2025 Travel Beyond Film Festival (TBFF) – Winners List

2025 Travel Beyond Film Festival (TBFF) – Winners List

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We Are Pleased to Announce the
14th Annual
Travel Beyond Film Festival Winners


 

Honorable Mention
Best 1st Time Filmmaker

  • Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory
    Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún – Director
    Nigeria/ United States

    Featuring
    Wole Soyinka
    Professor, Nobel Prize Winner – Literature

Honorable Mention
Best Activism Film

  • Closed Gates
    Naresh Kumar Rajendran – Director
    Nithya Priya Selvaraj – Producer
    With Thanks to
    Dr. Shanmuga Priya, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Dr. Ponraj Vellaichamy, NEST School
    India

 


Honorable Mention
Best Editing

  • Two Wheels – One Job
    Joel Zeiser – Director, Editor
    Iris Armero – Editor
    Germany, Ireland
    Featuring
    Johnny O’Byrne – Cyclist
    Ireland

 


 

Best Surf Film – Feature

  • The Corners Of The Earth
    Kamchatka

    Spencer Frost – Director
    Guy Williment – Director
    Australia
    Featuring
    Letty Mortensen – Surfer
    Fraser Dovell – Surfer


Best Surf Film- Short

  • Erwin
    Annie K Fergerson – Director
    United States
    Featuring
    Erwin
    Dence – Surfer

 

Best Travel Film

  • Czech Dream
    Omar Almuqdad – Director
    Czech Republic, Spain


Best Travel Film
Anthropology & Culture

  • Beyond The Ruins
    Brady Skye – Director
    Writer, Producer, Editor

    United States

 

Best Documentary Subject/Profile Film

  • Wole Soyinka
    Professor, Nobel Prize Winner – Literature
  • Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory
    Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún – Director
    Nigeria/ United States

>>TIE<<



Best Documentary Subject/Profile Film

  • Isaac Kenyon
    Endurance Athlete
    Mental Health Survivor/Activist
  • Weighed Down
    Daniel Wai Li Williams – Director
    United Kingdom

 

Best Animated Film

  • Sanctuary
    Isa Siano – Director, Writer, EP
    Christopher Shoebridge – Director, EP
    United States

    Featuring
    Animation Department
    Karla Núñez de Madariaga
    Gabriela Núñez de Madariaga
    Ruben Diaz
    Ileana Martinez


Best Actress

  • Muaiyarasi as “Sana”
    Closed Gates
    Naresh Kumar Rajendran – Director
    India
    Featuring
    Sheil Azman as “”Rajul”


Best Documentary – Short

  • R.E.S.C.U.E
    Keenan Ferguson  – Director
    Martha McGuinness – Assistant Director, Biography
    United States


Best Documentary – Feature

  • Wildboy – Ten Years Of Adventure Therapy
    Toby Schmutzler – Director, Editor
    Germany, South Africa
    Featuring
    Brando Yelavich – Outdoorsman, Adventurer, Activist
    New Zealand


Best 
1st Time Filmmaker

  • Weighed Down
    Daniel Wai Li Williams – Director
    United Kingdom


Best Student/Thesis Film

  • Two Wheels – One Job
    Joel Zeiser – Director
    Germany, Ireland
    Featuring
    Johnny O’Byrne – Cyclist
    Ireland

 

Best Bike Film

  • Hidden In Plain Sight
    Gregg Drew Dunham – Director
    Subject, Writer, Producer
    United States
    Featuring – Riders
    Wes Barber
    ErinCarroll
    Gregg Dunham
    Ian Graham
    Julie Kanagy
    Drew Thorne-Thomsen

 

Best Film Score

  • Chris McMurtry – Composer
  • Hidden In Plain Sight
    Gregg Drew Dunham – Director
    Subject, Writer, Producer
    United States

 

Best International Film

  • Anne’s Amazon
    Päivi Kapiainen-Heiskanen – Director, Producer
    Finland
    Featuring
    Anne Mäkeläinen – Artist, Activist

 

Best Sustainability Film

  • Noah’s Ark – A Coral Rescue First
    Michael Zimmer – Director, Producer
    Marina Angleton – Writer, Producer

    United States

 

Best Diving Film / Underwater Film

  • 4 Caves – 4 Seasons
    Journey Into The Veins Of The Earth

    Nikolas Margaritis – Director
    Greece
    Featuring
    Andreas Andrikopoulos – Diver
    Matteo Ratto – Diver
    Stratis Kas – Diver
    Vassilis Tsiairis – Divr, 2nd DOP

 

Best Plane, Train, Or Automobile Film

  • Being a Pilot, Two Perspectives
    François Tiffreau  – Director
    Quebec, Canada
    Featuring
    Pierre Leduc – Pilot
    Anthony Arslan – Pilot

 

Best Travel Or RoadTrip Film

  • Wildboy – Ten Years Of Adventure Therapy
    Toby Schmutzler – Director, Editor
    Germany, South Africa
    Featuring
    Brando Yelavich – Outdoorsman, Activist
    New Zealand

 

Best Extreme Adventure Film

  • The Corners Of The Earth
    Kamchatka

    Spencer Frost – Director
    Guy Williment – Director
    Australia
    Featuring
    Letty Mortensen – Surfer
    Fraser Dovell – Surfer


Best Editing

  • Felix Koster – Editor
  • Toby Schmutzler – Editor
    Wildboy – Ten Years Of Adventure Therapy
    Toby Schmutzler – Director

    Germany, South Africa


Best Cinematography – GoPro

  • Brando Yelavich – Go Pro DOP
    Wildboy – Ten Years Of Adventure Therapy
    Toby Schmutzler – Director

    Germany, South Africa


Best Cinematography

  • Spencer Frost – DOP
    The Corners Of The Earth
    Kamchatka

    Spencer Frost – Director
    Guy Williment – Director
    Australia

 


SPECIALTY TBFF AWARDS


The TBFF Spirit Award always goes to a Film or Filmmaker that Inspires, Engages and Brings Important Messages to a Worldwide Community, as well as a Memorable Contribution On Film. This year, this award goes to a Filmmaker and Extreme Adventurer who for his work in particular, we’d like to recognize for him for his Poignant and Personal Storytelling and Impact on  creating awareness for Spectrum Learning Disabilities. The TBFF Spirit Award Goes To…

TBFF Spirit Award
Wildboy – Ten Years Of Adventure Therapy

Brando Yelavich
New Zealand


>> BEST OF THE FEST <<

WildBoy – Ten Years Of Adventure Therapy
Toby Schmutzler – Director, Editor
Germany South Africa


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