Category: Best First-Time Filmmaker – 2025 WSXA Paris

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: Fear of the Indian

Director’s Name: Priscilla Candice Wolf

Writer’s Name: Priscilla Candice Wolf

Producer: Priscilla Candice Wolf

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming : Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 16 minutes

Film Description:

The theme of ignorance is meant to reveal how mainstream media covers the Indigenous community in mainstream media. Many factors contribute to how and why mainstream media doesn’t tell stories about Indigenous people fairly. The main factor being lack of information and education about Indigenous people. How does mainstream media portray Indigenous people in the media and has it improved in the past three decades? The overall subject of the larger overall documentary is how mainstream media portrays Indigenous people in Canada.

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: WHEN I GROW UP

Director’s Name: FLORENT TIXIER

Writer’s Name: FLORENT TIXIER, VINCENT JACQUET

Producer: FLORENT TIXIER

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: English, French

Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes

Film Description:

“When I grow up” is an intimate immersion into
the life of Didier Roussel, a person with a disability. On his 50th birthday, Didier launched into
the fulfillment of an impossible dream that he has had since he was a child: to become an astronaut.

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: Ben Carre: A Parisian in Hollywood

Director’s Name: Thomas Arthur Walsh

Writer’s Name: Thomas Arthur Walsh

Producer: Thomas Arthur Walsh

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 30 minutes

Film Description:

“Ben Carré: A Parisian in Hollywood” is a story about the art and history of silent films and Art Direction for the cinema. His life and career spans the arc of motion pictures beginning in 1905 in Paris until his retirement in Hollywood from MGM in 1964. • He is the only Art director from the silent era to have written a 400 page detailed and un-published memoir about his life and career.

(WINNER)

Original Film Title: Un chien vaut mieux que…

Director’s Name: Christel CINQ FRAIS

Writer’s Name: Christel CINQ FRAIS

Producer: Christel CINQ FRAIS

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming : France

Language: French

Runtime: 2 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

Zoe meditates…a dog barks…images arise…

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: La Mission

Director’s Name: Arnaud Favre

Writer’s Name: Arnaud Favre, Romane Bagnoud

Producer: Arnaud Favre

Country of Origin: Switzerland

Country of Filming : Switzerland

Language: French

Runtime: 10 minutes 16 seconds

Film Description:

One night in the city of Geneva, John is on a mission. As he navigates the streets, he faces a dilemma that could change everything. Caught in a world of espionage where action and suspense unfold, he must make a decision – one that could determine his fate. Immerse yourself in a world of intrigue, deception and suspense set against the backdrop of Switzerland’s diplomatic capital.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: The Multidimensionals: Star Envoy – dir.

Director’s Name: Ewa Pirog-Rojas

Writer’s Name: Ewa Pirog-Rojas, Alex Kruz

Producer: Alex Lora Cercos, Alex Kruz

Country of Origin: Poland, United States

Country of Filming : United States, Canada, Poland

Language: English, Latin, Mandarin Chinese, Navajo, Polish, Quechua

Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes 27 seconds

Film Description:

Many of us have connections to other lives in places outside of planet earth. This Sci-Fi drama is based on factual accounts gathered by the writer in his 30+ year career in government programs along with his regression work on hundreds of subjects.

“The Multidimensionals: Star Envoy” shows the beginnings of STAR ENVOY an unacknowledged Defense Intelligence Agency Operations Group assigned to protect Global interests among the galactic community via specialized “ambassadors” whom are alien hybrids. It follows Ulrin, a lifetime government grey man, and alien hybrid, as he recruits the specialized ambassadors from different walks of life (Anuba, Karson, and Phoebe). It also goes into their encounters with different galactic species (Annunaki, Arcturian, Grey, Reptilians, and others).

The work stands alone as a feature film or can be a pilot episode being a combination of 3.5 of the nine episodes in the series. Shot on 35 mm Department of Defense camera – digitized and a BlackMagic 6K Pro.