"HBHF": Winners of August 2025

It's time to announce the winners of AUGUST'S CONTEST!

Many films were simply outstanding... Our sincere congratulations to the winners and all the finalists!
And now, drum roll please!!! The winners are:

 

Apartment 296

Tyger Sharee

USA

🏆 Best Thriller

🏆 Best Director

🏆 Best Ensemble (Monica LaForest, Ian Agee, Dennis Doyle Jr., Antonio Mireles, Cody LaRue)

Body of flesh

John Kestner

USA

🏆 Best Original Screenplay

Come the nightfall

Tom Michaels

USA

🏆 Best Gore (Tom Michaels)

🏆 Best Producer (Joel Hogan)

🏆 Best Director (Tom Michaels)

🏆 Best Actor (Tom Michaels)

🏆 Best Actress (Jade Warwick)

🏆 Best Supporting Actor (Mitch Taylor)

🏆 Best Supporting Actress (Vanessa Beck)

🏆 Best Cinematography (Benjamin Steeper)

🏆 Best Editing (Ned Thorne)

🏆 Best Sound Design (Maui Holcomb)

🏆 Best Original Score (Samuel Joseph Smythe)

🏆 Best VFX (Cristian Urzua Lagos)

🏆 Best Special FX (Marla Chand)

Damn, what the happiness!

Olena Kutinova, Arthur Sadovnikov

Ukraine

🏆 Honorable Mention

Served

John Norris Ray

USA

🏆 Best Original Screenplay

Super sweet

Noora Fahad, Eduarda Aun Anguita

UK

🏆 Best Dark Comedy

🏆 Best Producers (Noora Fahad, Eduarda Aun Anguita)

🏆 Best Director

🏆 Best Ensemble (Rachel Andrews, Kate McNally, Joe Harrington, Jack Newton, Alexia Celaya Cervantes, Andrea Celaya Cervantes)

The cellar

Jamie David Langlands

UK

🏆 Best Feature

 🏆 Best Special Makeup (Loren Abbott, Cerys Burns-Toms)

The Harpies

Rogan Lovse

Canada

🏆 Best Mystery

🏆 Best Actor (Simon Alexander)

🏆 Best Actress (Brooklyn Hislop)

🏆 Best Supporting Actor (Rohain Arora)

🏆 Best Supporting Actress (Kallie Hu)

🏆 Best Cinematography (David Nguyen)

🏆 Best Editing (Patrick Paes)

🏆 Best Costume Design (Iryna Kuznetsova)

The R.I.P man

Jamie David Langlands

UK

🏆 Best Feature

 🏆 Best Production Design (Danielle Thompson)

The savage frogs of innsmouth

Logan Fry

USA

🏆 Best Sci-Fi

Threat from within

Peter Mayfield

UK

🏆 Best Original Screenplay

Varya

Nastia Horbachova

Ukraine

🏆 Best Drama

🏆 Best 1st Time Director

🏆 Best Child/Young Actor (Roman Hrechanichenko)

🏆 Best Child/Young Actress (Margarita Hutsalyuk)