The Winners & Nominations of the 2025
New Bedford Film Festival

And the winners & nominees were…

Short Film

  • Yazdan Kazemi (“47:10:00”)

    Atefeh Nafari & Samira Mokhtari (“3.400KG”)

    Tom Van Avermaet, Alison Kathleen Kelly (“Hearts of Stone”)

    Stephanie Saavedra, Lila Woodbridge, Al Bouchillon, Nic Wells (“Interference”)

    Dylan Ricci (“Something Beautiful in the Daylight”) (**WINNER**)

    Ted Omo (“Redcoat”)

    Carlo De Benedictis (“Il Tempo Di Un Ricordo”)

    Brian Russell & Ross Popick (“Silversizzle”)

  • Dustin Teuber (“Smile”)

    J.D. Robinson (“Interference”)

    James Naughton (“Silversizzle”)

    Tom Koch (“Orange”)

    Brandon Scales (“Trumpet Gumbo”) (**WINNER**)

    George Lavoie (“Redcoat”)

    Kyle D. King (“Lillian’s Oven”)

    Cory Walls (“Cheat Meal”)

  • Serna Amini (“47:10:00”)

    Sara Bagheri & Golnaz Ghasemi (“Like A Wandering Cloud”)

    Christopher Jorna (“Low Power Mode”)

    Luís Filipe Borges (“First Date”)

    Lisa Marie Tedesco (“The Paradise Road”)

    Lila Woodbridge (“Interference”)

    Jimmy Martin (“The Painter”) (**WINNER**)

    Mikey Bennett (“Moby Dick 4 Dummies”)

  • Kyla Diane Kennedy (“Darcine’s Day”) (**WINNER**)

    Forough Qajabegli (“3.400KG”)

    Mandahla Rose (“Paradise Road”)

    Noomi Rapace (“Hearts of Stone”)

    Arline Lora (“Bailando”)

    Kalala Kiwanuka-Woernle (“One Night Only”)

    Jennifer Drummond (“A Beautiful Day”)

    Ellen Gerstein (“Aloha Means I Love You”)

  • “Hearts of Stone” (**WINNER**)

    “47:10:00”

    “Cheat Meal”

    “Till Death Do Us Part”

    “Like A Wandering Cloud” 

    “Interference”

    “Low Power Mode”

    “Moby Dick 4 Dummies”

Feature Film, Documentary, & Narrative

  • Paula Jon DeRose (“Crookedfinger”) (**WINNER**)

    Mona Ambegaonkar (“Kuch Sapney Apne”)

    Hyo-won LEE (“Water Lilies”)

    Eun-seo CHOI (“Water Lilies”)

  • Jung-bum PARK, CHANHO LEE (“Water Lilies”)

    Sridhar Rangayan, Saagar Gupta (“Kuch Sapney Apne”) (**WINNER**)

    Justin Ho (“Broken Pieces”)

  • CHANHO LEE (Water Lilies”)

    Dawn Natalia (“Soul Family: A Day in the Lives”)

    Julia Halperin, Jason Cortlund (“Crookedfinger”) (**WINNER**)

    Steele Burrow (“Capturing Kennedy”)

    Nara Garber (“Bankie Banx: King of the Dune”)

  • Shishir Sharma (“Kuch Sapney Apne”) (**WINNER**)

    Kevin O. Peterson (“Soul Family: A Day in the Lives”)

    John Amedro (“Broken Pieces”)

    Satvik Bhatia (“Kuch Sapney Apne”)

  • “Water Lilies”

    “Kuch Sapney Apne”

    “Crookedfinger”

    “Bankie Banx: King of the Dune”

    “Capturing Kennedy” (**WINNER**)

    “Fielding Dreams: A Celebration of Baseball Scouts”

Documentary Short

  • Bankie Banx (“Bankie Banx: King of the Dune”) (**WINNER**)

    Norman Smith (“The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport”)

    Brian Reynolds (“Brian Reynolds: The Leadville Trail 100”)

    Mike Dukakis (“Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy”)

    Kaina Makua (“I Am Kanka”)

    Laird Davis (“My Friend Laird”)

  • “The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport” (**WINNER**)

    “Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy”

    “Malassada Day”

    “I Am Kanka”

    “Brian Reynolds: The Leadville Trail 100”

    “Women of Truth and Courage”

