Outstanding Achievement
2026 NOMINATIONS
Features
Feature
4/4 by Filip Prelevic
Astral Plain Drifter
A Record of Love
Beget
Summer Interlude
Don’t Make Friends
Feature Documentary
Rice & Sugar
The Guardian of Stories
Flowers Beyond the Dark
Love Me Bait Me
Unproduced Screenplays
Finalists
Short Screenplays
COFFEE?! By Gabriel Silverio
It's Time by Robert John Lanciani
Rare Birds by Nicola Rose
The Music Of Mao Bao by Kevin Hernandez
This is Zuu by JoJo Guevara
Feature Length Screenplays
Don't Make Autumn Fall by Xi Ren
Frozen Lies by Eric R Lotter
Presence by Michael Neel
They Let Him Go by Adam Lamparello
The Problem with Jenny
by Rani Deighe Crowe
Mass Indie Spirit Awards
The Mass Indie Spirit Awards will also be awarded during the Awards Ceremony. They are projects selected by the jury that believe exemplifies the true spirit of independent cinema. And often it is not a project that has been nominated for any more traditional award.
Student Short
Nor'easter by Ricky Jessurun
Shattered by Sydney Rene Gemme
Herencia by Javier Barrios Acuna
Burnout by Angel Disla
Monument by Allison Thompson
Scalae Sensus by Allison Thompson
Unfortunate Preconceptions by Zoe Slot
Blank Slate by Gaby Estabrooks
Comedy Shorts
Tongue
by Gabe Kimpson & Christina Alexandra
Heckler Guy by Miguel Lopez de Leon Details (About the End of the World)
by Elli Aspasia Papadiamanti
Raccoon Soup by Janie Gentry
Young Hot Divorcée by Tova Hopemark
Grimm & Grimmer by Libby Cowley (Australia)
Shorts
Short
Creator by Jon Pivko
FranksList by Christine Celozzi
Sit With Me While I Die by Brian Russell
Rain Was Not in the Forecast by Brian Russell
First Patient by Jordan Battiste
Sorry, She Can't Help Herself
by Roqiye Tavakoli
Shallow End by Maria de la Cruz Rudloff
Palace Pizza by Anthony Neri
Annie by Alyssa Horrobin (Canada)
International
I Owe You One
by Santi Capuz, Diego Jiménez (Spain)
Remains by Fabio Bobbio (Italy)
Filkool by Maral Forouzesh (Iran)
Details (About the End of the World)
by Elli Aspasia Papadiamanti (Greece)
Annie by Alyssa Horrobin (Canada)
La Mister by Domenico de Ceglia (Italy)
Sorry, She Can't Help Herself
by Roqiye Tavakoli
Best Short Documentary
Face Off for Heroes by Michael Penhollow Home by Johanny Mota
Salmon Restoration on the Penobscot River by Sunlight Media Collective
The Last Lobsterman by Jason Conforti Veno, Struggling Artist
by Marc Bowen Kornblatt
Where’s My Coffee Cup? by Yehuda Sharim
Untold Legends of Comic Books Presents Bernie Wrightson by Chris Denmead
New England Short
Galilee by Rachelle A. Dermer
Scenes From a Summer Day by Jack Galvin
Shattered by Sydney Rene Gemme
Dog in a Manger by Jacob Varney
Saudade by Emerson Mako, Amy Valentine
Dissection Day by Rachel Thomas-Medwid
Family Business by Darcy Lally
& Emily Gelinas
I’m the Hero by Daniel Bartlett
Say Hello by David Graziano
Bear Brook by Tony Fanini
Massachusetts Short
The Impostor Syndrome: Episode 1
by Wednesday Klevisha
Thickly Settled by Brian D Jones
& Jordan Brooks
Herencia by Javier Barrios Acuna
A Genre Fluid Film
by Adam (Jessica) Griswold
Blue by Marco J Sandoval
Join the Club by Melissa Dimetres
Buckle Up by Jay Connolly
Liquid Spine, Great Marsh by Katie Pustizzi
Christine by Nyah Gazda
Drowned by Ryan Nunes, Sean Campbell
Worcester County Short
Periphery by Brittany Severance
& Herman E. Servatius
Not for Sale by Jeff Tocci
LoverGurl by Kris Salvi
Pumpkin Pie by Karin Trachtenberg
Last Laughs by Michael Rekola
Into Reality by Matt Gorman
Horror Short
Brothers of the Apocalypse by Luke Tatro
Shift by Bridgette Cannell
The Celebration by Jacek Wladyslaw Kudas
Infectum (A Possession) by John Westcott
Mirage by Zavius Aponte
Prom Party Massacre by Jordan Gustafson
Christine by Nyah Gazda
Animation Short
Ball Lightning by Catriona Trina Baker
Boxboy Jr.: Cardboard Box Adventures
by Alex Lanier
Filkool by Maral Forouzesh (Iran) Have a Nice Dream by Jonathan Kirkpatrick Not Dead by Alex Reis
Started Off in the Basement
by Conni St. Pierre
Experimental Short
Prayer of the Sea by Martin Gerigk (Germany)
Lost Dreams by Andrew Wakeman Proctor
The Geologic Record of My Heart
by Joanne Burke
Ars Animalis for Troubled Times
by Anne Ciecko
Gone with the Sun by Sam Walker
Finale / Interlude 2: "Cast Aside"
by Marco P Steel
Ant Girl by Amanda Besl