WINNERS / MARCH 2026

March 2026

MGABEST PICTURE
AWARDED PROJECTS

The winners

Alphabetical order by film title

Best Feature Film

ANGST

Fjolnir Baldursson

Iceland

Silver Award - Feature Documentary

ATTRACTOR

Alexey Nemov

Russian Federation

Best Short Documentary

BEHIND THE MOON BEYOND THE RAIN - AN AFROFUTURIST CINEMATIC MUSICAL PRELUDE TO THE STAGE

Levi Wise-Kenneth Catoe Jr.

United States

Silver Award - Short Film

BENNETTS: A FAMILY DILEMMA

Lohn Lenoir

United States

Honorable Mention

BENNETTS: A FAMILY DILEMMA

Lohn Lenoir

United States

Best Experimental Film

BULOSAN: ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY PART 3

Andres Luz

United States

Silver Award - Music Video

COMIN' HOME (VERTICAL)

Allen Brooks

United States

Gold Award - Short Script

CRY WOLF

Written by Reham Ozjan Yeshar

Not Specified

Best Short Film

D'OMBRE ET DE LUMIERE

Fabien Loiacono

France

Silver Award - Feature Script

DROP PROJECT

Written by Paul Millward

United Kingdom

Best Experimental Film

DYNAMICS

Teo Baehler

Netherlands

Silver Award - Animated Film

FAKE NEWS

Joachim Weber

Germany

Gold Award - Feature Documentary

HUNTING SECRETS OF THE TROPICAL WHALE

Drew Kelly

Australia

Silver Award - Short Documentary

I AM BLACK HISTORY

C.J. Riggs

United States

Best Short Documentary

I MAKE LINES

Stewart Lane

United Kingdom

Gold Award - Music Video

JAPANESE GARDEN

Scott West

United States

Gold Award - Feature Film

KAMIKAZE ZOMBIE CARNAGE

Nicholas Weed & Alan Smithee

United States

Best Music Video

KEANE AUSTIN - WHEN THE SILENCE FALLS (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

Mohd Shahran bin Daud

Malaysia

Gold Award - Animated Film

LE VIOLON CRIE

Lauren Carr

United States

Silver Award - Indie Short Film

LEVEE

Jeffrey Sketchler

United States

Best Actress

LOVE & CHATGPT

Farrah Wase-Bailey

United States

Silver Award - Experimental Film

MOTHER OF EXILES

Mimi Garrard

United States

Silver Award - Short Script

MUST EAT

Written by Romeo Luciano Kapuscinski

Not Specified

Gold Award - Indie Short Film

NO WAY OUT

Parsha Sri Kella

United Kingdom

Best Short Script

NORMAN: THE DOG WHO DIDN'T MEAN TO

Written by Paul Millward

United States

Gold Award - Short Documentary

OMELETTES FOR YUMMIES

Christopher C. James

United States

Best Feature Documentary

SILA

Zaya Benazzo & Maurizio Benazzo

United States

Best Animated Film

SPARK

Nimisha Manjunathan

United Kingdom

Honorable Mention

THE CHIEF OF NASH VALLEY PART 2

Aundra’ Segrest

United States

Best Feature Script

THE HIVE

Shawn Alexander Thompson

United States

Honorable Mention

THE NIGHT SHIFT

Brock Nakamura Viera

United States

Gold Award - Actress (Katy An Maplesden)Silver Award - Short Film

THE RED BOOK

Kyprianos Dimosthenous

Cyprus

Gold Award - Feature Script

THE SHENANDOAH EXPERIMENT

Written by Zack Van Eyck

United States

Gold Award - Experimental Film

TWILIGHT DISSONANCES

Alberto Martín-Aragón

Spain

Best Indie Short Film

WHERE THE STARS MEET

Benjamin Martin

South Africa

Gold Award - Short Film

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Antonia Kim

South Korea