Bronze Awards: November 2025

Best Indie Short: Yellow Brick Road by Sofi Dawalibi (USA)

Best Drama Short: Echoes by Yuming Mai (China)

Best Documentary Short: Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting by Harmon dot aut and James Rutenbeck (USA)

Best Comedy Short: Baked for Christmas by Wesley Ivan Day (New Zealand)

Best Mystery Short: After by Zane (Canada)

Best Horror Short: Crumbs by Marco Scannicchio (Italy)

Best Sci-Fi Short: Reproduce by Kexin Liu (Macao)

Best Fantasy Short: Otherside by Luca Handschuh (Switzerland)

Best Experimental Short: I Need Something by Ronald Pfisterer (Austria)

Best Student Short: Playing the Protagonist by Justin Hogan and Solly Benzacar (USA)

Best Animation Short: OG Prime by Steffan Busser (USA)

Best Women Short: It’s An Issue of Freedom: Women Share Their Abortion Stories by Christina Anderson (USA)

Best Microfilm: Whisper in the Abyss by Junda Wu (USA)

Best Music Video: Cherry! (red) by Tim DeKay (USA)

Best Trailer/Teaser: Chimera by Rick Allen Lippert (USA)

Best Female Director: Christina Anderson for It’s An Issue of Freedom: Women Share Their Abortion Stories (USA)

Best Student Female Director: Rooney Zong for AI Actually (Hong Kong)

Best First Time Female Director: Samantha K Tan for F*ck Feelings (USA)

Best First Time Male Director: Ronald Pfisterer for I Need Something (Austria)

Best Young Filmmaker: Yifan Liu for Home on the Border (China)

Best Actress: Pinky Albea for The Sharp Point of Time (USA)

Best Actor: Nicholas B. York for After (Canada)

Best Acting Duo: Jon Fremante and Chris Leifheit for Patient Lucidity (USA)

Best Ensemble Cast: Justin Henriksen, Nathan Luce, Shelby Marcee, Tristan J. Samson, Ashwath Ram, Ana Escalante-Pasillas, Tom Evans, Hunter Abal, Dorothy Henriksen, Justin Hogan, Erica Malachowski, ZuZu Kandilige, Caroline Johnson, Samantha Alexis Preciado, and Mychal Allison for Playing the Protagonist (USA)

Best Cinematography: Hunter Robert Baker for Blackfeet Buffalo Yo-Yo Ma (USA)

Best Editing: Mike Stanislawski for Chimera (USA)

Best Sound Design: Em Baker for Work Flow (UK)

Best Original Score: Whitt Kelly for Pina Colada (The Prostitute) (USA)

Best Short Script: The Last Plow by Yiying Chen (USA)