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WINNERS & HONORARY MENTIONS 2025
The story follows an ambitious Salvadoran inventor who is too focused on making her teleportation device. She ends up neglecting her pet armadillo, Chiquito, and he decides to take matters into his own paws.
The inevitable full circle of life and reversal of roles.
A documentary short showcasing the difficulties of raising children, and growing up in the Bronx, New York City, during the decades of the 70’s-90’s.
Mientras espero is a drama short film that tells the story of a young boy Benito Ruiz waiting for his mother’s return back home. This project was made as part of a film class, and it’s inspired by true events.
The film follows a group of Puerto Rican college students as they reflect on their LGBTQ identity, and the complexities of cultural representation nowadays.
In 1850 Puerto Rico, a mixed-race girl raised as a Spaniard faces rejection as she seeks to connect with her late African mother through an afro Puerto Rican dance called La Bomba.
A half-Latino/half-white, third grader is taking a standardized test. And when he reaches the race/ethnicity question on the front and freezes: Latino… Caucasian… PICK ONE.
A filmmaker’s journey to visit their grandmother in Mexico, exploring the tradition of Día de los Muertos. Through intimate and ancestral rituals, the film reflects on the cultural and spiritual significance of remembrance.
Plagued by nightmares of his mother’s brutal murder, a stoic cowboy discovers her killer’s whereabouts. Determined to get revenge, he teams up with an honorable sheriff and a curious mouse onto a convoluted journey where his definition of justice comes into question.
A Chinese-Filipino woman, Malaga, living in 1930’s Mexico, a fragile period for racial identity. Due to her race, many aspects of her life encounters hostility, from her harsh childhood of enslavement, her relationship with her Mexican partner, Antonio, and her career as a singer.
