IIFC 2025 WINNERS

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2025 IIFC Winners

 

BEST ANIMATION

Vanguard Award - Mello’s Funk

Winner - The Escort


MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS
Most Original Music Video - Misty Mountains - Manifesting With Music 

Best Song Music Video - Never Too Late 

Best Director Music Video - Never Too Late

Best Music Video - Love Birds


SOUND DESIGN

Vanguard Short - Escape

Winner - 1 In The Chamber

Vanguard Featurette - Scarlet

Winner Featurette - Sueno

Vanguard Feature Film - Day of a Lion

Winner Feature Film - Straight On Till Morning 


COSTUME DESIGN

Short Film

Vanguard - Galactic Fantastic!
Winner - Stone Garden 

Featurette

Vanguard - Homeward Dawn

Winner - Thank You Sade

Feature Film

Vanguard - Stampila

Winner - Day of a Lion 


BEST EDITING

Short

Vanguard - (some)day

Winner - Sedona

Featurette

Vanguard - Rock N' Rolled

Winner - Scarlet

Feature Film

Vanguard - Stephanie Stevens

Winner - In Between The Mountains And The Ocean 


ROGER TAYLOR AWARD - BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Short Film

Vanguard - Number Neighbor

Winner - Stone Garden

Featurette

Vanguard - Yesteryear Once More 

Winner - Rock N' Rolled

Feature Film 

Vanguard - Staycation

Winner - Straight On Till Morning


JUAN RUIZ ANCHIA AWARD - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Short Film

Vanguard Award - Ripple

Winner - Grey

Featurette

Vanguard - Darcine’s Day 

Winner - Sueno

Feature Film

Vanguard - BitterSweet 

Winner - In Between The Mountains and The Ocean 


JOHN MILLIUS AWARD - BEST SCREENPLAY

Short Film

Vanguard - Stone Garden 

Winner - Sedona

Featurette

Vanguard - Motel Room 

Winner - Khadda

Feature Film

Vanguard - Invisible

Winner - Day of a Lion


BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Short Film

Vanguard - Hitman EX

Winners - Stone Garden

Galactic Fantastic!

Featurette

Vanguard - Homeward Dawn

Winners - Sueno

Feature Film

Vanguard - Carbon Men Salvation: The Senator's Dilemma 

Winner - In Between the Mountains and the Ocean 


ACTING AWARDS

Best Child Actor

Stone Garden


Best Supporting Actor

Vanguard Award - Robert Sebastian Web - The Swan Way 

Winner - William Baldwin - BitterSweet 


Best Supporting Actress

Vanguard - Marie Olsen - Straight on Till Morning 

Winner - Dilara Foscht - Day of a Lion 


Best Actor 

Short Film

Vanguard - Skylor Okerstrom-Lang  - The World's Shortest War 

Winner - Kelly Perine - Day 474, and the Lingerings Thereafter 

Featurette

Vanguard - Nitin Guleria - Khadda

Winner - Jason Kelley - Homeward Dawn 

Feature Film

Vanguard - Seth Summers - 10 Swords & The Moon

Winner - Simone Neviani - Day of A Lion 


Best Actress

Short Film

Vanguard - Lauren Haran- Ripple 

Winner - Noelle Kayser - Death in The Desert 

Featurette

Vanguard - Hannah McCloud - And Yet They Speak 

Winner - Mack Ogden - I’m Different Now

Feature Film

Vanguard - Bianca Foscht - Day of a Lion

Winner - Abbey Howe - In Between the Mountains and the Ocean


DIRECTOR AWARDS

Best Director Documentary

Vanguard - Paul Sutton & Lori Sutton - From Pen to Paper

Winner - Angie Ruiz - Wonders Of The Wolf

Short Film

Vanguard -Russell Emanuel - Quarantine 

Winner - Alysha Haren - Stone Garden 

Featurette 

Vanguard - Rushan Yasytali Jesani - Khadda 

Winner - John Fahy - Rock N' Rolled

Feature Film

Vanguard - Serinna Covarubias & Richard Martinez- In Between the Mountains and the Ocean 

Winner - Steven Martini - BitterSweet


Doug Austin Humanitarian Award Documentary

Warren Farrell Interrupted: The Boy Crisis 


Doug Austin Humanitarian Award Narrative

Serina Covarubias & Richard Martinez 


Vanguard Award Best International Short Film

Manic Pixie Dream Girl Syndrome 


Best International Short Film

Sedona


Vanguard Award Best International Featurette

Scarlet


Best International Featurette

Dragon Boy 


Vanguard Award Best International Feature Film 

10 Swords & The Moon 


Best International Feature Film

Day of a Lion 


Best Documentary

Wonders Of The Wolf


Vanguard Award Best Short Film

Day 474, And the Lingerings Thereafter 


Best Short Film

Stone Garden 


Vanguard Award Best Featurette

Yesteryear Once More 


Best Featurette

Rock N' Rolled


Vanguard Award Best Feature Film

Invisible 


Best Feature Film

In Between the Mountains and the Ocean 


Festival Ambassadors' Choice Award

Grey


The Rustic Theatre Owners Choice Award

Haiku For the Dead 


Festival Producers Choice Award

The Sound of Innocence 


Festival Directors Choice Award

Sedona 


Audience Choice Award

Sanguine Deposit


Grand Jury Award

In Between the Mountains and the Ocean 


The Archer Award Best of Festival

Stone Garden 


Indie Spirit Awards

Amor Manet (Love Endures)

All the Men I Met But Never Dated

Athenia’s Last Voyage

Aunt Cindy and The Alchemist

Awake and Dreaming

Because I Love You

Butts

Consequence

Death Valley: Land of the Extremes

Disability in Focus

Discount Dog

Doppelgänger

Every Day’s A Bonus

Good_Machine

Goons, Guns and the Gumshoe

Grave Expectations

Haunted

Hollywood Jay’s Fishing Adventures

I’m Different Now

Martin the Magnificent

Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree

Milwaukee

Narcissus

Pieces of Two

Plastics

Silent Cycle

Staycation

The Advanced Class

The Man in the Blue Suit

Turkey Medicine

Unbridled

You and What Army


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