2025 WINNERS
Best Web Series - Slick
Best AI - The Somniloquist: Sunday Paper
Best Music Video - Inside The Mirror
Best Short by Ad Agency - Lost & Found
Best Experimental - MAGAS (Fly)
Best Horror/Sci-fi - Lochia
Best Documentary - The Letter
Best Animation - Playing God
Best Comedy - The Weather Up There
Best Drama - Dreamscape
Best International - Inside the Déjà Vu
Halyna Hutchins Cinematography Award - The Sounds of New York
Best Actor - Hal Robinson - Memory Room
Best Actress - Priscila Buiar - A Matter of Time
Grand Prize - Memory Room
We want to send a huge, heartfelt thank you to all the filmmakers and attendees who joined us at the film festival this year!
It was truly amazing to see everyone—the energy, the passion, and the connections made over the shared love of cinema were incredible. Your support is what makes this event possible and gives life to the hard work of so many talented creators.
We're already buzzing with excitement about next year, but for now, we'll keep reliving the fantastic memories from this one.
New York Shorts International Film Festival opened with two-time Academy Award® nominee Richard Gladstein recently directed and produced documentary short film entitled Filmology. The film is about where filmmakers and educators find their inspiration and questions the value of attending university and college filmmaking programs.
Gladstein’s films have received 27 Academy Award® nominations.
Gladstein is a frequent collaborator of Quentin Tarantino, as producer of the 70mm western The Hateful Eight and executive producer of Tarantino’s first three films: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. Gladstein’s two Academy Award® nominations for ‘Best Picture of the Year’ were for producing The Cider House Rules and Finding Neverland. His other produced films include; The Bourne Identity, She’s All That, The Time Being (he also co-wrote the screenplay), Paper Man, Killshot, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, The Nanny Diaries, The Crossing Guard, 54 and Hurlyburly, among others.
The 14th New York Shorts International Film Festival will feature 250 short films, special events, industry talks with honored guests.
An essential destination for independent storytellers with bold and compelling short films to reach a broad and diverse audience of film lovers and industry professionals in NYC.
New York Shorts is one of the premiere showcase of short-form cinema in North America.
A qualifying film festival for the Canadian Screen Awards.
OCTOBER 9, 8:00 PM
Welcome!
Filmmakers
Filmmaker Meet & Greet
Ace Bar 531 E 5th St. New York 10009
OCTOBER 17, 7:00 PM
Award
Reception
Filmmaker Award Reception
And the winners are...
FILMMAKERS ARE SAYING..
Mario Corry
Writer/Director / Black Mike
So much more than a film festival - NY Shorts created a community with care and compassion. Thoughtfully curated and organized, it's an artistic atmosphere that inspires everyone to aspire higher.
