World Independent Cinema Awards
An annual International Award ceremony created to honor the year's best films, TV Shows, Advertising, Paintings, and Photos.
Founded by Lady Maggie Magica to support & promote artists all over the World and to create a venue where aspiring filmmakers & artists can present their work, meet and exchange ideas.
It is part of the Film Festival International group of festivals which began in 2005.
WICA LA Awards Winners 2025
WICA LA Awards Winners
Best Feature Film
Bezuidenhout
Best director of feature film
Wouter Hermans
Best stylist in feature
Bezuidenhout
Jury award
First String 2: The Greenwood 20: Quest for the Great Dante
Best acting in Asian short film
Early Spring
Best acting in feature
Bezuidenhout
Best script in short film
Early Spring
Best acting in short film
Sunday Mourning
Social awareness Award
Sunday Mourning
Jury Award
Sunday Mourning
Best music in feature
Bezuidenhout
Best First-time Filmmaker
What Goes Up
Jury special mention
The Rebellion of the Alien Nordic-Type Android Girl: The Day Intelligent Life Disappeared
Best music in a music video
Psychetronica III
Jury award | Original music
Glory
Best Documentary
Conscious Co-Working
Best musical unproduced script
Jazz On A Wave
Best unproduced tv pilot
Family Cellars
Best uproduced tv script
Forbidden Worlds Collide
Best Horror Sci-fi unproduced script
SACRED SUN
Jury special mention | unproduced script
Life On Edge & Secrets of a Ghost Town
WICA LA Awards Winners
Best short Film
Drugs are fun
Best Cinematography in a Foreign Language short Film
Ask the girls in Cairo
Best cinematography
Drugs are fun
Best Script
Drugs are fun
Best Director in a Foreign Language Short Film
Ask the girls in Cairo
Best Acting
Drugs are fun
Best Director in Short Film
Drugs are Fun
Social Awareness Award
Drugs are fun
Best Editing
Drugs are fun
Best photography
Le Portrait
Best LGBTQIA
Drugs are fun
Jury Award
The skateboarders in "Ask the girls in Cairo"
Best Improvisation Video\Play
Les Fêlés du buccal
Best Short in an Arabic Language
Ask girls in Cairo
Best Idea in Improvisation Play
Les Fêlés du buccal
Jury Special Mention | Acting in Improvisation Play
Les Fêlés du buccal
Jury Award ( Un produced Script)
Hollywood Dead Naked
WICA LA Awards Winners 2024
WICA LA Awards Winners
Best LGBTQIA
The power of beauty
Jury special mention
The Human Nature
Jury award cinematography
The hit
Best director in a comedy short film
The Hit
Best leading actors in comedy
The hit
Special mention actor
the leak
Jury award Un-produced script
Why me
The current of us
Just For Today
Jury award un produced short script
Trapped
Best asian short film
Invisible braids
Best actress in asian short
Invisible braids
Best student film
Tian Tian
Muted
Best student director
Muted
Best acting in student asian film
Muted
Best first time filmmaker
The Variation
Best music in a student film
The Variation
Best asian student film
Inversion
Awake
Jury special mention
One last summer
Best fantasy film
OASIS
Best feature First-time Filmmaker
A Requiem For Desire
Jury award | Photograph
Expo
WICA LA Awards Winners
Best short Film
Drugs are fun
Best Cinematography in a Foreign Language short Film
Ask the girls in Cairo
Best cinematography
Drugs are fun
Best Script
Drugs are fun
Best Director in a Foreign Language Short Film
Ask the girls in Cairo
Best Acting
Drugs are fun
Best Director in Short Film
Drugs are Fun
Social Awareness Award
Drugs are fun
Best Editing
Drugs are fun
Best photography
Le Portrait
Best LGBTQIA