    “The Forcados: Brotherhood of the Bulls”

Animated Short

  • “Ball Lightning” (**WINNER**)

    “Birds of a Feather”

    “Black Sanga: The Prototype”

    “Hot Mess”

    “Puggy Huggy”

    “Waves”

TV Series

  • Susie Mendoza (“Dick Bunny”) (**WINNER**)

    Frank Arthur Smith, Matt Hartman (Episode 9) (“Open to It: Season 2”)

    Mike J. Langer (“American Ghost Hunter in Prague”)

    Sally McLean (“Dark Arcadia”)

  • Drew Droege (“Dick Bunny”)

    Jack Tomlinson (“Francine, The Fixer Witch”) (**WINNER**)

    Frank Arthur Smith (“Open to It: Season 2”)

    Jake Bernard Buckner (“American Ghost Hunter in Prague”)

    Joel Nankervis (“Dark Arcadia”)

    David Lansbury (“He’ll Be Home for Christmas”)

  • Katie Locke O’Brien (“Dick Bunny”) (**WINNER**)

    Frank Arthur Smith, Matt Hartman (Episode 9) (“Open to It: Season 2”)

    Sergio Camacho (“United Crafts of America”)

    Bruno Pimentel (“American Ghost Hunter in Prague”)

  • Kim Griffin (“Dick Bunny”)

    Pamela Jayne Morgan (“He’ll Be Home for Christmas”) (**WINNER**)

    Ag Johnson (“Dark Arcadia”)

    Sally McLean (“Dark Arcadia”)

    Karen Ann Martino (“Francine, The Fixer Witch”)

    Shalini Jayarama (“Davina, The Delivery Witch”)

  • “Dick Bunny” (**WINNER**)

    “Open to It: Season 2”

    “American Ghost Hunter in Prague”

    “United Crafts of America”

    “Dark Arcadia”

Music Video

  • Karl Whinnery (“Celestial Abscission”)

    Henry Vumbaca, Sylvia North (“Lady in the Light”)

    Viktor Herrmann (“Hi”)

    Megan Holden-Sathler (“Look for Some Bliss”)

    Mike Sun (“Nectar”)

    Collin Rousseau (“Borrowed Time”) (**WINNER**)

    Alex Watrous, Kyle Stumpff (“Sane Baby”)

  • “Celestial Abscission” By Vintersea,, Jorma Spaziano, Riley Nix,

    “Nectar” By Sun of Sound, Directed & Produced By Mike Sun (**WINNER**)

    “Borrowed Time” By Dead Gods are the New Gods, Totem Fahey & Erik Leone,

    “16:00 Hours” By Scotty

    “I See the World” Written & Performed By Joshua Hetzler

    “Sane Baby” By Polly Bessette

  • “Work Out”

    “Celestial Abscission” (**WINNER**)

    “16:00 Hours”

    “Only Zuul”

    “Sane Baby”

    “Borrowed Time”

Public Service Announcement

  • “Catch the Tradition!”

    “Uncomfortable” (**WINNER**)

    “For The Ones We Love”

Student

  • Grace Howe (“This is What It Feels Like to Be 15”)

    Mila Paulman (“Against The Fate”)

    Will Teare (“One Night Only”) (**WINNER**)

    Charlie Tacker (“Dreamscape”)

    Zoe Napurano (“Sit Down”)

  • Will Teare (“One Night Only”) (**WINNER**)

    Grace Howe (“This is What It Feels Like to Be 15”)

    Mila Paulman (“Against The Fate”)

    Rose Bennett (“Our Last Summer”)

  • “This is What It Feels Like to Be 15” (**WINNER**)

    “Against The Fate”

    “Spectrum of Consumption: A Conservation Story”

    “One Night Only”

South Coast Film

  • “Made (W)hole”

    “Better Than I Was” (**WINNER**)

    “Candida”

    “Right Above There: Artists Autumn Liv Cyr”

    “Mr. Glow”

  • Lila Woodbridge (“Interference”) (**WINNER**)

    Megan Holden-Santhler (“16:00 Hours, “Looking for Some Bliss”)

    Will Wheaton (“Work Out” and “Frakenskin”)

    Julien Pedro (“Better Than I Was”)

    Karen Kayser (“Women of Truth and Courage”)

Technical Achievement

  • Inés De La Cruz (“Bailando”)

