NORTHEAST FILM FESTIVAL 2025 AWARD WINNERS
*denotes winner
 
BEST DOCUMENTARY
*Extra Innings: Grandpa Got Game
Playing With Incredible Minds
Saving an American Hero

BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT
Keisha Bissram (Black Cake)
Kristina Klebe (Darling)
Caroline Mixon (Dropped)
Emily Robinson (I'm Not Sure)
*Dilshad Vadsaria (Beti)

BEST ACTOR IN A SHORT
*Boyd Gaines (SilverSizzle)
Frank Mosely (I'm Not Sure)
Nicholas Stoesser (Jimmy's Older Sister)
Alan Tavarez (Crazy Pete)
Parker Wierling (Storage Fees)

BEST SCREENPLAY
Mylissa Fitzsimmons (I'm Not Sure)
Mandy Mills (Darling)
*Laura Paganello (Jimmy's Older Sister)
Charlie Rowe and Lola Shaw (Dust)
Dilshad Vadsaria (Beti)

BEST DIRECTOR OF A SHORT
*Mylissa Fitzsimmons (I'm Not Sure)
Tony Germinario (No Warning)
Finola Hughes (Darling)
Gregg Prosser (Crazy Pete)
Dilshad Vadsaria (Beti)

BEST SHORT FILM
Beti 
Black Cake 
*Darling
Dropped 
SilverSizzle

BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY
7 The Legend (written by Randall Swearingen)
Bar in the Woods (written by Robert Cunniff)
Bear Day (written by  Marshall Critchfield)
*Don't Break Any Hearts (written by Bryan Huynh)
Eclipsed Skies 1966 (written by Giuseppe DiMarco)

BEST ACTRESS IN A FEATURE
Francesca Idoyaga (Five Month Trial)
*Lukita Maxwell (An Autumn Summer)
Nicole Rodenburg (The Long Run)
Sophie Zucker (Drink and Be Merry)

BEST ACTOR IN A FEATURE
Mark McKenna (An Autumn Summer)
Joey Quinn (Five Month Trial)
Fred Thomas (The Long Run)
*Jefferson White (Drink and Be Merry)

BEST DIRECTOR IN A FEATURE
Mylissa Fitzsimmons (The Long Run)
Jared Isaac (An Autumn Summer)
*Orlando Joubert Jr. (Five Month Trial)
Adam Volerich (Drink and Be Merry)

BEST FEATURE FILM
An Autumn Summer
Drink and Be Merry
Five Month Trial 
*The Long Run

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO FILMMAKING
*Brenden Hubbard

AUDIENCE CHOICE
*Five Month Trial










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