Unrestricted View Film Festival Awards 2025
Nominations
UVFF 2025 Awards
Best Web Series
Untrue Crime (The Husband Did It)
Walking Shadows Vol.3
CROMAESCOPE
Roommate Quest
Winner: Walking Shadows Vol. 3
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Best Short Script (not filmed)
A Siren Song by Mahée MERICA
Full Fat by Cara Mahoney
The Man From Carrickfergus by Matthew Fearney
The Estate by Rachel D Griffiths
Steal Me by Jeffrey Morin
Driven by Hayley Reeve
Big Man by Tom Bedford
The Witches of Pool Bottom by Ava Bounds
Winner: The Estate by Rachel D Griffiths
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Best Sound
An Imperfect Cadence
The Pearl Comb
Twain
Daddy Issues
Two Places at Once
Winner: The Pearl Comb
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Best Score
Daddy Issues
Twain
National Treasures
Rodent
The Pilgrimage
Winner: The Pilgrimage
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Best Make Up
Angela
Bal Maiden
Golem
Dead Fun
Daddy Issues
Winner: Bal Maiden
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Best Costume Design
The Pearl Comb
Golem
Maybe Moonbeam
Bal Maiden
The Comedown
National Treasures
Winner: The Pearl Comb
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Best Foreign Short Film
Mir
The Image Seller
Bottle George
The Letter
Empty Your Pockets
Winner: Empty Your Pockets
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Best Foreign Feature Film
Goody
Dwelling Among the Gods
Finger Laced Crown
Winner: Finger Laced Crown
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Best Editing
Essentially Painless
Where To?
Maybe Moonbeam
The Woman in the Wardrobe
Delivery
Winner: Essentially Painless
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Best Screenplay (filmed)
What I am
Imagine Me and You
Essentially Painless
National Treasures
Golem
The Farm
Winner: What I am
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Best Cinematography
OK/NOTOK
Twain
The Pearl Comb
Daddy issues
Tanner’s Field
Two Places at Once
Winner: Daddy Issues
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Best Micro -Short (Under 6 mins)
Mir
One Big Family
Afters
Blue Rooster
Safe
Discord
Winner: Mir
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Best Animation
Hot Mess
Bottle George
Fantastic
Winner: Hot Mess
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Best Issue Based Film
The Woman in the Wardrobe
Roses are Red, Everything Else is Blue
Fifteen
Contract Hours
What We Wish We Could Be
Strings Attached
Special Mention: What We Wish We Could Be
Winner: The Woman in the Wardrobe
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Best Director (Documentary)
Charli Doherty (Maji)
Gordon Main (Comrade Tambo’s London Recruits)
Olivia Smart (Black Stroke)
Tom Acer Turner (No Way Back)
Joe McGowan (My Bad Sister)
Timothy Stuart Lovell (She Walks A Line)
Special Mention: Olivia Smart (Black Stroke)
Winner: Charli Doherty (Maji)
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Best Documentary Short Film
No Way Back
Recomposing Earth
My Bad Sister
Black Stroke
Christina Wechsel: Healing Grief
Winner: Recomposing Earth
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Best Documentary Feature Film
Comrade Tambo’s London Recruits
Maji
She Walks a Line
Winner: She Walks a Line
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One to Watch Award
Sayna Fardaraghi (Glint)
Priscilla Olympio (Maybe Moonbeam)
Chakira Alin (The Pilgrimage)
Winner: Sayna Fardaraghi (Glint)
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Best Comedy
The Comedown
Amigo
Just Be Awesome
Angela
STI – Sexually Transmitted Introductions
Mafia
Winner: Mafia
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Si Spencer Award
Two Minutes
Mum’s the Word
Golem
Two Places at Once
Dog Person
Daddy Issues
Winner: Dog Person
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Best Actor (Short Film)
Sam Swann (Where To?)
Éanna Hardwicke (Twain)
Daniel Portman (The Mediator)
Reda Elazouar (Two Places at Once)
Tom Stourton (The Farm)
Zak Sutcliffe (Daddy Issues)
Winner: Zak Sutcliffe (Daddy Issues)
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Best Actor (Feature)
Matthew Simpson (Disremember)
James Nelson-Joyce (Reputation)
Nicholas Pople (Resérvée)
Craige Middleburg (Cookster: The Darkest Days)
Tyrelle Boyce (Dead Fun)
Winner: Matthew Simpson (Disremember)
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Best Actress (Short Film) - Richie
Rosie Chappel (Delivery)
Genevieve O'Reilly (Going)
Louisa Connolly-Burnham (An Imperfect Cadence)
Mia Isabella (The Comedown)
Cat White (The Mediator)
Mia Threapleton (Two Places at Once)
Winner: Rosie Chappel (Delivery)
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Best Actress (Feature)
Caitlin Cameron (Resérvée)
Olivia Frances Brown (Reputation)
Elvira Devinamira (Cookster: The Darkest Days)
Torez Mosley (Finger Laced Crown)
Piper Collins (Goody)
Winner: Caitlin Cameron (Réservée)
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Best Director (Short Film)
Aella Jordan-Edge (Bal Maiden)
Jill Worsley (Where To?)
Harry Richards (Contact Hours)
Freddie Bonfanti (Two Places at Once)
Joe Warner (Househunters)
Lil Warren (Maybe Moonbeam)
Winner: Freddie Bonfanti (Two Places at Once)
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Best Director (Feature Film)
Brandon C. Lay (Finger Laced Crown)
Matthew Simpson (Disremember)
Martin Law (Reputation)
Stephen Edward Roach (Cookster: The Darkest Days)
Benjamin Turner (Dead Fun)
Zoe Lubeck (Goody)
Winner: Benjamin Turner (Dead Fun)
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FESTIVAL DIRECTOR’S CHOICE AWARD
Winner: Where To?
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Best UK Short Film
Going
Delivery
Wool Coat
The Pearl Comb
Where To?
Two Places at Once
Winner: Going
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Best UK Feature Film
Réservée
Disremember
Cookster: The Darkest Days
Reputation
Dead Fun
Winner: Disremember
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