2025 winners

Only 1 winner per category

Best Actor, Feature Film

• The Observance – Alec James

Best Actor, Ohio Film

• My Sister’s an Alien – Omar Poland

Best Actor, Short Film

• LITHIUM – Leopoldo Finotti

Best Actress, Feature Film

• Ladybug – Scout Taylor Compton

Best Actress, Ohio Film

• Everyday Dread: Strangers – Sofia Castellanos

Best Actress, Short Film

• Bush – Sar Cohen

Best Cinematography, Feature Film

• Straight on till Morning

Best Cinematography, Ohio Film

• Helping Hand

Best Cinematography, Short Film

• The Night Within

Best Director, Feature Film

• Ladybug

Best Director, Ohio Film

• Helping Hand

Best Director, Short Film

• Distant Blueshift

Best Editing, Feature Film

• Ladybug

Best Editing, Ohio Film

• Helping Hand

Best Editing, Short Film

• THE ITCH

Best Feature Film

• Ladybug

Best Micro Film

• Clown-Lander

Best Short Film

• The Night Within

Best Ohio Feature Film

• Mr. Buzzkill

Best Ohio Short Film

• Helping Hand

Best Ohio Feature Script

• Come Out and Play

Best Feature Script

• Support Group

Best Ohio Short Script

• Blood Sugar

Best Short Script

• MSG

Best Overall Film

• The Night Within

Best Overall Script

• MSG

Audience Award

• Air Fryer Slaughter

FEATURE – SUSPENSE/THRILLER

1. The Observance
2. The Forest Through The Trees
3. The Punk Rocker’s Ghost

1. Ladybug
2. Straight on till Morning

1. Mr. Buzzkill
2. Air Fryer Slaughter
3. The Unchained 

1. SHAKESPEARE: THE TEMPEST

FEATURE – HORROR-COMEDY

1. SHAKESPEARE: THE TEMPEST
2. The Only Ones
3. Staycation

1. Ladybug
2. Straight on till Morning
3. Mr. Buzzkill

FEATURE – HORROR INTERNATIONAL

1. Some Kind of Rot

MICRO FILM HORROR COMEDY

1. Clown-Lander
2. Do You Live Here?

MUSIC VIDEO

1. Medicine (Black & Blue)
2. Mama Rose’s Pound Cake

TRAILER

1. B. O. O.

TV PILOT

1. Dark Files Episode 1- Atrox Factory, Leeds, AL

SHORT – HORROR

1. The Night Within
2. THE ITCH
3. Helping Hand

SHORT – HORROR INTERNATIONAL

1. Marie’s Ambition
2. The Inspector
3. Salt Soup

SHORT – HORROR-COMEDY

1. Breathe
2. UNALIVED
3. Pluck

SHORT – HORROR-COMEDY INTERNATIONAL

1. The Inspector
2. Dungeon of Death
3. Demons, Judgement Day

SHORT – SCI-FI

1. Photophobia
2. Choose Your Fate
3. My Sister’s an Alien

SHORT – SCI-FI INTERNATIONAL

1. TIME-LAPSE
2. Distant Blueshift
3. LITHIUM

SHORT – SUSPENSE/THRILLER

1. Tier 3
2. Where the Shadows Feast
3. Black Mass

SHORT – OHIO

1. Helping Hand
2. Photophobia
3. Bury the Cat

FEATURE SCRIPT – OHIO

1. Come Out and Play
2. The Dyer Curse 
3. Wave of Destruction

FEATURE SCRIPT – HORROR INTERNATIONAL

1. My Child
2. Scream If You Need Me!

FEATURE SCRIPT – HORROR

1. Support Group
2. Beatrice
3. Greenville Society

FEATURE SCRIPT – LGBTQ+

1. Greenville Society
2. METAMORPHOSIS
3. Eternal Scarring (aka Witches-n-Stitches)

FEATURE SCRIPT – SCI-FI

1. Belial

FEATURE SCRIPT – SUSPENSE – THRILLER

1. Greenville Society
2. Come Out and Play
3. METAMORPHOSIS

SHORT – FANTASY SCRIPT

1. Prey

SHORT – HORROR SCRIPT

1. Locker 13
2. COCODRIL a.k.a. SEE YOU LATER
3. Pinned

SHORT – HORROR SCRIPT INTERNATIONAL

1. MSG
2. Fresh Meat
3. DOG EAT MAN

SHORT – HORROR-COMEDY SCRIPT

1. Eat Me
2. My Roommate Is a Vampire

SHORT – HORROR-COMEDY INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT

1. MSG

Short Fantasy Script International

1. Dog Eat Dog

SHORT – SCI-FI SCRIPT

1. Incarnations
2. Dover
3. The Other Side

SHORT – SUSPENSE/THRILLER SCRIPT

1. Don’t Touch That Dial
2. Dover
3. Behind You

SHORT – LGBTQ+ SCRIPT

1. Graveyard Dirt
2. Pinned
3. No Faces

SHORT SCRIPT – OHIO

1. Night of the Living Diwali
2. Blood Sugar

ROOM 237 FILM COMPETITION

Best Supporting Actor

1. Ryan Farley – White Midnight
2. Lyle Shelly – Tragic Clown Productions
3. David Sollberger – DB.OH

Best Supporting Actress

1 Corlyn Marie – Tragic Clown Productions
2 Heather Bayles – White Midnight

Best Actor

1 James “Gappy” Burney – White Midnight
2 Blake Wright – Whisky Wolf Media
3 Marc Ross – DB.OH

Best Actress

1 Heather Bayles – Tragic Clown Productions
2 Mary Karl – Whisky Wolf Media
3 Brittany “Bel” Hawkins – AREV Studios, LLC

Best Ensemble Cast

1 White Midnight – Blood of Mine
2 Tragic Clown Productions – Mind Games
2 DB.OH – The Man with One Eye
3 Whisky Wolf Media – Closing Time

Best Sound Design

1 Whisky Wolf Media – Closing Time
1 White Midnight – Blood of Mine
2 DB.OH – The Man with One Eye
2 Tragic Clown Productions – Mind Games
3 AREV Studios. LLC – Doll Evil
3 Industrial Magic – Vaccine Z

Best Score

1 White Midnight – Blood of Mine
1 DB.OH – The Man with One Eye
2 Tragic Clown Productions – Mind Games
3 Whisky Wolf Media – Closing Time

Best Editing

1 Tragic Clown Productions – Mind Games
1 White Midnight – Blood of Mine
2 DB.OH – The Man with One Eye
3 Whisky Wolf Media – Closing Time

Best Cinematography

1 Tragic Clown Productions – Mind Games
1 White Midnight – Blood of Mine
2 DB.OH – The Man with One Eye
3 Whisky Wolf Media – Closing Time

Best Screen Writing

1 Tragic Clown Productions – Mind Games
2 White Midnight – Blood of Mine
3 DB.OH – The Man with One Eye

Best Directing

1 Tragic Clown Productions – Mind Games
2 White Midnight – Blood of Mine
3 DB.OH – The Man with One Eye

Best Film

1 Tragic Clown Productions – Mind Games
2 White Midnight – Blood of Mine
3 DB.OH – The Man with One Eye

Monologue Competition

Visual FX and Makeup

• Nancy Mayer 1st Place – Fantasy
• Skylar Buck 1st Place – Sci-fi 2nd Place – Fantasy

Screen Queen and King

• Queen: Hayden
• king: Wolf Child

Film Score Competition

• Nick Mallon
• Kanako Neale
• Imari Hill