2026 Submissions


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Curiosity

Childhood is both universal and deeply personal, shaping who we become while continually shifting as we revisit it over time.

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The Touch of Life

Touch of Life represents the symbiotic relationship between an artist and their art. It is a take on Michelangelo's “The Creation of Adam” where God breathes life into Adam, the first man.

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The Performance

What does it mean to perform? Throughout American pop culture, countless elements have been borrowed from other cultures and reshaped to fit mainstream taste.

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Windward

Windward is a documentary shaped by listening—both to Walt Raineri’s story and to the natural world that restores him.

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Cindy Undead

My 2d hand drawn animated film “Cindy Undead” follows a mysterious supermodel, Cindy Devereux, who constantly falls apart and sews herself back together until the breaking point.

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Mom, What’s for Dinner?

Having found inspiration in the effects of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster on Japan’s fishing economy, I created my work with hopes to highlight how some of its impacts relate to the bigger prevalence of deteriorating food quality and pollution in the present day.

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