Official Selection
South Pacific Pictures Best 15-18 Age Group Film
Desolate Remnants
By Jack Smillie & Jack Trounce
fathoms
By Camille Sutherland
Loop
By Angus Lindsay
SPACE COWBOY
By Emily McVicar
XO
By Kate Liu
One New Zealand Best 19-21 Age Group Film
My Sister’s Shiny Stone
By Dean Chung
O’live me alone
By Beth Davies
The Mariner
By Una Schenker
Tuned Out
By Flynn Biara Allan
He Said, She Said
By Zion McLean
Warner Bros. International Television Production New Zealand Best 22-24 Age Group Film
A Date With Death
By Finnigan Fiebig
Little Stray
By Kieran Latta
Love is Dead
By Dylan Poihipi
The Adventures of Banana Man! The Rise of Tomaté!
By Caleb Lay
Tokorua Hei Kotahi (Two As One)
By Claudia Holmstead-Morris
South Pacific Pictures Best Acting
For Thom
By Rafa Yam
Half-Truth
By Chris Curtis
MURPHY’S COMMUTE
By Ethan Robinson
When You See Me
By Georgia Cotterill
Canon Best Cinematography
Fantasy Football
By Jaeden Moore
In Conversation With the Moon
By Max Libbey-Hollyman
Out Of? Order. (My Nightmare Comes From Dreaming in a 4:3 Aspect Ratio)
By Jono Li
The Colorway Killer
By Alex Metaxas
Voyage’
By Keven Souza
Massey University National Academy of Screen Arts Best Directing
Act Blind 101
By Wei-Chi Lin
Fetu
By Jesse Membrere
Honey Kaha
By Te Waiarangi Ratana
In Her Steps
By Kit Coira
The Empathiser
By Arlo Macmillan
What the Actual?! Best Documentary
Big Kids
By Tom Field
False Horizon
By Jack Carden
Milking Colours
By George Meehan
Skyglow
By Connor Hislop
Adobe Best Editing
Blue Cow
By Tom Foy
Cheese Man
By Ephraim Frame
Facade
By Emily Ardern
Universal Music New Zealand Best Music Video
Deliverance
By lissalee
Dino Party
By Archie Crayford
God Complex
By Hannah Davenport
Odyssey
By Tyler Redmond
Supernova
By Flora Xie
Wētā FX Best Visual Effects
Got the Spirit
By Molly Power
Insoucism
By Josiah Low-Schuemperli
Men Who Went South
By Josh Robertson
User 3.0
By Casilda Tudor-Oakley
“New Zealand Youth Film Festival is a fabulous event, and the quality of filmmaking from rangatahi youth as young as 15 really blew me away! I can’t wait to know many of these folks as colleagues on the world stage. Doing Aotearoa so proud.”