2025 Awards

The awards ceremony will take place in New Orleans at the SVA Business Meeting
Friday, November 21, 8:00 - 9:30 pm

**Best Feature Film - Winner**
*Farming the Revolution* (Nishtha Jain)

Screening Block: *Resurgent Roots / Reclaiming Place*

**Best Feature Film - Honorable Mention**
*The Conspiracists* (Liz Smith)

Screening Block: *In or Out: Of Un/Freedoms*

**Best Short Film - Winner**
*Land of Dreams* (Ambarien Alqadar)

Screening Block: *American Dreams?*

**Best Short Film - Honorable Mention**
*Women and Academia* (Sofía Bensadon et al.)

Screening Block: *Resurgent Roots / Reclaiming Place*

**Jean Rouch Award – Winner**
*From Ground Zero* (Rashid Masharawi)

Screening Block: *Resurgent Roots / Reclaiming Place*

**Jean Rouch Award – Honorable Mention**
*Life Is Beautiful* (Mohamed Jabaly)

Screening Block: *In the Shadow of the State*

**Best Student Film - Winner**
*What Do Ghosts Think?* (Yuefei You)

Screening Block: *Between Love and Loss*

**Best Student Film - Honorable Mention**
*Women of the Stony Shore* (Nathaniel Cummings-Lambert)

Screening Block: *Anthropo-scenes*

SVA Film & Media Festival Awards

Best Feature Film / Recognizes the film longer than forty-five minutes that best embodies the ethnographic inquiry and cinematic craft celebrated through the festival.
Best Short Film / Recognizes the film shorter than forty-five minutes that best embodies the ethnographic inquiry and cinematic craft celebrated through the festival.
Jean Rouch Award / Recognizes films that make exemplary use of ethnofiction techniques or that are produced in a collaborative manner embodying the spirit of Rouch's "anthropologie partagée" (shared anthropology).
Best Student Film / Recognizes the most outstanding film made by a student enrolled in an accredited educational institution.
Best Interactive Media / Recognizes media work—including VR installations, iDocs, websites, games, podcasts—that best embodies the creative and collaborative spirit of multimodal anthropologies.