2020
Wren, Theodore Beresford Webb
an Echo of Light, Anaka Marie Wetch
The Big Kitty Talk Show, Jingyi (Big Kitty) Xue
2019
Gift I've Provided, Aiden G. Berglund
Angel Dust: A Creation Myth, Brandon M. Brumm
Muse, Bettina L. Campomanes
A Mellow Night for Memories, Angelo Ilya Raphael Chammah
finds the double entrentre in things (and likes to sip from a straw), Julian Dime
Monkfish, Thomas Pistor Eisenman
The Old Wives, Sharon Elizabeth Greene
I know better now, Tara D. Heather
Sans Elle or (Alone and Palely Loitering), Holden P. Hlinomaz
Homeward, Hannah Jo Hutchinson
Rapture, Olivia A. Jankoski
An Acquaintance of Interest, Diego Márquez Todeschini
An Acquaintance of Interest, Diego Márquez Todeschini
GUNK, George True Mosher
(Gardesh) گردش, Peymaan Motevalli-Aliabadi
Mensetsu, Arya Popli
Fly Not Hence, Brandt M. Rohde
On the Eve of the Last Subsequent Year, Meg Sklut
COIN STARS, Damian James Standen
HYPERTROPHY, Emily Catherine Tomasi
Remnants, Savannah Lou Williams
2018
"...And", Simone Giovanni Brown
Jetsam, Simone Giovanni Brown
Life Reclaimed & Stories of Ghana, Alexander Cowen
Trauma: How World War II Changed Cinematic Form, Leon Jack Derriey
Hands, Samuel B. Frank
Worm Scene, Emily Rachel Greenberg
The Latent, Peter Hughes Haffenreffer
Rays Candy Store, Abbie Jones Hornburg
sweet embrace, Sabrina Kissack
Structural Mutations: The Films of Toshio Matsumoto and Takashi Ito, Alexander Man-Tung Lau
The Village of Hope: A Documentary, Milan Miller
#LonelyMovie or the Continuation of Our Brand and the Good Feelings It Produces, Theodore Philip Rosen
To My Mother, Mariana Sanchez Bueno
Film Thesis, William A. Scarfone Jr.
The Hardest Part Of Ending, Noah Hale Shearer
10 Small Things that May/ May Not be Shared, Xiaoxuan Song
Back To My Roots, Po Han Su
it shines a certain way. to a certain place: The Works of Native Filmmakers, Mae B. Vader
All God's Fight to Jazz, Forrest Nelson Ward-Cherry
Water's Edge, Conor Michael Williams
a dream of nothing in 10 chapters, William Hardt Wrubel
Everything's Immersive, Tyler Alan Zowaski
2017
Syndromes, Jack Balthazar Barham
there is no drain, Boothe Carlson
Upload Complete: A Music Film By Etnar Casado, Etnar Esteban Casado
Film No Longer Telling a Story; Film Itself as the Story: Reflexive Constructions in Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, Amy Ertie Chabassier
Head Spaces, Caridad Jacqueline Cole
Far Along, Sarah Alicia deVeer
Why Did I Marry A Sentimentalist?: Family & Domesticity in the Films of Steven Spielberg, Emmet Dotan
MY VERY BIG BIRTHDAY PARTY, Talia Eshel
Overlook Mountain, Zev Matthew Fogelman
ghosts hum when they're lonely, Selena Rose Frandsen
One Night With Emily, Jay Sheng Ting Fung
I COUNTED ON THEM, Jenna Rose Hathaway
The Japanese New Wave: A Story of Furious Youth, Huizhong Huang
Breathe Et Al. (among others): An Experiment in Mass REassociation, Michael Joseph Kelly IV
Audiovisual Synthesis, Wagnerian Influence, and the Power of Art in Politically Fraught Times as Exemplified by Ivan the Terrible, Part I, Alexander Kiladze
Congratulations: You Just Won a Free Clinical Trial, Olivia Kooyman
Storm Room, Adea Rivers Lennox
Beleaves, Shane Matthew McDonald
Deep End, Mayya Petrova
happy, Joy Frances Risk
Low Fidelity, Drew McCoy Robinson
Paper Rad: Kid Camp, Vincent John Siciliano
Understanding the Image: An Exploration of Post-war Film by Matsumoto Toshio, Jingyi Wang
2016
Portrait of Two Sisters, Raina Maureen Bigham
SIN OBJETIVO (Without aim, Without a Lens), Carly Faith Cohen
Where the Moss Hangs Low, Angie Del Arca
(DIS)SOLUTION: An Exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Through Video Games, Clara Derrick Gallagher
Yami's Noose, Nicholas Thomas Garcini
They Dreamt of Pipe, Hayley Elizabeth Garrigus
Excavation of Memory in Five Rooms, Kaitlin Eleanor Gleason
Looking At You, Judd Jackson Holland
Dismantling the Illusion of Otherness: An Authorial Study of Lou Ye’s Spring Fever and Blind Massage, Ying Huang
The Historic Westside, Maya Monique Knight
Interludes, Collin Max Leitch
Magic Hour, Marco Andre Lorenz
Seby Martinez's One-Man Multi-Man Multimedia Extravaganza, Sebastian Xavier Martinez
A Collective History of Living Cinema: Exhibiting Film In An Evolving Manhattan, Paris Isadora McGarry
Passengers, Charlie McGlinsky
Moonfall, Ramona Joy Mikelson
Slipping Backwards, Sara Ellen Nishimura
“What Are You?”: The Debate of the Changing Racial Categories In the United States Census, Ashley Sheppard Quince
Every Moment is Nothing Without End, Mireya Luz Rodriguez
Bloom: On Strangers and Neighbors, Suzanna Angelica Rumann
This Kind of Love, Juliana Tango Schiffer
Friendships, Edmund John Smith
Achieving Attunement: The Evolution of the Musical Film Toward a Total Work of Art, Elena Catherine Smith
Respectable Domestics through the Lens: The Manifestation of Mammy in Imitation of Life, Imani Ann-Eattie Smith
A Fire to Keep me Warm, Hannah Isabel Sparagana
Keep Austin, Bennett Chandler Torres
Powder Room, Sonja Rachel Tsypin
Wild Myself, Nicole Ucedo
PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW, Maximillian Eliot Wortman
2015
The Making of a Superhero Musical, Reuben Baron
Insomnia, Elisa Benedetti Caffrey