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2025 winners
Best Thriller Feature: Jacked by John Fucile
Best Music Film: Immersed – A Cinematic Immersive Album by Justin Gray by Justin Gray & Michael Fisher
Best Horror/Sci-Fi Feature: The Fortunate Ones by Mark Weeden
Best Drama Feature: Negative Capability by Jesse Zigelstein
Audience Award for Best Low-Budget Feature: Piece Of The Wall by Charlotte Wincott
Best Short Film (Jury Award): Cancer Kid by Vasili Manikas
Best Short Film (Audience Award): At 99.9999991% the Speed of Light by Andrew Doh
Best Short Film (Festival Director Award): Ed and Alfie by Shelly J Hong
Best Animated Short: Konquering with the Klobmartians by Alex Newbigging
Best Short Short: The Chocolate Monkey by Dan Duguay
Best Thriller Short: The Partisan by Yasith Weerasinghe
Best Art Short: Rhythm Pulse by Richard Cooperman
Best Horror Short: Censored by Grace Termaat & Hannah Termaat
Best Sci-Fi Short:Transfusion Parallax by TJ Cheslea
Best Short Documentary: On Queer Aging and Endings by Christian Schulz-Quach
Best Music Video: .E.S by Zhang Xinyi
Screenplay Award categories:
Best Feature Screenplay: When Tomorrow Passes by Kim Silweto
Best Sci-Fi / Horror Screenplay: Gigalizard by GG Cliford
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2025 Festival Line up
Wednesday Sept 10
Shorts Block 1, 6pm
My Only Friend by Peter Costigan
Ed and Alfie by Shelly J Hong
Cancer Kid by Vasili Manikas
Rebound by Chloe Elysse Meldrum
Somebody by Daniel Zlobin
Wednesday Sept 10
Shorts Block 2, 8:00pm
Atadas by Gustavo Franco
Morning Coffee by Nolan Manio Begley & Kyla Mah
Suicide Prevention by Hunter Scott Amos
Persistence of Vision by John Paul Marsonet
Psychopomp by Ryan Kilbourne
At 99.9999991% the Speed of Light by Andrew Doh
Wednesday Sept 10
Feature film, 10:00pm
Negative Capability by Jesse Zigelstein
DRAMA
https://instagram.com/negativecapabilityfilm
A stalled novelist struggles with a painful divorce and other vicissitudes of middle age while searching for sexual fulfillment, emotional consolation, and the elusive possibility of renewal.
Thursday Sept 11
Shorts Block 3, 6pm
Rob Roy by Enrique A. Mendoza
In the Shade by Amy Force
Sidekicks by John Daniel
On Queer Aging and Endings by Christian Schulz-Quach
Single Woman Seeking Child by Blain Watters
Konquering with the Klobmartians by Alex Newbigging
Thursday Sept 11
Shorts Block 4, 8:00pm
Eden by Lester Lubuguin
The Chocolate Monkey by Dan Duguay
Transfusion Parallax by TJ Cheslea
Sweet Child of mine by Fereshteh Nezakati Rezapour
Censored by Grace Termaat & Hannah Termaat
Thursday Sept 11
Feature film, 10:00pm
Jacked by John Fucile
THRILLER
https://jackedworld.com/
In the Summer of 1987, after a perfect day at the lake, two small-town teenagers are stuck with a broken-down car and in a fight for their lives when they cross paths with a violent stalker.
Saturday Sept 13
Shorts Block 5, 6pm
Scum Of The Earth by Dylan Stav & Will Cheston
One To Five Minutes by Kelsea MacKay
Fired Up by Aktham Kassam
Offline by Kavan Syan
Letter to the Editor by Bronwen Lewis
.E.S by Zhang Xinyi
Saturday Sept 13
Shorts Block 6, 8:00pm
The Partisan by Yasith Weerasinghe
A Note From God by Steve Koven & David Fleishman
Rhythm Pulse by Richard Cooperman
Finesse by Abdul Mohaimen & Steven Dimitropoulos
Cinecyle: Work to rule by Kezia Djungu-Sungu & Amina Elmeghalawi
Taking Out The Trash by Ryan Bruner
Shoeshine by Sameer W. Jafar
Saturday Sept 13
Feature film, 10:00pm
Piece Of The Wall by Charlotte Wincott
TEEN DRAMA
http://hollowmetropolisfilms.com/
Dustin is a teenager growing up in New York City. He lives with his father, a loving but flawed club owner obsessed with his ex-wife and the past. Every other weekend Dustin shuttles between the Big Apple and Fenwick Island, Delaware where his mother lives with her younger surfer boyfriend. Along the journey, Dustin begins to see people who may or may not be real.
Sunday Sept 14
Shorts Block 7, 2:00pm
The Long Goodbye by Stephanie Wong Ken
Two different by Axelle Grimmer
Black Man Wanted by Chris Currie & Caleb Dante Olivieri
Atoms by Victoria Kucher
Don’t Be Rude by Jessica Hof
Fish Skin by Marie Meltvedt Lyseggen
Until Sunday by Stacy Suyeon
Sunday Sept 14
Shorts Block 8, 4:00pm
Unlucky Penny by Spencer Langlois
The Door by Joel Ruscinski
Exposure by Laura Lobo, Ariel Oughtred
Hey, You There by Darya Amirshahi
Blueberry-Lemon by Christian Sweeney
Last Summer by Brodrick Hodgson
Rabies Baby by Emilia Ciesla
Fourteen by Jahnelle Jones
Sunday Sept 14
Feature film, 6:00pm
Immersed – A Cinematic Immersive Album by Justin Gray by Justin Gray & Michael Fisher
MUSICAL DOCUMENTARY
http://www.justingraysound.com/Immersed
Justin Gray’s Immersed is a groundbreaking cinematic album that transforms how audiences experience music. Composed, recorded, and produced as an immersive audio experience, the album features 38 artists from Toronto and around the globe, placing listeners at the center of a three-dimensional global orchestra.
Sunday Sept 14
Feature film, 8:00pm
The Fortunate Ones by Mark Weeden
ZOMBIE ACTION
http://verapictures.com/
Matt returns to his apartment in the city as sirens ring out around him, unaware of the magnitude of what’s just begun. Separated from his wife and unborn child by the outbreak, Matt struggles to escape the military and evade growing throngs of the undead. When he finally manages to escape, he flees to a remote family cottage – one where his wife told him she would be – only to find the cabin deserted.
As time passes, Matt persists in his solitude, waiting and hoping against hope that his wife and child will be able to meet him at the end of the world.