Drugs are fun
Jury Award
The skateboarders in "Ask the girls in Cairo"
Best Improvisation Video\Play
Les Fêlés du buccal
Best Short in an Arabic Language
Ask girls in Cairo
Best Idea in Improvisation Play
Les Fêlés du buccal
Jury Special Mention | Acting in Improvisation Play
Les Fêlés du buccal
Jury Award ( Un produced Script)
Hollywood Dead Naked
WICA LA Awards Winners 2024
WICA LA Awards Winners
Best LGBTQIA
The power of beauty
Jury special mention
The Human Nature
Jury award cinematography
The hit
Best director in a comedy short film
The Hit
Best leading actors in comedy
The hit
Special mention actor
the leak
Jury award Un-produced script
Why me
The current of us
Just For Today
Jury award un produced short script
Trapped
Best asian short film
Invisible braids
Best actress in asian short
Invisible braids
Best student film
Tian Tian
Muted
Best student director
Muted
Best acting in student asian film
Muted
Best first time filmmaker
The Variation
Best music in a student film
The Variation
Best asian student film
Inversion
Awake
Jury special mention
One last summer
Best fantasy film
OASIS
Best feature First-time Filmmaker
A Requiem For Desire
Jury award | Photograph
Expo
WICA LA Awards Winners
Best Short film
La vie en rose
la mere
Best un produced Sci-film Script
Manal
Best un-produced Social awareness Script
Ticket
Jury Special mention| un-produced script
Respawn
Best Director
Bambino
Best Adv
Azal Lagoons
Best film
my name is Francis
Best Idea
Moi
BEST EDITING
KILL The BIRDS
Best Asian film
My Dear Banquet
Best actor in a Foreign Language
My Dear Banquet
Best actress in a Foreign Language
My Dear Banquet
Best short film in a Foreign Language
House of Laila
Jury award
Dovey's Promise
Best true stroy
Dovey's Promise
Best documentaryManufacturing Madness
Best cinematography in documentary
Pata Lapata (Address Of The Unaddressed)
Best short in a foreign language film
ACG影视动画 —
Best Music Video in a foreign language
Manthana- Song of the Snakes
Best singer in a foreign language music video
Manthana- Song of the Snakes
Best director in a foreign language music video
Manthana- Song of the Snakes
Jury Special mention
My Baby Cries
Best cinematography in a foreign language music video
Manthana- Song of the Snakes
Best leading actress in a foreign language short film
House of Lailabest unproduced physcology script Heading East
Best narration in a short film
Bump
Best director in a short film
Bump
Jury Award ( Music short film)
Ash Sunday
Best Comedy
ASh Sunday
WICA LA Awards Winners 2023
WICA LA Awards Winners
Best animation of a foreign language film
Wa Isjod Wa Iqtareb
Social awareness
Pomegranate
Best Short Foreign Language Film
My Method
Best music video
Pure Heart
Best music in film
Look At The Stars
Best short fantasy
Look At The Stars
Best Cinematography of a documentary film
Full Court press: The Ken Zacher Story
Jury award
Lizzie head
Best actor in a short film
My Method
Best child actor in a short film
Loki and Me
Best Cinematography a short
Loki and Me
Best Original Screenplay
Pomegranate
Best Director of a Foreign Language short Film
My Method
Outstanding supporting actress
Pomegranate
Best tv pilot script
c'est moi
Outstanding supporting Actor
Pomegranate
Audience awardPomegranate
WICA LA Awards Winners 2021
WICA LA Awards Winners 2021
Best Short
DAR-DAR
Best feature
ALBERTINA
Best documentary
BARBUDOS
Best animation
TIIVAD
Best director
JOÃO FAZENDA
MESA
Best cinematography
DAR-DAR
Best scriptwriter
LIM TIONG WOOI, JEREMY TAN, JOHN Y
MILLION LOVES IN ME
