2025 Festival Photos

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Audience Awards:

“Made in the (818)” Short Film: El Bar De Hernando (Andres Felipe Bernal Farias and Maria Gomez)

Short Film Made by VFF Alumni: Ms. Rossi Meets the Mob (Pat Battistini) 

Dramatic Short Film Program: Diez Segundos (Gloria Laino)

The Valley Film Festival (VFF) concluded its 25th Anniversary of showcasing thought-provoking storytelling on September 21 at the Laemmle NoHo 7 theatre in North Hollywood. Please join us in celebrating all filmmakers who participated as well as those who walked away with an award:

“10 Degrees Hotter” Juried Awards:

Narrative Feature Film: Motherland (Evan Matthews)

Foreign Film: Mistura: Mistura (Ricardo de Montreuil)

Documentary Feature Film: Daniel Ho: Life as an Audition (Anne Davis O’Neal)

Narrative Short: It’s Over. The End. (Jillian Cantwell & Jenny Curtis)

Documentary Short: Beyond the Herd (Michelle Fenn)

Juried Awards:

“Made in the (818)” Short Film: Starting Line (Brenton Bender)

“Girls on Film” Short Film: Come Back (Helen O'Reilly)

Best Music Video: My Face (Jeff Hilliard) 

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