Darcine’s Day Awards
Best Writing - SIMI Film Festival Simi Film Festival in Simi Valley, California
Best Actress In A Short Film: Kyla Diane Kennedy - All That Moves International Film Festival (São Paulo, Brazil)
Best Cinematography Vanguard Award: Mark Doering-Powell, ASC, Director Of Photography. Idyllwild Festival of Cinema, 2025
Best Director - Short Film; Best Actress - Short Film Kyla Diane Kennedy - Studio City International Film Festival.
Best Director - Short Film - Borrego Springs Film Festival 2025
Best Short Film - Yucca Valley Film Festival
Best Debut Film - Route 66 Film Festival, Springfield, Illinois
Best Of The Festival - Los Angeles CineFest 2025
Best Music Placement - Simi Film Festival in Simi Valley, California
Best Drama USA - ATFF - Alternative Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Awareness Film Festival, Los Angeles, Calif. Audience Award Best Narrative Short
2024 San Francisco Short Film Festival - SF Indie Shorts - Audience Award: Best US Narrative.
Sunscreen Film Festival North, Chisholm, Minnesota: Best Dramatic Performance Kyla Diane Kennedy
The Reel East Texas Film Festival 2024, Kilgore, Texas. Winner: Best Actress Kyla Diane Kennedy
Peach Theater & Film International Festival, Hollywood, California. Best Leading Actress: Kyla Diane Kennedy; Best Independent Short Film; Best Story.
Mindfield Film Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico - Winner: Best Pilot/Web Series (Darcine's Day as a first episode of an 8-part limited series)
Winner: San Francisco Women Film Festival: Social Justice and Activism Award.
Worldwide Women's Film Festival, Scottsdale, Arizona: Honorable Mention Best Actor Female: Kyla Diane Kennedy
Finalist: Humanitarian Short Film: Show Low Film Festival, White Mountains, Arizona
Best Short Film - Beyond Hollywood International Film Festival, Hollywood, Calif.
Best of the Fest, and Audience Award - Bleeding Tree Dark Drama Intern. Film Festival, Creston, BC
Best Actress In A Short Film: Kyla Diane Kennedy. New Bedford Film Festival
Best Short Drama - Arizona Short Film Festival - Tucson, Arizona - June 28, 2025
"Fragola D' Oro" (Golden Strawberry) for Best International Short Film on Global Social Issues, AmiCorti International Film Festival, took place in the historic town of Ivrea, Italy, specifically at the "AUDITORIUM MOZART."
The Rochester International Film Festival was started in 1959 by a group of Kodak engineers who were working with film for home movie cameras. The original festival featured films shot on 8mm film. The narrow gauge of this film caused it to be compared to a shoestring. This shoestring appearance led to the original name for the festival – Movies on a Shoestring. “On a Shoestring” also referred to the budget of these early amateur films. Our heritage of featuring films shot on shoestring-like, 8mm film was the inspiration for our Shoestring trophy. This trophy is given to each filmmaker whose film is selected to be part of the festival.