BEST OF FEST 2025
Best Texas Feature – Remember the Alamo Bowl
Best US Feature – Cries from the Cotton Field
Best International Feature – Eugene O’Neill’s The First Man
Best Texas Short – I was Gone for a While
Best US Short – Life support
Best International Short – Avocado Heart Girl
Best Texas Micro Short – Audition
Best US Micro Short – Close the Door
Best International Micro Short – Ya Hanouni
Best Feature Screenplay – The Town
Best Short Screenplay – The Last Mediation of Christ
Best Stage Play – Windows Home
Best Music Video – Let’s Keep Austin Texas
GENRE AWARDS
There is No Spoon – The Monitor
People Are Strange – Worm Girl
It’s a Man’s World – Viva Kenny
We’re In This Together – Alisher’s Gift
Brand New Eyes – Wick
I’m Every Woman – Unlikely Mermaid
Who’s On First? – The Time Capsule
DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
1054 on Congress
Ditz
I Will Not Go Gently Into the Night
Mended
Rose
The Survivor
Through the Ghost
BEST ACTOR IN A SHORT FILM
Eric Anderson – Audition
Gordy Cassell – Donor
BEST ACTOR IN A FEATURE FILM
Vincent Andriano – The First Man
Charlotte Asprey – The First Man
CEDRIC THOMAS SMITH AWARD – Filmmaker of the year
Glenn Maxwell