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Title: Echoes of the Forest
Runtime: 20 min
Country: USA
Director: Nestor Vinelli
Placement: Best Web Series
Competition: March, 2025
Synopsis: When three college friends—Jerry, Zain, and Frankie—are mysteriously transported into a video game they helped design, they find themselves trapped in a world that blurs the lines between digital fantasy and grim reality. What begins as an adventure quickly spirals into a high-stakes battle for survival as they uncover a chilling truth: the NPCs populating the game aren’t just code—they’re real souls, imprisoned and forgotten.