Another year, another set of Best of Winners!💫🎞️
Thank you, Matthew Carey and Deadline, for helping us announce this year's Best of NMFLA Award winners, presented by NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA)! 🏆 🎬
This year's winners were selected by a jury of 29 entertainment industry professionals from a pool of 84 nominees across 16 categories and represent some of the most exciting emerging voices in independent cinema today.
This year's announcement also includes a special partnership with Shine Global, awarding the Shine Global Resilience Award! This prize includes $2,500 and support, amplification, and engagement through the Shine Global team and network. This is presented to the Best International Short, Comedy nominee "One Day" by Yazmeen Kanji and Maryam Remtulla.
Additionally, winners in the categories of Best Short Film Drama, Best Short Film Comedy, Best International Short Film Drama, Best International Short Film Comedy, and Best Feature Film will receive a package of @EntPartners' Movie Magic Scheduling and Budgeting software.
The winners of the Best Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature Film awards will each receive a Platinum Badge to the American Film Market® (AFM®), November 10–15, 2026, in Los Angeles. Courtesy of the Independent Film & Television Alliance® (IFTA®), the global trade association of the independent film and TV industry, the badge provides premium access to AFM, where thousands of entertainment professionals gather annually to discover, finance and sell projects, forge partnerships, and shape what's next for our industry.
🔗 Read the full Deadline announcement here:
https://deadline.com/2026/07/newfilmmakers-los-angeles-2026-best-of-nfmla-awards-winners-1236973425/
