2026 New Bedford Film Festival Winners
BEST SHORT FILM
“DANIEL VAN DEN BERG IS DEAD”
BEST DIRECTOR
Ali Baharlou
(“DANIEL VAN DEN BERG IS DEAD”)
BEST SCREENWRITING
James James
(“A Trapdoor”)
BEST ACTOR IN SHORT FILM
Allamaprabhu Pattanashetty
(“NIMROD”)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT FILM
Angela DiMarco
(“A TRAPDOOR”)
SHORT FILM
BEST TV SERIES
“SLIGHTLY CRACKED”
BEST DIRECTOR
Frank Arthur Smith, Matt Hartman
(“OPEN TO IT - PRIDE SPECIAL”)
BEST SCREENWRITING
Jennifer Monk, Lisa Dallinger, Laura Jane Turner
(“SLIGHTLY CRACKED”)
BEST ACTOR IN A TV SERIES
Tim Wardell
(“OPEN TO IT - PRIDE SPECIAL”)
BEST ACTRESS TV SERIES
Mary C. Ferrara
(“WORLD’S WORST THANKSGIVING SERIES”)
TV SERIES
BEST SOUTH COAST FILM
“THE LONELY DORYMAN”
BEST SOUTH COAST FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR
Nat Mitchell
(“TURN, TURN, TURN”)
SOUTH COAST FILM
BEST STUDENT FILM
“WHAT THE HEAVEN”
BEST STUDENT DIRECTOR
Gerardo Del Razo
(“FAMILY SUNDAY”)
BEST SCREENWRITING
Kateryna Sazonva
(“2389: Coming Home”)
STUDENT SHORT
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
“BY MY SIDE” / SAMMY MAXIMIN
(ECHO HOTEL)
BEST SONG OF A MUSIC VIDEO
“THE WAY IT GOES” by Echo Hotel
“DICK’S-A-THON”
BEST EDITING OF A MUSIC VIDEO
SAM CAMPBELL
(“GROWING UP”)
MUSIC VIDEO
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“DICK’S-A-THON”
BEST SUBJECT OF A DOCUMENTARY SHORT
MIKE MCDEVITT
(“THE LAST ISLANDER”)
DOCUMENTARY
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
AVA CALDERON
(“THE FISH TANK”)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
DAVID CEBERT
(“TIN TUNE”)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“PRIDE SONG (ION THE PRIZE REMIX)”
WRITTEN BY JUSTIN RENAISSANCE & TAYLOR CARROLL
(“OPEN TO IT - PRIDE SPECIAL”)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
KATE KETCHAM
(“RUN WILD”)
BEST WARDROBE
JEANNE KEENAN, BRI BAGLEY
(“THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES”)
BEST EDITING
MIKE GRASELA
(“CHASING KILIMANJARO”)
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
CHRIS DAFTSIOS
(“NIMROD”)
BEST YOUTH PERFORMER
MARLENY ANGELY
(“HERENCIA”)
BEST VOICEOVER PERFORMER
DHANYA LOTT
(“THE WAITING”)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
LIZ BISHOP
(“THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES”)
BEST ENSEMBLE
THE CAST OF “PROM PARTY MASSACRE”
BEST HORROR SHORT FILM
“GIMME”
HORROR SHORT
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“TIN TUNE”
ANIMATION
BEST PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
“FRAUD FIGHTERS”
PSA
BEST VERTICAL NARRATIVE
“A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE DATES”