2025 ASCRS Film Festival Winners

The 43rd ASCRS Film Festival was held on Sunday, April 27 at the ASCRS Annual Meeting. Here are the winners, including the Grand Prize winner. 

Grand Prize

Source: ASCRS

The Triad of Iris Prolapse in IFIS
John C. Hart Jr., MD, FACS

Cataract Complications 

Winner
Capsular Tension Ring Engagement with the Ciliary Sulcus in Eyes with Weak Zonules
Takahiro Shimowake, MD

Runner Up
The Curious Case of the Dead Bag – Unravelling the Mystery
Abhay R. Vasavada, MS, FRCS

Cataract/Implant Surgery

Winner
Stratified Phacoemulsification: Unveiling the Novel Separation Technique
Tushya Om Parkash, MS

Runner Up
Lens Epitheliopathy As a Common Factor in White Intumescent Cataract and Dead Bag Syndrome
Yoichiro Masuda, MD, PhD

Glaucoma Surgery

Winner
Bleed Blue: Dye Today to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Ab-Interno Glaucoma Surgeries
Rengaraj Venkatesh, MD

Runner Up
Combining Gonioscopy, OCT and a Femtosecond Laser for the Creation of a Non-Incisional Trabeculotomy

Richard A. Lewis, MD

In-House Productions

Winner
Aberrations for Dummies!
Sathya T. Ravilla, MS

Runner Up
Unveiling Findings in Pfv: Correlating Clinical Morphology with Histology in Children with Congenital Cataracts
Nina Zelenayova, MD, FEBO

Instruments & Devices/IOLs

Winner
Whole New Way to Clean Surgical Sight
Santaro Noguchi, MD, PhD

Runner Up
New Angled Cts to Avoid Tilt in Subluxated Cataracts
Sergio F. Canabrava, MD

New Producer/Young Physician

Winner
Wet Lab Thermal Coagulation
Kosei Tomita, MD

Runner Up
Hitting the Spot with Ophthalmic Blocks – an Eye into Our Multi-Purpose Simulator
Jessica QH Choo, MBBS, FRCOphth

New Techniques 

Best of the Best 
Posterior Flap Hydration of the Clear Corneal Incision
Jiri Cendelin, MD

Runner Up 
The Inseparables … the Never Ending Saga of the Hard Cataracts!
Bharathi D. Megur, MS

Quality Teaching

Best of the Best
The Secret Is in the Chamber!
Deepak U. Megur, FRCSEd

Runner Up
What Not to Do – Part 1
Vivekanandan VR Ramakrishnan, MS

Refractive/Cornea Surgery

Winner
HOA
Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Runner Up
Small Tweaks for Big DMEK Results
Bruno C. Trindade, MD, PhD

Shorts 

Winner
SMILE for Hyperopia: A Game-Changer!
Smita Agarwal, FRANZCO, MS, MBBS

Special Interest

Winner
Hypoplasia of the Ciliary Processes and Ciliary Sulcus in Marfan Syndrome
Takeshi Sugiura, MD

Runner Up
Convertible Irrigation Aspiration: A Zero-Cost Innovation for Cortex Removal in Difficult Situations
Seema Ramakrishnan, DNB, DO, MBBS