Category: Best Micro Film – 2026 WSXA Barcelona

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: Short Film: Gangsta to Grace

Director’s Name: Letitia Scott Jackson, Valerie Denise Jones

Writer’s Name: Letitia Scott Jackson

Producer: Letitia Scott Jackson, Fred Jackson

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

Gangsta to Grace is the true story of Letitia “Chuckie” Scott, a preacher’s daughter who spiraled into the streets, hid a double life, and let her father take a 15-year fall for her crimes. From incarceration to redemption, this raw and powerful drama explores guilt, grace, and the painful path to purpose.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: CLIENT

Director’s Name: Lina Wang

Writer’s Name: Lina Wang

Producer: Qianying Guo

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 26 minutes 2 seconds

Film Description:

(WINNER)

Original Film Title: BUSHIDO. The choice.

Director’s Name: Marcin Tomaszewski

Writer’s Name: Marcin Tomaszewski

Producer: Marcin Tomaszewski

Country of Origin: Poland, United States

Country of Filming: Poland, United States

Language: Japanese, Polish

Runtime: 28 minutes 55 seconds

Film Description:

„BUSHIDO. The choice.” The film is based on symbols of Japanese and Buddhist culture. The protagonist is a nameless middle-aged professional mountaineer who, despite achieving success in climbing, is still looking for a development path. He embarks on another expedition into the snowy and inaccessible mountains of Alaska.
A spiritual journey begins, in which he is discreetly accompanied by an undefined entity. Will he eventually find what he has been looking for?

A film by mountaineer Marcin Tomaszewski, the creator of the award-winning short documentary ‘INUSSUK. The Way Home’, the action of which is set in Greenland, in winter, among the indigenous Inuit population.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: BREAK THE SILENCE

Director’s Name: Dax Phelan

Writer’s Name: Dax Phelan

Producer: Dax Phelan, Eric M. Klein, Benjamin Cheek

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 minute

Film Description:

“Break the Silence” is a 1-minute Public Service Announcement produced to encourage people, who are struggling with mental health, substance use, and more, to seek help by calling the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. [Note: Please view with proper speakers or headphones.]