A Lincoln Holiday
- Best Production Design
- Chela O’Brien
Student work
Watch what they made.
Every film here was written, shot, cut and finished by Cabrillo students, most of them making their first. Press play on any of them.
The class votes on which films go to the festival at the end of the fall. The audience there picks the winners, and those are the ones below.
Best Picture 2025
Nyctophobia
Narrative · Fall 2025 · 6:38
- Best Picture
- Producer — Julian Guerrero
- Best Director
- Brandon A. Lampon
- Best Cinematography
- Attila Cabute
- Best Original Screenplay (tie)
- Late — Katherine Camberos Perez / Nyctophobia — Attila Cabute
2025 festival winners
Every award from the 2025 festival, chosen by the audience that watched them.
Narrative
Late
- Best Original Screenplay (tie)
- Late — Katherine Camberos Perez / Nyctophobia — Attila Cabute
Documentary
No Easy Fights
- Best Editing
- Alfie G. Jacinto
Homeless in the 90s
- Best Interview or Character Feature
- Damien Kortright
- Most Impactful Message
- Damien Kortright
Rhythm
- Best Cinematography
- Attila Cabute
- Best Sound Design
- Attila Cabute
Look Here
- Best Storytelling
- Sage M. Salles-Cunha
Departmental Distinction Award
Compassion Through Cannabis
- Departmental Distinction Award
- Franklin King
Forte
- Departmental Distinction Award
- Dani Urbieta-Islas
The rest of the class
Eighteen more documentaries from the same semester. For most of these filmmakers it was the first film they had ever finished, start to end, in one fall.
Before and After
Katherine R. Camberos Perez
Celebrate Everything
Lukas Niswonger
Eat My Poem
Rebecca King
Following the Drift
Cheyenne C. Mora
Gift
Linell Faye Seguritan
Grief
Brandon Anthony Lampon
Manos Manchadas
Jesus Vallejo-Cruz
Manuela Bravo
Brady E. Smith
Night Campus
Cheyenne R. Janisch
Photoscan: Preserve What Memory Can't
Carlos E. Gallegos Hernandez
Pimped
Luis F. Aguilar
Susuration
Weston Clements
The Cement Ship
Jabri C. Flores
The Farm
Finn Whaley
The Gift of Grief
Chela O'Brien
The Lens of Nane Alejandrez
Angel J. Garcia
What's Happening on Erik Lane
Julian I. Guerrero
Window to the Soul
Chloe D. Declue