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OCTOBER

15-19

2025

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Santa Fe International Film Festival

Santa Fe International Film Festival Announces 2024 Award Winners and Celebrates Cinematic Excellence

The Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFiFF) announced the recipients of this year's juried awards, recognizing the outstanding achievements of filmmakers across all categories. The SFiFF 2024 jury has honored these visionary creators for their exceptional cinematic craftsmanship and storytelling. This year also marks the first time the winners of the Best Animated Short, Best Narrative Short, and Best Documentary Short categories at the festival will be eligible for Oscar submission.

SFiFF Submissions Now Open

The Santa Fe International Film Festival is proud to announce that The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® has named the SFiFF as a qualifying festival in the category of Short Films. Winners of the Best Narrative Short, Best Animated Short, and Best Documentary Short awards may qualify to enter the Academy Awards® provided the films otherwise comply with the Academy rules.

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Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch

Writers are more valuable than ever — both literally and metaphorically — after the strikes in 2023 over current compensation, and future worker protections, that hamstrung Hollywood for 148 days. Variety’s 2024 Screenwriters to Watch recognizes just 10 of the young scribes whose work will now and in the immediate future be essential to filling screens with stories to amuse, entertain and inspire. Drawing upon their diverse backgrounds, personal experience and perhaps most of all, boundless creativity, these screenwriters design vivid characters and conjure thrilling worlds to take audiences on mesmerizing, unforgettable journeys.

— Todd Gilchrist

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