2025
Semi-Finalists
A Blind Eye by Allison Kitaguchi
A Little Nibble by Laura Londagin
A Reckoning in Gainesville by Wanda Weaver
A Taste of Eternity by Aaron Baumann
Across State Lines by Nicholas Stathopoulos
Agency of Record by Don McKinney
American Sons by Roger Stigliano
Andy & Me by Julia Pearlstein
Asylum by Toofun West and Anna West
Avenue of Regrets by Rogelio Pineiro
Beautiful Things by Samantha Brewers
Bethune: Pai Chu En by Robert Vink
Blessed by Jim Cushinery
Bloody Noses by Matilda Corley Schulman
Brains of the Family by Barbara Fischkin
Brides Aweigh by Autumn Brooke and Tim Bragaw
Chalk by Lynda Kretlow
Class Act by Alan Barkley and Linda Barkley
Counterpoint by Arden Earnest
Cuckoo, Cuckoo by Terry Lynam
Curfew by Rodolfo Pereira
Desert Star News by Robert Haus
Dirty by Christopher Craig
Disco Demolition Night by Matthew Taub
Don’t Call It a Scrunchy by Charles Haine
Don't Cry by Stefan Alexander
Exquisite by Peter Petralia
Fake News by Peter Mellado
Fast Break by A.J. Castro
Fats by Mitchel Resnick
Finding Moore by Paolo Mazzucato
Framily by Shellie Lewis
Full Bleed by Ben Monaco
Good Citizens by James Napoli
Hair/Skin/Teeth by Kate Beacom and Lacey Jeka
Hallie by Claudia McGarry
Handsy by Eryn Rea
Harlem Bytes! by Destiny Tompkins
Heart of a Nation by Richard Mundy
Hiroshima by Jannik Ohlendieck
Holding Cassandra by S.A. Slosberg
Hyozan by Robin Lebeau
In The End by Danielle Ferrier
Inventure by Joshua Jashinski
It’s Not Really Something We Do Here by Dean Marriott
Koba by Kevin Karp
Les Blessés by Bob Canning
Lovers and Madmen by Mary Sandell
Marian by Melinda Michael and Tya Jones
Mathematical Mermaid by Sandra Fox-Sohner
Middlehood by Alison McGrath
Minister Speer by Sven Anarki
Miss Perkins by Rachel Fisher
Nothing to Hide by Allegra Oxborough and Olivia Oxborough
Odious by Tyler Schultz
On a Hill by Meghan Reilly Colonna
Opposition by Noah Lang and Harold “Blake” Hoss
Origin Story by Ama Adair
Pangzi by Sherry Li
Perception by Pauline McAlonan
Personal Injuries: She's Crafty by Rob Putnam
Picking Up Jesus by David McPete
Pinay in the Desert by Aimee Suzara
Pretty Ugly by Marieka Prom
Queer and Southern God by Shawn-Caulin Young
Revolutionary Medicine by Kristen McNaule
Rise of the Blind Samurai Woman by Akiko Izumitani and James Mason
Ritchie Boy by Alan Field
River of Gold by Diane Burton and Dennis Burton
Romeold and Julietta by Lou Wollin
Sainted by Jordan Galland
Seven Days to Live By Caroline Hunnewell
Shahida by Alexander Sikarevich
Sideshow Bandit by Marie Wilson
Simulation by Peter Jang
Skinned by Carlos Perez
Still Got It by Barry Tidwell
Swimming With Pigs by Bernhard M. Schilling
The Benedict Boys by David Hatfield
The Breakup Buddy by Susan Bachner
The Bullpen by Hoss Carroll
The Chancer by Fiona Graham
The Duplicity of Well-Being by Phillip Roquemore
The Hallmark Couple by Phoebe von Satis
The Last Checkout by Peter Besson
The Legend by Tessa Bell
The Millionaire Monk by Sky Canyon and Susan Satori
The Singer by A. S. Vieira
The Time Travelers' Gala by Anderson Boyd
This Is How It Ends by Melia Gabriel
Totality by Ken Orman
Unbrotherly Love by Nick Abdo
Underbelly by Sally Stubbs
Unhoused by Adam LeHouillier
Vice Versa by Jason Lajoie
VIII by Michal Schick
Welcome to America by Weiyang Liu
When Angels Weep... By John McCarney
Wives Without Borders by Susan Hahn
X P L T R by Danny Katz
Quarter-Finalists
2 Brothers by William Wong
A Blind Eye by Allison Kitaguchi
A Cool, Dry Place by Mike Ackerman
A Little Nibble by Laura Londagin
A Question of Choice by Cody McDevitt
A Reckoning in Gainesville by Wanda Weaver
A Suicider by Christabel Soo
A Taste of Eternity by Aaron Baumann
A.I. Star Is Born by Ervin Anderson
Across State Lines by Nicholas Stathopoulos
Adventures in Serial Killing by Jack Warner
After You by Sean Wathen
Agency of Record by Don McKinney
Amberica by Amber Nelson and Mokotsi Rukundo
Amelia Earhart by Michael Dunker
American Epitaph by Dallas Miller
American Exodus by Katherine Craddock
