The Puerto Rican production “OSKÄR,” directed by filmmaker Ariel Orama López (AG Orloz), has won the Best AI Film award at the UNSEEN Film Festival in Los Angeles, and received an honorable mention in the AI category from the Titan International Film Festival in Sydney, Australia. This brings the film's total distinctions to 13.
The jury in Los Angeles highlighted the film's artistic excellence, captivating narrative, and creative vision
The Sydney awards ceremony will take place March 13, 2027, while the Los Angeles festival will be held in January of that same year. With screenings and awards across four inhabited continents, “OSKÄR” matches the reach of Orama López's earlier short film “ONE,” which showed on all inhabited continents.
The Los Angeles jury praised the film's “artistic excellence, captivating narrative and creative vision,” while the Australian festival's director cited its “creativity and contribution to independent cinema.” Orama López, a filmmaker, writer, composer, actor and clinical psychologist, is marking 17 years in independent cinema. The film has also screened at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre, where it won its festival category, and earned Puerto Rico's first nomination for Best Original Song at Croatia's International Sound & Film Music Festival, whose jury includes multiple Oscar winners. “OSKÄR” has amassed 14 official selections in countries including Australia, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, the UK, South Korea, Japan, Slovakia, Indonesia, Bulgaria, France (Cannes), Ukraine, Uruguay and Bali, plus 13 international distinctions, including eight awards.