Category: Best Actress & Actor Award – 2025 WSXA Barcelona

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: Tricked and Treated

Director’s Name: Victoria Monai Richards

Writer’s Name: Victoria Monai Richards, Sherrie Richards, Michael Anthony Snowden

Producer: Victoria Monai Richards, Sherrie Richards, King Hoey, Joel Harold, Joseph Harold, Grant Gilmore, Tichina Arnold

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes

Film Description:

Tricked and Treated is a heartwarming, race against time comedy, that follows three inseparable college friends; Noble, Sunshine, and Nigeria; on an outlandish journey to find Noble’s ailing PawPaw.

After Noble receives disturbing news of her PawPaw’s deteriorating health, she and her two best friends leave school to spend what could be their last Christmas with him. Shortly after their arrival, PawPaw mysteriously disappears. With the help of her street reformed Auntie and a host of other mysterious, nefarious, and eccentric characters, Noble and her two best friends embark upon a wild, hilarious, and unpredictable search and rescue mission to find her PawPaw. With the clock ticking on his failing health and Christmas around the corner, will Noble and her friends find PawPaw in time or will they be taken too?

(WINNER)

Original Film Title: ÀSAKA

Director’s Name: D ( Edduardo Viera )

Writer’s Name: D ( Edduardo Viera )

Producer: D ( Edduardo Viera )

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming : Spain

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 29 minutes 38 seconds

Film Description:

Elba and Paula are spending the day at the pool of the resort where they’re staying. That’s when they realize how well they’re doing since they first met, a long time ago. But when exactly did they first meet?

(WINNER)

Original Film Title: Promise

Director’s Name: D. Wilmos Paul

Writer’s Name: D. Wilmos Paul

Producer: Anurahda Srikanth, Ned Johnson

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 20 minutes 54 seconds

Film Description:

Promise, a single mother facing deportation, and John, an ex-con with a business idea, find their marriage of convenience becoming something more.

Original Film Title: FISHED

Director’s Name: Shaneye Ferrell

Writer’s Name: Shaneye Ferrell

Producer: Hammy O’Hickey

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: No Dialogue

Runtime: 12 minutes

Film Description:

A Man (Cleat) goes out for the big catch and finds himself caught in the throws of himself and his willingness to be the catch.

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: ….And the Beat Goes On

Director’s Name: Rachel Patrice Perkins

Writer’s Name: Rachel Patrice Perkins

Producer: Rachel Patrice Perkinsefe, Belle Sinclair Pace, Gabriel Pearl, Alicia Oh

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes 28 seconds

Film Description:

A young man navigates an off beat day in new york city

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: DAYDREAM

Director’s Name: William Bruno O’Keefe

Writer’s Name: William Bruno O’Keefe

Producer: William Bruno O’Keefe

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : American Samoa

Language: English

Runtime: 14 minutes 23 seconds

Film Description:

A modern noir thriller with sinister twists and turns. Lucas is a young novelist who unexpectedly has dreams that tell him about future events. The reason is a mystery and so is his fate.