The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) has announced the winners of the 2025 Rockie Awards International Program Competition.
For the first time ever, the Rockie Awards and the Banff Gala Awards were presented in a single event on Monday evening.
Juried by a panel of over 150 industry professionals, the Rockie Awards program attracted entries from 45 countries, including the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, Belgium, France, and South Korea.
This year’s Grand Jury Prize, awarded to the highest-scoring project across the entire competition, was UK feature documentary Hell Jumper (UK, Expectation Entertainment) which tells the story of 28-year-old Chris Parry, who along with other civilian “evacuators” from all over the world, crowdfunded vehicles and equipment to help people escape their homes in war torn Ukraine. The Prix Francophone was awarded to Quebec’s KOTV for its docuseries Teenagers, Être ado, in which a film crew followed 10 teens for five years. Peacock Alley Entertainment documentary, Leonard Cohen: If It Be Your Will was honoured with the Rogers Prize for Excellence in Canadian Content.
Previously announced Gala Honourees included actor Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk, Surface, Homecoming, Selma), who was presented with the Canadian Award of Distinction; writer/producer Phil Rosenthal (Everybody Loves Raymond, Somebody Feed Phil), who accepted the Award of Excellence; composer Hans Zimmer (Dune: Part One, Top Gun: Maverick, No Time to Die, Gladiator, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception), who was this year’s Career Achievement Award honouree. Additionally, South Korea was named the 2025 Country of Honour, accepted by Hyun Suk Yoo, President of the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA).
Find the full list of International Program Competition winners here:
Comedy & Variety
The Graham Norton Show
So Television
UK
Competition Series & Game Shows
The Traitors UK
Studio Lambert, BBC
UK
Docuseries
Black Twitter: A People’s History
Onyx Collective
USA
Lifestyle
The Travel Show – Vietnam: Return to Banana Garden Market
BBC
UK
Reality Series
The Jury: Death on the Staircase
Northern Pictures
AUSTRALIA
Children & Youth
Animation: Children
My Life in Versailles
Films Grand Huit, Mélusine Productions, Xilam Animation, France Télévisions, TV5 Monde, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, CNC
FRANCE, SWITZERLAND
Animation: Preschool
Tiddler
Magic Light Pictures, BBC
UK
Live Action: Children
Windcatcher
Unless Pictures, Every Cloud Productions, Australian Children’s Television Foundation, Stan, Screen Australia, VicScreen
AUSTRALIA
Live Action: Youth
Remnants
Ananey Studios, KAN
ISRAEL
Documentary & Factual
Arts & Culture
Jim Henson Idea Man
Imagine Documentaries, Disney Branded Television
USA
Crime & Investigative
Sugarcane
Impact Partners, Fit Via Vi, Kassie Films, Hedgehog Films
CANADA, USA
Environmental & Wildlife
Silverback
Off the Fence, BBC, France Télévisions, Featuristic Films
UK
History & Biography
Hitler’s Jewish Soldier?
SBS Australia, Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Mint Pictures
AUSTRALIA
Science & Technology
Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics
White Pine Pictures
CANADA
Short Form Non-Fiction
Songs from Inside
BBC World Service
UK
Social Issues & Current Affairs
Hell Jumper
Expectation Entertainment
UK
Sports Documentary
30 for 30: Stolen Gold
ESPN Films, UnTypical
SPAIN, UK, USA
Podcasts
Podcast: Fiction
Purple Heart Warriors
Catherine Bailey Productions, BBC
UK
Podcast: Non-Fiction
Searching for Hobey Baker
ESPN, Ross Greenburg Productions, Silver Sound
USA
Scripted
Animated Series
The Simpsons
20th Television Animation
USA
Best Performance in a Comedy
David Mitchell, Ludwig
Big Talk Studios, That Mitchell and Webb Company, BBC
UK
Best Performance in a Drama
Marisa Abela, Industry
Bad Wolf, HBO, BBC
UK, USA
Best Use of Music in a Series
Tree on a Hill
Pren ar y Bryn
Fiction Factory, S4C, BBC Cymru Wales, All3Media International, Creative Wales
UK
Comedy Series: English Language
We Are Lady Parts
Working Title Television, Universal International Studios, Universal Studio Group
UK, USA
Comedy Series: Non-English Language
Vestiaires
AMI-Télé, Radio-Canada
CANADA
Drama Series: English Language
The Day of the Jackal
Carnival Films, Universal International Studios, Universal Studio Group
UK
Drama Series: Non-English Language
Distinct Society
Blachfilms
CANADA
Feature Length Film
Out of My Mind
Big Beach, Participant, EveryWhere Studios, Disney Branded Television
USA
Limited Series
Lost Boys & Fairies
Duck Soup Films, All3Media International, BBC, Creative Wales
UK
Short Form Fiction
My Dead Mom
LoCo Motion Pictures, Bell Media, Blue Ant Media
CANADA
Special Prizes
Grand Jury Prize
Hell Jumper
Expectation Entertainment
UK
Carrie Hunter Emerging Talent Prize
Marushka Almeida, Nisha Khan, Rabiya Mansoor
Get Up, Aisha
iThentic Inc, Window Dreams Productions
CANADA
Prix Francophone
Teenagers
Être ado
KOTV
CANADA
Rogers Prize for Excellence in Canadian Content
Leonard Cohen: If It Be Your Will
Peacock Alley Entertainment
CANADA
