After a week of celebrating Los Angeles lively independent film community2025 Sludge dance Film The festival has ended. It was a year of new beginning for the Indie Festival, as 2025 edition marked his debut in its New Los Angeles -Home And introduced a new calendar place in February that did not overlap with Sundance.
But while the time and place have changed, Slamdance spirit does not have. The festival continued to celebrate debut works from filmmakers who worked with low budgets and provided an exhibition for a number of new talents. The narrative feature Grand Prize went to Henry Bernadet’s solo director “Gamma Rays”, while Nicholas Clark and Dylan Frederick’s “American Theater” took the documentation award. The sought -after Agbo Fellowship, which comes with mentoring from Slamdance -Alumner Joe and Anthony Russo, went to Margot Budzyna, head of “Deuce.”
Continue reading for the complete list of prize winners from the Film Festival 2025 Slamdance.
Grand Jury Awards – Features
Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize: “Gamma Rays” (Henry Bernadet, Canada)
Honorable mention: “Alice-Heart” (Mike Macera, USA)
Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize: “American Theater” (Nicholas Clark and Dylan Frederick, USA)
Honorable mention: “Twin fence” (Osman, Russia / Ukraine)
Breakouts have Grand Jury Prize: “Silent Trees” (Agnieszka Zawfka, Poland)
Honorable mention: “in the mouth” (Cory Santilli, USA)
Episodes Grand Jury Prize: “Serjan Bratan” (Alisher Utv, Kazakhstan)
Honorable mention: “I need your love” (Walker Kalan, USA)
Grand Jury Awards – Unstoppable
Unstoppable Function Grand Jury Prize: “Racewalkers” (Phil Moniz and Kevin Claydon, Canada)
Honorable mention: “one -time humanity” (Cameron S. Mitchell, Austria/Germany)
Unstoppable Short Grand Jury Prize: “Iron Lung” (Andrew Reid, USA)
Honorable mention: “Super High’s period piece” (Bianca D. Lambert, USA)
Jury Awards – 6XTY
6XTY Jury Award: “Vermin Beings” (Cat messing, USA)
Honorable mention: “red light, green light” (Corey GrisPo, USA)
Jury Awards – Shorts
Narrative Short Grand Jury Price: “Bite Joon” (Sara Boutorabi, USA)
Honorable mention: ‘contours’ (Aisha Amin, USA)
Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize: “Hooked” (Glen Fulthrope, UK)
Honorable mention: “Only if the child is crying” (Shadab Farooq, India)
Experimental Shorts Grand Jury Prize: “Your mailbox is full” (Allie Viti, USA)
Honorable mention: “one practice, the other does not” (Jessica Hankey, USA)
Animated Shorts Grand Jury Prize: “A Night at the Rest Area” (Saki Muramoto, Japan)
Honorable mention: “Never Fall in Love” (Lucy Sao Wa Iao and Angela En-Yu Lao, China/Macao)
Festival Wide Awards:
The Agbo Scholarship, presented by Joe and Anthony Russo, prize winner: Margot Budzyna Director of “Deuce” (USA)
Summer Chastant Episodic Award: Becca Schall and Jessica Taylor Directors for “Victorian Ladies” (USA)
SLAMDANCE Acting Award: Lissa Carandang-Sweeney for “Alice-Heart” (USA)
George Stark’s Spirit of Slamdance Award winner: Ben Kjar from “Standout: The Ben Kjar Story” (USA)
Audience prices:
Audience Prize for Best Story Function: “Under the Burning Sun” (Xun xie, USA)
Audience Award for Documentary Function: “Coroner to the Stars” (Ben Hethcoat and Keita Ideno, USA/Portugal)
Audience award for unstoppable: “Occupied humanity” (Cameron S. Mitchell, Austria/Germany)
