CONGRATULATIONS AWARD WINNERS!
Congratulations to our 2025 Niagara Canada International Film Festival award winners. These films and filmmakers exhibit excellence in artistry and craftsmanship in noteworthy ways.
Official Winners List Updated – June 08, 2025
Order Awards Given Director / Writer NAME(S) 1 Best Animation Tormented Liz Lugo 2 Best Cinematography THE RECIPIENT Michael Marentette 3 Best Comedy Short A Messy Blend David Morris Erba 4 Best Director Death of a Spy Rebekah Johnson 5 Best Documentary We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes Colin T Field 6 Best Drama Short Baron Munchausen (Karl) Ilya Noyabrev 7 Best Comedy Screenplay UnMatched Matt Dionne 8 Best Experimental Film The Last President Bin He 9 Best Feature Film 115 Dave Huynh Macon 10 Best Foreign Short BEYOND THE BRIDGE HImanshu, Manas Kathuria 11 Best Music Video Saving Grace – Amanda Keeles Jake Sauve 12 Best Nature / Wildlife Documentary WHITE WOLVES Oliver Goetzl 13 Best New Filmmaker Ice Breath Leonard Alecu 14 15 Best Short Documentary, Advertising Moldova Feeds Conner Tidd, Chris Di Grazia 16 Best Short Film The Sands of Time Dasha Palagut 17 Best Student Film Acting Out Mellony Ledo 18 Best Horror Short The Bell Jack Andrew Hourahine 19 Best Mobile Short Film Cheat Soham Deepak Sant, Ryan Ang 20 Web/TV Series Integration Ep 1 Matthew Harris 21 Best Actor Season of Rain Ego Mikitas 22 Best Actress Ghosted MD Nafsika Antypas 23 Best Actress Stalkers Olivia Stadler 24 25 Best Drama Short JACKPOT Rebecca Lamure 26 Best Future Documentary Iraq’s Invisible Beauty Sahim Omar Kalifa, Jurgen 27 Best LGBTQ Road Trippin Madeline Rose Fiore 28 Best Screenplay Ice Breath Leonard Alecu 29 Best Short Documentary SALT CURED LIFE Cassidy Rast, Odin Wadleigh 30 Best Short Film Hrudayam Srinivas Kasturi 31 Best Student Film Liana Tianyi Zhai 32 Best Television Script Sai Angela Michelle Aikins 33 Best Thriller Stalkers Paul Thompson 34 Best Thriller Short The Silver Lining Mikey Altoft 35 Feature Script Kick Rocks Peter Herlan 36 First Time Film Maker SEEK Shane Kosugi 37 Music Video Until the last minute Ilya Noyabrev 38 39 Sci-Fi Short The Silver Lining Mikey Altoft 40 Short Script Stories Brandon Keeton Honorable Mention NO Category Given Director(s) 1 Best Drama Short JACKPOT Rebecca Lamure 2 Best Future Documentary Iraq’s Invisible Beauty Sahim Omar Kalifa, Jurgen 3 Best Student Film Liana Tianyi Zhai 5 Music Video Nirbhaya Sidhin 4 Saanvi Deepa Mahanti 6 Sree Dancing Through The Season – All Seasons Mallika Sothinathan 7 Best Director Hi5 Baskaran Thurairajah 9 TEL VISA Shankar Ghimire
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