AWARD WINNERS Our 2025 championsAll the podcasts, short films and web series which won awards at #NZWF25 Please find our 2025 award winners below. PODCASTSSHORT FILMSWEBSERIES ACTUAL PLAY/TTRPG AUDIO PODCASTBEST HOST (joint winners)Tales Yet Told, USAThe Storyteller Squad, USA BEST CAST The Book of War, Australia BEST ACTUAL PLAY/TTRPG AUDIO PODCAST Planet Arcana, Canada ACTUAL PLAY/TTRPG VIDEO PODCASTBEST HOST Godkiller: Last Hope, USA BEST CAST A Haunting, Beloved, USA BEST ACTUAL PLAY/TTRPG VIDEO PODCAST Godkiller: Last Hope, USA NON-FICTION PODCASTBEST CONCEPT Radically Alive Women, NZ BEST NON-FICTION PODCAST Fighting the Power, USA FICTION PODCASTBEST CONCEPT (joint winners)The City: Revolution, UKThe Treacle People: Still Sticky, UK BEST CAST Levian, USA BEST WRITING Fawx & Stallion, USA BEST SOUND DESIGNRADIO PLAY/STANDALONE FICTION PODCAST Stowaway, USA BEST SOUND DESIGNFICTION SERIES Merona Grant & The Lost Tomb of Golgotha, USA BEST RADIO PLAY/STANDALONE FICTION PODCAST All That Name Implies, USA BEST FICTION SERIES PODCAST Merona Grant & The Lost Tomb of Golgotha, USA BEST MUSIC VIDEO (joint winners)Mau Moko, NZPressure Cooker, NZ BEST ANIMATION/PUPPETRY SHORT Chrysalis, NZ SHORT DOCUMENTARYBEST DIRECTING PUSH, USA BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY All-American Ruins, USA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FICTIONBEST PERFORMANCE Rebecca Fortuna, Still Here, Australia BEST DIRECTING Burned, USA BEST FILM Still Here, Australia NZ SHORT FICTIONBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Traffic BEST EDITING Traffic BEST PERFORMANCE Megg Alexander, Lookout BEST WRITING (joint winners)ConstanceHokia BEST DIRECTING Hokia BEST STUDENT FILM Temporal BEST FILM Planet 13 BEST ANIMATION/PUPPETRY SERIES Soul Shift, Germany BEST PILOT Bad Asians, Australia NZ FACTUAL SERIESBEST CONCEPT (joint winners)d8talkSight Unseen BEST HOST/PRESENTER Six, K’ Road Chronicles BEST EDITING (joint winners)Being TuriHome Education BEST DIRECTING This is Wheel Life BEST SERIES K’ Road Chronicles INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SERIESBEST EDITING Queen Lear, Brazil BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Abracadavers, Canada BEST SCORE Abracadavers, Canada BEST ENSEMBLE Lady Ada’s Secret Society, Canada BEST PERFORMANCE (joint winners)Shuang Hu, Deserted, AustraliaClaudia Alencar, Queen Lear, BrazilSean Towgood, You’re My Hero, Canada BEST WRITING(not English language) Mirror, Poland BEST WRITING(English Language) My Dead Mom, Canada BEST DIRECTING (joint winners)Lady Ada’s Secret Society, CanadaWalking Shadows, Australia BEST SERIES(not English language) (joint winners)Mirror, PolandQueen Lear, Brazil BEST SERIES(English language) (joint winners)Illuminagents, CanadaMy Dead Mom, Canada NZ NARRATIVE SERIESBEST EDITING Camp Be Better BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Literally Dead BEST SCORE The Sender BEST ENSEMBLE The Sender BEST PERFORMANCE Kirana Asmarani, Literally Dead BEST WRITING Fuq Boiz BEST DIRECTING Camp Be Better BEST SERIES Literally Dead
