SSFF 2026 Nominations
Outstanding Feature Length Film
La Buona Educazione by Domenico De Ceglia (Italy)
City Exterminator by Christophe Karabache (Lebanon)
Depressed Terrestrial by Steven Bouffard & Craig Dunlavey
Outstanding Achievement
Patreon Feature
What We Dreamed of Then by Taylor Olson (Canada)
Baby Fever by Nupur Chitalia & Pascale Potvin (Canada)
Seems Like Love by Yana Klimova-Yusupova (Russian Federation)
Ramzi Abed Block : A collection of shorts by Ramzi Abed
No Baby on Board by Julia Kots
Baby Fever by Nupur Chitalia & Pascale Potvin (Canada)
Outstanding Achievement
Horror Feature
Baby Fever by Nupur Chitalia & Pascale
Potvin (Canada)
The Freaks Go Marching by Jerry Landi
Watch Them by Marvin Suarez
Wrecked by S.D. Barrett
City Exterminator by Christophe Karabache (Lebanon)
Shawna Spirit Awards
The Shawna Spirit Award can be given to any film/screenplay or person we feel exemplifies a true independent, bold and unconventional spirit where art is the primary reason for the creative process.
Those artists who push the boundaries and norms of the artwork. Truly independent Spirits.
Those Winners are announced at the Awards Ceremony on July 19th, 8:30PM at the Hilton Garden Inn following the Closing Block of the Festival. Winners may not have been nominated for anything else.
Outstanding Short Length Film
Frankslist by Christine Celozzi
A Nice Lady by
Jessica Weber Kass
Street Muse by
Beth Cloutier
Meow by
Sarah Meital Benjamin (Israel)
Down The Hatch by Alexandra Lukina
The Things We Do by Clotilde Delavennat
Rash by
Lyssa Samuel
Blue by
Marco J Sandoval
A Genre Fluid Film by Adam (Jessica) Griswold
Sit with Me While I Die
by Brian Russell
Outstanding Achievement
Patreon Short
Is This The Bed We Lie In? by Joseph McGovern
Haunting Within by Megan Wynd
My Hero by Jassica Magaye
Meet the Friends by C. Denise
Killer Grannies by Jack Truman
Round the Corner by Russell Emanuel
Now's the Time by Ryan Bennett
Italian Movie by Buffy Cautela
No Small Matter by India Anne Mitchell
The Psycho X - The Beginning by David Cleveland
A Lilith Movie by Richard Chandler
Outstanding Achievement
Long Short
Mother Grimm by Jason Lake
Ramirez by Rob Levinson
My Sight is Lined with Visions by Beatrice Hoang
A Lilith Movie by Richard Chandler
Silver String by Getulio Ribeiro (Brazil)
Outstanding Achievement
Animated Short
Down The Hatch by Alexandra Lukina
Filkool by Maral Forouzesh (Iran)
Dobrina by Hannes Rall (Germany)
Dazzling: A Timekeepers Tale by Jessica Gray
The Psycho X - The Beginning by David Cleveland
Outstanding Achievement
Music Video
BoAn Evening With Nora Keyes by Ramzi Abed
A Galaxy Closer by Ramzi Abed
Humankindness by Ramzi Abed
Now's the time by Ryan Bennett
Outstanding Achievement
International Short
Meow by Sarah Meital Benjamin (Israel)
OMG by Tania Watson (Spain, UK)
She Said So by Madeline Clayton (Australia)
Home Base by Amit Kra (Israel)
Adas Falasteen by Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini & Samar Taher Lulu (Palestine)
Suspicious Minds by Imelda O’Reilly (Ireland)
Frame by Farshad Sharifi (Iran)
Pica by Sepide Berenji (Iran)
Four Hands by Helene Sevaux (France)
Piano Man by Fritz Kohle (Netherlands)
Somnus by Hicham Chérif d’Ouazzane (Canada)
The Myth of Sysiphus by Elahe Saberi (Iran)
Outstanding Achievement Documentary Short
Four Hands by Helene Sevaux (France)
Rose’s Revenge by Maryanne Galvin
Untold Legends of Comic Books Presents Bernie Wrightson by Chris Denmead
Vienna: Suddenly An Angel by Marko Albrecht
Where's My Coffee Cup? by Yehuda Sharim
Adas Falasteen by Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini & Samar Taher Lulu (Palestine)
Outstanding Achievement
Student Short
Deepfake Girl by Annika Murdock
Monument by Allison Thompson
Los Tres Antifaces: The First Body by Angel Rojas
Italian Movie by Buffy Cautela
No Small Matter by India Anne Mitchell
Paid Debt by Luke McDonough & Jim McDonough
Outstanding Achievement
Horror Short
Rash by Lyssa Samuel
Silver String by Getulio Ribeiro (Brazil)
Human Resource by Henry Chaisson
Shift by Bridgette Cannell
Summoning Sickness by Erica Stockwell-Alpert
Her ’83 by Julia Schnarr, Mikela Picard & Haley Ruccio
Horror Stories by the Campfire by Shana Figueroa
Do You Hear What I Hear by Manny Serrano
The Fort on Rocky Point by Connor Morley
Haunting Within by Megan Wynd
Noctis Monstorum by Patrick J Rahall & Ashes Homon-Rahall
Eviction by Ashes Homon-Rahall
Worm Girl by Drew Dammron
Outstanding Achievement
Experimental Short
The Geologic Record of My Heart by Joanne Burke
Somnus by Hicham Chérif d’Ouazzane (Canada)
You Are Not a Memorial by Jaina Cipriano
Glass in Motion by Amanda Reid
Kissing the Lipless by Amanda Besl
The Onset of Fear by Jacob Barnes
Ant Girl by Amanda Besl
Dog in the Manger by Jacob Varney
Trade by Adam Tocci
Finale/Interlude 2: "Cast Aside” by Marco Steel
Erotikafka by Ramzi Abed
The Myth of Sysiphus by Elahe Saberi (Iran)
Street Muse by Beth Cloutier
Unproduced Screenplay Finalists
Short Screenplay Finalists
Bad Day!! by Glenna Goodman
Bare Hands, Bare Feet (Episode 1) by Kelly Smith
The Exam by Robert John Lanciani
Fixation by Henry Peter Gravelle
In With the Storm by Cara Marshall
The Last Robbery by Jasmine Patrick
Mac Donaldson's Last Sale by Michael Neel
Rare Birds by Nicola Rose
Rick and I by Anthony Cuomo
The Show by Karen Dee Carpenter
Surrogate by Nicola Rose
The Tragedy of Andrew Mirkovich
by Anthony Cuomo
Feature Length Screenplays
April Rain by Angela M Grout
Beneath The Undercurrent by Rebekah Louisa Smith
BLUE[m] by Daisy Weaver
Demon League by Brent Allen Northup
The Devil's Cut by Eric Lotter
The Disappearance of Katy Shaw
by William R Byrd
Don't Egg Me On by Guthrie Roy Hartford
MTFTM by Abigail Espinal-Andrade
Nostalgia by Henry P Gravelle
Trí na chéile (In Our Togetherness) by Catherine O'Shea