Best In Fest Awards

Best in Fest Best Feature Film – Abigail Before Beatrice Best Featurette – Focal Point Best Short Film – How The Rose Reaches Best In Fest – determined by the festival’s official selection committee, this category was added to pander to important organizations that demand a festival give out awards not specific to genre/category. Source: …

Blunt by Hadeel Ramadan

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Series/Pilot After shooting a teenage robber in her father’s liquor store, a sheltered Palestinian woman’s reality fractures; awakening a supernatural entity from her bloodline that forces her to face her greatest fear: surviving on her own in the most expensive city in the world. The SOFF 2025 screenplay awards ceremony …

Blur by Oneika Mays

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Series/Pilot In 1985 New Jersey, an offbeat Black girl tries to decode the unwritten rules of her new suburban school — where cliques, crushes, and cultural expectations collide, and fitting in might mean losing yourself. The SOFF 2025 screenplay awards ceremony will be held on December 6 at 6PM at …

Childless Cat Lady by Meaghan Hynes Reese

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Series/Pilot Upon the death of her beloved cat, a young(ish) woman pursues a near death experience in hopes of reuniting with her in an afterlife, so that she might know whether they will be together in Eternity. The SOFF 2025 screenplay awards ceremony will be held on December 6 at …