Sherman Oaks Film Festival

Sherman Oaks Film Festival is proud to present expert panels on subjects that matter most to our indie film community. For the 2025 festival, we held two panels, Indie Film Distribution and Music In Indie Film.

Best in Fest Best Feature Film – Abigail Before Beatrice Best Featurette – Focal Point Best Short Film – How The Rose Reaches Best In Fest – determined by the festival’s official selection committee, this category was added to pander to important organizations that demand a festival give out awards not specific to genre/category.

Sherman Oaks FIlm Festival has combined forces with its sponsor YOW.tv to create an online presentation of our Official Selections from Dec 7 to Dec 22. Full access is $9.99 to the public and can be accessed here.

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Series/Pilot After shooting a teenage robber in her father’s liquor store, a sheltered Palestinian woman’s reality fractures; awakening a supernatural entity from her bloodline that forces her to face her greatest fear: surviving on her own in the most expensive city in the world. The SOFF 2025 screenplay award

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Series/Pilot In 1985 New Jersey, an offbeat Black girl tries to decode the unwritten rules of her new suburban school — where cliques, crushes, and cultural expectations collide, and fitting in might mean losing yourself. The SOFF 2025 screenplay awards ceremony will be held on December 6 at 6PM at … Continue r

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Series/Pilot Upon the death of her beloved cat, a young(ish) woman pursues a near death experience in hopes of reuniting with her in an afterlife, so that she might know whether they will be together in Eternity. The SOFF 2025 screenplay awards ceremony will be held on December 6 at … Continue reading "Childles

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Short Film A feel good movie about a suicidal puppet. The SOFF 2025 screenplay awards ceremony will be held on December 6 at 6PM at the LOOK Dine-In Cinemas.

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film When the bones of several missing women are uncovered along Long Island’s Gilgo Beach, FBI consultant and former Wyoming prosecutor Mary MacIntosh is called to assist a chaotic task force. As she unravels the dark psychology of a killer hiding in plain sight, Mac must balance federal politics, … Co

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film A self-absorbed man discovers a way for non-verbal autistic people to “speak.” Suddenly able to reveal their hidden thoughts and feelings they give him a powerful wake-up call about his own life. Inspired by a true story.