Fall 2025 Winners

Important Information

Email Notification: All winners received an email on November 30, 2025 directly from FilmFreeway.

We are not responsible for winners missing opportunities because of failure to receive or read emails.

If you didn't receive it, please check your SPAM folder.

Screening Opportunities:

We live screen Best of Festival winners only. Other award winners down to Excellence will be invited to screen on WRPN.tv

Enter Your Award to IMDb IMDb Instructions Download Laurels Order Certificate

IMDb Listing: As part of our IMDb-qualifying festival, you must list your award. IMDb built our awards page for winners to submit; we cannot do this for you, as per IMDb guidelines. You have all the information required. Please ensure you have an IMDb personal or project account, as this will be necessary for the submission. If you have issues, please reach out to IMDb for assistance.

Best of Festival winner ONLY: Request information for instructions to have your film screened at the Cinema Art Theater in June 2025. Email live_screening@wrpn.tv

Our Judging System

To ensure that each film and screenplay is evaluated and graded on its own merits, we established a mechanism that ensures that entries are not judged against one another.

They are, in essence, competing against themselves: we judge each item on its own merits and provide a score based on an innate value system.

We want to make sure that when it's your moment to be judged, the judges' attention is focused on you and not on all of the other films in the queue; this ensures that they won't be thinking about comparisons when they should be thinking about YOU.

Judges score entries on a performance scale; winning entries are recognized and awarded for Best of Festival and Best of Show and for two levels of Awards of Excellence, two levels of Awards of Merit, and a Kudos Endeavor Award, or no award at all.

The best-scoring entry or entries are given the Best of Festival and Best of Show awards each season. Awards of Excellence are granted to entries with truly exceptional artistic and technical achievements. Awards of Merit and 'Kudos' are given to entries with notable achievements.

The number of awards given at each level will vary depending on the total number of entries received for each deadline.