2025 Film awards
FORM is thrilled to announce six awards at our 2025 festival!
Award winners will be announced following the festival.
Youth Impact Award
Selected by the 2025 Youth Jury
SFU students gather to make up our 2025 Youth Jury, and focus their attention towards celebrating the dynamic perspectives of their peers. Guided by their lively, fearless voices, they’ll award a film that left a lasting impression beyond the cinema.
Artistic Committee Award
Selected by the 2025 Commissioning Fund Program Artistic Committee: Kira Doxator, Clarence Tang, Tanisha Kumar
The Commissioning Fund Artistic Committee’s involvement in this year’s festival began in early 2025, when they selected the cohort of our 2025 Commissioned Artists. This award offers a new opportunity to immerse themselves in the short films screening at FORM given their intimate understanding of movement-on-screen.
Audience Choice Award
Selected by the 2025 FORM Audiences
We want to know what films moved YOU, the audience, in more ways than one!
Cast your vote for your favourite film at the festival following each film screening.
Grab a Festival Pass or Ticket through our Box Office to be able to vote later!
Expanding the Form Award
Selected by FORM’s Co-Artistic Directors:
Erin Lum & danielle Mackenzie Long
This award honours a film created by a BC-based artist that creatively challenges the boundaries of the movement-on-screen medium. Carefully considered by FORM’s Co-Artistic Directors Erin Lum and danielle Mackenzie Long, this film pushes us to broaden our curiosities of what “recorded movement” can be, in all its forms.
From the Cypher to the Screen Film Award
Selected by Cypher Guests of Honour:
Bryce Koebel & Diana Xu
Specific to our From the Cypher to the Screen event, this award celebrates a film that centers street dance culture and the unique ways that this community is documented on film. This award is selected by Bryce Koebel and Diana Xu, the evening’s Cypher Guests of Honour, who have both contributed greatly to documenting and archiving the Vancouver street dance scene through video.
Cypher Competition Winner(s)
Selected by the Secret Judges
Happening at From the Cypher to the Screen on November 21
