2025 Winners

UM Student Award
Voices of the Academy

1st Time Filmmaker (Short)
Teddy

1st Time Filmmaker (Feature)
Cajita

Documentary Short
A House for My Mother

Documentary Feature
Ultimate Citizen

Narrative Short
Last to Leave

Narrative Feature
Color Book

Mississippi Made (Short)
Hotaru

Mississippi Made (Feature)
Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet

People’s Choice Award
Counting In

HOKA
Lavender Men

Official Selections

A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian

A House for My Mother

An Old Friend

At Roanhorse Camp

Baby What You Want by Messycloseet

Beyond

Border Dweller Love

Cajita

Chan Camp

Chasing Rabbits

Chrisman Blues

Claymates

Color Bok

Come and Save Me

Commercial

Counting In

Country Punk Black

Darcine’s Day

Dearest

Designed by Preeti

Dog Days

Evidence

Footrock-Apple Seed

Found Tonight

Gillyfish

Greed

Haunting

He’s Running Through My Eyes

Hog’s Breath

Hortaru

How Can I Keep From Singing

Hunky Dory

Isky

James ‘Super Chikan’ Johnson

Jason Bouldin: Corporeal Nature

Jere Allen

Killer Instinct

Kind Mother

Kiwi Cowboy

Larry (They/Them)

Last to Leave

Lavender Men

Lets Bounce

Loving Bill

Midsummer

Motorcycle Mary

My Back Pages

The Mutual Aid Garage

No One is an Island

No Signal

Once More & Again (Our Mourning)

Our Minds Confined

Our Movement Starts Here

Plastic Palm Trees

The Priestess and the Devil

Procrastinera

The Quarantine Redemption

Roses

Routine

Shotgun Baby

Skategoat

Sky

Songbirds

Spring Sonata

Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet

Teddy

That’s On Me

Ultimate Citizens

The Understudy

Unknown Spring

The Vigilante

Voice to Inception

Voice of the Academy

Water Lilies

Whispers of Color

Wilmington Escaped

Wouldn’t Make it Any Other Way

You Can Never Go Home

Honorable Mentions

A Man Called Hurt

Bottom Feeder

Bubble

The Cigarette Surfboard

Dancing on the Battlefield

Deception

Decomp Disco

Demons

Do You Say What You Mean

Eudora

Exposure

actory Drop

Good Make Me An Artist

Green Ribbon

Haunted

Ishak

I Dream My Dream

In the Shadow of the Storm

L’équipe

Last Night in the Life of Death

Little Bit

Live Laugh Love

My Little Mon

Nap

Neither Donkey Nor Horse

Para Paty

Something Better Change

Son of a Moonshiner

Sun

Talkin’ Bout Jesus

The Ghost

The Goat

Ur Final Message

Jurors & Programmers

    • Sarah Childress

    • Eduardo Contreras

    • Sada Garba

    • Susan Hamilton

    • Omar Hakim

    • Charles T. Harmon

    • Kasi Jones

    • Claude Kelly

    • Connor King

    • Kate Lechler

    • Wiley Perry

    • Admiral Radio

    • Will Shivers

    • Thomas Weaver

    • Jessica Chriesman

    • Steve Crainich

    • Trent Farrington

    • Sarah Hennigan

    • Alex Langhart

    • John Rash

    • Valerie Polgar

    • Brian Ratigan

    • Newt Rayburn

    • Castel Sweet

    • Bart Weiss

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