Best In Category Trophy Winners

Best Open Film:

Amissa Anima dir. Tatiana Doreshenko (Aust)

Best Local Film:

Home We Go dir. Michael Green/Iris Gaillard (Aust)

Best Schools/Under 18 Film:

The Rockpool Waltz dir. Marlon Denning (Aust)

Best In Category Award Winners (Certificate)

Best Inclusivity Film:

Safe As Houses dir. Mia Mullarkey (Ireland)

Best First Nations Film:

Kutcha’s Koorioke - Birdz dir. John Harvey (Aust)

Best Screenplay:

Habitat (Australian premiere) dir. Brett cousins (Aust)

People and Place Award:

The Yappas dir. Nevenka McKeopn (Aust)

Coastal Lifestyle Award:

Climate Change Inverloch dir. Steve Dunn (Aust)

Best Environmental Film:

Born to Stay dir. Anahita Sahar Babae (Sweden)

Best Documentary:

A Way of Seeing dir. Cameron David Myers (Aust)

Best Animation:

Pieces of Solitude dir. Elaheh Ghomeishi (Iran)

Best Music Video:

Techno Áhčči (Techno Father) dir. Elisabeth Rasmussen (Norway)

Emerging Talent Award:

Alaska dir. Holly Geoorge (Aust)

Best Series:

Kutcha's Koorioke dir. John Harvey (Aust)

Creativity & Innovation Award:

Once I Passed dir. Martin Gereigk (Germany)

Best Comedy:

Hatchback dir. Riley Sugars (Aust)

Highly Commended Certificates

Submerged dir. Danny Rumsby, Arthur Francis (Aust)

E6-D7 dir. Eno Swinnen (Belgium)

The Hoarder dir. Eleanor Evans, Giovanni Aguilar (Aust)

The Sprayer dir. Farnoosh Abedi (Iran)

The Sanctuary dir. Timothy Raymond Brown, Michael Bruce Portway (Aust)

Red Line dir. Wei-Yi Jiang (Taiwan)

Don't Come In … Yet dir. Isaac Dean Elliott (Aust)

Rollercoaster dir. Anthea Staats, Maura Pierlot (Aust)