Premiere

One Night On Dover St.

Best Editing, Best Directing by an Undergraduate Student: Aidan Karstadt

Assimilation

Best Sound Design: Jonah Fiden & Michelle Leduc, Best Directing by an Undergraduate Student: Andrew Jacobson

Penpals

Best Ensemble: Maeve Terranova

Cottage Grove

Best Writing, Audience Choice Award: George Ellzey Jr.

Perception

Best Animation, Grad Faculty Award: Brandon Frank Lopez

Fatfish

Jury's Choice Award: Jewells Santos

Midwasteland

Audience Choice Award, Undergrad Faculty Award: Taylor Young & Grace Bales

this land is your land

Best Experimental Film: Colin Mason

Additional Winners

Big Iron

Best Cinematography by an Undergraduate Student: Caleb Stevens

Breaking the Barrier

Best Documentary: Bridget Johnson

God Willing

Media for Social Change: Vincent DiFrancesco

Hello Depression

Graduate Faculty Judges’ Award: Cassie Llanas

Missing the Quiet

Best Sound Design: Hank Fritzmann

Phantom Heart

Best Cinematography by a Graduate Student: Jeffrey Gabriel Silva

Pimento!

Best Animated Film, Achievement in Short Film Writing, Undergraduate Faculty Judges’ Award, and Fan Favorite (Text to Vote): Caleb Carl Nelson

Ping.Pong.

Best Editing, and the Jury’s Honorable Mention: Michael Merlino

Roger J. Carter - Unapologetic

Jury Award: Anthony Ciancio

Skyroof

Best Music Video, Best Directing by a Graduate Student: Jewells Santos

Tooth & Nail

Best Directing by an Undergraduate Student: Max Checkor

Split Ends

Best Producing: Jennifer King

We Love a Different Way

Best Production Design: Alek Crawford

What The F*ck Is Exotic Supposed To Mean

Best Experimental Film: Div Barod

XYZ

Best Ensemble Cast

Blood Feud

Best Producing: Adem Suljic

By the Time I Reach Him

Best Documentary, and the Jury's Honorable Mention: Meg Walsh

Circus Act

Best Production Design: Brynne Wassel

Dinner

Jury Award: Best of the Fest: Linh Tran

Field Trip

Best Directing by a Graduate Student: Yu Wei Chang

A Girl's Guide to Texting in a Situationship

Best Directing by an Undergraduate Student: Brigid Curran Hackett

Hermie

Vanguard Award: Elijah Grey

The Island of the Dolls

Graduate Faculty Judges' Award, Achievement in Short Film Writing, and Audience Choice Award: Julio César Padilla

Jules

Best Ensemble Cast

Paid Research Study - Study 4: Green Valley Tofu Tendercuts

Best Ensemble Cast

Pick Your Poison

Best Animated Film, Undergraduate Faculty Judges' Award, the Jury's Honorable Mention: Zoe Pham

SWITCHIN'

Best Experimental Film, Best Editing: George Edward Ellzey Jr.

What God Wants

Best Cinematography: Mykhailo Bogdanov

Amanda M. Tames Memorial Scholarship

Seika Hanayama

E.R. A.M.

Best Directing - Graduate, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Short Film Writing – Will Schneider

The Investigator

Best Animation: Logan Himango

Our Transition

Best Documentary, Judges’ Choice - Undergraduate, Audience Choice, Jury Award: Conner O’Keefe

Plastics

Best Production Design: Willow Rakoncay

Red Thread

Best Experimental: Yijun Pan & Anh Vo

Totalité

Best Editing: Justin Jones

Waiting by the Phone

Best Directing - Undergraduate: Olivia Jenson

Additional Winners

Judges’ Choice - Graduate

Brady Findell - Selfie

Best Cinematography

Brandon Hoeg - Breakfast

Best Sound Design

Greg Cormier & Jacob Ocker - Dipsomaniac

Opening Night

Best Animated Film (tie): Margaret Bialis

Best Sound Design: Joey DeFabio

Jury Award, Undergraduate

Audience Choice Award

A man reflects on formative conflicts from his past with optimism, humor, and gratitude... with a musical twist.

Crushed

Best Production Design: Hana Zeitz

A lonely hick running a rural motel falls for a girl on the run and vows to keep her safe, but when a strange repairman shows up unannounced, we discover a bloody truth which will leave one man crushed.

The Death of Art

Best Visual Effects: Jonathan Blanton

A bored podcast listener tries to pass the time. Now with enhanced graphics.

Ground Up

Best Experimental Film: Morgan Daugherty

Best Editing: Paul Restivo

The early morning rush... Everyone's an addict.

Lazaretto

Best Directing, Graduate: Kevin Endres

Jury Award, Graduate

In an attempt to save her sister and father from a fatal illness, a scientist tests unsanctioned, experimental drugs aiming for a cure that is both bodily and spiritual.

Olympia

Best Ensemble Cast: Greg Dixon

What if your boyfriend asked you to move across country to start a new life but your dying mother and everything you've ever known were here in Chicago?

Las Puertas del Paseo Boricua

Best Documentary Film: Edwin R. Ruiz

13 Latino Artists representing Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Ecuador painted 16 doors on Division Street that celebrate our cultures, reflect on obstacles we've overcome, current political challenges, and the unity and integration that we want to see more often and in our future.

Rainy Day

Best Score: Andrew Badertshcer

An elderly widowed man struggles to make breakfast.

Rumble

Best Cinematography: Alex Naremore

A constipated, suicidal man is determined to empty his bowels one last time before finally ending his life.

Sunup

Best Animated Film (tie):
Elizabeth Hopwood

Best Sound Mixing: Joseph Vnuck

In a lush tropical forest, a wacky firebird is pursued by a hermit with an intense hunting habit. Constantly thwarted by the bird’s uncanny connection to the cycles of the sun, the hermit comes to realize that his blissful adversary may be more powerful than it appears.

Tragedy, in Ten Scenes

Best Directing, Undergraduate:
Alexander Popov

Ten stories set during one night in Moscow, that provide a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy.

Walt

Best Short Screenplay: Randle Taylor

Walt’s pension is cut and now he must find a job to take care of himself and his beloved and ill wife Bell.