
2025 Award Winners & Official Selections

IN SERVICE TO OTHERS
Best Documentary: Kayden Purvis, Chance Middleton, Ethan Ivey, and Stone Thompson
Directed By: Kayden Purvis, Chance Middleton, Ethan Ivey, & Stone Thompson
In service to Others reveals the tight-knit community of the Punishers LEMC, a group of officers united by duty, bikes, and the desire to give back.
Producers: Chance Middleton & Kayden Purvis
Cinematographers: Stone Thompson & Ethan Ivey
Editor: Stone Thompson
Sound Designer: Alexandra McWhirter
Composer: Josiah McKinney

CLINK
Directed by: Davis Brown
A determined college student, refusing to end on a missed shot, becomes obsessed with making a basket – no matter how long it takes.
Producer: Davis Brown
Screenwriter: Davis Brown
Cinematographer |davis Brown
Editor: Davis Brown
Visual Effects Artist: Davis Brown
Sound Designer: Davis Brown
Production Designer: Davis Brown
Costumes, Hair, & Makeup: Davis Brown
Lead Actor: Samuel Webb

HOW DID WE GET HERE?
Best Cinematography: Tyler Chong
Best Actress: Kiley Reynolds
Best Director: Corrie Alford
Best Drama: Prod. Ethan Ivey
Audience Choice Award
Directed by: Corrie Alford
After arguing with her sister, Macie finds herself trapped inside one of her sister’s poems. Lost in this foreign, yet familiar, environment she finds common ground with her sister through flashbacks.
Producer: Ethan Ivey
Screenwriter: Sabina Boyer
Cinematographer: Tyler Chong
Editor: Tyler Chong
Visual Effects Artist: Tyler Chong
Sound Designer: Josiah McKinney
Production Designer: Geneva Wise
Costumes, Hair, & Makeup: Geneva Wise
Composer: Josiah McKinney
Lead Actresses: Kaity McKracken & Kiley Reynolds

NO ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HOME
Directed by: Sam Santrock
In the spirit of Christmas, Ted robs a supposedly empty home. Little does he know, Willis had a similar idea…
Producer: Sam Santrock
Screenwriter: Sam Santrock
Cinematographer: Tyler Chong
Editor: Sam Santrock
Sound Designers: Sam Santrock
Production Designer: Sam Santrock
Costumes, Hair, & Makeup: Sam Santrock
Lead Actor: Scott Stevenson

THE MESS
Best Costume, Hair and Makeup: Monique Caraman
Best Production Design: Kaja Jaques
Directed by: Dianna Kopp
A couple struggles to reconcile with each other’s mistakes and watches as their dreamy, blissful, perfect life slowly rot away.
Producer: Audrey Napah
Screenwriter: Audrey Napah
Cinematographer: Stone Thompson
Editor: Ethan Wold
Visual Effects Artist: Ethan Wold
Sound Designer: Ethan Wold
Production Designer: Kaja Jaques
Costumes, Hair, & Makeup: Monique Caraman
Composer: Andrew Stratton
Lead Actors: Jamie Hampton & Evangelina Dongell

3 MINUTES
Best Sound Design: Cameron Tapp
Directed by: Cameron Tapp
Three friends stop at a gas station, running late to a movie. One friend learns how wasting time can have dire consequences.
Producer: Jillian Kai
Screenwriter: Cameron Tapp
Cinematographer: Tyler Chong
Editor: Cameron Tapp
Visual Effects Artist: Cameron Tapp
Sound Designer: Cameron Tapp
Production Designer: Carson Sams
Costumes, Hair, & Makeup: Cameron Tapp
Lead Actors: Sonny Burnette & Forrest Jamison

THE LEGEND OF MARROW CREEK
Best High School Film: Jed Davis, Lexington Christian Academy
Directed by: Jed Davis
They say the forest at Marrow Creek remembers. One man went in, thinking the stories were just that – and became one more.
Producer: Jed Davis
Screenwriter: Jed Davis
Cinematographer: Jed Davis
Editor: Jed Davis
Sound Designer: Jed Davis

BALL: THE MOVIE
Best Visual Effects: Ann Messinger
Best Editing: Andrew Stratton
Best Comedy: Prod. Alexander Janus
Directed by: Ann Messinger
A depressed and tired man looks for an escape from his slow life by acquiring an exciting and mysterious new item in hopes that it will finally bring him joy.
Producer: Alexander Janus
Screenwriter: Ann Messinger
Cinematographer: Andrew Stratton
Editor: Andrew Stratton
Visual Effects Artist: Ann Messinger
Sound Designer: Andrew Stratton
Production Designer |andrew Stratton & Alexander Janus
Costumes, Hair, & Makeup: Andrew Stratton & Alexander Janus
Composer: Andrew Stratton
Lead Actors: Andrew Crane & Anna Hunsinger

THE LOW ROAD
Best Screenplay: Katie Jornod
Best Actor: Drew Farmer and Wesley Ridings
Directed by: Ian Wang
Two Scottish soldiers fighting in the Jacobite rising are captured by the British and are given a life-altering decision to make that will put their friendship and loyalty to the test.
Producers: Kayden Purvis & John Teoh
Screenwriter: Katie Jornod
Cinematographer: John Teoh
Editors: John Teoh & Ian Wang
Sound Designer: Alex McWhirter
Production Designer: Ella Liu
Costumes, Hair, & Makeup: Alex McWhirter & Ella Anderson
Composer: Aiden Gaither
Lead Actors: Drew Farmer & Wesley Ridings

STORIES END
Best Original Score: Aiden Chase Gaither
Directed by: Aiden Chase Gaither
Stories End is a multimedia film depicting the beauty and importance of self-expression and storytelling.
Producer: Aiden Chase Gaither
Screenwriter: Aiden Chase Gaither
Cinematographer: Stone Thompson
Editor: Tyler Chong
Sound Designer: Aiden Chase Gaither
Production Designer: Carson Sams
Composer: Aiden Chase Gaither
