40°N, 73°W : Sandy Williams IV.
a film with sound (take three) : Josh Weissbach
Ambush at St. Mary's : Anthony Parisi
Butt Crew - A film essay : Josh Whiteman
Beltane : Helena Houghton
The Big Crave : Cheyenne Chapman Rudolph
Crisis : James Benson
Casa Fantasma : Dana Ollestad
The Clogging : Eric Larson
Cooks : David Lee Hess
Direction of the Road :Janelle VanderKelen
Dear, When I Met You : Craig Smith
Dragon Hunt : Marko Gutić Mižimakov
Dissociative Identity Disorder : Franco Andrade Ortiz
DEAD FLESH : Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz
Family Night : Alan Dunne
The Fisherman's Wife : Jared Watson
FootRocket - Apple Seed : Zach Strum
Fitting Descriptions : Tiffany Bedwell & John Mossman
The Fire Cycle Epiclesis : Clay Steakley
FISHMONGER : Neil Ferron 
Ghosted : Elisabeth Donaldson
Hemorrhage : Ruth Hayes
Heaven in a Wild Flower : Jesseca Ynez Simmons
INTERVIEWING GUILLAUME BOGAERT : Fabrice Chan
[I Love You Very Much] : Amber Rose McNeill
Jack : Jay Curtis Miller
Jeffrey's Hell : Aaron Irons
Kombucha! : Jake Myers
Les Bêtes : Michael Granberry
Lollygag : Tij D'oyen
The Lives Of Counters : Kevin Allen
The Messenger : Victor Dos Santos
My Word : Carme Puche Moré 

Monolith : Teresita Carson 
My Best Friend Depression : Heather LeRoy 
The Nun Slayer : Ben Bovington-Key 
Photosynthesis : Brian Zahm 
Popcorn Shrimp and Dishwater : Jack Schurman
Poison : Rusty Enger 
Palosja e Jugave (The Folding of Yugas) : Fjolla Hoxha & Dylan Simon 
Pre-Crash and the Foxbats : Kirsten Johnson 
Paris-Bruxelles : Marjorie Lhomme 
Questioning the Existence of Alec : Roger Horn  
Recipe For Fun : Steve Parnell 
Said of a deer that sheds its antlers : Salomé Crickx 
Seeds : Pisie Hochheim & Tony Oswald 
The Serena Variations : Warren Fischer 
Soft Animals : Nick Grau 
Study No. 294 : Robert Campbell  
The Streetlight : Sophia Parella 
The Sun Sometimes Sleeps : Jesse Emiliano Vela Alegría  
SWEEP DREAMS : E.T. Russian & Edward Mast 
Technical Support : Kris Lefcoe 
The Thaw : Sarah Wisner & Sean Temple 
Throuple : GREYSON HORST 
Total Eclipse of the Fool : Scott Soder  
Track Meat : Alex Donnelly 
Untitled (Without Sound)  : John Theo 
Visions of Waves : Desirée Tolchin 
WENT THE NIGHT WELL? : Andrew Hahn 
The Warmest Color is Blue : Kevin Ralston 
#WAY_Aurelio : Alan Rexroth 
What Is Sex? : Luca Silver 
Where the Bullets Go : Cody Duncum 
Wild Animal : Beth Park  
You Need to Process This : Eleanor Morrison

2024 MAUREEN SAARI-WILDMAN MEMORIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DEFIANCE (“the moe”) winner:

Paris-Bruxelles

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