WINNERS Santa Monica, LA Indie Critics’ Choice Awards 2025

2025 April 16

WINNERS Santa Monica, LA Indie Critics’ Choice Awards 2025

Antiquarius

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST DIRECTOR. BEST ORIGINAL LOCATION (Category: International Indie Short Film)

Princess Zarabanda

BEST ANIMATION & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: International Animated Short Film)

Over Exposed

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT COMEDY, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Comedy Short)

Big Momma Earth

BEST ORIGINAL COMEDY 2025

Ye Ole Glorya

BEST PRODUCER & BEST EDITING (Category: Comedy Short)

I Can’t Save You

BEST ORIGINAL SUPER SHORT FILM 2025 BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY SUPER SHORT & BEST EDITING (Category: International Super Short Film)

Precious the baby dragon

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER 2025, BEST ORIGINAL BOOK OF THE YEAR & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: Book/Manuscript)

Omnipotent Resolution

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL SHORT FILM, BEST DANCE FILM, BEST ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY, BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST PRODUCER

Chateau De Tarot

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

You Are Here

BEST INDIE FEATURE FILM, BEST EDITIING & BEST MOVIEMAKER

The Duchess

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DRAMA, BEST ACTRESS, BEST ACTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: International Drama)

Malibu Sunset

BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY 2025

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY, BEST WRITER 2025 & BEST CHARACTERS (Category: Feature Script)

The Star Seller

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG DIRECTOR, BEST EUROPEAN SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Indie Short)

Fear not, my child

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG & BEST SINGER 2025

Cassandra Venice

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MOVIMAKER, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

K Bender (The Bloody Benders)

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Malibu Madam

BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: International Feature Script)

The Hallmark Couple

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Time

BEST HUMAN RIGTHS DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST PRODUCER & BEST EDITING

Lambada The Dance of Fate

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: International Feature Script) & BEST EUROPEAN WRITER 2025

Eye of the Storm

BEST PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING, BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

The Arcangel Of Death

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM, BEST ACTING & BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTOR 2025

Prodigio

BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO, BEST GUITARIST & BEST SPIRITUAL SONG 2025

Monument to Love

BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST SOCIAL FILM(Category: international Documentary)

Brothers of Babylon

BEST AMERICAN INDIE SCREENWRITER & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: International Arthouse Feature Script)

Alta California

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT

Pirandello’s Wife

BEST DRAMA SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Katabasis

BEST INDIE FILM, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Effata

BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST VOICE OF THE YEAR

Something Ain’t Right

BEST CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER (Category: Arthouse Documentary Feature)

Homeless Street Artist

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT, BEST PRODUCER, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST EDITING (Category: International Documentary Short)

The Priory of Sion

BEST EUROPEAN FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE WRITER

Routine

BEST AMERICAN SHORT FILM, BEST MOVIEMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INDIE CAST

The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST EDITING (Category: International Indie Narrative Short Film)

Nossos Caminhos

BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENPLAY

Luzinete

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT DRAMA

Thankful

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025, BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER

Doctor Hyphoteses

BEST COMEDIAN & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

The Days of Knight: Chapter 3

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: International Narrative Short Film)

The Rorschach Test

BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR 2025, BEST BLACK & WHITE CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST MAKE-UP & BEST EXPERIMENTAL SCREENWRITER

The Stones of Rome

BEST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL ACTOR

The Pathos of Hamlet

BEST EXPERIMENTAL ACTING & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE (Category: Experimental Short)

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

BEST IDIE FILMMAKER (Category: Arthouse Music Video)

Lifes Mapped Out

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER (Category: Indie Short Film)