Past Festivals

2022 Award Winners

  • Grand Jury Prize - Café Americano

  • Phil Tippett Animation Award - Eric Oxford

  • Richard Beggs Sound Design Award - Erich Rettermayer

  • The Lisa Runnels Shelton Emerging Artist Award - Alba Mejia

  • Jury Prize - The Speed of Time

  • Best Short Award - Oleander

  • Best Foreign Short Award - The Accursed (Las Malditas)

  • Best Documentary Short Award - Lead Change

  • Best Animation Short Award - Everybody Goes to the Hospital

  • Best Student Short Award - Iron Head

  • Best Cinematography Award - Caitlin Machak, The Tale of the Daughter

  • Best Actor Award - Jazlyn Yoder, The Tale of the Daughter

  • Best Newcomer Award - Altar+Cation, The Musical

  • Audience Favorite Award - Altar+Cation, The Musical

2022 Participating Films

A Change of Song - USA (US PREMIERE)

Altar+Cation - USA (WORLD PREMIERE)

Apocalypse Notes - FRANCE

Auto Correct - USA (US PREMIERE)

Avocado - USA

Cafe American - USA

Cold Pizza - USA (WORLD PREMIERE)

Bugaloo - IRELAND (US PREMIERE)

Deep Fears - USA

Elucidate - USA (WORLD PREMIERE)

Everybody Goes to the Hospital - USA (WORLD PREMIERE)

Feeling Through - USA

Ghosted - USA

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse - USA

Iron Head - USA

Lachesis - USA

Lead Change - USA

Let’s Talk About Farts - USA

LISTS - USA

Liv & Bell “Bell’s Long Thin Friend” - JAPAN

Mad God - USA (BAY AREA PREMIERE)

Mar - MONTENEGRO (WORLD PREMIERE)

Misfit - USA

My Lovely Man - USA

My Own Mecca - USA

Namida - BRAZIL

Oleander - USA

Pattern Recognition - USA (WORLD PREMIERE)

Red Shoes(Il Figlio del Boss) - ITALY (US PREMIERE)

Shanta - USA

Sammy & Quinn - USA

Tantalizing Tales of Terror to Terrorize - USA (WORLD PREMIERE)

The Accursed (Las Maldiitas) - SPAIN (US PREMIERE)

The Phoenix - USA

The Rock Collection - USA (WORLD PREMIER)

The Secret of Mister Nostoc - FRANCE (US PREMIER)

The Speed of Time - USA

The Tale of the Daughter - USA

Tough Guys Forget - USA

Turfin - USA

Weekend at Gus’s - USA (WORLD PREMIER)

Working It Out: Jazzercise Fantasy - USA


2018 Participating Films

Reflections

Those Who Can’t Die

Mirror

One Last Time

Red Paint

Sorry I Killed Your Boss by

Street Workers Unite by

The Limits of My World

The Guardians

Ego, How to Become Famous on the Internet

Kill AI

Tuesday Crowd

Agape

Je Suis(I am)

Poppies

Uncle Ivan

When Kids Meet a Creature

Burning Empty

Manicure

The Last Harvest

The Velvet Underground Played My High School

You and Me

A Ferry Tale

Marching On

Mogul & Perol

Scraper Bikes “Mobbin”

Pour 585

The Ticket