American Sons by Roger Stigliano
Andy & Me by Julia Pearlstein
Asylum by Toofun West and Anna West
Avenue of Regrets by Rogelio Pineiro
Backwoods Chief by Heidi-Marie Ferren
Banished: The Story of a Great Injustice by Cody McDevitt
Beautiful Things by Samantha Brewers
Belief by Susan Kelejian
Bethune: Pai Chu En by Robert Vink
Big Deal by Hannah Rae Dillon
Black and Gold by Kevin J. Howard
Blackness of Space, Whiteness of Bones by Melissa L. White
Blessed by Jim Cushinery
Bloody Noses by Matilda Corley Schulman
Boomerang by Michael Alter
Brains of the Family by Barbara Fischkin
Brides Aweigh by Autumn Brooke and Tim Bragaw
Broken Hipsters by Celeste Donohue and Colleen Downs
CAOS by Felix Gorbach
Chalk by Lynda Kretlow
Charlotte Badger by April Phillips
Chop 'n Grind by Joe Borriello
Christ is Back by Laurence Rosier Staines
Christmas Preyers by Eric Murphy
Ciao Bella by Jamie Savarese
Class Act by Alan Barkley and Linda Barkley
Clerk by Glenn Acosta
Conquer the World by Gary Champagne
Counterpoint by Arden Earnest
Cubbyhole Kid by Cam Murphy
Cuckoo, Cuckoo by Terry Lynam
Curfew by Rodolfo Pereira
Dark Mother by Josh Miller
Dead Weight by Theo Cucu
Death and the Glitterati by Helen Walsh
Death at a Distance by Gabriel Vallejo
Deep Fake by Paavo Hanninen
Desert Star News by Robert Haus
Dirty by Christopher Craig
Disco Demolition Night by Matthew Taub
Domovoy by John Arduini
Don’t Call It a Scrunchy by Charles Haine
Don't Cry by Stefan Alexander
Driving Miss Doha by Richard Spencer
Driving While Parked by David Hunter Fein
Drummer Boy by Joel Moore and Sean Gaston
Edge of Smoke by Karlyle Tomms
Exquisite by Peter Petralia
Fake News by Peter Mellado
Fast Break by A.J. Castro
Fats by Mitchel Resnick
Film Fatale by Angel Christo
Finding Moore by Paolo Mazzucato
Five Minutes Past Midnight by Amy Sather
Flat Martha by Rosemary Lokhorst
Forever in Sin City by Ina Bhoopalam and Alena St. James
Forget Me Not by Kev Quaid
Framily by Shellie Lewis
Full Bleed by Ben Monaco
Get Back by Mindi White
Gilgamesh by Patsy Callaghan
Given Time by Matthew Chang
Gods & Legends: Storms of the Eternal Veil by Jeremy Adsit
Gogh by George Brighton
Good Citizens by James Napoli
Grandma’s Little Angel by Joseph Bessette
Gun Runner by Donavan Darius
Hair/Skin/Teeth by Kate Beacom and Lacey Jeka
Hallie by Claudia McGarry
Handsy by Eryn Rea
Happy Yet? by Laura Gray
Harlem Bytes! by Destiny Tompkins
Havenwood by Jai Brandon
Heart of a Nation by Richard Mundy
Hidden Sparks by Joseph Davis
Hiroshima by Jannik Ohlendieck
Holding Cassandra by S.A. Slosberg
Hostile View by Lindsay Waite
Hyozan by Robin Lebeau
I'll Never Find Another You by Michael Elliott
In the Dark by Stefan Alexander
In The End by Danielle Ferrier
Indigo by Natalie Aksoy
Into the Mystic by Patricia Meyer
Inventure by Joshua Jashinski
It’s Not Really Something We Do Here by Dean Marriott
Joker & the Thief by Mark Turner
Journey to Nowhere by Yvonne Medley
Koba by Kevin Karp
Lark by Matilda Corley Schulman
Laura Louise by Duane Edwards
Leave Him? by Josh Corrigan
Les Blessés by Bob Canning
Linked by Christina Cottles
Love and Other Sins by Emilia Ares
Lovers and Madmen by Mary Sandell
Make Me No Grave by Rich Wolgemuth
March or Die by Bragi Schut
Marian by Melinda Michael and Tya Jones
Mathematical Mermaid by Sandra Fox-Sohner
Middlehood by Alison McGrath
Midtown: The Forsaken Virus of the Black Realm by Isaak Uriarte
Minister Speer by Sven Anarki
Miss Perkins by Rachel Fisher
Mooncastle (Trailer) by Erik Fetler
Moonshot by Michael Graf
Murder Ballads & Love Songs by Matilda Corley Schulman
Music Therapy by Michael Fitzer
My Future Ex-Husband by Oscar Raymundo
Nature Boy by Elizabeth Johnson
Nightmare by Nicki Macgregor
Noasis by Rosemary Lokhorst
Nothing to Hide by Allegra Oxborough and Olivia Oxborough
O.S.H.A. Los Angeles by Larry Johnson
Oasis by Robert Hirsch
Odious by Tyler Schultz
On a Hill by Meghan Reilly Colonna
Opposition by Noah Lang and Harold “Blake” Hoss
Origin Story by Ama Adair
