Official Results
Semi-Finalists Spring 2026
Every season, our jury shortlists the works that rose above the field. Congratulations to the 134 semi-finalist projects of Spring 2026 — each one a step from the podium.
134 Projects
27+ Countries
Hollywood Indie Festival
| Project Title | Writers/Directors | Country of Origin |
|---|---|---|
| 4 DEVILISH WOMEN | Elizabeth Avalos Castillo | Not Specified |
| A Nest in My Heart | Mira Kim | South Korea |
| A thousand questions and one miracle | Esther Wenger | Austria |
| A Triptych “The Arc of a Narcissist” - Rise - Collapse - Decay | Adam John Keith Nigel Mitchell | United Kingdom |
| A Triptych - 99 years - Romanticism - Modernism - Realism | Adam John Keith Nigel Mitchell | United Kingdom |
| A Vote of Her Own | Candace Rose Corrigan, Megan Pennington | United States |
| Against our will | Jean Michel Fages, Antoine Caulliez | Not Specified |
| Alfarida | Yasser Mohamed Abdelsalam | Saudi Arabia |
| All I Want For Christmas | Richard Vadimsky (Vadim) | Not Specified |
| Allowed to birth: the Journey of a Global Midwife | Jacinta Lagos | Argentina, United States |
| Almost | Dion Aralihalli | Not Specified |
| American Indian Uprising | Allen Cody | Not Specified |
| An interview with a movie meta star | Claude Bouillin | Finland |
| AnteApocalypse | Ilie Stepan | Romania |
| Anthony & Cleopatra | Stephen J Willis | United Kingdom |
| Attractor | Igor Kambarov | Not Specified |
| Because We Are Too Many | Eve Natasha Leonard-Walsh | United Kingdom |
| BLUEBIRD | SAMUEL ROBERT BRINSLEY BEAUMONT | Not Specified |
| Brother | Marco Fratini | Italy |
| Bye Bye Baby | Dianne Mary Lang | Australia |
| California Scenario | James Takata | United States |
| CastelLact Project | Jose M. Soriano, Carmen I. Saéz Lleó | Spain |
| Casting Call | Gabriel Felix Oliveira, Pedro Carvalho | Brazil |
| Cuba es Mi Patria: The Homeland I Keep Inside | Rose Marie Perez | United States |
| Darkness | Alessandro Pastorelli | Italy |
| Diary of a WoMan | Simon Aeby | Switzerland |
| Dinosaur Bowl | Herbert Forrest McCollom | Not Specified |
| Dog River | Julie Stafford Straton | United States |
| Don't Look Away | Ashley Malcolm Morrison | Australia |
| Don’t Leave Me | Joe Hill | United States |
| Echo Frequency | Lara Köller | Germany |
| ENTER SANCTUM | Michael Budd | Australia |
| Eurydiheid | Carlos David Langain | Not Specified |
| Eye Of The Dawn | Ernest Pick | United States |
| Familia MIA | Debora de Sola Habsburg, Patricia de la Cerda Picco, Nicolas Maynulet | Not Specified |
| Fiancé | Aaliyah Lynch | Germany |
| Fig Tape - Miracle (Official Video) | Johannes Hålien, Jon Olav S. Gulbrandsen | Norway |
| Flammable Film | Olivier van Malderghem | Belgium |
| Flash Card | Joseph Stephen Meadows | United States |
| Glad You Stayed | Ruslan Fradkin | Latvia |
| Glitch | Andrew M Healy | United States |
| Gogo | Sergio Alvarado | Canada |
| Golden Slumbers | MP Soldo | Not Specified |
| Golden Wings: Fifty Year Flight Path | Caleb Mills Stewart | United States |
| Graphite | Florencio Pereira Neto | Brazil |
| Green Goddesses Take New York | Jordan Ehrlich | United States |
| Grow Together | Susanne Frericks | Germany |
| Hard Twisted | Chuck Greaves | United States |
| Hatredless | Sara Demers | Canada |
| Hell Hath No Fury | Rustam Vakilov | United States |
| Hey, You! | NickyJoe Perez | United States |
| HIT ME TV Pilot | Alexander John Brown | Not Specified |
| Hurricane Huskies | Larry Masters | Not Specified |
| Charlie's Chocolate Factory | MP Soldo | Not Specified |
| I Promise You | Megan Corse, Alesha G | United States |
| Ice Breaking | Leonor Anthony | Cuba |
| Imbroglio | Ian Sciacaluga | United Kingdom |
| In Our 20s Episode 1: The Ex-Factor | Joey White, Abby Mondello | United States |
| INDIGESTION | Alexis Krasilovsky | United States |
| K3+ | Erasmo Acosta | United States |
| King of Blades | Paul Hikari | Not Specified |
| Land of Goodbyes | David Lui | Not Specified |
| LAST SUPPER | Sonny Corona | United States |
| Last Year | Reginald Butler | Not Specified |
