Finalists: January 2025
A Date with Death by Darrin Decay and Curtis Leitch (USA)
A Quartet of Three by Brett Cornell (USA)
A Rose Town Christmas by Thomas Peek (USA)
Before the Freeze by Tenley Eakin Raj (USA)
Big Mouth: The Short Film by Brooke Alexx (USA)
Bla Bla by Kristina Danilovska (North Macedonia)
Bread Place by Semen Khanin (Ukraine)
Cosmic Rhapsody – A Journey of Hope by Susan Mey Lee Lim and Christina Teenz Tan (Singapore)
Desert Flower by Alberto Aizenman (USA)
Duelo (Grief) by Adrián Arjona (Spain)
Hearts and Mimes by Stephen M Kriter (USA)
Hi by Miguel Lopez de Leon (USA)
Holy Smoke by Niko Ho (China)
Inner Voices by Miguel Lopez de Leon (USA)
It’s Hard to Find Love as a College Theater Major by Chloe Johnson and Kayla Louie (USA)
It’s Your Fault by Nicholas Campbell (USA)
Joy by Arthur Asriyants (USA)
Kill Me Please by Yuanyuan Zheng (USA)
Lockdown by Alex Rodriguez (USA)
Missing You by Izzy Malia Sanborn (USA)
Nabra’s Anklet by Nabra Nelson (USA)
Omotenashi by Akiko Matsumoto and Roku Jingwen Long (Japan)
Once Upon A Murder by Murphy Howard (USA)
Outrage Olympics by David Levin (USA)
Outside the Land by Anna Zhang (China)
Pocha by Anna Lisa Padilla (USA)
Prisms of Self by Christian Michael Wiebe (Canada)
Pushing Up Daisies by Morgan Notari (USA)
Redemption by Tracy Johnson (USA)
Santiago by Nathan Cadelina (USA)
Scammer by Salvador Cartagena (USA)
Shepherds of Fire by Luke Antonio (USA)
Sol by Erik Francisco Medina (USA)
Spectral by Lakshen Sundaram (Canada)
The Duchess by Arnold Curry (USA)
The Executioner by Kate Chen (USA)
The Most Romantic Thing I Can Imagine by Kaiqi Wang (China)
The Soul’s View by Brandon Velazquez (USA)
The Things We Loved by Sookmyeong Kim (South Korea)
Train Song – Mostly Locust by Brittany Grissom (USA)
Unknown Callers by Tim Best (USA)
Unoriginal AF by Laura Herman (USA)
Unshod by Mary Piller (USA)
We’re Happy as Clams by Derek Jaskulski (USA)
Who’s Chico? by John Salanoa (USA)
With You Til The End by Tristan Wauchope (USA)
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