    Kate Micucci (“Dick Bunny”)

    Jessica Barden (“Hearts of Stone”)

    Phoebe Anne Taylor (“Dark Arcadia”)

    Welker White (“Crookedfinger”) (**WINNER**)

    Victoria Gluchoski (“Open to It: Season 2”)

    Kimberlee Connor (“He’ll Be Home for Christmas”)

  • “Tu Sunn Zara” Shashwat Singh & Sushant Divgikar, Saagar Gupta (“Kuch Sapney Apne”)

    "He Mele Mahalo" arranged and performed by Darrell Aquino, song written by Puakea Nogelmeir (“Aloha Means I Love You”)

    “Appalachian Fiction” By Christian Camarao (“One Night Only”)

    “Passing Through (Can’t The Future Just Wait)” By Kaden Mackay (“Against The Fate”)

    “White” By Crowned Sparrow, Torii Wolf (“For the Ones We Love”)

    “Cookie” By Ron Murphy (“Soul Family: A Day in the Lives”) (**WINNER**)

  • Marko Jukic (“Hearts of Stone”)

    Emily Gear (“And the Hills Can Walk in the Midst”)

    Christopher Woodbridge (“Interference”) (**WINNER**)

    Evan Phennicie (“Hell is Empty”)

    Zach Sundwall (“Till Death Do Us Part”)

    Brian Hazerjian (“The Painter”)

    Nicolás Medina (“Low Power Mode”)

  • Telmo Santos (“Low Power Mode”) (**WINNER**)

    Jacob Hamblin (“Till Death Do Us Part”)

    Diz DiZio (“Interference”)

    Susanna Moore (“One Night Only”)

    Amanda McGahey, Karl Whinnery (“Celestial Abscission”)

    Donya Toosi (“Like A Wandering Cloud”)

    Sylvia North (“Lady in the Light”)

  • Chris Parnell (“The Overlook”)

    John Fiore (“Trumpet Gumbo”)

    Jason Caceres (“Open to It: Season 2”) (**WINNER**)

    Linc Hand (“Cheat Meal”)

    Jasen Wade (“Till Death Do Us Part”)

    Randy Borruso (“The Screens”)

    Mike Pratt (“Interference”)

  • Sofie Callaerts (“Hearts of Stone”) (**WINNER**)

    Debra Borges Roderick (‘Redcoat”)

    Sebastián Pulla (“Uncomfortable”)

    Jacob Hamblin (“Till Death Do Us Part”)

    Rocio Alquati, Totem Fahey (“Borrowed Time”)

  • Mikey Bennett (“Moby Dick 4 Dummies”) (**WINNER**)

    Sebastián Freire (“Uncomfortable”)

    Grace Howe (“This Is What It Feels Like to Be 15”)

    Mike Grasela (“Brian Reynolds: The Leadville Trail 100”)

    Anthony Sherin (“Un-American Activities”)

    Jeff Warren (“United Crafts of America”)

    Mike Canale (“3:00 AM”)

  • Kiashah Tangestanipour (“47:10:00”) (**WINNER**)

    Harper Decker (“Sane Baby” By Polly Bessette”)

    Elsa Hancock-Happ (“He’ll Be Home for Christmas”)

    Ivy Jane Bernat (“Mr. Glow”)

  • Anna Miller (“The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport”)

    Hans Bruch Jr (“Hearts of Stone”)

    Jackson Dean Ahlander (“Till Death Do Us Part”) (**WINNER**)

    Mark Doering-Powell, ASC (“Darcine’s Day”)

    Mike Canale (“3:00 AM”)

    Jani Hakli (“Moby Dick 4 Dummies”)

    Isaiah Providence (“The Screens”)

  • Marina Stille (“The Running Man”) (**WINNER**)

    Catriona Baker (“Ball Lightning”)

    Grace Howe (“What is Feels Like to Be 15”)

    Walter Shatley (“Truth Detector: Regifted”)

    Devon Bivin (“Jimmy and Me”)

    Paul Kandarian (“Catch the Tradition”)

  • “Dick Bunny”

    “He’ll Be Home for Christmas”

    “Moby Dick 4 Dummies”

    “Open to It: Season 2” (**WINNER**)

    “Dark Arcadia”

    “Til Death Do Us Part”

    “Low Power Mode”

    “Something Beautiful in the Daylight”