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SELECT 026.
No-Land: No-Landers.
The land is gone.
Six citizens, one underwater apartment, a treasure that turns them on each other. Lei Jiang's fashion film.

Grand Jury Choice, Fashion Film, FFTG Awards 2025.

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SELECT 025
'Dark Orange', an animated short from Iran by Zahra Azadpour, on the violence that leaves no mark.

Grand Jury Choice, Animation Film, FFTG Awards Film Fest 2025. Our latest FFTG SELECT. Where films and filmmakers live on. @Azadpourz

https://t.co/x7egqQza5K

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A film warning about AI super-intelligence, made entirely with AI, for under one hundred dollars.

'Happy Sleep' by Scott Cundill wins Grand Jury Choice for AI-Generated Film at the FFTG Awards Film Fest 2025. Where films and filmmakers live on.
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Day six. The last seat on our Grand Jury belongs to Solomon Fixon-Owoo. 15 years across African film, TV, and stage. AMAA nominee. Grand Jury Choice winner. Now directing his own with Ashes of Accra. We, the chosen ones. @fftgawards
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Meet Rick E. Cutts — We, The Chosen Ones · 6th Edition We sent 45 invitations for our 6th Edition.
Six filmmakers were chosen, pulled in by the work, not the noise. Meet one of them:

Day 5: Rick E. Cutts. USA

From the streets of Chicago to award-winning filmmaker, the kind of artist who lives the story before he tells it. The world's starting to notice too, TED in New York came calling. Of course it did.

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Fourth of six.
Marie France Louis.

'Howl of the Blue Moon', her debut feature, took our Grand Jury Choice for Debut Feature Film.

Since then, a Best Writer nod at the Alternative Film Festival and a win at New York Film.We, the chosen ones. https://t.co/xSTl34mue8

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SELECT 2023.
An angel and a demon at one table, deciding on a man's soul.

Midnight Brunch by Marin Wes Koval, Russia.

Grand Jury Choice for Debut Short Film at FFTG Awards Film Fest 2025.

Now one of six on our sixth-edition jury.

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Day three of our We, The Chosen Ones® grand jury:
Marin Wes Koval.
Director and actor.

His film Midnight Brunch, an angel and a demon over one soul, took Grand Jury Choice for Debut Short Film at our 5th Edition.

Story, not scale. His introduction, in his own words. @marinweskoval

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We sent 45 invitations.
Chose six.
One a day, alphabetically: our We, The Chosen Ones® grand jury.

Day two: Jimena Aguilar. Writer-director from Argentina.

Her AI film Finnish and Paranoid Dream has played 100+ festivals in ten countries.

In her own words 👇 @FftgAwards

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SELECT 022.
The Living Tree.

A honeymoon off the grid. An AI named kAIren that will not stop watching. A love measured to its breaking point.

Winner - Grand Jury Choice for Female Actor and Music at FFTG Awards 2025. A film by Anthony J. James.

SELECT is the editorial spotlight series we have built. Starting this year, our sixth edition, we are making one for every filmmaker whose work has earned our recognitions. Across five editions, hundreds of films have been nominated, chosen, and recognized. Every one deserves this. So we are scaling to three new pieces a week. A living archive, built in real time.

The Living Tree: https://t.co/OW8aFVuu0p
Trailer: https://t.co/1PUFGKKNi8

Where films and filmmakers live on.

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We sent 45 invitations. We chose six. Starting today, one a day, alphabetically — our We, The Chosen Ones® grand jury.

First up: Anu Singh C.

Journalist turned writer-director behind Aarya, Scoop, Mrs., Delhi Crime.

Her film Selfie, Please swept our 5th Edition.
Her intro, in her own words 👇
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SELECT 021.

A prima ballerina loses every stage when the theaters go dark, so she takes the rooftops of Moscow.

Andrew Arrakis, The World Is My Stage.

Spirit Award and Grand Jury Choice at FFTG. The stage was never the building. Where films and filmmakers live on.

https://t.co/L8ciWBdlJ0

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Brujeria by Vanessa Volz.
Twenty-one minutes, two thousand dollars, not one wasted frame.

Grand Jury Choice, Female Filmmaker, FFTG Awards Film Fest 2025.

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FFTG SELECT 019. A mother who never finished school, fighting to keep her son inside a classroom that now lives on a phone. Winter Threshold by Soudabeh Beizaei. Iran, the second pandemic winter.