Category: Best TV – Web Series & New Media – 2025 WSXA Barcelona

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: A Long Journey

Director’s Name: Mira Kim

Writer’s Name: Mira Kim

Producer: Mira Kim, Joongmin An, Youngho Jang

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Country of Filming : Korea, Republic of

Language: English, Korean

Runtime: 11 minutes 28 seconds

Film Description:

“A Long Journey” weaves a poignant tale of Korea’s modern history and the life of a family, as seen through the reflections of an elderly man in his 80s. From the Japanese colonial period, through the Korean War, the era of overseas labor, and the nation’s rapid economic rise, the protagonist’s life unfolds in parallel with the growth of the country. Through the lens of deep familial love, sacrifice, and his unwavering care for his wife until the very end, this moving story contemplates the profound meaning and value of life.

(WINNER)

Original Film Title: Influencer

Director’s Name: Josué Mastroianni

Writer’s Name: Josué Mastroianni

Producer: Josué Mastroianni

Country of Origin: Poland

Country of Filming : Poland

Language: English, Polish

Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes

Film Description:

The version of events depicted in “Influencer” is not a reality for most women but is a means to an end for others. Sex sells. Influencers sell. Often, aspiring models are caught in the middle. What is the price that some are willing to pay? “Influencer” film explores the psychology behind those hard choices. Based on actual events.

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: Abortion Hypocrite

Director’s Name: Josué Mastroianni

Writer’s Name: Josué Mastroianni

Producer: Josué Mastroianni, Anita Banaszak, Justyna Jakubowska, Francesca Joseph

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : Poland

Language: English, Polish

Runtime: 39 minutes

Film Description:

Abortion is one of the most controversial and divisive themes raging across the social and political spectrum of the US and Europe – making this new, compelling psychological drama perfectly timed. Would the most confident among pro-life and pro-choice rethink their arguments if confronted head-on with certain circumstances or opportunities? Who or what would any one be unwilling to lose for the sake of one’s pro life/choice argument?

Without taking sides, each character leaves you guessing his or her true motives. “Abortion Hypocrite” depicts real-life situations that are relatable on all levels, shows the psychological processes of pro-life and pro-choice decisions, and addresses the hot points head-on.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: Orangerie

Director’s Name: Caleb Weintraub

Writer’s Name: Caleb Weintraub

Producer: Caleb Weintraub

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming : United States

Language: English

Runtime: 7 minutes 54 seconds

Film Description:

This 7.5-minute experimental video unfolds within a derelict Victorian greenhouse, presenting a non-linear narrative that interweaves past, present, and future. The film combines AI-generated scenes, camera movements, sound effects, and music into a kinetic, fractured dreamscape.

The greenhouse serves as a stage hosting automatons from different eras. Humanoid figures in quasi-hazmat suits sweep the grounds with devices resembling metal detectors, while in scenes recalling a bygone era, croquet sticks appear, creating a visual parallel. These searching figures seem to be attempting to uncover the location’s enigmatic history or their own automata lineage. In other scenes, mechanical children engage in hunting sequences, pursuing robotic birds through overgrown foliage. Elsewhere, humanoid robots tend to withered plants.

Visual motifs of hunting and searching recur, creating parallels across different timeframes. Imagery shifts and transforms, suggesting themes of creation, discovery, and obsolescence in a world where past, present, and future coalesce.

The video’s atmosphere incorporates gothic undertones, nostalgia, and surrealism, with elements of the absurd and macabre. It touches on concepts of decay, memory, and the fluidity of time, as indicated by the weathered greenhouse and the automata’s anachronistic activities.

Created without traditional filming equipment, the project uses AI tools, including Runway ML (2.5), Magnific, Krea, Luma Labs: Dream Machine, Midjourney, and Eleven Labs, Suno AI. The resulting composition of fractured visuals and atmospheric soundscapes explores ideas about consciousness, the search for origins, and the cyclical nature of time in a reality where time seems to fold in on itself.