Award Winners of January 2025

Independent Shorts Awards is proud to announce the award winners of January 2025.

These projects have been shortlisted from a pool of submissions from 20 countries with total runtime of 45:51:51, plus the short scripts.

Here the final breakdowns:

Official Selection – 44,4%

Award Winners – 31,5%

The full list of award winners and finalists is available in the following sections:

PLATINUM AWARDS

GOLD AWARDS

SILVER AWARDS

BRONZE AWARDS

HONORABLE MENTIONS

FINALISTS

All of the monthly awards (from Platinum to Honorable Mentions) can be added to IMDb through our event page.

2025 Annual Awards

All of the award-winning projects of this monthly round are now in the pool from which it will be chosen the nominees for the 2025 Annual Awards.

This is the 8th monthly qualifying season (out of 12) of the current annual cycle.

**Cheers** directors Reagan Yorke and Jillian Smith,
awarded Best Women Short of 2024, at Regal LA Live, Los Angeles

The shortlist for the 2025 Annual Awards is based on the group of award winners of the 12 monthly qualifying seasons from the annual cycle June 2024-May 2025.

All annual nominees will be screened at the 7th Annual Independent Shorts Awards at Regal LA Live, Downtown Los Angeles, on September 2025. The annual nominations will be announced in July 2025.

Official trophy

All monthly award winners can order the Independent Shorts Awards official trophy, an exclusive piece of art constructed from pure optical crystal, through this page.

For any questions, contact us through info@independentshortsawards.com.