2025 FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS SCREENER TITLES

Film Independent Spirit Awards voters who had active Memberships as of December 18, 2024, will gain access to screeners of the following nominated titles for consideration throughout the voting process. Providing screeners is completely optional for nominees and it is always possible that some will be unable to participate. For a comprehensive list of other ways to discover this year's nominees, visit our Watch the Nominees section. 

Screeners are intended for personal use - for voting consideration only; any violations of Terms and Agreements within the Nominee Screening Room platform may result in legal action.

NOMINEE SCREENING ROOM

Film Independent partners with Vision Media to provide secure online streaming of participating titles. You will receive an email from promote@visionmedia.com on or after Friday, December 27, 2024, inviting you to access our Nominee Screening Room. For security purposes, your name will be both visibly watermarked in the upper left corner of the screen and forensically watermarked on each title you watch.  

PLEASE NOTE: The following list is a working document of titles that will be available for viewing in the Nominee Screening Room on or after Saturday, December 28, 2024. Nominees have until January 15, 2025 to add their titles to this space. You can refer back to this list or visit the Nominee Screening Room to see the most recent group of available titles at any time during the voting consideration period.

Current Participating Feature Film Titles

  • All We Imagine As Light 
  • Anora
  • The Apprentice
  • Between the Temples
  • Big Boys
  • Black Dog
  • Cuckoo
  • The Brutalist 
  • Dìdi
  • A Different Man
  • The Fire Inside
  • Flow
  • Gaucho Gaucho
  • Ghostlight
  • Girls Will Be Girls
  • Good One
  • Green Border
  • Hard Truths
  • Heretic
  • Hummingbirds
  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • In the Summers
  • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
  • Janet Planet
  • Jazzy
  • La Cocina
  • Love Lies Bleeding
  • My Old Ass
  • National Anthem
  • Nickel Boys
  • Nightbitch
  • No Other Land
  • Patrice: The Movie
  • The Piano Lesson
  • Problemista
  • A Real Pain
  • September 5
  • Sing Sing
  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
  • The Substance
  • The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
  • Thelma

Current Participating Television Titles

  • Agatha All Along
    • Episode 1
    • Episode 2
  • Baby Reindeer
    • Episode 1
    • Episode 5
  • Diarra from Detroit
    • Episode 1
  • English Teacher
    • Episode 2
  • Erased: WW2's Heroes of Color
    • Episode 3
  • Expats
    • Episode 4
  • Fantasmas
    • Episode 3
  • Hollywood Black
    • Episode 1
  • Mary & George 
    • Episode 1
  • Penelope
    • Episode 1
  • The Penguin
    • Episode 1
  • Photographer
    • Episode 1
  • Ren Faire
    • Episode 3
  • Ripley
    • Episode 8
  • Shōgun
    • Episode 1
    • Episode 8
    • Episode 9
  • Social Studies
    • Episode 4
  • The Sympathizer
    • Episode 1
  • Three Women 
    • Episode 1
  • Under the Bridge
    • Episode 8

Please Note: In some instances, you may find that artwork, closed captions or audio descriptions are temporarily unavailable for certain titles in the Nominee Screening Room. Missing features will be added as they become available for each title. 

ANTI-PIRACY POLICY: Film Independent is an anti-piracy organization. Members are afforded the opportunity to watch nominated titles via the Nominee Screening Room for consideration purposes only. We expect the utmost integrity from our community during this process. Upon viewing each nominated title, Members will be asked to comply to the terms of our Restricted Use Agreement. Violation of the terms of this agreement will result in in the termination of Membership, expulsion from Film Independent and potential legal action by the filmmakers/distributors. 

VOTING OVERVIEW
As a voter, we ask that you keep the following criteria in mind when considering each nominated title. These values adhere directly to our mission to champion creative independence in visual storytelling in all its forms, and to foster a culture of inclusion. We support a global community of artists and audiences who embody diversity, innovation, curiosity and uniqueness of vision. It is this criteria that was referenced by our Nominating Committee to determine this year's nominees.

OFFICIAL VOTING CRITERIA
• Diversity, Innovation, Curiosity, Uniqueness of vision
• Original, provocative subject matter

Voting will take place online between January 31 - February 13 at 5pm PT, 2025. Happy viewing and voting!

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