Finalists: August 2025

A One-Man’s Comedy by Yixiang Wang and Enqi Qi (China)

Alabaster Muse by R. D. Smith (USA)

Blood On The Saddle by Mike E. Lesovsky (USA)

Bunny Boogie by Rebecca A Storrow (USA)

Coffee with Golconda by Marc B Goodman (USA)

Cosmic Rhapsody: A Symphony for Our Planet by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Manu Martin, and Christina Teenz Tan (UK)

Daddy? by Hattie M Lemon (USA)

Dark Spaces by Ellen Asquith (USA)

Demons by Erin Cuellar (USA)

Ex Libris by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer (USA)

Flighty by Giovanni Staricco (USA)

Focus by Benjamin Wall (Ireland)

I See You by Jane Fleiss (USA)

If Only by Wesley Reid (Netherlands)

Inside by Joshua Mejia (USA)

Intrepid by Ausar Johnson and Anshul Katkar (USA)

Journey Through the Dark by Erin Cuellar (USA)

Love In Space II by Jordan Tofalo (USA)

Macbeth in Compton by Page Kennedy (USA)

Making an Album: Just a Joker by Paul John Corliss (USA)

Midnight Station by Rafael Beck (Brazil)

Party Demon by Preston Tompkins and Zach Reinert (USA)

Perspective by Benjamin Wall (Ireland)

Rap Like Grandma: Suni & 7 Princesses by Patrycja Skawska (Poland)

Red Clay by Tian Zeng (China)

Reflections by Gabriela Castro (USA)

RIP in Peace by Debbie Su (USA)

Super Turbo Jet Boats – Twist Of Lime by Daniel Stuelpnagel (USA)

Tap by Zemario Sheppard (USA)

The Final Draft by Alanna Fionna Manning (USA)

The Good, The Bad and The Bloodthirsty: Sun’s Salvation by John Kalning (USA)

The Green Machine – Part 1 by John P Martinez (USA)

The Tune of Routine by Adam Rockawin (Australia)

The Victim by Annie Liones Nguyen (USA)

The Weight Of Bullying by Jose Francisco Malave (USA)

Tumaini Festival by Rupert Poeschl (Germany)

Way To Fly by Robert Hicks (USA)

What About You? by Chiara Gheller (USA)

Whose Children Are These? by Christine E. Whitten (USA)

Yes… Chef? by Tom Lovegrin (USA)