17th Annual LA WEBFEST 2026 - Award Winners

17th Annual LA WEBFEST 2026 Award Winners

(Special Awards / Podcasts)

Michael Ajakwe Jr. Achievement Award — Push

LAPAC Special Award – Best Female Performance — Home Health Chronicles Season 2 (Angel Terrell)
LAPAC Special Award – Best Male Performance — When Mary Met Betsy (Paul Masterson)

Fiction Podcast Awards

Best Writing / Script — The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Best Sound Design — The Adventures of Bud & Herb
Best Ensemble Cast — Barjory Buffet: The Cruise Detective
Outstanding Comedy / Drama — The Adventures of the Fox in the Fedora
Outstanding Fantasy / Horror / Thriller — The Awakening of Joel Singer
Best Director — Liminal

Actual Play Awards

Best Ensemble Cast — Afterlight
Best Game Master — Kitten Marlowe (Shadows in the Smoke)
Outstanding Fantasy / Horror — Oops, All Witches
Outstanding Comedy / Drama — The Neon Testament
Actual Play (Video) Best Ensemble / Game Master — Out of the Loop: A Dread One-Shot

Podcast Honors

Outstanding Standalone Podcast — Gammie’s Baby
Outstanding Unscripted Podcast — The Film Festival Doctor Podcast

Best Audio Series of All Genres — The Dragoning

(Film, Series Awards)

Film Awards
Best Short — La Barca
Best Director – Short — Hope
Best Performance – Short — The Cemetery (Elizabeth Chavez)
Best Music — La Cafeteria
Best Editing — Stori Strong (Season 1)
Best Production Design — The Ropes
Best Screenplay — The Loved And The Heartless
Best Cinematography — Francine, The Fixer Witch
Best Ensemble Cast — Write On
Best Supporting Actor — Froggies — Just Brad Things (M. D. Rinker)
Best Supporting Actress — Slick (Jessie Bluedorn)

Series Awards
Best Pilot — Seven
Best Documentary / Reality — Marseille From Pagnol To Netflix
Best Animation — Over The Hill In Clackerville
Best Vertical / Trailer — Los Aspirantes – The Applicants
Best Suspense / Thriller / Horror — Dedina sa postara (It Takes A Village)
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy — Illuminagents – Season 3
Best Sketch Comedy — Day Shift Hookers
Best Comedy — Just Divorced!
Best Dramedy — Ruby
Best Drama — Exile
Best Director — Round the Corner
Best Actor — Crater Heights (Brandon Darcel)
Best Actress — Not Flexible (Kathryn Gongaware)

Best Series of All Genres — World’s Worst Thanksgiving Series

Congratulations to all the winners!
See you next year at LA WEBFEST 2027