Best editor
MOHAMED KHEIDR
TUK TUK
Best idea
NADA DE BOM ACONTECE DEPOIS DOS TRENTE
Best LGBTQ film
SCHWARZ ODER WEISS
Best Fantasy\ Experimental film
ABSURD MAN
Best Original Screenplay of a Short Foreign Language Film
SHERIF ABDEL HADY, MOHAMED KHEIDR
TUK TUK
Best Director of a Short Foreign Language Film
ERIC ROMERO
AJAKAPSEL
Best Short Foreign Language Film
AJAKAPSEL
Best Costume
ELAINE NG
MILLION LOVES IN ME
Best Set Design
CATALINA AROSTEGUI CAVERO
FOAM
Best Hair & Makeup
ELISE LIM, NGO SU SOON
MILLION LOVES IN ME
Best Editing of a Short Film
CAN BURAK YAGAN
MAMA
Best Cinematography in a Short Film
HAYK KIRAKOYSAN
MAMA
Best Original Screenplay of a Short Film
ONDINE FAGRET
UN RÔLE SUR MESURE
Best Micro Short - Under 5 Minutes
BABAOU
Best Supporting Actress in a Short Film
MARLENE MILLA
BABAOU
Best Supporting Actor in a Short Film
BABAOU - TERENCE
BABAOU
Outstanding Leading Actress in a Short Film
BENNU AND ELA BOZTEPE
MAMA
Outstanding Leading Actor in a Short Film
MEELIS RAMMELD
AJAKAPSEL
Best Director of a Short Film
EDUARDO VIEITEZ
MAMA
Best Short Film
MAMA
Best Visual Effects
MAMA
Best Animation or Animated Sequence
TIIVAD
Science Award
MNEMORA
Historical Interest Award
1202
Best Original Score
DAVID KOON
MILLION LOVES IN ME
Best Editing of a Documentary
LUIS GALAN
WUHAN ZONA CERO
Best Cinematography in a Documentary
QIN WU ET AL
WUHAN ZONA CERO
Best Foreign Language Documentary
JUTLAND II
Best Short Documentary
EL SEXO A LOS SETENTA
Best Director of a Feature Documentary
LUIS GALÁN
WUHAN ZONA CERO
Best Feature Documentary
WUHAN ZONA CERO
Unproduced Scripts Awards
Best Unproduced Script
TICKET
Jury Award
CHRISTMAS WITH MY FATHER
Jury special mention
A DOLL OF SHARI'A
Best Sound Design
SUAT ONUR AYAS
MAMA
Best Editing of a Foreign Language Film
JUSTIN THOMAS BILLINGS
MILLION LOVES IN ME
Best Cinematography in a Foreign Language Film
WONG TAK FUN
MILLION LOVES IN ME
Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Foreign Language Film
LUIZ FERNANDO F. MACHADO
ALBERTINA
Outstanding Leading Actress in a Foreign Language Film
SUIENY AND JHULIENY ESPINDOLA
ALBERTINA
Jury Award
ARMA
Best Film Completed in the last three years
EXPERIMENT: SORRY
Best Editing of a Feature Film
LUIZ FERNANDO F. MACHADO
ALBERTINA
Best Cinematography in a Feature Film
MARX VAMERLATTI
ALBERTINA
Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Film
Million Loves in Me
Outstanding Leading Actress in a Feature Film
LO KOON LAN
MILLION LOVES IN ME
Outstanding Leading Actor in a Feature Film
JOHN Y
MILLION LOVES IN ME
Best Director in a Feature Film
SAMPSON YUEN
MILLION LOVES IN ME
Audience Award
Million Loves In Me
Photography Awards
Best pictutre NONA'S PEPPERS
Jury Award
DIARIES OF LOCKDOWN
WICA LA Awards Winners 2nd Edition
WICA LA Awards Winners 2nd edition
Best documentary
Absolute Power: Nasdaq Exposed
The Five Priests
best idea for a documentary
The Five Priests
Best comedy
Cyber Romance
Best Music Video
Feathers to Flight
best asian documenatry
Precipice Herdsman
Best game
There You Are
Best director | short film
MARIE - LUISE
Best cinematography
RUBY BABY
Best animation
Spike
social awarness
"MARIE - LUISE "
Best Family and Social Game
Little Dictator
Best Fight scenes
EYE OF THE EMPRESS
Best indian short film
DUSK
Best arabic short documentary
earth is home
Best acting of a Short Foreign Language Film
"The 13th month of the year "
Best idea of a short foreign language film
DIE MAHR
Best Original Screenplay of a Short Foreign Language Film
How Many More?