| Late Night Letter | Lorenzo Patanè, Alessandra Rucco | United States |
| Life In The Bottle | John kmiecik | United States |
| Like A Willow Tree | S. Kyle Robisnon | United States |
| Lock Her Up | Elizabeth Ann Searle | United States |
| Love and the Art of Displacement | Gordon Gravley | Not Specified |
| Madeira Profunda - Porto Santo | Saul Caires | Portugal |
| Memoria Obscura | David Christopher Nelson, Connor Ryan | United States |
| Mentally Chill Unless I forget | Crystal Nadine Rollen | Not Specified |
| Midnight Garden | Nate Stewart | United States |
| Mom's Dating | Teri DeSalvo | Not Specified |
| Nanni Fortuna and the Cold Heart of Winter | Ramon Mazinga | Australia |
| NEO DOKKEBIZ - Hmmm | JIEUN YU | South Korea |
| No Names | Artemis Adamantopoulou | United Kingdom |
| Nocturnal | Michael Excell | Not Specified |
| Nostalgia | Dean Attari | Canada |
| Not a Love Story | Francesco Massini | Italy |
| Not Fore Long | Patricia Marshall | Not Specified |
| November | Nick Lussier | United States |
| Ocean of Dreams | Vernor Schneider | United States |
| Origin | Catherine Glynn | United States |
| Porch Pirates | JJ Brent | Not Specified |
| Portae Infernales | Markus Wimberger | Austria |
| Prairie Thunder | Jeremy Kenneth Hunter | Not Specified |
| Raksha Girls | Cathy Brown | United Kingdom |
| Reading of the Will | Amanda Louise Lay | Australia |
| Remember This Voice | Jeff Chan | United States |
| Reparations | Chrystal Rose | United Kingdom |
| RETURNEE | Prisca Ogouma | France |
| SANTA AI | Stephanie Bourbon | Not Specified |
| SCARLET | Pascal Franchot | Not Specified |
| Sedona | Julia Canale | Argentina |
| Shadows in your way | Juan Alcaraz | Spain |
| Si tu | Benjamin Fraser | Not Specified |
| Spitfire darlings | Emma Bonetti | Not Specified |
| Spot's Day Out | Tom Robert Sorem | United States |
| Susquehanna Episode One | Walter Bauer | United States |
| Take My Hand | Alan J. Levi | United States |
| The 'Love' Game | Michael Mammarella | Not Specified |
| THE ARMCHAIR TRAVELLERS | Patricia Planck, Kelly E. Nine | Not Specified |
| THE COFFIN KEEPER (nínú igi ati nínú erú) | ANGEL GABRIEL | Nigeria |
| The Cry of Milan / Der Schrei des Milan | Joachim H. Böttcher | Switzerland |
| The Doll Keeper | Diane F Sismour | Not Specified |
| The Edge | Jane Aroha Larkin | Australia |
| The Good Lawyer Pilot | Thomas Benigno, Diana Benigno, Peter McIntosh | United States |
| The Heart of Fools | Nathan Hasson | United States |
| The Huntress & The Horde: Blood of the Two Crowns | Part III | Kenneth Dale Bryant Jr | United States |
| The Child, The Two Scoundrels and The Witch | Mauro Paolino | Italy |
| The Kulaaloo's Revenge | Judy Elizabeth Brulo | Not Specified |
| The Language of Wolves | Nan Schmid | United States |
| The Last Cossack | Ronald McQueen | United Kingdom |
| The Lingerie Protest | Jordan Ehrlich | United States |
| The Meet-Up | Enrique R. Carrasco | Not Specified |
| The Odyssey of John Buchanan | Patrick Morgan Harrison | Not Specified |
| The Rendezvous: Vendetta | Fernando Lopez | United States |
| The Rhythm Of Jamaican Art Feature | John Campbell | United States |
| The Settlement (water thrust sequel) | Vincent Krah | Ghana, United States |
| The Thief and the Gentleman | Shigeto Sayama | Japan |
| The Weight of Beauty: Fashion and Eating Disorders | Eduardo Bloom | Italy |
| The Winner | Yury Sysoev | Russian Federation |
| This Damnation | Russell De Rozario | United Kingdom |
| Together for Water | Eriberto Gualinga | Ecuador |
| Tracing the Rails | Chris Kirk | United Kingdom |
| TWO IS TOO MANY | Robert Tasman Hoskin | Australia |
| U S M S T | Pacifica J Sauer | United States |
| Victoria The First | William Osinski | Not Specified |
| VIRAHA | Andrea de Santis | Italy |
| Waking Up, Waking In - A Leap Of Faith | Rejane dEspirac, Barbara Alves | Portugal |
| Walter's Internal Battle | Dean Attari | Canada |
| WarBabies | Lan Deal | United States |
| White Mule | Peter Dobson | United States |
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