Winners of the season
February 11, 2026 - May 4, 2026
NOMINATION
✨"Whispers of the Cosmos" Feature Film
Women At Work

Steven Friedman
Stupid August

Padraig Trehy
AFTER ALCATRAZ ...surviving the escape
Kevin Bruce
NOMINATION
✨"Whispers of the Cosmos" Short Film
The Mechanic

Sara Bergamini, Daniele Zucchini
Another Day

Kirsty Fogarty, Jimmy John Connors
Battle of Flowers
LUIS FELIPE VILLAVERDE DE ALMEIDA
NOMINATION
✨"Astral Voyage" Best Inspirational Film
Without A Doubt "God is Always There"

Mike T Tremblay
For Such a Time as This
Elgin Cahill
NOMINATION
✨"Enchanted Realms" Feature Documentary
From Competition to Compassion

Carsten Aniksdal, Petrine Vinje
Forever Families / Untold Soldiers' Stories of World War II

Lola VanDeWalle
Fourteen Crosses of the World
Libor Špimr
NOMINATION
✨"Enchanted Realms" Short Documentary
Tumaini Festival

Rupert Poeschl
A Very Sad Fairytale
Martin Georgiev
NOMINATION
✨"Beyond the Stars" Short Experimental Film
The Mechanic

Sara Bergamini, Daniele Zucchini
Where the gold tops grow

TRACEY Chouvin
10001 Followers
Roman Villevoye
NOMINATION
✨"Cosmic Revelations" Feature Screenplay
The Azreal Swarm

Lee Urwin
A Poppet for the Priest

Jonah Jones
Puget Sound
Ralph Wagnitz
NOMINATION
✨"Cosmic Revelations" Short Screenplay
Electric Eye

Jeffrey Pemberton
Stil
Chris Langan
NOMINATION
Best Feature Film
Sunny

Silke C. Engler
One God

Kavi Raz
Rosetta Code
Marcos Almada
NOMINATION
Best Short Film
Where The Fish Swim

Adlih Alvarado
SPIKE

Joshua Aragon Walsh
Leeway
Alexander Newland
NOMINATION
Best Director Short Film
Glitch

Roby Walsh
NANDINI

Onir
That Hideous Place
Weber Griffiths
NOMINATION
Best Inspiration Film
Moving Past Trauma

Fruzsina Skrabski
Forever Families / Untold Soldiers' Stories of World War II

Lola VanDeWalle
Another Day
Kirsty Fogarty, Jimmy John Connors
NOMINATION
Best Feature Documentary
INTO THE LIGHT OF A DARK BLACK NIGHT

Dianne Martin
Inherited Shame

Fruzsina Skrabski, Sándor Kiss
Taming the Fish
Jiancheng Ding
NOMINATION
Best Director Feature Documentary
Professor Maria Kopp

István Borsody
NOMINATION
Best Short Documentary
The Stone Window

Carlos Pires Silveira
The lament of the sunflowers

Oscar Vega
America's Dermatologist
Manuel Izquierdo
NOMINATION
Best Director Short Documentary
DANIEL

Pavlos Vissariou
America's Dermatologist
Manuel Izquierdo
NOMINATION
Best Experimental Film
Oleksandra Basko's A Non-Fictional War

Natasha O. Ramer
Broken

Olivia N'Ganga, Mikaël Dinic
The First Shapeshifter
Raúl Coria Martínez
NOMINATION
Best Director Experimental Film
Foreclosure

Zizi Rincolisky
NOMINATION
Best Student Film
The Last Winged Puppy

Paula Isabel Moraga
A Quiet Night In

Luca Hartley
UMBRA
Danny Bohmer
NOMINATION
Best Director Student Film
Psych Ward

Portia Harrell-Mitchell
NOMINATION
Best Animation
B Positive

Frances Chang
THE BLACK SMOKE OF PREDICTION...

Damir dado Šuša
Playing Catch
V M Bikowa
NOMINATION
Best Director Animation
Fire Race A Karuk Tale

Daniel Welynn
NOMINATION
Best Feature Script
Extra Wives

Eric Ross Gilliatt
Snow Over Kigali - an African Christmas Tale

Kerim Esen
First Call Outs
Cheri Female (F) Marmarosh
NOMINATION
Best Short Script
A Small Living Thing

Thadeus Kevin Brown
Stimlocked

Ellori Mae Smith
ROOM 13
Angelo Garcia
NOMINATION
Best Original Concept
Sign of the Times

Andrew H. Walker
SUDDENLY SILVER LAKE 1/2 hour comedy

GAVIN GLYNN
The Thousand Year Old Woman
Delrey Pearson
NOMINATION
Best Author
IN THE GARDEN: ANCHORS OF FAITH

Christal Kahles-Jones
NOMINATION
Best Pilot Series
Cement People

GARY GREEN
SUDDENLY SILVER LAKE 1/2 hour comedy

GAVIN GLYNN
Sidelined
Garrett Wallace Ludwig
NOMINATION
Best Web/Tv Series
The Mystery of Su-min episode 16

DELREY PEARSON
Moon

Susan Simonson, Clint Lutteringer
Navajo Highways
Pete Sands
NOMINATION
Best Music Video
YOU SAY

Christian Pasquariello
Rubik’s Cube

Lars Hogendoorn, Yannick Van den Ende
In a Tamasic World
Camilla Martini
NOMINATION
Best LGBTQ
Unbroken

Kathy Moore
NANDINI

Onir
Dope Love
Richael Schneider
NOMINATION
Best Cinematography
That Hideous Place
Weber Griffiths
NOMINATION
Best Editing
DANIEL

Pavlos Vissariou
That Hideous Place
Weber Griffiths
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