PLAINSPOKEN Named ‘Best Georgia Made’ at 2025 Macon Film Festival
Macon, GA — October 27, 2025 — PLAINSPOKEN, an official selection of the 2025 Macon Film Festival, has been named the Best Georgia Made Film at the film festival.
Festival jurors and screeners viewed films leading up to, during, and after the festival and scores were tabulated by the festival's programming committee. Find a complete list of the official selection and audience choice award winners for this year's festival below or on the Macon Film Festival website here.
2025 Macon Film Festival - Official Selection Award Winners
The Melvyn Douglass 'Best in Show' Award: OMAHA directed by Cole Webley
Best of 'Narrative Feature' Category: WITHDRAWAL directed by Aaron Strand
Best of 'Documentary' Category: NATCHEZ directed by Suzannah Herbert
Best of 'Documentary Shorts' Category: A CITY THAT CARES directed by Aaron Hosé
Best of 'Georgia Made' Category: PLAINSPOKEN directed by Andrew Greer
Best of 'Narrative Shorts' Category: A GOOD DAY WILL COME directed by Amir Zargara
Best of 'LGBTQ' Category: COLLAGE directed by Marius Conrotto
Best 'Music Documentary' Category: THE OPENER directed by Jeff Toye
Best of 'Student Shorts' Category: TIME FLIES directed by LJ Burnett
Best of 'Fulldome - Long Form' Category: THE GREAT SOLAR SYSTEM ADVENTURE directed by Max Crow
Best of 'Fulldome - Short Form' Category: PHOTOTROPHE directors Ludovic Finck Maidova, Manon Boucher
Best of 'Fulldome - Best Immersive' Category: GUSTAV HOLST - PLANETS directed by Natalia Oliwiak
The Karen Black Audience Choice - Narrative Category: AN ENDOSCOPY directed by Zardosht Afshari
Audience Choice - Documentary Category: NEWT A SHORT DOCUMENTARY directed by Winn Scott
For more information about the Macon Film Festival, visit: maconfilmfestival.com.
About Plainspoken:
Plainspoken is a documentary film that explores the people of Plains, Georgia, an unassuming town that happens to be home to president Jimmy Carter. The film encourages viewers to think about our relationship with race as it plays out on the ground level in everyday community. Is different divided? Is separate really segregated? It's not black and white.
