UNFIX NYC Film Festival 2025 Announces Award Winners ​

UNFIX NYC held its 9th season this year. The festival aims to raise ecological awareness through the arts. In this year, UNFIX NYC was held in the 2nd edition of a film festival that celebrated all voices from global community on the festival theme of "Disturbance."  This year’s season was held virtually, April 1- 15, 2025. 

The Festival’s BEST FILM award goes to Plague_Darkness Buddha Jigong by Miè Theatre / Hu Chia

(the photo above is provided by Hu Chia)

Plague_Darkness Buddha Jigong 
​by Miè Theatre / Hu Chia (3.25min)

 "Through distorted movement and spiritual echoes, this Butoh piece reimagines monk Jigong wandering through the chaos of plague, war, and climate crisis—an elegy to human fragility and resilience."​

Artist's website: Miè Theatre

The full list of winners is below: 

Best Film 
Plague_Darkness Buddha Jigong by Miè Theatre / Hu Chia

Honorable Mention
Collective Unconscious by Yuri Ogasawara, Irena Romendik, Zhenya Sklar

Honorable Mention 
Magus by Vanessa Skantze

Audience Choice 
Collective Unconscious by Yuri Ogasawara, Irena Romendik, Zhenya Sklar
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Ecological Awareness Award
Caudal Mínimo / Minimal Flow by Collective Emerge

Social Consciousness Award
Collective Unconscious by Yuri Ogasawara, Irena Romendik, Zhenya Sklar

Experimental / Visionary Award
I Am Not Here by Carl Annala

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Special Award - Choreography 
Magus by Vanessa Skantze 

Special Award -  Cinematography 
Caudal Mínimo/Minimal Flow by Collective Emerge

Special Award - Surrealism
Jellyfish by Miè Theatre / Hu Chia

Special Award - Interdisciplinary Film
Chroma by Lucada Mélange 

Special Award- Original Editing
Formicidae by The Ruck Productions / Caitlin Rucker 

Special Award- Original Score
I Am Not Here by Carl Annala

Special Award- Emerging Filmmaker
 Formicidae by The Ruck Productions / Caitlin Rucker