The Brooklyn Horror Movie Pageant (BHFF) has introduced the jury awards for its 2025 incarnation.
DARK MATTER JURY AWARDS
Finest Characteristic – Don’t Depart the Children Alone
Finest Director – Paolo Strippoli, The Holy Boy
Finest Efficiency – Olivia Taylor Dudley, Abigail Earlier than Beatrice
Finest Screenplay – Aleksandar Radivojevic, Karmadonna
Finest Cinematography -Cristiano Di Nicola, The Holy Boy
Finest Sensible FX – Mio Chiba and Tokihiko Endo, Incomplete Chairs
“On behalf of everybody at Don’t Depart the Children Alone, we want to thank the jury of the Darkish Matter part, Matt Barone and everybody who make the Brooklyn Horror Movie Pageant potential and everybody who took the time to attend the screenings. Thanks for inviting the movie, combating for the theatrical expertise, nurturing horror audiences, bringing collectively worldwide movies and colleagues of the forbidden genres. And final however not least… ¡Viva Brooklyn Horror Fest y el Cine de Terror!” – Emilio Portes, dir. Don’t Depart the Children Alone
HEAD TRIP JURY AWARDS
Finest Characteristic – Each Heavy Factor
Finest Director – Yûta Shimotsu, New Group
Finest Screenplay – Avalon Quick, CAMP
Finest Efficiency – Tipper Newton, Each Heavy Factor
Finest Enhancing – Simon Glassman, Buffet Infinity
Finest Cinematography – Eily Sprungman, CAMP
Finest Sound Design – Johnny Blerot, Buffet Infinity
“What an honor. It’s been my lifelong objective to buck the components of each form of film so it’s galvanizing to obtain this award which celebrates simply that.” – Mickey Reece, dir. Each Heavy Factor
SHORTS COMPETITION JURY AWARDS
Finest Brief – Final Name
Finest Director – Kylie Aoibheann, The Dysphoria
Finest Efficiency – Nicole Elliot, Jeff
Finest Particular FX – Sharp FX, The Dysphoria
Finest Screenplay –
Louise Flaherty & Neil Christopher, The Gnawer of Rocks
Finest Sound Design – Jack Goodman, Eonian
Finest Artwork Path –
Danny Christopher & Sarah Ball, The Gnawer of Rocks
Finest Enhancing – Marcus Fahey, Daddy is a Hunter
House Invasion Award – Rebrand
Particular Jury Point out for Filmmaker to Watch
Nathan Ginter, Overgrown
The Finest Brief Award comes with a prize bundle from post-production home Reduce and Measure.
The House Invasion Award comes with a prize bundle from Lightbulb Leases.
“I’m grateful to the pageant, the jurors, and everybody who embraced the shadows of this movie. This honor belongs to the forged and crew, whose artistry and devotion dropped at life the unusual, the unsettling, and the hauntingly stunning metamorphosis of ‘changing into.” – Winnie Cheung, dir. Final Name
The Leviathan Award, Brooklyn Horror’s first and solely tribute award, was created in 2023 to honor the luminaries of horror and acknowledge their monstrous contributions to the style.
The 2025 Leviathan Award goes to the multitalented Ernest Dickerson, whose prolific profession as a cinematographer and director has given horror followers a surplus of greatness on screens each huge and small. Together with his trailblazing run of characteristic movies and TV present episodes courting again to the Eighties and spanning to the current day, Ernest Dickerson has helped to pave the best way for the likes of Jordan Peele and Nia DaCosta by exhibiting that horror cinema is aware of no shade traces nor cultural limitations.
2025 Brooklyn Horror Jury
Options, Darkish Matter
Greg Newman (Government Vice President, MPI Media)
Kimberly Leszak (Group and Content material Supervisor, Fangoria)
Alison Foreman (Options Author, IndieWire)
Options, Head Journey
James-Michael Fleites (Editor in Chief, Horror Press)
Justin LaLiberty (Director of Operations, OCN Distribution; Archivist, Vinegar Syndrome)
Gigi Murakami (Horror Mangaka Creator)
Shorts
Shannon Wiedemeyer (Programmer, Head of Social Channel Ops at Alter)
Katie Rife (Critic, Shorts Programmer for Overlook Movie Pageant)
Kailey Marsh (Literary Supervisor, Producer, Brillstein Leisure Companions)
