2025 AWARD WINNERS

Jury Awards

Best Drama Short
"Two People Exchanging Saliva" (Natalie Musteata, Alexandre Singh) 
Runner-up: "Skin on Skin" (Simon Schneckenburger)

Best Documentary Short
"While We Still Have Time" (Ava Grimshaw-Hall) 
Runnerup:  "Zora Head: The Life and Scholarship of Valerie Boyd" (Adam Forrester, Clint Fluker) 

Best Documentary
"The Librarians" (Kim A. Snyder) 
Runner-up: "Night in West Texas" (Deborah S. Esquenazi)

Best Performance
Asia Kate Dillon, "Outerlands"

Best Ensemble
"Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day"

Best Screenplay
"Plainclothes" (Carmen Emmi)

Best Director
(Tie) "Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day" (Ivona Juka) and "Lesbian Space Princess" (Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese) 

Best Narrative Feature
(Tie) "Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day"  and "Lesbian Space Princess" 

audience Awards

Best Narrative Short
"Teen Mary" (Ali Rosenthal) 
Runner-Up: "Two Black Boys in Paradise" (Baz Sells) 

Best Documentary Short
"Tippi and Barb" (Brad Burleson) 
Runner-up: "Autoerotica: We Buy Gay Stuff" (Jeremy von Stilb)  

Best Documentary
"I Was Born This Way"  (Daniel Junge, Sam Pollard) 
Runner-up: "Move Ya Body: The Birth of House" (Elegance Bratton)

Best Narrative Feature
"Plainclothes" (Carmen Emmi) 
Runner-up "Four Mothers" (Darren Thornton)