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Best Performance in a Feature

Meet the nominees for The DARCYS, recognizing artists, storytellers, and advocates advancing authentic disability representation.

The Best Performance in a Feature Award honors outstanding performers whose work brings authenticity, depth, and nuance to disability representation in film.

BRB

A person wrapped in a towel sits indoors holding a handheld video camera.

Nominee: 

  • Autumn Best

Synopsis: 

Set in the fleeting era of dial-up and away messages, 15-year-old Sam (Autumn Best) embarks on a road trip with her older sister Dylan (Zoe Colletti) to meet the boy she's fallen for in a chatroom. But as the detours pile up, the sisters confront shifting identities and deeper truths: Dylan chases love through reinvention, while Sam wrestles with the courage to be seen- disability and all. BRB is a tender, darkly funny ode to early internet girlhood, complicated sisterhood, and what it means to be both too visible and unseen at the same time.

 

Bugonia

A person stands in a living room with wood-paneled walls and vintage décor in the background.

Nominee: 

  • Aidan Delbis

Synopsis: 

A psychological thriller, the film follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap a powerful CEO they believe is an alien out to destroy humanity. What begins as a paranoid act spirals into a battle of delusions and control—one as viscerally unpredictable as it is provocative.

 

Take Me Home

Close-up of a person outdoors with eyes closed and head tilted slightly downward.

Nominee: 

  • Anna Sargent

Synopsis: 

Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting each others’ needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna’s routine, her future is uncertain until she creates a world where she can thrive. Liz Sargent’s intimate debut drama examines the shifting demands placed on a unique — and uniquely challenged — family in a Florida suburb. The writer-director details the struggles of Anna (newcomer Anna Sargent, the director’s sister), fellow adopted sibling Emily (Ali Ahn), and devoted father Bob (Victor Slezak), who is covering signs of dementia.