2025 Riverside International Film Festival Winners!

AWARDS FROM RIFF JUDGES 2025

Founder's Award Best picture : GO AGAINST THE FLOW by Wieslaw Paluch

Founder's Award Best actress : Natalia Estefania Polo in MY LITTLE MOON by Ali Ateshani

President's Award Best cinematography : Emmanuel Andrade in AMERICAN STONER by Keon Hedayati 

Best Feature:  MY LITTLE MOON by Ali Ateshani

Best Documentary:  WALKING ON ICE by Dru Solberg

Best Short:  SOMETIMES, I IMAGINE YOUR FUNERAL by Vince Dixon 

Best Student Short : THE RESIDENT by Tristan George

Best Animation Short: EAST LA by Xander Campa

Inland Empire Student Film Festival Award Winners!

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California Baptist University Film Festival Award Winners

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