben Rejzer
Best Indie Filmmaker
Panaderya Salvaje's Piaya - Christopher Austria
Best Actor
The Bee - Garrett McKenna
Best Actress
The Black Door - Shannon Denise Evans
Best Duo
Connie & Clyde - Austin Archer & Lauren Call
Best Cinematography
Two days on the windward shores - Dan Razvan Coman
Best Score
BlueLine Trailer - Kankawee Nilthajan
Best Sound Design
RED - Borja Ros
Best Song in a Film
Lily's Space Adventure - "Soar Like an Eagle" - Frank Louis Passalaqua
Best Commercial/Promotional Video
The light that leads love home - Tseng Hung-Yuan
Best Original Story
The Bee - Ben Rejzer
Best Screenplay
403 - Natalia Samples
Best Thriller Screenplay
The Lab - Nancy Kimmel
Best Horror Screenplay
Hellraiser II : Leviathan - Jeffrey Lee DuPree
Best Fantasy Screenplay
Crime & Punishment 2121 - Jim Norman
Best First Time Screenwriter
Red Lobster - Elaine Dale
Best Television Script
Taming Wildcats - John Christopher Klauder, Christine Berardo Klauder
Special Jury Award
Two Full Hands - Redro Riera, John Colon
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