Best Short Foreign Language Film
Troubadours Célestes
Best Arabic feature
The Tambour of Retribution
Best Set Design
Becoming
Best short Documentary about nature
Antarctica
Best Originally Recorded Song
Machine Driven
Best Original Screenplay of a Short Film
MARIE - LUISE
jury award
Baba
Best Supporting Actress in a Short Film
MARIE - LUISE
Outstanding Leading Actress in a Short Film
RUBY BABY
Outstanding Leading Actor in a Short Film
The 13th month of the year
Best acting of an arabic feature Film
The Tambour of Retribution
Jury special mention
Missing chord
Best Original Script
The Tambour of Retribution
Best Cinematography in a Documentary
The Five Priests
Absolute Power: Nasdaq Exposed
Best Cinematography in a Foreign Language feature Film
Becoming
Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Foreign Language Film
Club Habana
Best child Actress in an arabic feature film
Becoming" the little girl" Aldabah"
Best Actress in a Foreign Language Film
DUSK
The 13th month of the year
Outstanding Leading Actress in a Foreign Language Film
Becoming " fadia character
Outstanding Leading Actor in a Foreign Language Film
DUSK
The 13th month of the year
Best Director of a Foreign Language Feature Film
Becoming
Best Foreign Language Feature Film
Becoming
Jury special mention " child actor"
Becoming " al dabah "
Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Film
Becoming " all the stories
Best Supporting Actress in an English Language Film
Ruby baby
Best director in arabic feature film
Becoming " until we see light "
Best leading actress in arabic film
Becoming " the unforgetting hand
Best supporting actress in arabic film
Becoming " the unforgetting hand
Jury special mention
Becoming director hend el fahad, scriptwriter alawibeel
Best asian actor
unknown mother
Best asian script
unknown mother
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Photograhy Competition
Best photo about nature Southern California Piers "Early Morning Yacht Race "
Best photo . Map of the World
Best painting The Wall
Unproduced scripts competition
Best drama script "CHRISTMAS WITH MY FATHER "
Best T.V pilot script SCARSDALE MANOR
Best action script Redemption
Best Psychological script . Manal
WICA LA Awards Winners 3rd Edition
WICA LA Awards Winners 3rd edition
Best Idea for a short foreign language film
Chocolat Viennois
Best Original Screenplay of a Short Foreign Language Film
Chocolat Viennois
Best Short Foreign Language Film
Blooming Dalia
Jury Award for Arabic feature
Casi Rose
Best Set Design
For i am Dead
Best short film
Chocolat Viennois
Jury special mention for Originally Recorded Song
Joe Haladin: The Case of the Missing Sister Song
Best indian short
PULSE
Best Feature
CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN
Jury award
In Peace
Jury award for painting video
The scene
Best screenplay in arabic film
Casi Rose
Best Cinematography in a Foreign Language feature Film
CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN
Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Foreign Language Film
CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN
Social awarness Award
Chocolat Viennois
Best Actress in a Foreign Language Film
CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN
Best makeup artist in foreign language feature
CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN
Best edit in a foreign feature
CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN
Outstanding Leading Actor in a Foreign Language Film
CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN
Best Director of a Foreign Language Feature Film
CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN
Best Foreign Language Feature Film
CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN
Best actor in feature
CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN
Best idea | LGBTQ Film
Return to the End
Best LGBTQ short
For I Am Dead
Best Director of LGBTQ Film
For I Am Dead
Best music of LGBTQ film
For I Am Dead
Best Cinematography of LGBTQ Film
For I Am Dead
Best Docudrama of LGBTQ Film
Every Time I Die
Jury special mention
A Grim Tale
Unproduced Scripts Winners
Best script
Bad Love Tigers
Best tv pilot script
Sea Waves
Best Psychological script
Review
Photography Winners
Best Photo
Salah Aldin Art
Jury Award
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