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Pulling Focus 2025 Festival 1st Place Winners

Best
Short Film
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Fannie

Directed By

Christine Swanson

Best
Student Film

Spare Me 

Directed By

Wilderley Mauricette

Best
First-time Filmmaker
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Best
Open Competition Showcase 

Baby Girl

Directed By

Jay Alan

The End was just The Beginning

Directed By 

Antonio Aleixo

Best
In The Midwest

The Negro Artist

Directed By

Nikolas Heftman

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Best
Inspirational  Film

More Than Hair

Directed By

Fitch Jean

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Best
Animated Film
The Reel Impact

Dear Child II

Directed By

Devin Peters

Pirinha

Directed By

Natasha Craveiro

2025 Runner-Up Winners

Best
In The Midwest
Runner-Up
Best
Inspirational  Film
Runner-Up
Best
Short Film
Runner-Up
Best
First-time Filmmaker
Runner-Up
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Rock Island Prison 1864

Directed by Joy Shannon

Power of the Pen 

Directed by Shaun Sinclair

The Reel Impact
Runner-Up
Best
Student Film
Runner-Up

Grieving Brothers

Directed by Jere'Miah McGhee

Best
Animation Short 

Runner-Up

TIMELESS

Directed by Shaina Thomas

Open Competetion
Showcase 
Runner-Up
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Courage to Thrive

Directed by

Josh Sikkema &

Kamin Samuel

Choke

Directed by

Tidiane Diallo

Vita Nova

Directed by

Dmytro Zavora

Maitighar

Directed by

Marc Gurung

2025 Audience Choice                            

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Sweet Boys

Block 1

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Time Setters

Block 2

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Ballerina Boy

Block 3

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Racialism and The Media

Block 4

Directed by Natasha Rivera

Directed by Oliver Mack Calhoun

Directed by Marc Jure

Directed by S. Torriano Berry

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54 & Counting

Block 5

Directed by Calvin Smith

Love Letters

Block 6

Directed by Niglmoro Okuk

Ohio Texas Remix

Block 7

Directed by Ya'Ke Smith

Natural Light

Block 8

Directed by Richard R. Murray

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Freedom's Pathway Forward

Block 9

Directed by LaRita Shelby

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In The Hood

Block 10

Directed by Anichka Banichka

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MIKOKO

Block 10.5

Directed by Angela Aquereburu

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Force Drift

Block 10.6

Directed by Graham H. Green

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