Overview
- Graham Parkes’ Wishful Thinking, a sci‑fi romantic comedy starring Maya Hawke and Lewis Pullman, won the Narrative Feature competition.
- Ayden Mayeri’s Summer 2000: The X‑Cetra Story took the Documentary Feature prize from the grand jury.
- Susan Kent earned a Special Jury Award for Performance for The Snake, while Plantman & Blondie: A Dress Up Gang Film received a Special Jury Award for Screenwriting.
- Category winners included Don Hertzfeldt’s Paper Trail for Animated Short, Alex Bendo’s In My Blood for Independent TV Pilot, and Body Proxy by Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman for XR Experience.
- Special honors highlighted festival priorities, with Plantman & Blondie also taking the Green Lens Award and recognitions going to Benjamin Wiessner (Janet Pierson Champion) and The Peril at Pincer Point (NEON Auteur), as organizers lauded the event’s collaborative spirit.