Pangzi by Sherry Li
Para(normal)medics by Alla Kolmanovsky
Paraverse by Amit Wankhade
Perception by Pauline McAlonan
Personal Injuries: She's Crafty by Rob Putnam
Phoebe Lark by Jennifer Smith
Picking Up Jesus by David McPete
Pinay in the Desert by Aimee Suzara
Playing the Changes by George Edward Collins
President Zappa by Joe Tripician
Pretty Ugly by Marieka Prom
Process by Tanya Banerjee
Queer and Southern God by Shawn-Caulin Young
R(66) by Christopher Patrick
Regions of Shadows by Johnny Fairchild and Jared Pettit
Renegade by Pennie Diamond Quintana
Return Path by Janine Pecenkova
Revolutionary Medicine by Kristen McNaule
Ripple by Heather Faris
Rise of the Blind Samurai Woman by Akiko Izumitani and James Mason
Ritchie Boy by Alan Field
River of Gold by Diane Burton and Dennis Burton
Rolling with the Punches by Quintan Kennedy
Romeold and Julietta by Lou Wollin
Sainted by Jordan Galland
Sam Gets a Concussion by Patricia Parisi
Saving Doc by Michael Angelella
Schooling for Fools by Oliver Olsen
Secrets the River Kept by Lynn McPherson
See You See Me by Erin Galey
Seven Days to Live By Caroline Hunnewell
Shadows of the Coming Storm by Michael McDermott
Shahida by Alexander Sikarevich
Shakespeare by Martin Keady
Sideshow Bandit by Marie Wilson
Significant Mothers by Aviva Peltin
Simulation by Peter Jang
Siren by Alex Clark
Skinned by Carlos Perez
Sparrow on the Roof by Craig Clyde
Still Got It by Barry Tidwell
Sunrise by Michael Angelus
Swimming With Pigs by Bernhard M. Schilling
Tales of the Southern Gothic by Patrick Groff
Tear Jerk by Andrea Shawcross
The 49th Day by Craig Peters
The Age of the Empath by Steve Brown
The Aura Affect by Ri Jen
The Autumn Paladin by Michael Begg
The Benedict Boys by David Hatfield
The Breakup Buddy by Susan Bachner
The Bullpen by Hoss Carroll
The Chancer by Fiona Graham
The Cleaner by Jasmine McLeod
The Cold Throne by Kevin Klier
The Devil on a Dirt Road by John Kiefer Radzniak
The Duplicity of Well-Being by Phillip Roquemore
The Feeling in It by Mariana Villa
The Godfather Legacy by Garymerle Koeppel
The Hallmark Couple by Phoebe von Satis
The Inevitability of Disappointment by Halima Lucas
The Last Checkout by Peter Besson
The Legend by Tessa Bell
The Life & Times of No One Famous by Robert Bridge
The Mask of the Dragonfly by Kai David
The Metamorphosis by Harvey John
The Millionaire Monk by Sky Canyon and Susan Satori
The Nick of Time by Philip Rossetto
The Night Letter by Annette Maxberry-Carrara
The Party by Andrew Clemes
The Patsy by DJ Hupp
The Pebble Champion by Alan David Pritchard
The Pigeon by Miles Kahn
The Primordials by Rebecca Goulding
The Promised Land by William Natale
The Queen of Magic by Roxanne Beck Raye
The Red Zone by Terry Podnar
The Rights of the Woman by Melonie Magruder
The Road Home by Clint Murphy
The Royal Executioner by Marshall Ferrin
The Shadow Falls by Clay Callender
The Singer by A. S. Vieira
The Three of Us by Janna Jilnina
The Time Travelers' Gala by Anderson Boyd
The Weeks List by Jane Gilmore
The Wind in West Texas by Rafael Aguilo and Neal Thibedeau
Them by Xian Elder
There You Are by Mackenzie Kyle
They Also Serve... by John McCarney
This Is How It Ends by Melia Gabriel
This is Phoenix Not the Circle Jerks by Sven Anarki
'Til the Buzzer Sounds by Mike Alter
To the Pointe by Tim Northburg
Tortured Existence by Jeremy Stinson
Totality by Ken Orman
Tutelage by Sye Mac
Unbrotherly Love by Nick Abdo
Underbelly by Sally Stubbs
Unhoused by Adam LeHouillier
Unsettling by Sarah Brown
Upside Downers by Nicole Donadio
Venetian Love Tricks by D.R. Ransdell
Vice Versa by Jason Lajoie
VIII by Michal Schick
Wait for Me World by Lee Eiferman
Welcome to America by Weiyang Liu
What Happens In... by Steffanie Bradley
When Angels Weep... By John McCarney
Who Let the Wallflowers Out? by Virginia Austin
Without a Guide by Jillian Lozano
Wives Without Borders by Susan Hahn
Written in Her Skin by Michelle Blau and Marva Whitaker
X P L T R by Danny Katz
Zero Flux by J.B. Dunn